skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encourage a little more thought before cheering this on as a win. While GDPR isn't as ridiculous as the Cookie Law, it still shows that the EU/EC don't understand the technology they are trying to regulate, and it comes at a huge cost to tech companies.

Take the right to be forgotten. 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.

I get the desire to have a company forget about you, and remove all the personal information they have. It makes sense from a personal standpoint. But how do you do it technically?

If you follow GDPR strictly you would need to be able to purge the data from your backups. Now most backups are considered immutable, so you aren't going to do that, meaning you need a way to ensure that "forgotten" users never get restored.

But how do you even delete the live data? Does the tech company you work for have the ability to delete all traces of a user from their system, cleaning severing all relationships with other objects in your system? Do you have the ability to retrieve everything you know about a specific user, and provide it to them? You will need to write the code to do this.

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.

Do you sell a SaaS service to businesses, and those businesses send you their customer's data? Then you are the processor and they are the controller. Cool, less for you to do, sort of. Except that controller must agree to every sub-processor you use. Want to switch from AWS to GCP? You can only do it if all your customers agree. Want to use try out a new metrics or logging service? If it will have any PII you can't do it without customer (controller) permission.

You will basically need to hire full-time compliance officers to deal with this. The big tech companies already have compliance officers, but GDPR is so massively invasive to businesses that even small companies now need compliance officers.
Which iteration of "project that will definitely reduce Android device fragmentation and ensure that all capable devices will get the new software version as soon as possible" are we on at this point?
First of all djb is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein and the accomplishment was releasing a secure email server (qmail), a secure webserver (publicfile), and a secure BIND server (djbdns). Both qmail and djbdns became widely used, and the main alternatives were projects supported by large teams.

It took 8 years before the first bug was found in these projects.

I highly recommend reading through the guidelines in https://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html for how to write secure software. In particular point 5, Don't Parse, is broadly applicable and under appreciated. A well-known class of bugs arising from this error are SQL injection attacks.
My company implemented SAFe. You might have competition with those guys!
Out of the loop: is Satoshi guilty / accused of any crimes?
Same with food, money, housing, etc.
And, I've worked in a few that needed more... million+ simultaneous users, and over 380k requests per second, and 5 nines. There really are times you need more than an SQL server can keep up with.

Another, it was the shape of the data, all keyed off a single record, but ancillary tables with additional queries or joins meant over 30 joins, or 15 additional queries to render one resource, which fit into a single "nosql" record and mongo supported the additional indexes needed, it was a good fit for the use case.

I'm not advocating nosql for everything... I've seen a few that went mongo that would have been better served with sql. But that isn't to say that a document or column-store database is never a better fit from the start.
Germany: For employees in the national health insurance 7.6 % of your gross salary capped at currently 4350,- Euro per month and the employer has to pay the same again.
We pay much taxes, but then again. Everyone does here. If you get sick. A doctor can cost 5€ for a visit, we go to the dentist because we can easily. Our medicine is 10x as cheap easily and if we lose our jobs, we still have a home.

But yeah, if we earn a lot. We pay a lot. No reason to be sarcastic about it. I've always had a job and I'm never ill and I hope it never happens. The system works though, even if we have the largest taxes in the world ( Belgium)
That business idea already exists...

https://www.scrumalliance.org/certifications
This is really, really cool.
Note: on a per capita basis countries that don't have universal health care (like the US) spend more on health insurance than countries that do (like Australia)
Really excited about how much clear and concise documentation is available here. I've been considering looking to machine learning and tensorflow to at least get the concepts. This is just what I need to push me over the edge and get started
An error made in 1925 led to a crisis in modern science
You're shadowbanned.
As I understand it, technology is already displacing lots of support staff around knowledge work (clerks, paralegels, clinic administrators, filing specialists, etc) and is rapidly digging at specialist knowledge (disease diagnosis, algorithmic designs, etc).

I don't expect "AI" to take over every job, I just expect technology to displace 95% of the people from 95% of the (good) jobs in ~30 years. I think once that 90% of the workforce becomes dislodged, we're not going to see the notion of "jobs" ever recover, particularly ones that are more than service industry positions.

I think we're already seeing the tip of it in lost office jobs being replaced by service industry jobs -- hilariously, replacing knowledge and skilled work with repetitive physical labor.
Can you help me understand how this is different than Cloudflare's offering [1]?

1- https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/sector/saas/
Are most leaders of publicly traded companies immune from wall st analyst quarterly estimates and projections? Do they not greatly affect the company's share price?
No, actually some of the biggest free marketers possible don't agree that predatory pricing is possible under capitalism. Google predatory pricing friedman (you won't get a quote from friedman but his name gets all the good stuff) and you'll find lots of people arguing that predatory pricing is a myth. You can also google friedman monopoly and find huge proponents of capitalism arguing that monopolies are only possible through state intervention.

>Well functioning capitalism is about giving everybody a chance to participate (or not) in a piece of the new pie.

Maybe... but everyone disagrees on what well functioning actually means.
Using youtube is a privileged, not a right. Google can censor because its user's agree to it as part of their terms of service.
Any advocating for distributed power is going to sound like "anarchy" to someone thinking in a centralized paradigm. But despite our tendency to explain things by creating singular narratives, society is not a top-down entity.

"Dangerous to the public" is simply one of the standard refrains used by groups in power looking to suppress others under the color of law. It's easy to argue that dissent should be contained when you're part of the majority.
On the other hand, if it weren't for the Salmon of Doubt, I wouldn't have realized Adams' genius writings on other (non-fiction) topics besides THHGTTG and Dirk Gently. In fairness, I could have found that out in other ways if I'd have looked, but thanks to Salmon of Doubt I've come to appreciate the man's writings and personality in a much broader way.

So I say it was a good thing overall. Even though it was also sad because it was the unfinished writings of a dead author I love.
You are dead on. The problem is incentives. There is no technical solution to solve the issue of OEMs not wanting to spend time/resources on updating older phones.

Treble will help out LineageOS, CopperheadOS, and XDA devs. But it won't improve the update cycles for OEMs when their business (ie profit aims) pressures them to limit development resources to new phones.
Thread: https://twitter.com/thebiologistisn/status/90254832929229209...
i completely agree. there is nothing new to somebody a bit involved into bitcoin. there is even a website which is old and widely known (http://nakamotoinstitute.org) where all the referenced literature is listed...
Why not call it an MP4 then? Due to MP3 it's recognized as much or more than gif.
On the crime numbers, Illinois looks pretty bad, too. (That's relevant to the "failing state" claim, because anarchy in the streets means that the state's law enforcement efforts are ineffective.)
With all due respect, no, it doesn't do fine grained parallelism in the areas I described. Do I think it would be impossible to add parallel styling or layout to WebKit? No. Do I think it would be difficult? Absolutely, primarily because of the difficulty of finding all the concurrency hazards in existing objects and making them thread-safe. It would be easier with a type system that automatically checks for and highlights such problems. Such a system is precisely what I'm advocating.

And I'm not saying not to use shared memory. I'm saying that shared memory should be controlled by some sort of static or dynamic type system that enforces proper locking or immutability as the case may be. Such a system is hardly a far-fetched idea, as we're successfully using one right now in the style system of nightly Firefox.
Patio11. Similar to levels.

http://www.kalzumeus.com
Don't forget "instant liquidity", eg selling your securi... er tokens before you've actually built a product, much less gotten users/customers.

The ICO craze has clarified, if it wasn't obvious before, why the incubator/seed -> Series A -> Series BCD etc is what it is. The scale of each successive stage of fundraising is indexed to the execution and progress of the product & business development, keeping the startup team motivated and the investors' risk exposure mitigated. ICO's that take in huge amounts of money frontload most of the investors' risk, leaving their only assurance as some kind of ideology-driven social contract where the ICO is now an "endowment" and must manage itself and reinvest its capital in such a way that builds it product as well as the rest of the ecosystem. But that all depends on the founders maintaining their motivation instead of heading off to a private island for the rest of their lives.
I use Headspace. I won't specifically recommend it because it's a subscription and I feel you can get the mechanics easily for a fixed price in other apps or formats. One might find that perfectly adequate.

That said, I like the guy's voice and find him overall calming, and it's easy to use with just enough variety (not much, mind you, just a little) in the different packs/days to keep me from completely tuning out. It's honestly not all that hippie--there's not a ton of content past the exercises themselves, but what there is seems pretty relevant to real world stuff, not "expanding your aura" or whatever. The subscription nature of it also makes me slightly more aware of the wasted opportunity (and money) if I don't use it, so I have a slightly higher level of accountability.

I'd compare it to a gym membership vs. doing ad hoc workouts at home, with all the pros and cons that implies. I personally find it worth the money. YMMV, but they have some content up for free to try out.

Edit: having just read the Wired article that probably inspired this, I should mention I have notifications turned off and don't track any gamification features aside from generally having meditation in a habit tracker (which I'd do regardless of technique).
Scientists predict extreme weather like Hurricane Harvey; they’re still shocked
According to the article:

"The mode of transportation that best suits the needs of international airports is then mainline rail."
Not everyone uses their real name on the Internet, as you appear to do.
Paramedic (the German equivalent: Notfallsanitäter)
unfortunately sample sizes will probably decrease drastically when you're looking at the subset of people who rated 4 specific games, or other such cases
Great!

Thanks, I'll dig into it a bit more.
Bubble is already here. And it will blow. But some players, that have a substance, will survive or rise from ashes. And they will be very valuable.
The tech will also survive and evolve.
This happens all the time - dotcom bubble was the same, but there are more examples: we all know now that alchemy was a total scam, with lot of shady players milking naive people, but eventually from its residues the real chemistry was born. Hopefully we will learn one day how to jump over this kind of inital scams.
It is legally fair game, yes. The resolution makes no restriction on speech, and specifically calls out the importance of freedom of expression.

As I said, the only concrete obligation in the resolution is prohibiting discrimination. Speech is not discrimination, and the Human Rights Council has never claimed that it is.
So basically, we need a pipeline from Houston to California.
No, if you're interacting with other people persistently or associated with people you're a member of society. If you interact with people sporadically, you're not necessarily a member of a human society. If we're talking state of nature here, even persistent interaction doesn't necessarily mean society - that generally requires cooperation.
PhD student in health economics
scipycon, no contest
Fully automatic DNSSEC delegation updates at CZ.NIC with FRED and Knot [pdf]
It would be nice having a centralized list of the hardware that uses "liberated" CPUs, just in case one pops in front of us at discounted prices, flea markets etc.
Some update more focused on Wayland and its compositors would be especially useful.
> it comes at a huge cost to tech companies

Doesn't it just affect companies which rely heavily on lack of privacy for monetisation? I think that's sort of the point - that your business should not rely on tracking individuals and selling that information without their consent to gov/private bodies. It's obviously a huge change, since so many big tech players rely on this to make profits. But the internet will be a much nicer place for everyone else if right to privacy is protected.
RC works fine so far

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
Data analyst for a health insurer
I just use my old Britannica CDs. Completely private.
Mostly a pension thing. Illinois will pull through so long as Chicago is still the center of the Midwestern economy
I am back to ... one million ants
Fly is a good alternative to API Gateway + Cloudfront + Certificate Manager. We can invoke lambda functions directly.

And yes, AWS pricing is a monstrous headache. I'm really not sure if we're cheaper at scale, but we're easy to predict at the very least (and the first 2 million requests are free).
could easily be programmed in. I was already thinking of experimenting with filters.. printing a black case to go with it shouldnt be a problem
It is if you click on the "development channel" button at the very bottom.
I'm not sure an expectations-based rating system is the norm though.

To use an example I gave elsewhere. I order a cable from Amazon. It works. Therefore it met my expectations of a working cable. Yet, I think most people would interpret a 3-star rating as my being lukewarm on my purchase. I'm not. But what the heck do I expect a cable to do other than being a fair price and to work?

With respect to movies. Some movies get really built up and I go in expecting great things (e.g. Fury Road). I come out thinking they were just OK. So maybe 3 stars. But definitely not -1 or 2 stars. My personal expectations aren't necessarily a good baseline.
Yes, and don't get George srarted about Chain Ringing! It may be the only thing he loves more than fonts... or lemurs.

In all seriousness, he's done great work on open source projects he loves... as a truly great software engineer. All paid for by a the risk he took working for a Start-up that was acquired by AOL before the big boom.
Er... I'm not sure why anyone would believe that monopoly could provide a lower price. The only problem a monopoly solves is whether the good or service is to be continuously available in the market or not.

You might allow a monopoly if the alternative is periods of competition interleaved with periods where there are no firms left in the market at all. If you choose to grant a monopoly, prices will be higher, and supply more constrained, but the good or service will always be available to the highest bidders. You're never going to get a lower price out of one, unless the owners are impossibly altruistic.
I would pay money for said course. I'm trying to piece together my own homegrown manufacturing curriculum through a combination of books, googling, diy projects, and YouTube. I don't expect to create world class engineering marvels on my own, but to be able to develop such a polished finished product as OP would be incredible. Any tips on where to start as far as 3D modeling and enclosure design goes?
Tools like headless browsers might turn into the "perl" of this generation. :)

Years ago I could always find a way to make Perl do whatever I wanted. It was usually "wrong" to fire up an entire interpreter compared to using faster, less flexible tools but it got the job done. Now I imagine people thinking, "the browser will do this", especially if they can grab screenshots or other local data files.
>(no "real" diploma + realities of the job market)

Plus suspicions of being a NK mole.
There's been a bit of discussion about how Houston is prone to flooding to begin with because there's no zoning, etc.

This Guardian article was written 2 months ago:

“Where the built environment is a main force exacerbating the impacts of urban flooding, Houston is number one and it’s not even close.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/16/texas-fl...

A more recent Atlantic article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/why-c...
Acre-feet? Is this a satirical unit of measurement?!
yup that's correct, the pogo pins just make contact when it is placed inside the camera so the battery gets charged
14POM4: A compression algorithm that runs on the brain
Thanks for phrasing your concerns about this regulation in such a nice way. I tried to articulate it in an earlier post but it was very controversially received.

Overall, this will be yet another additional challenge for EU-based startups in comparison with their US peers and keep armies of lawyers busy.
There are massive tax savings in single payer systems due to vastly simplified billing. To the point where US government spends enough on healthcare to fully pay for a single payer system.

Thus, Americans also pay enough for a single payer system they just don't actually get it.
The repeated claim that Bitcoin came up with a totally new and unknown way of solving the problem always irks me.

Everyone keeping a complete history of all actions is, like, consensus 101.

Research is based around not having to do that.
Writing a Ruby Library in Crystal
haha no problem, those are pogo pins just making touch contact when the cartridge is inside.. once you eject the cartridge its own power source takes over.. slide it back in and it starts charging again
Thanks for your interest. I've actually met him once -- a friend of his I was talking to over beers introduced us -- but at the time, he was seemingly more interested in his pending date with the blonde he had just picked up than talking with a lowly graduate student. Can't say I blame him :) His papers are excellent, though. A more philosophical and broad approach is needed in aging, I think. He has mellowed a lot from the exaggerated claims he was making in the early 2000s. Maybe he saw my poster which covered an early version of this work, but we didn't talk about that.

The best aging researcher alive right now IMO though is Jim Kirkland. I've had the good fortune to work a little with him and the man is a living encyclopedia. His brilliance is obvious even in a conference full of PhDs.
I think there are only historical reason to only having bad languages in browsers. Having good languages in WASM proves it.

EDIT - Good from a performance perspective, things like static typing and symbolically executable and pre-compiled.
Fullstack web dev for an agency, looking for the path to glory. (Ok, ok, finishing my degree.)
> who would pass up a private car ride from San Francisco to Palo Alto for $45 when a taxi would cost $125?

A SF taxi charges double the meter for a ride to Palo Alto because without a Palo Alto taxi permit they have to drive all the way back to SF (or at least SFO) without a paying passenger.
I might be missing a step here... but how does that lead to a new XSS attack?
Same to me around that age, though I was in the Philippines. I spent the rest of the day with my legs under the water hose (it alleviated some of the pain) just crying. I'm mildly allergic to ants too. These pictures of floating ants are terrifying.
FDA approval brings first gene therapy to the United States
3.x kernels with security patches.
What seems to be the issue?

You can claim big rewards from Google if you report kernel exploits in Android.
Deleting "drawbridge-up" from the html tag and the <div id="drawbridge-root"> tree does the trick.
A couple of years ago, I used to work for one of Digital Ocean's competitors in the "cloud server" sphere (as a software engineer for their cloud server automation deployment/management stack). Not long after I joined the company, I suggested to the owners and my supervisor that the company should consider moving into the ML space as a new market to explore.

I suggested we build an image for deploying servers with; I also suggested we explore ideas in using multiple servers for machine learning cluster computing, as well as CUDA via on-board graphics cards in the machines that could support them.

The idea was pretty much shot down. About a year later the company was acquired. I moved on...

Glad to see someone doing it.
Until it's time to get a normal job.
I'm assuming shareholders filing lawsuits because Google wouldn't be doing business in EU anymore.
Even though one can say "two people", to me it feels that "less people" or "fewer persons" are more correct than "fewer people".

On another note, see how "fewer times" and "less time" means different things (might help clarify the distinction to some.)

(Non native speaker here though.)
Every game announced during Nintendo's indie showcase
Untappd is also weird because you know that the producers of some of these small brewery beers actually look at these checkins. A lot of the beer drinkers I know will prefer to not rate a beer instead of giving it a sub-3 rating.
Liam Neeson's Family is taken