skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. EU laws/regulations dont't apply outside its jurisdiction. GPDR will affect Facebook, Google etc. just because they are operating in EU market[0]:

"This won't apply to every U.S. business — just the ones that are knowingly, and actively, conducting business in the EU. In this vein, EU courts have the discretionary ability to determine if a U.S. company was purposely collecting EU resident data and subverting GDPR compliance."

0. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2007530-how-the-eu-ca...
Note that this is an Op-Ed, not a news article. The claim that the problem with that effort was bureaucratic waste that was no fault of Zuckerberg is some heavy editorializing. Such a claim would indeed support Zuck starting his own school where he has even more control.

Other reporting tells a different story: while rising-star politicians loved seeing their names in headlines next to big numbers, the effort was catastrophically disconnected from the local community. Unlike public money, private money needed no public review, so the effort was launched like a surprise attack on the local teacher's union; the million-dollar community-engagement campaign's centerpiece public forums drew hundreds of residents who volunteered to help their local schools, who never heard back; the superintendent appointed to carry out the effort was an outsider from California who at one point got a unanimous vote of no confidence by the school advisory board (with no effect because "advisory"); that superintendent spent $3 million on an international consulting firm to develop a plan to redistribute students in the school system so that the neediest students don't end up in the worst schools like they usually do, but then couldn't answer basic questions from parents when the plan was finally revealed. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/19/schooled

Such a narrative would instead suggest that Zuckerberg should focus on more community engagement, rather than on consolidating more control over schools he wants to be better.
Intro to Geometric Calculus (5 short videos)
As far as I know, GDPR disallows “bundled” consent. Google will be obligated to provide all the same services even if it cannot use the data for targeted ads.
Of course they were. What else would you expect of this administration?
Anti corruption is a classic measure to shift weath from one set of former insiders to the new set of insiders. One time pushes are almost meaningless without the creation of new long term institutions.

For companies the pressure for managers to create the illusion of progress causes a lot of structural problems. I find companies that stay out of China are better long term prospects and tend to have far better upper management.

PS: The other option is to sell one or two generations back so copycats start at a significant disadvantage internationally.
As a math grad student, I really feel you on the crickets thing. My research is some obscure application of agebraic topology to general relativity.

Over the years I've played with all kinds of ways to relate what I do to people. These days I kind of feel that the storytelling is more important than accurately describing my research. So instead of answering with some compact three-sentence explanation, I'll take the opportunity to start telling stories about space and the mysteries of the universe.

I'm not sure people walk away with an understanding of what I do in any useful sense, but the conversations are often fun and I feel like they at least understand how I feel about my research.

FWIW, you job sounds pretty badass to me. :)
Demystifying Blockchains ELI5
How to fail in the game of evolution...
Speaking of high variability, there's a particular issue I have that I've not seen come up before.

The Nintendo 3DS has a 3D slider, that lets you adjust the intensity of the 3D or just go 2D. I can handle it for extended periods on the low setting, but have stopped using it entirely after one session where, upon putting down the game, I couldn't handle reality. It was like my brain had adjusted to the incomplete 3D effect described by this post, and the real world suddenly physically hurt to look at. It only lasted about 10-20 seconds, but it was more than enough for me to not want to use it again.
I'm not stuck on 1hr segments, and I am willing to split exercises up, but only when it makes sense. For an example of this, see exercises 4 & 5 - the fifth one uses the code from the fourth.

What I am weary of is a single exercise that isn't easy to break up. Or one that even if you break it up, each exercise isn't entertaining or educational enough to stand on its own.

I also prefer having exercises (at least for this course) that can be completed in someones spare time - say in an afternoon or evening - and if an exercise takes me 1hr to code in a screencast, chances are it will take someone newer to the language longer and that doesn't account for time learning about new std libraries, googling questions, etc. In short, a 1hr exercise for me might be a 3+ hour exercise for some students.
The anti-trust behavior itself would run foul of laws, not the FCC plans.

This is really the fundamental point of Pai's argument, at least so far as I can read it. Is that instead of creating an extensive set of 'preemptive' rules that are not necessarily forward looking. For throughout limited near future services like satellite or balloon internet, throttling/blocking/etc will almost certainly be necessary. The current rules, at least he ones written under Wheeler, had a completely undefined "reasonable network management" exception allowing companies to break any rule, but that's a somewhat uncomfortable clause to rely on when you're investing tens of billions of dollars.

So instead of writing hundreds of pages of static rules which can arguably interfere with competition or innovation, deal with bad behavior as it emerges through the proper channels. And in many cases that bad behavior would not be managed by the FCC - as you mention we already actually have pretty reasonable anti-trust law as well as consumer protections. And organizations like the EFF would certainly be on the forefront of making sure these protections are utilized to the max potential allowed by the law.
Inclusion or Illusion? A Look At Google's $1 Billion Philanthropic Game Plan
> we're the ones getting bent over the barrel.

Only in the indirect sense that all expenses ultimately filter down to the customer/buyer. The common trope that businesses never take a loss and always find some creative way to pass each expense onto the consumer is total nonsense, except insofar as it's just a simple tautology that states the obvious fact that a business's revenue must cover its own expenses.
Yeah, given that this was written in January 2011, close to the peak of 3D hype, it seems spot on. 3D's best year was 2010, with 21% of US tickets sold. That's now down to 14% and dropping. I don't know anybody who insists on seeing films in 3D, but I have a number of friends who will flat-out refuse. And 3D TV is just dead.

The best quote for me in this article comes at the end: "[...] if the film story has really gripped an audience they are "in" the picture in a kind of dreamlike 'spaceless' space. So a good story will give you more dimensionality than you can ever cope with."

This seems exactly right to me. A captivating film already sucks you in. 3D just doesn't improve upon that for me.
Researchers at Ohio State evaluated study participants using SAGE and then evaluated the same subjects with other established assessment tools. The test has a sensitivity of 79 percent and a false positive rate of 5 percent in detecting cognitive impairment from normal subjects. Results were published in the January-March 2010 issue of Alzheimer's Disease & Associated Disorders: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20220323
DotGo 2017 – Behavior of Channels
Actually there’s some security reasons why. An iCloud id have muliple purposes in the Apple ecosystem. You can use it like an e-mail address or caller/messaging contact id. Now imagine if they will free up your username and later someone else will register it. Or worst, you used that e-mail address to register in some other services.
Deleted accounts could retain the comments but anonymise the accounts.

Also I don't think having the ability to delete your profile invites trolls. Usually one deletes their account because they post something wrong but which they genuinely believe is true then get downvoted and / or trolled into oblivion. These people we should probably be working to retain because while they might have been wrong, their contribution did improve the content on the site due to the corrections that followed. However sometimes the negative rep and / or harshness of the replies can make the corrections a bitter pill to swallow. So I think there should be a downvote cap for incorrect posts (or even disallowing downvoting for all but rudeness and spam) and working harder on improving forum etiquette.
Implementing tail's follow in Go
The "team" section of that page doesn't contradict what I said at all.
Google to give $1 B to nonprofits and help Americans get jobs in the new economy
How China's meshing ride-sharing data and smart traffic lights to ease congestion
There's a neat numberphile video on the subject! [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s4TqVAbfz4
Conversation context in Chatbots
Hire AngularJS App Developers in USA- Synsoft Global
"I have no idea what that is supposed to mean."

save (one's) blushes

via: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/

"To prevent someone from feeling embarrassed or awkward."
Here's an article about it too: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-ford-foundation-shov...
you will have to search. its hidden in unrelated commits. but features that were removed at different points in time are: no referrer/only first party referrer in settings. no referrer in their about:config equivalent at the time (its a moving target). command line option to disable referrer.

all added and vanished at random points in time.
This is just a bunch of BS to try to explain away the fact that the US economy is geared towards advancing the interests of banks and other financial institutions. It is amazing that you think that a 15% tax rate is a lot when even under the proposed tax breaks all other comercial activities will pay more than that in taxes. As a result, the US in fact subsidizes an activity which is not the primary producer of ANYTHING other than interests and fees, that is, a drag in the economy.

Later you claim that is just fine to support big banks because said banks exist to "spread risks". But of course the biggest risk for a country is in the existence of banks that are too big to fail, since they need to be saved by the government. Therefore, banks in fact perform ZERO risk reduction. They CLAIM to take risks away from the system, but when a crisis occur the whole tab of bad betts will be paid by the citizens of a particular country, not by bankers.

As for control of the US and EU, just look at who is responsible for economic policy in these places and tell me if they're not from the same half dozen banks that are already deemed to be too big to fail! What a coincidence...
Supermarket lady doesn't take pull requests.
There are 2 different actions: one that deactivates your account and one that actually deletes it. You've probably used the deactivate functionality, because the other one needs more digging in order to find it.
CMD-e is apply the selected text to the search input. Extremely useful, search for the next instance of a word you see on the screen is thus:

Double click word
CMD-e
CMD-g
I was sorely disappointed when I saw this wasn’t available for iOS. Looks awesome, though.
i think there is some blame to be had on the current ceo, dara khosrowshahi... but at this point how is kalanick still allowed to be on the board? this is hugely damaging to uber, and quite possibly illegal. not grey area stuff.
No, seriously; which transactions were reversed? I'm unaware of any such thing occurring on the network.

The construction of the network/consensus protocol means that Ripple would have to get a majority of all validators on the majority of everyone's UNLs to lie to reverse a transaction. Ripple likely does not have such influence /or/ if they do, then you are free to select a larger UNL set, along with the rest of the community, such that they /do not/.
But when you make money from a website, it is a buisness. And if it is small money, it is a small buisness - where I found the buerocratic hurdles to be very small.

I mean sure, since I am a libertarian, I prefer there to be no hurdles and no taxes at all, but the majority of people think different. And you are not even a libertarian I suppose?
So you just want a excemption from taxes/buerocracy for you?
Or just for small things like donation? Yeah well, this is the case right now, but they need to somehow verify that it is indeed small.
I found the current situation reasonable. A bit more effort with tax declaration, but not really much, having a small business.

"Additionally this can easily cause lots of trouble with the employment contract."

And this is a problem with your contract then, which you negotiated and nothing for which the state is responsible.
I've built a SaaS service that generates PDFs, and I've just added an HTML/CSS editor for this purpose [1]. It uses Liquid templates and SASS. After you set up all of the fields, you can just post data to a simple API. We also provide an online form that people can fill out.

If you just need to post your own HTML/CSS and get a PDF, then I'd recommend DocRaptor [2].

[1] https://formapi.io/templates/tpl_mFAsZEmhCtG9FX5N/edit

[2] https://docraptor.com
I agree. I've simultaneously worked as both a janitor and a developer to make ends meet. The main benefit for me working a labor job was that it was easier to switch off my brain at the end of the day. Personally I'd rather be physically exhausted then mentally drained, stressed and have it impact my sleep and mental health once the day is over. Physical work gives you a sense of satisfaction that you don't get from staring at a screen for 8 hours a day .
> Does anyone know if GDPR (or similar law in the future) will actually force HN and other sites that don't have this feature, to remove accounts, at least EU ones, upon request?

GDPR only covers personal information. So it only covers the IP and username in case of hackernews (unless someone adds their name into some sort of signature)
That's great if you sign up with the intention of posting anonymously, but if you post here for years using your name or your chosen alias (eg I'm onion2k on everything; it's trivial to find out who I am), and then decide you don't want to be associated with your HN history it's not so helpful. Also forensic tools are clever enough to take someone's comment history and use the little information in there to work out who you are. We leak information all over the place. A user name isn't the only way to find someone.

It's fair for people to change their mind and ask for functionality to delete data that's associated with them. I don't think the internet would be nearly as useful as it is now if everyone had to be anonymous from the start in case they want to stop other people seeing the content they created later.

However, that said, it's also reasonable to suggest people shouldn't be able to say appalling things and just delete their account later with impunity. There's a strong argument that someone's internet history should be available as a record.

This is not a straightforward problem.
You generally need one thread to read for incoming messages, typical:

for {
select {
case <-finish:
done <- true
return
default:
// read from the socket
}
}

You need another thread to listen for messages on a channel and send them out the socket
typical:

for {
select {
case <-finish:
done <- true
return
case msg <- msg_out:
// write msg to socket

}
}
Just making sure I understand this correctly: so at a high level you're just trading software locks for hardware locks (which are most always more granular)? If you didn't have hardware atomic support, the same "lock free" data structure would be one where locks are held for as few instructions as possible (and that exhibits the same functional characteristics around memory ordering etc.)?
Not really. It enforces a quality and rigor when entering comments. I have been to forums where people were altering their posts long after the discussion continues. That makes the threads loose meaning.
Why ROOT file format is not just a halfway decent file format and why HDF5 is not much better:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/567550/contributions/2628878/at...
Low-energy true random number generation with stochastic spintronic devices
> ROOT can plot histograms, but matplotlib does it much better.

As much as I prefer matplotlib, quickly combining histograms with uncertainties and no regard for formatting is quicker with ROOT. 2D/3D/Profile histograms are also easier to quickly make.

> ROOT files are a halfway decent file format, but HDF5 is much better.

I believe the ROOT format is more generic and also does a good job of serialising generic objects, but this isn't really my area of expertise.

I also find that for all its many (many) faults, RooFit/RooStats doesn't have a generic alternative.
You know why spam is back? Because it works! I didn't get my head around this until late when I started my own company.
Mass contacting people is one of the easiest and successful ways. Of course, if you have the time and resources to do targeted marketing it's better, but what happens when you don't and you are an engineer who sees one or two opportunities to mass contact people?
QR Code has literally no barrier of entry, anyone who wants to receive money in China for whatever they are selling, simply print out a QR Code with Printer.

I still do not believe that QR Code is the Holy Grail, as media in China and WeChat like to paint it. For anyone who has been to China, and lived in China for a while will know pretty much everything in China has QR Code.

While I believe it has its use, I still dont think QR Code should be the only way to access, but rather something to argument on. NFC-F, Felica is still 10 times better in Transport payment where response time is everything, especially in tube/underground like Japan Railway. Unless someone can invent a way where by me showing QR Code and reading it by a Optical Reader is faster then NFC. Which i am not entirely sure if it is possible.

If anyone could shine any light as to why something as good as Felica, invented, implemented and used from 20 years ago only make it to a standard body last year.
> That makes the threads loose meaning.

Some alterations, though...
It's also worth noting that Chrome headless could be a nice alternative if you use html as the base for say invoices or reports that you want to generate from a SaaS app.

Create pdf with Chrome headless:
chrome --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf https://www.chromestatus.com/

Source: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...
How is that different than with any other method of quitting opioids? It's not specific to marijuana at all, so it's not a fair criticism.
Perhaps it will be the case within the span of the coming decade or two that multi viewer screening room experiences will consist of each viewer wearing some type of headset, in the process not requiring this additional solution and also freeing up theater design to go in entirely new directions that don't revolve around dozens or hundreds of seats facing a single large screen.
Multi Panther Hero VS Super Villains
Multi Panther Hero vs Super Villains is entertaining and action game with strange panther powers with the combination of flying simulator. Flying panther hero fight with dangerous super villains like bat villain and spider villain in the grand city.
It is a Merkle DAG of transactions secured by cryptographic protocols. It very much is a blockchain -- it just doesn't use proof of work as a mechanism to exclude bad actors. The fact that it uses UNLs and consensus to achieve a consistent view of valid transactions does not make Ripple "not a blockchain" and, as XRP relies on cryptographic mechanisms to secure rights of ownership on that blockchain, XRP, the native Ripple asset, is by definition a cryptocurrency in the colloquial sense.
A Foundation and a tech firm walk into a bar. Does anyone get a better job?
This. If you live by yourself, also try going minimal on your dish set. One plate, one bowl, one fork, etc. Dishes can’t pile up if there is only one set.
SOLID Principles made easy
Can you name anybody with a good background in networking? You can't point to a list of 100 odd names and assert that certain skills must be present.
Going with your "source/destination" definition, one Bitcoin/Signal user is source and the other is destination. They can require traffic to be exclusively between user and approved service provider, can't they?
How to Be an Insanely GOOD Developer
Also not true, here's an example from July 2016

Stuttgart siege: Two dead after '100 armed police storm hostage situation' at law firm

Five hour stand-off ends after special forces called in

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stuttgart-hos...
Would the blockchain had such an adoption without ICOs or gambling?
Imagine the blockchain tech (which wasn't even named like that at first).

Now remove ICOs, remoe the vast amount of money that are gambled daily (I do it also).

Would companies/startups/fanatics still use it?
You make it sound like all these countries are eternal enemies, unlikely to ever cooperate when the future could actually look quite different.

Because I don't think it's an accident that the BRISC New Development Bank is located in China, it's also no accident that Putin has been very vocal about removing the US$ as the world reserve currency and establishing a "bipolar world order" to replace current de-facto US hegemony.
My biggest problem with ROOT files is the dependency on ROOT, which is tricky to distribute. Though projects like uproot[1] look promising and I think ROOT 7 might improve things.

[1] https://github.com/scikit-hep/uproot
Yes, they're all popular and well-regarded. And, even though I've used real synths for decades, I don't generally find the UI on these synths to be a nice experience. Some are better than others, but they're nearly all much harder to read than a UI that adheres to OS UI guidelines would be. Most are not scalable, and so are literally unusable for me (my eyesight isn't what it used to be, even with corrective lenses, and it's never been great), unless I change the resolution of my display. Even at 1080p many are too small on my 15" laptop, and I usually run at and prefer to run at 4k.

The type used is often abysmal. Pretending to be a squinty little LCD panel, for example, when we have infinite pixels is just plain stupid. The only reason old synths had those little panels was because big panels were expensive and graphical displays (CRTs) were too big to put into a keyboard form factor. It makes no sense to use the beautiful displays we have today and use them to reproduce all the compromises of a former era, but it is almost universal. Nearly all of the most popular VSTs impose these kinds of ugly restrictions on their UI.

In short: A lot of VSTs are barely legible, ugly, utterly inaccessible, and just all around stubbornly wrong on usability for the sake of looking "cool".

There's nostalgia for a simpler time, which I understand, and then there's the sadistic UI abuses found in many VST plugins (and audio software in general), which I abhor.

Obviously, I have strong opinions on the matter.
I completely agree with everything that you said above but doubt that people will continue to be entrenched in their ideas when people start dying from starvation locally and not in a foreign land that they can ignore.