skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That raises some interesting questions. Let's say:

• I run website W. W does not obey EU privacy and data rules, but I, my company, my server, etc., are all outside the EU in places without treaties that would allow enforcement of EU rules against me.

• I sell data from EU citizens who visit W. I sell this data to ad network N that is also outside the EU. (I'm selling N all my visitor data, not just data from EU visitors).

• Company C that is in the EU or sells products in the EU or has a presence in the EU buys ads through N. N uses the data they bought from me to show C's ads to visitors from the EU who visit websites using N's ad network.

Questions:

1. Which of the various entities in this (me, N, C) are violating EU data and privacy laws, according to the EU?

2. Which of those entities could the EU actually enforce a fine against?

3. For those entities that are violating EU laws (according to the EU) but are out of the reach of EU fines, can the EU take alternate action such as ordering EU ISPs to block access to their websites?
Based on this comment, it sounds like engineers are more like line workers.

"EMs at Apple are powerless to push back. Every engineer's performance is tied to the number of Radars fixed and closed. Every EM's performance is tied to their team's total Radars fixed and closed, so they have an incentive to keep everyone focused on the prize."
How do you deal with region based pricing knowing that anyone on the internet can pretend to be anywhere ? For example using a VPN
Lame. This is an optical illusion. Call me when you actually image an atom at the atomic scale.

That's what I was expecting, when I read the title description: Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

Like, the helical structure of DNA. I want to see how an atom looks like in reality, on the atomic scale. Along with the protons, neutrons, and maybe the electrons flying around it.

Zzz.. going back to sleep now..
MKBHD had a good take on Android snapchat, in passing on this video where he announced he's leaving the platform for instagram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-DfipidnOE

Basically, it's far worse than the iOS version, due to Android fragmentation and Snapchat's failure to code for the different camera of at least the high end android devices.
https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-software-proble...
I think the simplest explanation is that the number of jobs has been exploding but the number of people who really know their stuffs isn't keeping up. It takes time for any population to adjust to a new situation. Surely it's hard to master EE etc. as well but how many companies really need EE engineers anyways. I've been keeping explaining to others that in EE etc. many probably get a PhD before they apply for a job in a company like Intel or maybe at least a second-rate OEM company which truly needs somebody to design/test their hardware, while literally every company needs somebody who can program. The talk of "not understanding" this thing just sounds like exaggerated posturing. I don't think there's anything very hard to grasp about it. The situation might well change in a few years with the maturation of AI-based program generation technologies and the saturation of population. We'll just have to see.

Also most foreign programmers actually already have to pay a fortune (many via their rich parents) to study in the US in the first place before they get the OPT/visa, so they already came from rich families and it's a kind of like the situation with lawyers/consultants/financiers where such an elitist circle gets elitist pay as well.
A colleague of mine purchases 12x 500ML bottles of Evian a week. That will be over 600 bottles of water in 2018, not including the bottled water he drinks at home.

Sure, bottled water tastes a little better than tap water, but I can’t help but cringe at the thought of 600 plastic bottles going into landfill. I avoid bottled water as much as possible, however when required I admit I do purchase 6 packs of 2L bottles for long road trips.
soft delete aka flag delete is a very common thing in databases.
If it's a customer account that is being deleted then just set a flag on the record or change the user's status. The last thing you want is to try to resolve a dispute where all the details have been removed from a database.

safety first. record everything.
And maybe this is exactly the trick, make it low key and have a sense of humor about it.

Sounds like a site dedicate to "My Ass" results would be extremely popular with grad students and real world researchers. Being able to know "it's not just me" and maybe even avoid some of the stumbling blocks others have run into, or to not just blindly use some approach that happened to work for one experiment, but seems to fail for many others.
I think it's not exactly 328 feet, so it's about 328 feet.
sucks, cuz it was a good idea in the beginning.. also got me some girlfriends over the years..
It's for utilizing proxies. For blocking you can use something like https://ip-api.io
Yeah. I just checked it from Flume on Macos. Not a bad experience, devoid of most of the growth hacking stuff.

Interesting you've had the same experience despite not growing your friends list. I had wondered if my own distate was simply because my list grew. Sounds like not.

I agree on the stories. They stole a march on Snapchat, but they may have destroyed what made Instagram enjoyable and stress free.
There wouldn't be mass complaints. My family are absolute non-techies, while I am something like a techie, and none of us would complain if Apple did a few pure bug-fix releases. Non-techies don't completely understand the current situation where developers care far more about themselves than their users, but they have learned that software "upgrades" will usually waste their time and make their lives worse. Apple can actually fight this, since their users are their customers.
I tried to upgrade OSX the other day and the upgrade hung half way, leaving me to restore my hard disk from backup.

More quality assurance and testing would be welcomed.
Yeah, but you get releases where I could hard lock the OS by plugging/unplugging an HDMI monitor approx 20 times (7 MBPs bought over the course of 3 months in late 2014; 3 different brands of HDMI monitor) and that's the only way you can make sense of someone letting a bug like that out the door.
Haha, this made me laugh. It’s humorous that we’re living in a period where a vocal group of critics declares that ML, AI, and incredible amounts of data and tracking are being leveraged to push ads at me so skillfully and subtly that I’m helpless to resist.

Meanwhile, like you said, I’m served the same handful of annoying ads over and over, for products I’d never consider buying. Where are all the ads for stuff that’s so desirable and targeted to me that I just can’t resist purchasing them??

Not saying that critics of advertising have no valid claims, but the juxtaposition is funny.
> One problem I have with illusionism is that if consciousness is an illusion, what is it that is being fooled by the illusion?

If false==true, what is true?
I agree in large part, but as evidence of corruption mounts so does public dissatisfaction. Outrage is temporary but dissatisfaction is cumulative and can, I believe, be channeled.
Oh, it does, by lowering the production cost of the products, which allows competition to drive prices lower.

Unless, of course, the market turns into a monopoly. But even in oligopoly markets (such as the cola/soda) there is still plenty of choice, especially around lower cost products and with the rise of white-label/home-brand products.
Huawei loads its Best Buy Mate 10 Pro listing with over 100 fake reviews
> you can't win until you've won
It’s not too much of a concern, businesses and edu are generally honest. Issues come from b2c sales but it’s a mintority. We will have systems in place soon that will warn and suspend service if we suspect abuse - asking customer to provide proof of residence. When paying for something the processor often gives some evidence as to their country.

For a lot of customers even b2c a properly issued invoice is important so that does narrow down abuse.

Requiring billing address is a good catch especially for card verification although there’s a constant friction between the frictionless checkout and anti-fraud/region verification.

Main struggle we’ve had is businesses buying the wrong package - (cheaper of course)! Best way to catch this is to only issue simple receipts to the plans aimed at b2c and tell them to email invoice address if they’d like a full invoice issued.

A lot of people seem to be uncomfortable with region pricing based on abuse - however it’s important to bear in mind it doesn’t have to be 100% effective to be a net benefit. If your product is truly worldwide region pricing can be an absolute essential. As can region based billing cycles where in some cultures monthly payments are culturally the norm and annual can be hard to swallow.

Every dimension of global saas payment systems is complex. I’m tempted to say there’s startup opportunity here but it feels like there will always be a lot of glue needed and a huge amount of flexibility between customers needs so I’m not sure how plausible it will be.

Edit: worth mentioning is that EVERY saas company needs some region pricing - most simply you need to respect trade embargoes and deny all sales to specific regions as best as possible.
Since I was criticizing the article of making a type mistake that was not specific to Musk, I wanted to give another example of this type. Likewise, if I had said "the author is committing the typical-mind fallacy" to an audience who wasn't familiar with it, it would be helpful to provide a quick example of that fallacy that was distinct from the one made by the author.
Probably when you finish the the first book, second won't need that much effort already?
Facebook suggesting security app – it secretly owns – that tracks usage
If we're seeing the single photon emitted by a single atom, then how much larger is the spot of light in the image compared to the atom that emitted it?

Why isn't there a ruler somewhere in the picture? My brain is absolutely failing to make sense of the scales and sizes in this image.
Proposal for Shared Dictionary Compression Over HTTP (2008) [pdf]
The company behind the Axe ads is complaining about sexism? The whole Axe ad campaign is about objectifying women to sell stuff to young men.
Ok, I'll split the question into 3 and make it clear that you didn't answer it.

What is the utility that IOTA provides?

There's nothing in your link that talks about the utility that IOTA provides. There's machine to machine payments, but that's not really utility because currently machines don't pay each other, users do. There's no actual demand for machines to pay each other. This isn't unsurprising because it's a new technology and sometimes technology has to develop the demand.

What are Bosch are deploying at production?

The link you supplied has nothing being deployed at production. There's talk of the XDK, but that's a developer kit, not a final product. If you go to the XDK site and search for IOTA, iota or tangle you get no results. This is not contingent with the importance that IOTA supporters place on the Bosch relationship.

Where is this used?

According to the link you've posted, there are a number of Proof of Concepts, but no actual deployments at production scale. It's not being used outside of PoC at this stage.

The thing is, you could've just tried answering the question but posting an AMA that doesn't answer it is frankly, shitty. If you believe it does answer the above 3 questions, at least do the decent thread and link to the comments with the answers.
Neuroscientists at MIT give astrocytes a new look
I setup Stripe using their API not the Checkout widget and it only took a weekend including receipts. Yes, there's a long tail of work needed for cancellations, refunds, non-credit card providers, multiple subscription plans, multiple billing periods, automated periodic auditing, etc. However, I totally believe a lot of devs can setup stripe in their MVP in a day especially if they only use Checkout and Webhook Events.
Facebook is one of the companies that banned the word Kurdistan on the request of Turkish government. that means for Kurds in Iraq and Iran which unlike Turkey, the word kurdistan is not only not banned but also legally is an official federal region and official province name, we could not choose Kurdistan as our hometown in the profile. I personally spent more than 10 years reporting this "bug" but it was never solved. later I found out it was an internal guidance from facebook to ban the word Kurdistan. I am glad to see such evil organization is going down the tube.
I recently moved to Nashville and signed up for the AT&T gigabit offering which is 1Gbps up and down with unlimited data for $80 a month (what a deal).

Wireless devices cap out at around 400Mbps on Speedtest.net because they hit wireless throughput maximums. My iMac which is attached to my AirPort Time Capsule via CAT6 pushes around 700Mbps up and down. I'm fairly certain I am not being capped, just that Speedtest.net POP's probably can't push that much bandwidth to max out my 1Gbps connection.
Thanks for this succinct yet comprehensive summary.
> you can obtain a new one at your local DMV and resume operation of motor vehicles...

No, my driver's license was from another country. It would have required either thousands of dollars to replace or re-taking the test in the US. Neither options has been something I can do just yet. I'll take the US test soon.

If you're going to victim-shame and tell me, <<oh you just nearly got shot, what's the big deal, just hop on down to the DMV! It's your fault you can't drive a car right now>> that's not exactly such as simple thing to do and would be seriously rude.
>The ZFS name is registered as a trademark of Oracle Corporation; although it was briefly given the retrofitted expanded name "Zettabyte File System", it is no longer considered an initialism.

—Wikipedia
You are remarkably well positioned to take advantage of any solution from what you've told.

My group is skipping Kubernetes to go straight to Fargate and we are... not so we'll positioned as you happen to be.

Much to my chagrin, as a newbie to AWS who has loads of homegrown experience with Kubernetes and its predecessors (Fleet, etcd) I am wholly reliant on the AWS solutions engineers we have in-house to help me navigate this thing via CloudFormation and friends, it's too much for one person to figure out in 20 hours during a pilot/assessment study.

I am an application developer who learned Kubernetes in his free time over the past 3 years because it was free. There are thousands of us, with computers in our basements, learning these systems on our own, with no institutional support. Sure, I needed lots of help, but I didn't have to spend money on cloud instances just to learn, or be sure to remember to terminate them when the experiment was over.

By contrast, AWS has only just made Amazon Linux 2 available to run on your own machines less than two months ago. There is still no way to set up ECS or Fargate on our own metal, and probably never will be, because Amazon does not see a reason for it.

Vendor lock-in is real and it has casualties! There are real negative effects that you don't see. If you say "I would not hire someone like you because you have specific skills I won't take advantage of," you have to ask yourself is that because of something that I've done or is it something that Amazon is doing.
I can see the Detroit Auto Show slowly fading away unless they really revamp it. Two suggestions:

1) Don't hold it in the dead of winter, and instead move it to a time when it's warm out

2) Move out of the Cobo Center. Belle Isle could use a defining event, so perhaps they could hold it there.
Interestingly, Steve Jobs's vision for apps on iOS was essentially PWAs. He was forced to back down after developer found their way around these restrictions (i.e. jailbroke) and realized they could write much higher quality, faster, and more efficient apps natively.
Absolutely. I turned off my voicemail for awhile and forwarded my phone to the main number. It was liberating.
Always take comments like that with a grain of salt.

The people who feel they are being ignored or feel they aren't being used to their full potential are going to look for someone or something to blame.

I'm sure there is some amount of "higher number of fixes is better" going on (any larger company has it), but i've seen poor team members read into things like this way too much in order to justify why they aren't doing well in comparison to others.

It may be true that apple weighs stats like that too heavily, but we aren't going to get a good picture of how heavily they weigh them from a few anecdotes.
OK let me drop 'socially useful' from the question: Is it better to (a) allow anyone to watch Snow White on YouTube for free; or (b) fund cancer research with a tax on Disney's sales of Snow White?

With vandalism the costs clearly outweigh the benefits. With copyright extension it seems to me the benefits outweigh the costs.
The reason d'être of the EU is to unite, so I expect eventually all opt-outs to end or to become meaningless. Countries joining the project should have that in mind, and I think they all have and had, even if they're not talking too much about it.
Given that they're hiring for QA currently…
that's unfortunately because we are pushing fancier and fancier models with higher and higher resolution textures
When one uses any of the popular commercial streaming services they also submit to non-free software (proprietary software, untrustworthy by default), and tracking.

The media one gets from such services contain DRM (digital restrictions management; I use this expansion of the term because I side with the people who are subjected to the restrictions, not with the publishers who subject others to those restrictions). DRM is anti-user, always implemented with non-free software, and (even on its own greedy merits) routinely fails to achieve the claimed goal of preventing unauthorized copies. But DRM achieves a little-discussed goal of giving someone else control over one's computer. In this time of remote control and mass surveillance, it's worth noting that DRM is rightly seen by those subjected to it as a threat, not a friend.

And there's nothing incompatible with commercially distributing DRM-free copies of digital works via a free software client. Private BitTorrent trackers work and could be set up and used by authorized distributors to implement commercial distribution. But years into the existence of the commercial streaming services there's no indication that they care to try.

These issues aren't explored at all in the wholly lacking article; these issues are ignored as reasons why people would want to retain full control of their computers and copy data via a free software BitTorrent client.
It's written on NodeJS. I have a very hard time believing in a systems project written in JavaScript.
Maybe there are social media business paradigms that don't revolve around exploitation of users' PII.
As you're building yourself and your skill back up, think about how you're pacing the goals you set for yourself.

Any chance you enjoy video games like Skyrim or Zelda? Think about how the tasks a character gets start out really simple/short and increase in difficulty/duration over time. The pacing of those tasks is what makes the game fun and addictive to play! If you feel your skills have fallen behind, allow yourself to reset your expectations just like if you started Skyrim over with your character at level 1. Leveling might be frustrating at first, but you'll probably level up faster than you did the first time around and eventually you'll get back to where you were before.
What DOESN'T have health risks? Sitting at home? Nope.

Should we ban bicycles?
By my reading, the center core was using three engine burns for more efficient boost-back and re-entry burns. The side cores and typical F9 boosters (afaik) always use single engines for those and occasionally three-engine burns at landing, so three engine-ing all three burns would be 4 more relights than any previous core.

So, an equal number of "relights" of the entire rocket but more engine relights, and engine relights are the relevant unit for ignition fluid consumption.
The HomePod already plays stereo.
Chrome, the Background Sync API and Exponential Backoff
Tell us more! You said in another thread that you got a monthly electronics kit as a teenager, what's your story?
Assuming the tagged reference or capability system was built, wouldn't it need software to take advantage of it? If it's not actively used, no real point having it over more block pointer space - and I doubt significant amounts of software would use such a filesystem-specific feature.
What about JSON? That became a standard without multiple implementations or even any discussion about what people would’ve wanted, like comments.

I just don’t think there’s any rule that says that we need multiple implementations of thing to make it a standard. Also, we already have a standard for SQL and they could’ve just used the parts of SQLite that were compliant with that.
> They should start by getting rid of Swift and all their proprietary APIs.

Swift is open source, and parts of Foundation are as well. As for their UI design toolkit, you can't possibly expect them to match that of their competitors, right?

> API's are constantly being deprecated and "best development practices" constantly changing.

Believe it or not, but writing apps in a 32-bit C API (Carbon) may not be the best way to do it. Modernization is crucial to making your platform better.
That seems a lot less useful than a functional search for messages. I hate the fact that I can only search for 1 instance of my search within a conversation. There's no way to go to a previous or next instance from the instance that the search feature already found. That sucks.
Any ideas on the longest-running program?

I misread the title and now I’m curious.

It’d take a massive effort to keep hardware up for as long as these people have been writing programs for it.
> So while I hope the do fix long standing small bugs, I think the average user would lose their mind if they do.

I really don't think they would. If you asked any person on the street what new features came with iOS 11 vs iOS 10 I really don't think they'd be able to tell you. It was a very minor upgrade, and no-one really seemed to care. A number of people I know try to avoid updating because they mostly associate it with a slower phone!
You could half-ass it like many (most?) vendors seem to do. You can always tell they've shoehorned their on-prem product into a SaaS offering when they ask you to port forward on your firewall to your LDAP server and don't support SAML/OAuth/OIDC. Bonus points when they can't give you a dedicated per-costumer IP or range to whitelist. More bonus points if they can't give you any to whitelist at all without a bunch of internal communication/work (shared or not).
That's not entirely accurate. The song is only licensed for certain uses. For old TV shows especially, digital streaming wasn't a thing, so it wasn't included in the license. They have to be renegotiated for streaming.

That's why sometimes the songs in the shows on Netflix are different than the ones on the DVDs, for example.
iTunes on windows and Apple music on Android made me cancel my subscription and switch to google play music. I was amused that Apple software was so bad across two different systems.
This works on the old silverlight player, not on the modern HTML5 EME-based player. I've been able to find some hidden keybindings that work, but those only display information. Let me know if you know how it can be done.