skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a tough space. Many people will come in with 'tech solutions' others will come in with 'consultants'. I'm pretty deep in the weeds in this one.

My 2c:
1) Get a great data protection officer early. They set the roadmap. Can't afford one? you can outsource it (<shameless plug>dataprotectors.eu </plug> and a few others provide the service). Make sure he/she is certified by a competent body

2) You DPO must know BOTH techie stuff, and law and your core business.

3) Your DPO reports to the board, and has very strong powers legally. Choose them well.

4) they have to sign off on the vast majority of things you do (so get one who understands your business)

5) No GDPR compliance can shut you down in Europe pretty quickly (from s sales perspective) and be a massive distraction. Fix it early.

Bad or no DPO = GDPR fail.
I suggest you do a quick linkedin search for engineers that work at Sencha. It will be very enlightening.
Negatory. I vividly remember being chewed out at a mega-company for even downloading the source code to `touch`. Yes, touch.

Obviously I got out of that environment pretty quickly, but you're not in a position to just do things at big companies. Probably most of them.
Technically correct is not enough in a sane culture either. But the business side of thing is not complicated, it is opaque.

Be technically right, hunt the information that will make you correct business-wise. And you will be able to make a much stronger claim in the blame game that the guy who is just business-right.
The distribution of an individual's IQ (as a quantile in the group's aggregate, normalized IQ distribution) is not a dirac delta. It's not constant over a lifespan at one location.

I think there would be significant noticeable losses in IQ due to social factors, too, and to a much greater extent than most people would appear to believe when they talk about the heredity of IQ but then think that means IQ determinism..

For example someone could test at 115 IQ, become homeless, then have something much closer to ~100. (Do not use "but someone that smart would never become..." as a cop-out..)
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Edge Side Includes. Imagine putting some sort of template syntax in a file, that file is cached, and when it's called from cache it grabs a file from the remote server based on the template syntax.
Sure. I think we're saying the same thing: The McDonald brothers had found product-market fit. Kroc scaled it. Ergo, Kroc's approach was not what Blank calls a startup.
if you're writing functional code, you should already know what partial application is - and the "partial" function is only necessary in this case because JS isn't a curried language by default.

your idea of B being more simple is largely driven by the fact that you likely have more experience writing code in that manner. With experience writing functional code you should find that both A and B are clear at a glance.
I wonder why it does not happen, given that terrorist attacks in general do occur. Great policing, or do the bad guys just lack imagination?

Hoping for the former, but if I were a civil servant I’d want to assume the latter and plan for surprise imagination.
I don't have a lot of experience, but I recently ported an RNN model from lasagne/theano to keras/tensorflow, and the latter combination was about 4x slower. Not sure whether it's keras or tensorflow causing the slowdown. The API is nice though.

I also tried to flip the keras switch to run on top of theano instead but it had issues that I didn't have time to fix, so I just stuck with the original lasagne/theano stack.
It sounds like you're slowly working towards becoming some sort of insane hosting company
And they used to be a BSD shop as well, then Marrisa changed it to Linux I think.
It's a bad idea to dismiss this claim. I haven't worked through whether the claim has merit, but China has an entire division dedicated solely to finding these kinds of issues in other countries. They exploit them ruthlessly. I'm sure a lot of Russian hackers aren't as independent as they seem, either. And of course, the NSA does all of this vs the rest of the world, though I'm not sure they'd be interested in the Russian equivalent of the Equifax situation.
"The underlying problem is structurally deficient demand caused by thirty years of neoliberal economic policies that have undermined the income and demand generation process (Palley, 2009). However, rather than fixing this problem, policymakers are again turning to ultra-easy monetary policy in the form of QE. Viewed from this perspective, QE can be interpreted as a form of asset market trickledown whereby supporting asset prices is supposed to jumpstart the macro economy…From a political standpoint, this is an enormous change from the world of forty years ago. The New Deal policy paradigm of wage floors and household income supports has been replaced by one of asset price floors and asset market subsidies. Viewed through a political lens QE therefore represents the triumph of plutonomics, and that makes it an obstruction to the extent it obscures the challenge of repairing the income and demand generation process."

http://www.thomaspalley.com/docs/articles/macro_policy/quant...
> I have a work colleague who has a green card but lives in the UK. He gets questioned on it every time he goes through US customs.

> Essentially, the very idea that someone would choose not to live in the US is considered suspicious.

This is misinformation. Green card is the colloquial name for the "Permanent Resident Card". As the name implies, you're supposed to live in the US if you hold this card. Your colleague may be flying under the radar but he's probably violating the conditions required to maintain a green card and might lose it in the future:

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/after-green-card-granted/ma...

"You may also lose your permanent resident status by intentionally abandoning it. You may be found to have abandoned your status if you:

Move to another country, intending to live there permanently.

Remain outside of the United States for an extended period of time, unless you intended this to be a temporary absence.
(...)"
assuming wholesale cost, start a website that sells old computers one at a time for cost + $10
But it's not. "partial" is specifically defined as its own function in the article. If you're a developer coming across this guy's project for the first time, you'll have to dig one level further into the stack before you find it.

Only then do you get to learn those unnecessary gymnastics, so you can follow the rest of his code.
LA is gearing up to be the next tech hotspot
How can a user prove they didn't misuse an item, though?
> Without reforms to medical school and medical residency programs, healthcare might never be affordable.

That's important, true. But that's not the only thing that would increase the amount of healthcare available to people. Dean Baker, for example, makes the important point that we could greatly increase the supply of doctors simply by allowing qualified foreign doctors to be certified in the U.S.[1] Lower class workers in industries like manufacturing have had to compete with foreign workers because of free trade, but upper class workers benefit from extreme protectionism that shuts out foreign competition. Protectionism is also why drug prices are so high; if people were allowed to import drugs from places like Canada, the cost would be substantially cheaper.

[1] http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/more-of-free-trade-in-d...
To expand on this, you can easily do something like:

xranrdr -d :0 --output VGA-2 --right-of VGA-1

xranrdr -d :0 --output VGA-3 --right-of VGA-2

That would line up your three monitors in a row. I've been using it to automate testing of a multi-window Electron app and it works very well. You can do grids, columns, a cross - whatever...
See also "mediatronic tattoo" in The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
> that's gross

Sure, it is now. But it (probably) wasn't gross back when the bible was written.

The bible is a piece of art/propaganda written to support the sense of tribal unity and to ensure political power stays with the right people. The God, therefore, is just a character - a literary device - from a book written 3k years ago for a very specific target audience. We are not that target audience and we lack the cultural context to decipher the intended meaning - the meaning that the authors had in mind when writing. It's entirely possible that to the authors and their readers the biblical stories were about mercy (or whatever).

And it's not "whitewashing". Nobody denies that OT God is a mass killer. They just claim that - for a fictional character - being a mass killer (or a god for that matter) was very differently perceived 3000 years ago in a middle of a desert.
Nail hit right on the head. As an old-timer who's been through a lot this wont stop me, younger people who think they have more to lose and not the experience to deal with it - possibly.
I think if we look at motive and potential effects on the financial system it's very likely to have been a state sponsored attack.

Coming right on the heels of economic sanctions and a stream of threats my wild guess is North Korean involvement. Or else that's who they'll eventually blame it on. Or who knows.

Which none of this in any way excuses Equifax's shockingly bad behavior.
Community maintained variants like xubuntu rely entirely on volunteers, so you can make a big difference if you can test things & report bugs during the prerelease versions.
Thought the fact that you needed to build your own furniture was core to Ikea's business model?

"The IKEA effect is a cognitive bias in which consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created. The name derives from the name of Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer IKEA, which sells many furniture products that require assembly."
Well, ok, but my point was that it isn't exactly Johnston Atoll.
> But the result is we now have several generations that have no idea about even the basics of the second most important technology in their lives: electricity (after water and food). They need an 'expert' to do it for them.

I bet fewer homes burn down from miswired plugs or plugs with improper fuses now, too.

I am occasionally surprised by how non-handy people are, but I also realize that being handy isn't actually that valuable. There is virtually no practical gain to be had from knowing how to replace a plug. At best you'll save a few dollars at some point. I am comfortable with wiring but have never replaced a plug. I doubt I ever will.

> This 17 year old (who ate chips from chip-shops frequently) had no idea that to make chips required peeling and slicing raw potatoes and was incredulous at the process; she 'thought' chips just grew as long square pieces of potato - see: "unthinking".

There have always been dumb (or unthinking) people. This isn't a recent change.
Some idle speculation by some randos on Reddit is hardly evidence.
It's interesting that in such an otherwise complete account of ExtJS that so little is made of the rise (and subsequent fall) of jQuery.

The author rightfully talks about some of the (terrible) decisions made by the frameworks owners, that pushed folks from the community; but (imo) the greater effect was the rise of jQuery, which embraced an open source model ExtJS scorned and built a staggeringly large community which pulled many folks from ExtJS.

It's a rather naive view, but Google Trends data from 2004 to now[0] tells a VERY good version of this story

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=jquery,E...
I'm one of those possibly-rare people who considers the ebook experience superior to the physical book. No bookmarks necessary, can read on Kindle while home and continue reading on my phone while out, mega-cheap if you watch for deals, hundreds of books available to read at any time...what's not to love?
> My netbook isn't obsolete. In fact, I don't think I can buy anything like it any more.

That's pretty much the definition of obsolete
says who?
It isn't getting worse everywhere - that's just defeatist attitude.

For example, the EU data retention directive that Zenst mentions was struck down last year; the EU is adopting a new personal data protection regulation next year that will significantly improve personal data handling; the EU introduced the right to be forgotten, etc.
This seems like a great way to obfuscate all your code without any actual benefit. Can anyone give me a real example of how this is somehow a better way to do things? Maybe the application for this is only for a specific field that I'm not familiar with?
if memory serves me right, ExtJs is popular in NAS solutions such as synology and openmediavault, not sure how this will play out for them.
If I don't want a separate SSH connection for every tab, then some in-terminal level management is required. Additionally, it's not really that inefficient. It's no different than alt-tab in windows to background and foreground apps. In this case, it's like alt-tab when in a remote desktop connection.

But in the end it's not about whether it's efficient, it's about whether it's rare, and I think it's not from the different vim users I've encountered, which may be an entirely different subset than the ones you have.
A hallmark example of point-free style in J is likely the example of calculating the average value of the array:

+/ % #

Here literally you say "I'm calculating sum of elements (+/) which then divide (%) into the number of elements (#)".

If your array isn't just a one variable (x) but instead is obtained as a result of an expression, you may not want to repeat that expression twice or to invent an intermediate variable to store the array result. Here point-free style can help.
It depends, in modern digitization there is plenty of room for mangers who started out on the productive end. It does require extra education, organizational understanding and people skills, but the sales bit isn't really a plus outside of contract management.

Most sales people in IT are employees.
The problem isn't money for doctors, it's money for administrators (including insurance). Same as education.

In any field x, you have people who specialize in x and people who specialize in extracting money. It's no surprise where the money ends up. (This is independent of particular mechanisms for extracting money that vary across economic and political systems.)
Pedantic, but average IQ scores have stayed the same over the years, exactly 100.
You can't imagine anyone could have a conclusion different from yours.

The union propaganda campaign must be working.
UUIDs aren't exactly guessable, any hole which lets someone "slip in some code" is way more serious than a persistent login token.

It's not great to have a non-revocable login token, but a "UUID that lets anyone log in as you" is how a lot of API access tokens work, which is why they usually have a mechanism where you can regenerate them if you know they are compromised.

I don't disagree with your premise that "a lot of crap is out there" though. Working in small to medium enterprises (SMEs) really opens your eyes about the real level of security of most sites.
Yes, i know that's why i was telling him, it's good sci-fi and different from the usual fantasy in space like star wars/trek/....
I did not know that, thank you for the correction, it certainly opens me up more to scheme. There are a handful of tools that use it that I really want to dig into (gnu mcron for example), but I've been trying to decide if its worth the time investment.
And then a lazy journalist publishes a headline inflating the results, and the average person unquestioningly believes it, lowering our collective IQ.
Just because Equifax is incompetent doesn't exclude the possibility of state sponsored action though.
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That’s about what I expected; thanks.

Just for reference for people reading this: rust-bindgen can produce bindings to C++ code these days, though that gets you an unsafe library; you’d want to build another thin layer on top of it to nail down the ownership semantics so that you can provide a safe interface.
There is this weirdly strict moral aspect of what someone 'deserves' in the realms of public policy. In private finances, deserving is not an issue at all.

If pure cold economic calculation would be applied to public policy, it would become clear that healthcare is not just personal issue, good healthcare provides positive externalizes for all. Your neighbors good teeth are not completely unlike investing in a bridge or other public infrastructure.

If someone stays healthy and can work full time 5 years more because he had free healthcare, he pays 5 years more taxes, generates more profits fro employer, and consumes less medical services during his lifetime.
At large companies with politics and bureaucracies you can't really just come in and create a PR for a bug you've found like you'd do in a smaller shop or a startup.

If the code is not responsibility of you (your team / department) all you can do is create work requests / JIRA tickets for people/team responsible for the code.

You wouldn't even have access to the repository or dev/test environments for the affected system most likely.

And it might just sit there for months until it eventually gets picked up and fixed. Or it will never be fixed.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15329699

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15356304

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15352649
Not to sound patronizing, but you've clearly never worked in a large enterprise.

Teams are siloed. Code is siloed. The deployment process is siloed. Etc.

Do I know where the code lives? If I do, do I -have access to the code-? Write, as well as read? Will my checking in code trigger a huge change review process that will cause people to yell at me for touching code I'm not in charge of? Will my checked in code be picked up as part of what goes to prod? If not, do I have a way to get the code into that process? Etc.

Very few companies of that scale are just a "check the code out, fix it, create a pull request, and watch it work its way into prod".
Could be native advertising?
That sounds like something that would be absolutely abused
That's not the case at all, Thomas is always doing things he shouldn't for fun, like disturbing sleeping trains (Gordon), winding up trains with remarks (also Gordon), passing warning boards in mines, and falling into subsiding mines[0].

Then there's not being nice to trucks, refusing to pull trucks, panicking from a near-collision and running away, ignoring advice from more-experiences engines and losing a head of steam, deliberately causing passengers to get wet, …

The ones where they do as they're asked to are the minority…

I don't recall any instances when an engine was directed to ignore a rule by a driver or the Fat Controller.

0: http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Down_the_Mine
Yes. We are that big.

https://bgp.he.net/report/exchanges#_participants
What would be your comments then on this same God foreordaining his one and only Son to be crucified, to suffer, to die, to bear your sin, in your place, and his Son doing this willingly in obedience to the Father he loves?

Jesus, in John 10:

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

The Jews who heard these words were again divided. Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?”

But others said, “These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
Apparently you can, but it's a bit hidden: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/103470
Thanks for the excellent references, the PNNL report was a very interesting read.

> "Autonomous Demand Response for frequency regulation is real..."

I wasn't saying that ADR wasn't "real," just that it's not something we're currently doing for frequency control in actual practice...and of course that might change as engineers continue researching and pushing the field further. It definitely looks like ADR solutions are on the horizon though.
> Which means the book value for all cars goes down the toilet.

which isn't that big a deal, because average people aren't buying their cars as investments (or repeatedly refinancing them). your car still gets you to work just fine even if it is worth less than you owe. and that state of affairs would resolve itself in <5 years, even if you just bought it.

> So when they repo lots of cars due to a downturn the second hand market will crash.

that would only happen if folks could no longer service the debt on their vehicles. the amount of auto loan debt isn't evidence that will happen any time soon.

folks were able to "suddenly" develop problems servicing their mortgage debt because they'd gotten adjustable rate mortgages. adjustable rate loans for automobiles are much less of a thing.
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In reality, most parts will still not be glued but use screws. And even if it's glued, replacing it shouldn't be an issue if the company sells the equipment?
> Green card is the colloquial name for the "Permanent Resident Card".

Agreed. If caught he could get in trouble and have it revoked.
What the community probably didn't realise is that bills had to be paid in a tough situation. The price rise was not something they did out of greed but rather something of a last ditch effort to be profitable.
Just note though, you also never have to broaden your horizons, but sometimes it's worth trying out some bad in pursuit of finding something amazing you didn't think you would like.

My leson though is that you don't have to stick to it once it gets boring. Missing out on this means not missing out on something else, so why waste precious time?
Someone please explain me the difference between Override, Extend, Plugin and Mixin.

And what happens when i apply all of them in any order to a given method.

Could you also explain why basing your development on overriding and extending seemed like a good idea? Were people that scared of HTML and CSS?
Thanks for the advice. Really helps.

So I have some potential customers who like it. Some prefer the competitor because it has more features but think that product is too expensive. All I can think of right now is focus on a core set of features a target group would need and charge less. I'm worried my competitor would just release a cut down cheaper version later but then I guess anyone else could do that as well. Any advice?

Affinity Designer and Illustrator before exist I suppose. Maybe I have to focus on specific workflows and cost.
This is why I never got the hype around Westworld. It's a fun concept, but the entire plot of season 1 could have been accomplished in two, maybe three episodes.
I don’t see us going into hosting. I do see us doing everything that makes sense when you are a few ms from everyone on the planet.