skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently product managers and some dev leads are currently working with our legal teams to build requirement epics around GDPR to be worked on very early next year by development teams.

About a year ago we had a big push to be fully HIPAA compliant, so we're following a similar process. Luckily, we are hosted on Amazon and already "do the right thing" in terms of encrypting PII and storing it in the closest AWS region, so hopefully it's not too much of a huge lift.
Yup. Raise the tolls. Make some high priced toll only lanes while you're at it. God forbid people prefer to sit in traffic on a bridge in order to spend their money in your state. Regressive taxation is always a net win for society.

(the massive amount of sarcasm should be obvious)

Seriously, other than a few extra dollars in the short term and making the roads less crowded for those who have the money to justify their value proposition what is the befit of raising tolls?

I can understand if you want to basically levy a tax on tourism but levying a tax on people showing up to buy stuff doesn't seem smart.
Quite true.

Slackware 2.0 was my first distribution, and after a decade of FOSS zealotry, I just gave up and went back to Windows.

Linux on laptops is still an hit and miss, specially in what concerns graphic, hybrid GPUs and power savings.
This is what you get when you try to write down everything you have heard and can remember about the world, and about as accurate.
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> If it would require no energy to create Bitcoin it would be completely useless.

Why would an alternative consensus mechanism that doesn't involve finding a low target hash make it useless?
As another commenter mentioned, you might want to try out Reason [0]. It's a new-ish programming language from Facebook that uses OCaml as its backend.

[0] https://reasonml.github.io
Because politicians (in the aggregate) are stupid lawyers who barely passed math, at least in the US.

They come up with ideas, and when special interests and other actors end up completely breaking the intent by changing certain pieces, they still proceed with implementing the broken legislation for public perception reasons of "doing something".

See the Affordable Care Act for example. Obama wanted a public option to keep insurance companies in check and help drive down the price-gouging from the providers. Joe Lieberman, as the 60th Democrat in the Senate, was able to block that by pulling his vote, allowing for a fillibuster. He wanted the public option removed, and he got his wish.

Obama pushed the law through anyway, despite the fact that this change completely broke the design of the law. Insurance companies now saw it as a subsidy for new customers, which is what it was. The broken design failed to reign in costs, which made the subsidy provided by the government inadequate to make it affordable to the working-class, resulting in the law effectively being a Medicaid expansion and nothing more. The prices charged by insurance companies through the exchange were too high to ease the pain of people too rich for Medicaid but too

Obama originally treated it as a huge victory. It wasn't. It was broken on delivery. But hey, they "pushed something through" and "won."

Now we are getting honest assessment of it as it implodes, and the Democrats are talking about single-payer again.
Deflation is not a bad thing. Instead of throwing away their money at junk, people become more discriminating and buy what they actually need at the moment. Thats terrible news for our economic system short term, but great news for all of us and the planet long term.
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You can use stream.io for marketing, email, etc. and use something like stream-dot-io.com or 2556369863227.com for production APIs.
Many of the same people who get angry about the complex tax acrobatics used by big corporations also deride people like Rand Paul who have suggested a one page tax code.

But what about my deduction for this? What about the deduction for that? Hundreds of thousands of pages later, that's how you end up with loopholes that only the savvy/wealthy are able to find.

That's the kind of thinking that led to this mess. Like good developers, we should abstract the tax code to simply define the acceptable conditions for something to be deducted. Then, the Treasury can provide a list of 'standard' deductions somewhere that won't attract any extra scrutiny, and which will suffice for most purposes. Things like a minimum rent amount, minimum food expenses, etc.
What are the benefits of green juice?
Show HN: A really addictive way to read /r/todayilearned
A lot of people do..
I started using https://www.breaker.audio/ (iOS & Android)
I really recommend it
Yes. Perfectly expresses what I've observed time and time and time again through the years. Nails it.
Well you can't protect yourself against an hostile gov if you don't know their weapons.
> next best alternative for tech domain names

.com is the best not-alternative
> Can someone tell me if there's actual malfeasance this time or just more edgy moaning about the spy agency doing its job?

Why don't you read it and decide for yourself?
Somehow, companies never play this smart. Maybe at very R&D laden companies things are different, so I wouldn't bet against AMD, but wouldn't bet on them either.
Toradol (NSAID) is the most effective pain killer I've experienced. I broke a rib and could barely move. ER injected me with Toradol, and for a brief few hours I could move normally. I call that the best high I've ever had -- not a buzz -- just absence of pain. Unfortunately it's so bad for your stomach they won't give you two shots and won't let you take it orally more than a few days.
You could always keep using .io for your marketing site and then a related .com domain for the actual app traffic.
>Its just anti-American wankery.

So what, that’s been wikileaks MO since day one. Assange has been very transparent about his intentions.

Read his essay from 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20070129125831/http://iq.org/con...
I really hope that employees of this company are provided with access to mental health services as one of their benefits. Without judgement one way or the other, in that line of work, you'd need it.
concur. My experience exactly.
I was noting our model in comparison to Amazon, which has it's own set of inefficiencies -- capital for warehouses far outside of city boundaries, the dedicated labor force/trucks, spoilage and selection issues, etc.

In no way am I noting that our model is perfect or without inefficiencies, just that the idea that "Amazon has the perfect and most efficient grocery delivery system" and "to attempt to use local retail grocery stores as a collective warehouse is not profitable" is just a fallacy.
Social Media Has Failed Its Self-Driving Test
> is x an iterator (Collection is std::map) or a number (Collection is std::string)? Here it is better to write out the iterator type if that's what you mean.

The reader would be able to infer this from context (as is the compiler, so it's still type-safe).

> `first` has type T except when T is bool. Gross. Better to write out the type T.

That's a preexisting problem with `vector<bool>` much more than it is with `auto`.
The amount of work that they put into throwing off attribution, while expected, is important to make it's way into public knowledge rather than just the realm of conspiracy, IMO.
FWIW a glance at that wikipedia page does not show any references to the .IO TLD.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io .IO TLD is run by Internet Computer Bureau - are they the same/related companies?
Major news outlets, no. Not so major outlets, sure.

All the Googling I've seen seems to point to a "Santa Monica Observer" as the primary source of this claim. (See the Snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/texas-samir-al-hajeed-sam-hyde/ ), Snopes also links to a "Freedom Daily" and there are a couple of other sketchy news websites with this claim.

The Snopes article also mentions that a comedian known for trolling-style pranks (Sam Hyde -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hyde#Hoaxes_and_pranks ) is tangent to these claims. So my best guess is that you are correct, someone treated a trollish tweet or post as actual news.

I'm not sure why bias is brought up all the time in "fake news", because bias is not the same as fake. Nobody should have issues with conservative news that is known for better vetting, even if their bias is strong (your Wall Street Journals, National Review, etc.). Fake is fake whether it comes from the right or the left. It is true that conservative fake news was much more prevalent in the 2016 election (https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf), but "progressive" fake news definitely exists.
The study that most people reference in this setting[1] simply associates days of opioid usage to likelihood of using opioids in the long term. A simple (and very likely) explanation is that people who need opioids for ten days are likely suffering from chronic pain.

Are you thinking of a different study?

1. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6610a1.htm#F1_up
It looks like they are detecting crashes of other cars caught on camera, not crashes of the car with the camera.
I had some bad reactions to NSAIDs (asthma attacks & bad headaches). I was never sure if I was having an attack come on and thus took aspirin, or if the aspirin was causing it. Eventually I went to a doctor and it turns out there's a allergy-like sensitivity to these things that some people have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID_hypersensitivity_reactio...

NSAIDs-exacerbated respiratory disease

N.E.R.D.

I found out that (scientifically speaking) I am a NERD (or have NERD, whatever)
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Ugh. Kill me now.
i always wondered why hipsters use a strange "indian ocean" domain for serious stuff.
I can't find an obvious source on Afilias running .IO? nic.io doesn't link to it, Afilias doesn't list .io on their homepage as one of "their" TLDs, ...

EDIT: Google finds some announcements where registrars tell their customers about a switchover of the registry backend to Afilias June 10th, 2017. Wonder if they run the DNS or not? The nameservers are in IP space owned by ICB, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
Just use .com for anything critical (i.e. that your customers rely on).

Keep a .io domain or whatever you want for marketing purposes if it's absolutely necessary, just realise your splash page is at risk of failure some times. Whether it's worth the trade-off is likely up to the individual company.
https://www.internetnews.me/2017/04/12/afilias-wins-contract...
in psychology, at the top your brain has two modes, exploit and explore. some people stop doing one of them. in physics we describe this as what happens when people die.
you sure about that? the Wikipedia page on Afilias doens't list IO as one of their domains, and the Wikipedia page on .io says tje 'Internet Computer Bureau' runs it, with them also running the .sh and .ac domains.
>I can understand if you want to basically levy a tax on tourism but levying a tax on people showing up to buy stuff doesn't seem smart.

You mean, like a sales tax?
The title of this link is frustrating and misleading. The article clarifies a bit, but I take issue with Ars linking to the specific study with text stating the methodology is the gold standard. That doesn’t mean the conclusion will hold up to scrutiny, or that “extremity pain” is a meaningful dimension. The type of injury (eg. compound fractures, sprains, etc.) could be more meaningful than where the injury is. There’s no control for injury location.

Also, the CDC guidelines state that opioids are recommended when other treatments fail (regardless of the underlying condition). That key facet was excluded from this article. Ugh.

Apologies, this is a bit of a rant. I have a very painful chronic neurological condition that often requires powerful opioid pain medication to get out of bed (and not commit suicide). Please keep in mind that there are legitimate use cases for opioids. I don’t like them, but combined with biofeedback, PT, mindfulness and relaxation techniques, I’m able to survive until my condition gets better (if it does).

We all understand that opioids should be avoided when possible. Addiction is horrific. I don’t think anybody is arguing that. But please help stop making life exponentially harder for people with legitimate problems that effectively require opioid medications as part of a treatment plan. We have it tough enough already.

The only way out of the current situation is to develop drugs that are at least as effective as opioids, but not addictive (and ideally not psychoactive). I’ve tried everything (yes, an NSAID + acetaminophen, and even intrathecal Ziconotide), but we just aren’t there yet. I hope we get there soon, because I’m sick of the mental cloudiness and health risks of opioids. I want my life back, and I’m sick of fighting just to maintain an acceptable level of pain management.
Their point was to not run mission-critical API traffic on those domains, which seems reasonable.
I feel that we're only getting the half of it since we're seeing 30-40fps video, but in real life it's going to be much different than what we see.
nic.io contact page links to https://www.icb.co.uk/ which is not reachable
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NYC is already very full of marijuana
"exploiting human psychology"
what a shitty way of describing "hes doing something i dont like"

the level of psychology education of "the people" and the level needed for me to communicate with them is apparently out of whack
Why is it that the faults of people always boil down to "personal responsibility", but the faults of companies never do? Why is FB not responsible for what they're doing to their platform?
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Some newer TLDs that can be used in tech industry (not sure on their reliability): .computer, .consulting, .design, .digital, .engineering, .enterprises, .graphics, .guide, .network, .online, .plus, .productions, .services, .site, .software, .systems, .tech, .zone

Note that some of these newer TLDs can be more expensive (up to $60/year).
These are up to 10 year old tools, they are not going to still be in use.
I did pretty well for reciting it from memory.
Sean Parker on FB: ‘God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains’
my .me domain is my primary domain and won't expire for 10 years.

Also I've never observed an outage for it like this.
The existence of welfare does not a welfare state make.
We also find it ethically acceptable for a couple not to ask who fathered their own child

Wait, we do? Social issues aside, what about family medical history!?
you're trolling with the anti-swift stuff right?
Google's new file manager is now in public beta
ehh if you're in state no that's not "much" cheaper, but it is like half off.
$12935.28 CAD / year for the university I went to, a four year degree would cost $51740 CAD.
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It's hardly surprising sadly. Looking back through my submission history there's two instances of incompetence by the .IO handlers:

1) Storing passwords in plain text: Although the post is now down, it pointed to the fact that Nic.IO will email you your password in plain text. Something which everyone that's spent more than a few weeks coding should know not to do.

2) Another pretty major outage back in 2013 that rendered two of my sites offline.

I personally stopped using them after my last IO domain lapsed but this should serve as a stark warning to anyone thinking they can pick up a cute IO domain
The idea the bring not that they will expand to take you over, but that you can't trust a weaker civilization to stay weaker.
There are pictures at http://themindcircle.com/niagara-falls-runs-dry/ but this is the better article.
but even in your example, you already made 2 rest requests as opposed to 1 via graphql. What if your scenario is to GET all friends whose names start with D of friends of a friend ?
The current conversation about a wealth tax was jumpstarted by Thomas Piketty, who argues that the natural tendency of a capitalist economy is to make the rich get richer and the poor to get poorer (relative to each other - in absolute terms everybody should be getting richer). Basically the point of the wealth tax is to provide a counterweight to that tendency.
related article here: http://www.fast.ai/2016/10/09/diversity-in-ai/
As did I, then I saw the sub-headline of "For one thing, you won’t like IPAs." and I got sad for myself.
Google's AI Wizard Unveils a New Twist on Neural Networks
Said by the company that uses .io
I wonder if that's in effect yet ?
Ironic? He's just perceptive and doesn't fool himself.

He sees what he and his friends are doing as potentially immoral and, by telling us, his conscience is asking us to stop him and his friends. At the same time, he's gloating about getting away with it and profiting handsomely. He believes he can't be stopped -- even if he tells us all about what they will do.

He won't stop by himself. It's in his self-interest. He enjoys the power and the technological challenge.
Solomon Hykes. Another inspiring example of an "outsider" succeeding in Silicon Valley.
Avaaz – End. Tax. Havens. NOW
Do you buy clothes or shoes? Ive never had to return toilet paper, but we got a pair of boots that were a different size from the listing when they arrived
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They aren't running it yet. It is not being offered to registrars yet.
I'm surprised there's no .api gTLD yet.
This looks really interesting. I could see a business here of taking photographs and turning them into coloring books.
There are still several hundred once prominent MMOs called MUDs that came about in the 1980s and are all text based. They deal with these sorts of problems in very diverse and creative ways. If you've never played one, I might suggest Duris, Land of Bloodlust.

It's old-school, beautiful, huge world and incredibly delicate, strategic and fun combat. It's a race wars, so RvR style full player killing and full player looting. Rough game :p but makes modern MMOs look like Fisher Price editions.
Pliny the Elder is the best beer
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A simple solution would be to restrict your professional communications to an online "contact me" form, which in itself would require CAPTCHA or some sort of registration. That would require a culture shift within ProPublica--easier to achieve than policing all WordPress installs or all mailing lists.
Not quite true. Currently it requires physical access with a JTAG debugger. Presumably eventually it could be weaponized enough to allow access with any sort of USB device, and potentially remotely, but the latter is very unlikely.
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Trying to limit both the probability of a data breach happening and the severity of it should it still happen, e.g.:

1. Enforcing FileVault etc. on company laptops.
2. Internal storage: Reviewing servers' security, limit duplication of sensitive data, review access control
3. Checking external dependencies: where do third parties store data? E.g. Dropbox is not GDPR compliant yet[0], they are cutting it fine.
4. Enforcing 2FA.
5. Ensuring we have an audit trail of having assessed the GDPR impact.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/help/security/general-data-protectio...
Rethinking Android app compilation with Buck
Any language that compiles to a static binary, sure.
Same (I'm GGP)

I think it also makes a lot of assumptions about the nature of interstellar warfare - mainly that against a single-system enemy, attacks are quick and destructive enough - and hard enough to defend against - to destroy all ability to retaliate with high certainty. A sort of MAD gone wrong, with an attacker not having to even worry about the possibility of a second strike by the more resilient elements of enemy forces.
I'm gonna say no, they wouldn't, nor would they base their knowledge about Facebook on The Social Network, and to support this claim I cite the first 5 words: "Not sure how accurate it is."

I guess you're saying "don't trust movies" and/or "Facebook would never exploit human psychology, that's a made-up fiction." Har har, good one.

Regardless, "fiction inspired by a true story" would presumably have some true elements and some not-true elements. If they were all not-true elements, it would be completely made-up, literally 100% fiction (not based on or inspired by a true story), and anyway I don't think there's any such thing as 100% fiction, no matter how hard people try. Every fiction owes something to the reality it was concocted in.

Therefore the problem becomes knowing which elements are true (facts) and which are not-true (fiction).
pg "unloaded" on this ten years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77173.

The submission can be read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20071109094843/http://ycombinato...

Surprisingly to no one, a year later the issue hadn't gone away: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372593
That makes sense.

Ironically though, just as another anecdote (and to the best of my knowledge), the very first "fake news" right-wing site who's operator was confronted, ended up being a left-voting liberal who [paraphrasing] "hated conservatives and people on the right, and wanted to spread disinformation to them to pollute their arguments".

But I guess we'll never know, so the best solution is still non-censorship.
Probably not info the CI companies all want public. That's within margin of error of their exact customer counts I would think
No, you wouldn't be crazy. You'd simply be following medical advice/what's best for your situation. For some chronic pain sufferers opioids are one of the only options (or is something that is used in addition to other methods/things to alleviate pain). For instance, many people with connective tissue disorders use opioids in addition to other physical methods (surgical, splints, etc)[1], and removing something like an opioid can make life untenable, and amounts to torture [2]

1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26497567

2) https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/15/chronic-pain-opioids-pat...
Yup -- requesting an edit of the link title to clarify that it's about oral analgesics only, not IV analgesics, since this has indeed been a major point of confusion for several commenters.
That is.. backwards in almost every way.
One, then, is left to wonder where the seat of organizational sentience really resides, if it resides in any of the independent organisms at all.

Ants surely seem sentient, even if still lower-order animals. Is it just an emergent detail of aggregate reflexive behavior across all members? How (and why) would soldiers know to build a bridge with their bodies, to cross a water barrier, seemingly from birth?

Maybe the level of recognition and internal modelling, on a per-organism basis is a clue to self awareness and emotional involvement in individual perception and experience. With all ants, maybe this quality is low, and mostly instinctual, embedded in gene expression.
The same applies to drug dealers. Busybodies notwithstanding.

But underneath that simplistic surface view, you're dealing with somebody who inflicts cost on society as a whole to extract profit for themselves. And they extract it in a way that individuals don't necessarily care to fix.

And so, you'll need somebody to stand up for a functioning society. That would then be your "busybodies". (Sure, there's the libertarian fantasy of complete self-determination. Which inevitably leads to a might-makes-right world. Most of us have decided long ago we'd rather live in a civilized society)