skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's scary to some people but not others, so is the purpose of GDPR to spur a discussion on the scope of technology and privacy tradeoffs or to actively slow the pace of personal data collection?

I think there has been a lack of reasonable and measured discussion about this issue, it's very polarized as with most things.
Stremio with a popcorn time plugin is the new way to pirate movies. Convenience and performance is roughly on par with legal services like netflix. It's typically used under a vpn, so I'm curious about how popular it is... who uses/ or knows about people who use it?
> How is the law reasonable? It's not even clear what is allowed under it and what isn't. The EU refuses to clarify anything, the only time any decision will be made is by courts, if there's an actual dispute in progress.

How is that different from a US law like HIPAA? The structures of the law seem largely the same, in that they give you guidelines to follow, but provide no clarity about what specifically is required by it and what isn't.

Understanding HIPAA has largely come from companies doing their best to comply with their understanding, and clarifications tend to come from courts when there's an actual dispute in progress.

Then, the US (through it's various district courts, circuit courts, the supreme court, and regulatory bodies) acts as the "judge, jury, and executioner".
Less fuel burned DIRECTLY results in less CO2 created.
Yes, exactly. Netflix is militantly opposed to feature bloat. That means picking the case that works well for most people.

And I'd add that what to subtitle is an artistic choice; directors carefully decide what languages to use and what they want to subtitle or leave untranslated. Plus Netflix have to deal with source material from hundreds of companies. Creating clever subtitle features quickly gets out into very deep waters.
I believe it's a reference to 2015 VAT changes. Here's a PricewaterhouseCoopers article:

http://ebiz.pwc.com/2013/01/eu-2015-vat-changes-to-eservices...

This was quite a hit to small companies, because now they have to manage collecting and remitting taxes to every country their consumer customers reside in. Previously they only had to collect and remit taxes to their own home country.
You have to subscribe to join, $20 per month, $150 per year
The GDPR doesn't apply to US companies. While the FB has EU offices right now, they're there for convenience only. They can close them next month and stop caring about the EU law.
Interesting that there is another tool[1] on Show HN right now that does this but for strftime instead of moment.js, I guess I need to build one for Golang's weird time formatting.

1. http://strftime.guru/
Thanks for the link! However, your accusations that I don't know how to do research are unfounded.

I'm also not at all ashamed to keep doing something I usually do and recommend it to others. As you say, it usually takes only a couple minutes to do, so why not?

If it's a subject I know (and I'm therefore commenting about) then I generally find it pretty easy to find a reliable link.
What advantage does that offer compared to just having cheaper housing and putting the difference in other investments?

To me it certainly seems worse than other retirement approaches. You are forced into making a single asset a huge percentage of your net worth, which utterly destroys your diversification. Real estate is also notoriously illiquid, so if something forces you out of the area, you could take an enormous loss.

If someone proposed another retirement investment strategy with these characteristics that didn't involve your home, people would say, "I'll pass... that sounds like a really bad deal."
>These databases should not exist.

Especially since consumers have no say in the matter at all.
It is very easy actually. Drag and Drop the subtitle onto the screen. MPC-HC and VLC do this. I would safely assume that Netflix could achieve such simplicity too. And even if it's for 10% of the users, people with hearing problems are more in percentage.
Looks nice!

Would be nice to see a 'random' option to pull questions from all (or a handful) of different places to mix it up.
Breaking Textbook RSA Used to Protect the Privacy of Millions of Users
I guess it's basically a point source compared to the camera resolution, so what you're seeing as the "atom size" is the diffraction limit of the camera lens.
You're just anti-EU, pro Brexit, I get it. This topic is a means for you to continue the same "conversation" you've been having for weeks.
I am new as well. I think the folklore aspect is not because the established people in the field are bad teachers, but because even they don't have much rationale besides "this is what seems to work". It's a new field, that's fine. Innovations are still as simple as "Oh we used a cyclical learning rate instead of constant" and boom.
This mostly reads as a piece that derides Musk and the things he's trying to do. For example, complaining that the first tunnel "conveniently from his place of work to his home" doesn't really add much, in my opinion. Look at the startups that are based in the Valley and _only_ support the Valley to begin with. Why is that? Maybe because it fills their need better?

The article also repeatedly makes statements about getting less Americans on the road, out of their cars, and on to public transport, using quotes like "He valorizes individual transportation because he doesn’t want to be around other people — even seems to fear them, based on his comments — but sticking everyone in their own vehicle simply doesn’t work in the increasingly dense, urbanized world in which we live." I hate to break it to some folks outside the US: many people in the US despise public transport, specifically because it means they have to be near other people. Anecdotally, I've heard stories from 10-15 different friends who won't even call a store to find out if some item is in stock _because they don't want to deal with people_.

The U.S. (in general, from my perspective) wants less traffic, less pollution, etc. But we're not going to give up our cars to get it. I realize the Catch-22 nature of this.

That's why automated cars are the future, at least for the United States. Do those cars have the ability to drive in the rain and snow? Not yet. That hasn't been a focus for the companies training these models. Let the system learn on the "easy" stuff first, and then tackle the harder things later.
If I attacked everyone who came through my door, saying, "Don't go in that door" is not a defense of my actions.
Have a look at this: http://www.nutshellhifi.com/library/FindingCG.html
It applies mainly to amps, but when you learn about amps you start to realise that loud-speakers are really all part of the same big circuit.

With amps, specs only take you so far, once you get above the absolutely dirt cheap crap it doesn't really help. Using THD as one example, above 1% might indicate something wrong with the amp design... bellow doesn't really make any difference because these are just tested with sine waves (do you listen to pure sine waves? no), very low might even indicate that the design has been compromised just to get good paper specs.

Headphones and speakers can be similar, frequency range doesn't really tell you anything unless they are severely limited and thus it only really helps sift though crap.

You are correct about reviews though, it really depends on who is reviewing it, and 99.99% of the people out there have hardly anthing worth comparing what they are reviewing it to. If i've never had a pencil before, and I get a pencil and it's all crumbly I will be like "It's frickin amazin, it makes marks on paper", but that doesn't really help anyone else trying to make an informed decision. Additionally, even if you start going through audiophile forums and vet authors for their background knowledge, _even then_ you have the aspect of personal taste, musicality etc.

So yeah... if you want good audio, your fucked :) the only way is to try. And try not to go crazy. But not buying stuff with any integrated digital nonsense is a good starting point.
While it does sound impressive, as stated in the article, Iceland has only 340,000 people. And almost all heating is done with geothermally heated water further reducing residential electricity costs. Compared to the electricity of aluminum smelting business in Iceland, bitcoin very small (so far).
Where do facebook ToS forbid uploading pictures of non-members?
No, it's part of the basic privacy protection laws that every EU coutry has had for decades. It's the same law that says you can't share videos taken with a dashcam if you're recording in the public.
A while ago VAT rules for digital goods were changed. Before, the VAT of the country where the company was located applied, after the VAT of the customers country. Amazon, Apple, ... exploited that by officially making the sale in a low-VAT country and pocketing the difference.

Many small businesses were concerned that they would have to register for VAT in all EU countries and deal with individual VAT laws, but the implementation for small businesses allows you to basically register at your home countries tax authority and provide them with a list of sales broken down by country. (MOSS in the UK, iirc) The initial hubbub has largely died down.

This is grossly simplified, but captures the gist. No tax advice, yadda, yadda.
This is how Steam basically single handily defeated video game pirating. Newell himself is on record saying that piracy is an issue of not making something accessible enough, and he was obviously right. People will pay for convenience. We are no longer in the age of, "I want to watch/listen/play something, lets drive to the store". If the platform they use sucks, it will have the same problem. Last pirating site I was apart of that had a game library, you would see games on shittier platforms pirated more often.
Perfect in the short-term, sure, but if people are leaving the platform then their long-term eyeballs might be suffering for the sake of short-term eyeballs
In my experience modern DSL (like AT&T Uverse) is fiber-to-the-curb and DSL from there. Meaning the amount of DSL line you have is incredibly short and then it hits a fiber line.
Has anyone seen any updates on how their fairing recovery attempt went?

They had the ship done and seemingly ready back in December - https://imgur.com/gallery/MQcEE
Facebook is becoming like how things would look if you did the wrong thing in SimCity: a dark gently smoking urban wasteland.
This is because of Facebook's Internet.org.

Facebook has zero-rating on mobile in the Philippines.
If you cannot provide a list of sales by country, you maybe should not be running a business.
I will repeat my comment as you seem to be repeating the same argument.

It's not "consent" as understood by GPDR and ePrivacy. You had no recourse not to give it, therefore it was not willing and informed. Implied consent ("agree or leave") is not deemed sufficient by GDPR. According to the law you can't condition the service you're providing on collecting unrelated (to that service) data.
Very limited and if the EU will keep fining them, they will leave - and that will mean the exact opposite of what EU wanta because not having an EU entity doesn't mean they don't continue to have EU users.
You’re right, SQLite can be very fast if you know what you’re doing. Expensify was able to achieve 4M queries per second.

https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
Pennies (2 decimals) is not fine enough. Exchanges and other financial services use 4, 6, or maybe even 8 decimals. With 6 decimals, a few trillion is the limit.

If you implement multiplication and division with integer arithmetic, you need the additional decimals to keep the error small. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing
Accounts that post uncivilly like this get banned. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Actually that's a reason why we need laws like GDPR: I don't have an Facebook account but random websites I visit still have elements embedded from Facebook. I've never agreed for Facebook to store my data but they can only give their word they won't collect my data (which, AFAIK, they don't give).

I've got no recourse against this - or maybe I have because Facebook is big enough that it's worth it to create targeted block lists. But against the next 20 smaller companies who do the same?

This is why there needs to be something else than just blindly trusting everyone out there. Because someone will not play fair if theres a competitive edge to gain.
https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/nov/...

and

https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2015/sep/...

my solution was to stop selling into the EU, though amusingly once the UK leaves the EU I'll be able to start again (by just ignoring the EU's VAT rules)
Your comparison is not correct. The practices of FB are not universally considered bad, many people are OK with them. The diesel scandal was a deliberate scheme to cheat everybody - you can't find anyone who considers what they did as good. And the Germans finally started arresting people, too - although the USA gave a good example.
Fair enough. I wonder if there are any model compilers targeting FPGA training backends...
> Yes, its good to have your home go up in value, but when you sell, are you moving to South Dakota?

Yes, lots of people plan to sell and move to a less expensive locale in retirement. Often, people who came to expensive places for good jobs but not because they had any particular desire to live in that place plan to return to where they came from in retirement. I've known lots of people from the Midwest working in CA where this is their plan.
http://content.assets.pressassociation.io/2018/02/11175054/f...
No. That's not how the EU works. That's how a national government would work but not the EU.

The GDPR is not a directive so it does not have to be translated into national law. It is directly binding and applies immediately everywhere.

Fines have to be paid up front, before appeals are exhausted. Appeals can of course take years.

The EU courts have judges appointed by the same people who control the rest of the EU, and are ideologically aligned as such. They have a long history of legislating from the bench and making shocking and nonsensical decisions: consider the case where they simply voided the UK's opt out of new human rights related legislation, despite a very clear paragraph in the treaties saying they did not apply to the UK. The court simply decided it didn't like that bit of the treaty and so it did not apply. I do not regard the ECJ as a robust court. It will rule in whatever way is most favourable to the European project.
| they're there for convenience only. They can close them next month

Citation needed? Facebook gets revenue from their ad network, which is used by European business customers and targets European users. Therefore they need to comply with European law.
The fix, he said, was "pretty obvious."

I mean, it's not rocket science, is it? >_>
Are they going to drop shakespeare or his works next because of the racist antisemitic language in his works?

When does it end? There are offensive language in almost every work of literature? Of Mice and Men? Scarlett Letter? Catcher in the Rye? Do we shelve them all?
Most of the tax income EU has from FB is VAT and since they now have to distribute the money to the place where the customer is, it means that all EU countries will be affected.
Technical review of NEM cryptocurrency
Big cars and trucks sell immensely well in the US because of the effective subsidization of fuel, as well as anti-competitive behaviour in the light truck sector.

Virtually throughout the entire world, governments put taxes on fuel to address negative externalities caused by fuel consumption. As a result, most countries have much higher gas prices than the US, where in some places, is below $2/gallon. As a result, Americans buy bigger cars because they aren't as affected by gas prices as many other car markets.

Since the Ford Ranger met it's demise in the US, there hasn't been any significant light trucks sold in America because of CAFE regulations that treat full size trucks very differently from light trucks and cars. Car manufactures don't have any incentive to make light trucks because they're effectively counted as cars when counting fleet emissions where full size trucks get a pass.
Pretty sure that if I posted statistics outlining my so-called "flamebait," then I would be equally in trouble. This is an article outlining how violent buddhists are (yes it is framed that way) - and my comment was a reply to someone framing Americans as ignorant for not realizing this supposed truth about Buddhists!
There are huge differences between production artists and designers. Also, the design that gets made in sketch often turns into living specification and documentation that are necessarily not one-to-one with production artifacts.

Many have tried this before (anyone remember XAML/Blend?) but it always falls down for the same reason that they don't really capture what designers really do (despite of what their managers and developer colleagues think they do!), which has nothing much to do with helping developers write code. Tools like these are more apt for UI developers.
In case you didn't read it, the "What if?" book has a couple pages dedicated to this exact question (not 5000, but "how many would it take to block the sun?")
This is why we compare hard problems to rocket science. It's so hard to recover from failure of even the smallest sources.
If I have to get to New York from the western suburbs of Boston it is fastest to drive to New Haven and take commuter rail from the terminus in New Haven to Grand Central. Factor in a discount hotel room and an evening drive to New Haven paired with an early train is optimal. Metro North has the scale and frequency that few if any other rail system in the US can match.
Great! When will we have one of those anonymizing protocols?
This means that if you want to show, say Transformers, you have to negotiate with one company to show the picture, another company to license the sound, and yet another company for each set of subtitles.

Sound is part of the film license in the US and Europe. This includes music and songs within the film. Studios pay out big bucks to license songs for films.

For example: my current employer would pay a license of approximately $500 to license major label music that will be played at an event to a live audience, broadcast globally, and streamed to 10 million viewers. (The total music budget for a 3-day event is maybe $5000, and that covers hours of music.) A movie studio licensing that same song for a movie would pay a minimum of $25,000, just for that song, assuming that it's part of the back catalog. A song that made the top 100 of the Billboard lists when it was released could command more than $100,000.
A bit more than that, but not much more.

I changed from 50Mb/s to 1000Mb/s service a few months ago; latency is much the same, which means that when the pipe is not crowded, I really can't tell the difference.

(But it's wonderful headroom for large file transfers.)
Was there ever a single case of something like the EU successfully fining an US company for breaking laws that don't apply to the company?
It could be an unofficial share, like Netflix subscriptions. "Somebody" needs to pay, but if you know someone who has, then you can use the service fairly easily.
"Private blockchains are a different matter, and they will have applications in e.g. automating many transactions."

A private blockchain is just an inefficient databse.

"which is nevertheless very effectively backed by the government’s universal tendency to require said paper money for taxes, not to mention the inconvenient fact that if societal trust erodes sufficiently for paper money to lose its value, it’s highly unlikely an arbitrary string of ones and zeros in an arbitrary hard disk somewhere would fare much better"

I've never seen the argument made that paper money is going to lose it's value because societal trust erodes, it is losing it's value because people keep printing more of it. So yeah, I think Bitcoin already does fare better.
well to be fair iTunes isn't as bad as it is on windows.
granted it was better when I started using a mac. around ~10.9
but I regulary buy music there. it's simple and iTunes is fast on mac and I like how it organizes music.

but yeah I never liked it/like it on windows.
What's cool about this paper is the CCA2 attack on unpadded RSA in the middle of it. What's cool about that attack is how simple it is.

The setting, simplified: you send RSA(aes-key), AES(key, message). The server replies if the AES key it recovers from the RSA message successfully decrypts the AES ciphertext; the server is an oracle for whether the message is valid.

The attack is stupid simple: the attacker shifts 127 of the AES key bits off of the RSA message --- the attacker can do this, because RSA is homomorphic with respect to multiplication and thus malleable --- and then sends the bit-shifted RSA message along with an AES ciphertext encrypted with the 0b1000...0 AES key. If that elicits a server response, the attacker knows the bottom bit of the real AES key is 1. The attacker repeats with a 126 bit shift, then the math teachers and so on until everyone is eaten.
http://www.webdesignernews.com
Why Customer Education Is the Investment That Keeps on Giving
what value is "safe" if your choices are all extremely limited in what they can do? And if you think you can't get malware past apple screening you're not thinking creatively enough.
In the part where they ask you to follow the laws. Also not of "non-members" but of "people that didn't give you consent to share the content with a third party".
Why have any law at all, by your logic? Just have a single law that says "Whatever we decide, is final" and make up all rulings and fines on the fly. No 'weaselling' is possible then. Only problem is, it's totalitarian. Nobody knows what is or is not allowed, there is no such thing as justice.

Law is meant to be precise. If it's not, then ignorance of the law does become an excuse and law loses its moral authority.

Unfortunately the EU does seem rather keen on laws so vague that they're impossible to understand - it's rule by law, not rule of law.
"Awesome, can I choose what you do with--"

'Dream on.'
64 bits can be tight if you have to set aside, say, 7 digits for decimal places in order to perform a lot of divisions/multiplications by small numbers, like exchange rates, without rounding errors adding up.

But if you sacrifice 7 places you can no longer represent the market cap of Toyota Motor at the Tokyo stock exchange (24 trillion Yen) or the US GDP (~19 trillion USD).

So if you don't have a data type that can represent all of these quantities as well as the results of any calculations up to the required precision then your code will become a lot more complex and error prone.
I think that's a good thing. So the law has to be interpreted by precedence set by the courts.

Most EU countries follow civil law, and precedence has a much more limited role than in common law countries. So it actually matters that the statutes be written clearly.
> Think how putting a ridiculous tax on cigarettes makes people less likely to want to use them.

It also makes them more likely to buy them illegally.
It's not just Basic Income, he's got some good ideas on other issues as well: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/

I especially like his idea to downsize the federal workforce, that's a position that is not often taken by otherwise left-of-center politicians: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/downsizing-federal-workfor...
Although it stinks it is only one school district in Minnesota (Duluth) and the books will remain in their library.

The reasoning (due to racially insensitive language) is nonsense but there are plenty of books in American literature that could be used just as effectively.

I'm hoping that the teachers in Duluth encourage the students to read the books on their own time.