skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data breaches are inevitable. Admittedly I haven't read the bill but I would general be against something like this unless it provides rules for:

- Securing your system (like PCI)

- Training your employees

- Disclosing a data breach in a timely way

AND if the company follows all the rules they are protected from the fines.

There is no reason why a company that does their absolute best to be secure but falls vicim to a zero-day vulnerability should be treated the same way as someone that was willfully negligent like Equifax.

If a company is willfully negligent (Equifax, Uber, and AshleyMadison are notable examples) I think a fine is not enough. Revoking their license to do business needs to be on the table as a maximum penalty in the most egregious cases. I'm talking companies that try to hide the breach from the victims, systematically underspend on security, etc.

Edit: As an aside, as someone who has done a number of startups in a CTO role. Sometimes getting the board and upper management to agree on spending money on security is like pulling teeth. A lot of startups end up getting to a 100,000 users without even thinking about security never mind putting appropriate systems in place. Penalties for neglecting security would give CTOs powerful ammunition to be able to invest in this critical area.
See my reply to vermilingua
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I think it might be easier to type on a virtual keyboard with your mind than it is to dictate with thought. When you move your hand and fingers there is no conscious effort or thought, will is translated into action. Our body is an interface to the physical world, we currently make the jump form physical to digital. Advanced technology, I imagine, would simply eliminate the jump and make digital interfaces feel like physical ones.
Most of the democracies of which you're referencing use proportional voting systems often paired with a parliamentary system. That system in particular makes it phenomenally easy to replace politicians and tends to work most effectively as a coercive device against bad behavior. The reason for this is that it minimizes the necessity of strategic voting.

In the US it doesn't matter if the #1 candidate only got 10% of the vote. As long as the #2 candidate got less than 10%, then #1 gets 100% of the seats and political power. Because of this, voters have to factor in the insidious 'electability' into their decisions. Fewer people than ever identify as republican or democrat, yet they retain very near 100% of seats at all levels. This is what I was alluding to when mentioning that part of the problem is our system. Compare this to a proportional system where if there are 10 seats available then gaining at least 10% of the vote, in general, tends to guarantee you representation. This makes strategic voting much less of a concern. Even the 'Pirate Party' has managed to win representation in a variety of nations similar to those you allude to.

And for the sake of brevity, I'll omit more precise discussion of population size and diversity here. But those factors need also be considered. Compared to the nations you're mentioning, the US is huge and incredibly diverse. Democracy is redundant in populations where views tend to remain fairly similar throughout as any action would tend to be the will of all. On the other end, in a nation where everybody held views often mutually exclusive, democracy would be dysfunctional at best as any action would please one group to the offense of all the rest. Of course every nation's reality lay somewhere between the opposite extremes, but where the nations you describe may lay closer to one end, I suspect the US lays closer to the other.
Trade with one of the world's larger economies. There is clear mutual interest in continuing trade on an open basis.

I'm not saying the EU is not in a stronger position, nor am I trying to make any claims that Brexit is good or bad, nor that it is being pursued competently by the current government (far from it). But the assessment of the process as being entirely one sided seems to me to be simplistic.
Lobbying in USA has corrupted many values. Equifax is not a teenager child that broke a vase and got a 2h-off-wifi penalty. They knowingly ignored basic security practices to maximize gain.

Since basic risks were not addressed, Equifax (and anyone else showing this level of neglect) should be severely punished.
I'm glad to hear about your life changing experience! MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, as done by MAPS, involves 12 therapy sessions along with 3 MDMA-assisted therapy sessions; as such, I expect the results to be stronger than MDMA under party circumstances.

The Phase 2 trials have showed that 63% no longer meets the criteria of PTSD 2 months after the last MDMA session, as compared to 25% for the placebo.

As for how long your results may last, another study conducted by MAPS after 2.5 years found that the effects have generally still persisted.
It does quite well, the geometrical constellation in Chinese astronomy is just the belt, whilst Hindu Astronomy constructs a Deer's head out of the Orions, the stars that make the bow and the drawing arm are not part of the Hindu constellation, hence no hunter.

Constellations are very very specific to the culture and the time.
I’m pretty sure that’s what Ripple is trying to position themselves as. Whether they pull it off, who knows.
What if the alternate chain is kept secret until it is sure to be victorious?

In a situation where this type of conspiracy takes place it makes economic sense to join them.
Is that the new "my uncle works at Nintendo" ?
Have you ever watched an animal in the eyes? Can you not see consciousness there ? This is the same as thinking that animals don't have feelings. What about dogs, have you not seen dogs doing kind things ?

Killing an generation of animals for food is much better than raising hundreds or thousands of generations in captivity for the times to come.
The UK isn't part of the euro, it will be just as badly affected by a collapse in european banks as our trade will still remain with europe
Bad.

If anything because they'll have to rewrite thousands of laws and procedures that came from the EU times, and deal with the caos that that will cause. That only will cost so much money (and pain) that it would justify staying in the EU.

Then, of course there are companies that have left and that will leave, highly-skilled workflow for London that will be harder to get, etc.

They have to negotiate with the EU so that they're not completely cut out of commerce, with nothing to offer in exchange and therefore no negotiating power.

It's old people in the country that have decided this, based on their ignorance on the matter and lies spread before the vote. Funny enough, it's them who mainly benefit from European aid.

Pretty sad, really (I'm Italian, just talking based on what I've read and a handful of friends who live in London).
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> The article reads a little bit like a remain fantasy - Brexit will be a disaster and then people must come around to my way of thinking!

The article makes its prediction based on higher rates of death in old people.
Signal for Android does offer reproducible builds of the binary now.
https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Not sure how being outside the EU would help the UK against "Germany's dominance" Surely out of the EU means by definition that the UK has less control over Germany?
I talked with Dawson Engler who was a part of the original exokernel project he said I should first start with the MIT OS from 6.828 and then start implementing ideas from the papers. I still have a lot to do though.
He's got a point. It's surprised me how many small day-to-day decisions made by management are because of Brexit.
This approach seems very time consuming at first, but the first step itself starts to show you the ROI on the invested time.

When I start breaking down a task into smaller pieces, I often come across things I had not thought of when just thinking about the monolith. "Oh, I'm using X here, but where am I getting X from? That's another task."
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The Phase 2 trials and FDA's breakthrough therapy designation along shows strong medical value of MDMA, especially in a clinical context with psychotherapy sessions and a trained therapist.

I hope this starts a renaissance in the use of psychedelics to treat, long term (with short term drug applications), many mental conditions.
A fair point, and worthwhile clarification. Thank you.
> Though I accept it’ll be a pain for e.g. finance companies which the EU requires to be based within the EU

What kind of services does the UK export which do not fall into the finance category?
I always remember the quote from Sir Tim Berners-Lee about his death:

> Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurturers, carers, listeners, feeders, parents all, we have lost a child. Let us all weep.
Now Nigel (fucking) Farage is calling for a 2nd referendum. You can't make this shit up.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/11/nigel-farag...
That was my first thought as well; this is depicting a hunting mission and their concept of the progression of time.

While a supernova visible from Earth in daytime is not impossible (when Betelgeuse finally dies we'll likely see it during the day; SN 1006 was seen during the day and at night was about as bright as a quarter moon), it certainly wouldn't be bright enough to be considered a "second sun" unless it was close enough to irradiate us with gamma rays that could do vast damage to existing life.
Oil and international transactions has everything to do with the power of the USD.

There are more transactions, and of larger volume, and more savings between EU citizen than between US citizen.

Yet, the EUR is only ~20% of global currency volume, and over 60% is in USD. That is all due to international transactions.
There's a book
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You should use this to translate HTML into data, insert that data into a database, then do SQL.
Even if this is not the ideal solution, or even if this is too much like a hammer where a more surgical approach would be best...this is a start and certainly better than nothing. These types of breaches can be so harmful, and have such far reaching ramifications that we need something - almost anything here!
> This is the very same narrative that vim users proclaim: "It's totally not complex if you took some years to learn your tools"

Something interesting I see more often than not when someone I know decides to try out vim:

They know I'm a vim user so they ask me for good tutorials and I tell them there are lots out there but they should start by running vimtutor (included with vim). Takes around 15-20 minutes to work through the interactive lessons and gives you all the basics of movement and editing.

A day or so later I ask how it's going and the answer is usually that they're struggling with vim, so I ask if they ran vimtutor. Usually nope, or they started it but quit after a minute or two.

Why would one switch to a tool with a different paradigm, ask for and get a tutorial recommendation, and then ignore the advice of spending less than 1/2 hour on a tutorial that ships with the tool? sigh
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Take your final estimation (whatever method you use) an multiply it with 2.
The UK has a population of 65M. Thus there is a big market for all kinds of exports. As far as cards go this is a big one, but its the only one I can identify.
The energy cost of mining bitcoin equates to exactly what people are willing to pay for it.
If the cost of mining increases, profits decrease, and the system re-equalizes.
It is simply another market, BTC/kj.
It's a shame this comment was down-voted. It's awesome.
Meson seems to be taking over open source projects, let's see how it goes.
Multiply by 5.
> Granted, if the EU position is sabotaged by some members (as the Polish PM was hinting towards)

The biggest problem of the EU is also its biggest strength. It needs unity for this. So if Poland goes rogue nothing happens, article 50 kicks in and no deal happens. That indirectly strengthens the EU now quite a bit ironically enough.
"massively efficient" ? Have you seen the amount of electricity bitcoin consumes with useless computations ?
Sure, but Germany will have less control over the UK.

From what I can tell and have read Germany has huge influence on pretty much every country besides Poland and--perhaps--Hungary (I live in Poland, not sure about Hungary actually). Poland definitely thinks about its own citizens _first_, and _then_ at what's good for the EU, which is after all what politicians have been elected to do.

I'm Italian and Italy is a mess in part because of having no balls to stand up for what Italians would need. Totally different story in Poland, from what I can tell from living here.
As a non English speaker some passages were difficult do understand and I had to re-read them several time; I can now attribute that to typos and feel smarter~
I think someone is doing a pump and dump at Kodak.

At CES they also came out with the Kodak Kashminer. The terms are so hilariously bad it can't be real.

https://twitter.com/chrisbhoffman/status/950861459302445056
And add 2 weeks. Just to be on a safe side :)
As others have suggested: Start by breaking down the task into the smallest part possible.

The absolute best way of estimating development task we've seen was suggested by PHK (of FreeBSD fame), or at least I remember it as one of his suggestions. Basically you take your absolute best guess on a task, multiple that by two, and move up one unit of time.

Example: My guess for task X is 2 hours.

2 hours times 2 is 4 hours

Move up a unit, that's 4 days.

My guess for two hours can realistically be completed in 4 days.

This prevents you from taking on to large tasks, guessing that you could bang out a project in 5 weeks would realistically be a 10 month project. A two year project will be done in 40 years (4 decades).

It not a realistic way of estimating time of cause, but it illustrates the dangers of tackling to large tasks.
There are few "firewalls" between financial markets, there's one market and it's global. If there's another bank crisis, it's going to happen everywhere. Iceland was particularly badly hit and is not actually in the EU.

Let's not forget that the last crisis started in the "Anglosphere" (Lehman, RBS, Northern Rock, Anglo-Irish etc) and spread elsewhere!
No, the phrase is the exact direct quote: "Privacy is the right to be human" (look around 31min in the talk)
In my experience, the bigger the project, the bigger the multiplication factor. On a big enough scale, multiplication by 2 might be not enough. Most often I find that implementation times can be estimated quite reasonably, but time for testing, documentation, team-coordination and communication are not factored in properly.
Former employee here. Endgame has one of the best, most humble security research teams I've ever seen. Plus they're all around good dudes.
Note that this is a change in C99 - in C90 spec just says:

"A return from the initial call to the main function is equivalent to calling the exit function
with the value returned by the main function as its argument. If the main function executes a
return that specifies no value, the termination status returned to the host environment is
undefined."
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> There can be no delays, no fees

We put up with fees based on mechanism, but (almost always) the seller pays. The cost of the fee is baked in to the price of what I'm buying.
Cameron lost his snap vote. May lost her snap vote. Sounds like Farage wants to lose a poorly thought out vote now too.
“Nothing stops a bullet like a job.”

I truly believe this, and I'm on the right side of the political aisle on most positions.

A strong economy lifts many boats.
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I was at a New Years party at a few different nightclubs. With a friend who was also on it, and met a bunch of others that night too.
I thought London was supposed to be one of the major banking centres of Europe? So if the banks are fragile, the UK is just as exposed in that regards, or perhaps more exposed as it will no longer be (as?) able to ask the ECB for assistance?
One of his posts - "Believe you can change" [1] - has helped me a lot with motivation issues. Thank you indeed.

[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/dweck
As the name (*mycin) (and purpose!) suggests, that's not an antibiotic, but rather antimycotic (anti-fungal) substance: antibiotics target microorganisms (i.e. bacteria), while antimycotics target fungi, a completely different _kingdom_.

Sorry, but your comment is completely wrong.
Ideal. That dodgy first vote is no good basis to make such changes on.

Think that's going to bite Nigel in a arse though.
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Germany doesn't have much influence over the UK, largely because the UK isn't in the Euro.
Wolves are legally considered pest in France. Hunting being a regulated activity, the allowed kills have been raised to 40/y this very year. Overall kills are estimated to be well over a hundred.
It goes both ways though; if UK citizens are importing goods it's not because they love the EU and want to support it in any way possible, it's because they want the goods. Making those imports more difficult or more expensive is obviously disadvantageous to the EU exporter, but it's also not exactly brilliant for the UK consumer.
Are you suggesting that Poland and Hungary are leechers?
And finish the sentence with "...probably"
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Could be planning phase (project management)
or information (static website)
or invites (dynamic website)
or gifts (wedding registry/stripe)
or any other wonderful ways that tech could help out on the wedding day itself :-D
Just want to point out that SDL implementation would be native as in 'not running on top of VM', but not native as in 'good citizen of host OS'. It would use non-standard widgets, likely would have problems with keyboard shortcuts, clipboard handling, drag & drop integration and window resizing. Depends how much time devs spend re-implementing stuff that's already supported by OS.
Whoa there. I'm not so sure about Poland, but I'm pretty sure that Orban looks after himself first, second and third... only then comes "citizens" and "EU", and the order there is not clear.

In general, I'm deeply suspicious of politicians that claim "citizens first, EU second" - that seems counterproductive, unnecessary, and more likely to be empty populism than truth.
Fine by me. Those are the sites that don't get my business, and increasingly it's not nerds like me who are using ad- and tracking-blocking tools. They are accessible, reliable, and more frequently being included and enabled by default.

It's not something ad networks can fix. Once active content is blocked on the client, it's game over. Your content simply doesn't work, and we'll to your competitor with the working site for what we need.
This reminds me more and more of Greece, with Farage in the Varoufakis role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_bailout_referendum,_2015

The public voted "no", again, but obviously that made no difference to the deals on offer and no deal remained disastrous, so Syriza were ultimately forced to accept a worse deal: "On Monday, 13 July, the Syriza-led government of Greece accepted a bailout package that contains larger pension cuts and tax increases than the one rejected by Greek voters in the referendum"
Will the UK still participate in the GDPR after Brexit? Are there plans to write up something similar?
I once got my daughter a phone from CW. As part of the process I needed to give them my mobile number - it was a show stopping requirement. About 3 months later I was getting spammed by an autodialler 3 or 4 times a day. The dialler never connected when answered. Calls were always different numbers, never blocked, but always UK based mobile phones. I phoned back and discovered that the recorded message I was put through was for a Telemarketer. But there was no way to stop them. I was already registered with the telephone preference service (TPS) and so should not be getting unsolicited spam marketing calls.

One day, out of the blue I answered the number and there was someone on the other end of the line. I then went through a difficult conversation where I attempted to get out of them why they were phoning me. I found out, (1) the company was called something ridiculous like the "phone delivery depot for your provider" and they were trying to sell mobile phone contracts by using that name when answering calls "Hi this is the 'hone delivery depot for your provider'", I kid you not. He even claimed to be from my mobile provider at one point (no he wasn't, I'd already checked that when I attempted to get them to block the calls.) (2) the guy on the other end of the phone knew quite a bit about me, so had access to data from a third party. (3) it was a total phishing exercise and they were trying to get fees for reselling the customers new fixed term contracts to them after they had become rolling monthlies.

After laying in to him I finally got the route of the data. "We get a lot of our leads from Carphone Warehouse." BING!! The moral of this story is, always read the fine print. I probably in haste missed a tick box or ticked the wrong box - or the girl serving me "helpfully" did it for me on their computer system without asking. Carphone Warehouse are a scummy company, with bad practices, and best advice is to avoid at all costs!
It's not at all clear though how compatible a Canada-style deal is with not having any sort of border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The UK isn't in the Euro so the ECB doesn't really matter to the UK.
I'm not sure they knowingly ignored best practices, it's probably more that they were ignorant to them. I've personally meet with Chaos (chief security officer) from fortune 50 companies who didn't have a clue what ACLs are, how encryption works, or what an onion security model is.

A lot of these people have been in the game long enough that many best practices we're invented after they stopped learning.

This is does not justify their behavior, rather it provides more context around the a potential contributing cause.
> That's not even remotely true (incidentally this would be illegal in the UK and a court would grant an injunction on publication under breach of confidence, precisely because it's such a shitty thing to do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_confidence_in_Englis...).

Yes but they would not charge you with theft. Which includes "the intention to permanently deprive"...

Copying someone's private data is not theft. That doesn't mean that it is morally or legally OK (it's not - it's another crime). It just means that theft is a specific crime based on taking fungible chattel with the intent to not give it back.
> Are you suggesting that Poland and Hungary are leechers?

No, are you?

I'm suggesting what I wrote in my comment.
No, they are autocratic regimes, well on their way to full dictatorship within a few generations of "presidents".
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Nope, bitcoin mining is based on finding large integers that hash to small integers (under the current threshold). It's got nothing to do with primes. Although there is a cryptocurrency based on this very concept, currently with a market cap of $12M: http://primecoin.io/
Question 4: Where does the money from the fines go?

Her main regulatory creation was a whole new agency that is completely unaccountable to the people it was supposed to serve. She's the last politician I trust with these sorts of things.