skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equifax competitor Experian offers a free "dark web scan" to find out if your identity has been compromised. It should be easy for Equifax to compete. All they have to do is query their own database.
The sex education programs in my mostly liberal schools featured a touching faith from the adults in charge that they were engaged in a great work of enlightenment, that with the right curricula they could roll back the forces of repression and make sexuality a place of egalitarian pleasure and safety for us all.

Well at my liberal school, it was s brief and awkward exercise in box-checking. Maybe the author attended Utopia, but um, not me.

That we cannot imagine such censorship is part of our larger inability to imagine any escape from the online world’s immersive power, even as we harbor growing doubts about its influence upon our psyches.

Not only can we imagine it, we’ve seen where that road leads. No thanks.
Take the money, pay off the debt, get stable and work on your business.
Nor is doing a quick search on Google to see if you can find citations yourself. The fact that this took me about two minutes to find should frankly make you feel ashamed at your insistence that everyone provide citations for everything you don't know anything about: this is you being intellectually lazy :/.

> But rather than admit this truth and risk being accused of failure or, worse still, denounced as ‘counter-revolutionaries’, local party bosses fiddled the figures they sent to the central authorities.

> They curried favour by vying with each other to increase their targets of food production to ludicrous and entirely fictional levels. Then they lied that they had not only met but exceeded them.

> On paper, China was bursting with food of every type. The people’s bellies were full. Poverty and want had been eradicated.

> In reality, as the notional, non-existent surpluses were commandeered to feed the industrial workers in the cities, vast areas of China were left with a fraction of the sustenance needed to survive.

> In one province, the grain harvest shrank from 82,000 tonnes in 1957 to 18,000 tonnes three years later. Yet the local party boss still reported a bumper harvest of 130,000 tonnes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017839/Madman-starv...

"Madman who starved 60million to death: Devastating book reveals how Mao's megalomania turned China into a madhouse"

Clearly it would be better to cite the book (which I can't easily, as not all knowledge can be hyperlinked), or a higher-quality secondary source, but this is definitely sufficient enough to put the onus firmly on you to cite why you are so resistant to this thought process.

Some tips, if the issue is that you don't know how to do research: You might try searching for the title of the book, which might find you some more reviews, and you might find some which disagree and essentially write a "rebuttal". You might also can try to search for those specific numbers in the final paragraph I quoted from this article.
Much of my county doesn’t even have water and sewer pipes. People just spend the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars needed to build septic systems and wells and accept that is the trade off for living in the country.
Then they uploaded a picture they shouldn't have uploaded and the person who uploaded it should be sued (by you and possibly by Facebook because they broke the TOS that says you can only upload stuff that doesn't break the laws - and a photo of you that you didn't agree to be uploaded is against the laws)
> Btw, one of GDPR's key motivation was to take FB down.

this all seems very similar to the new VAT scheme, in that it was designed to target a foreign giant (Amazon), which was barely affected as a result, and instead ended up hurting the competitiveness of the EU's own small businesses

the EU Commission's response to small business concerns about that new VAT scheme? "we'll allocate some time to talk about that in 5 years"

fantastic
This is an insanely cool picture.

Some quick napkin math (please let me know if I'm way off base here): in the second pic, the electrodes are ~74 pixels apart and the strontium atom is ~2 pixels wide.

The electrodes are ~0.078 inches apart, so these 2 pixels represent ~0.0021 inches (or ~0.05334 mm).

Google tells me that the Van der Waals radius of a single strontium atom is 255 pm.

So the diameter of the actual atom is something like 10,000x smaller than the space represented by these pixels. Crazy!
21st century's version of the gold bug :)
Doing a startup is kind of like climbing a mountain that has 10 false summits. You've always got some goal in your mind that you're driving toward, and you feel like when you finally reach that point, it's going to start to get easier. But when you get there, the 'real' peak emerges from the clouds, and it's twice as high as where you are now.

Built a great product that actually works? Congrats! That's really f-ing hard to do. Now go get 10 customers for it, which is a whole a lot harder! Got 10 customers? Congrats! How will you get 100? Got revenue, funding, and a reliable user acquisition channel? Congrats, now you get to learn how to hire and manage people so you can keep growing.
Have you tried flagging the review as inappropriate? It's highly unlikely that Google would refuse to delete a review that was against their rules,* although it could have been because you ignored the protocol they have in place for getting rid of inappropriate reviews: flagging them, which would mean that the support representatives you were talking to might not have the ability to delete the review.

*Found Here: https://support.google.com/contributionpolicy/answer/7400114
Read the article. The violation was:

"Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy center and does not provide sufficient information about it when users register"

How is putting privacy settings in the privacy center hiding them? What is "sufficient" information when users register? Where in law are these things spelled out?

Germany isn't punishing Facebook for anything actually concrete or real. Rather the German courts and regulators seem to think they should design Facebook's UI instead of Facebook. This is not how free markets work and if you were creating a new company, why let some random German regional court waste your time on disputes over the position of widgets in your user interface?
You seem to not understand the difference in location. Of course companies in the EU follow EU laws.
It is good that they are protecting their citizens from exploitation by US companies but this is not uncommon that it is easier to regulate a large company that is not your constituent.

The EU has not done so well on regulating diesel autos for instance but the US is knocking that one of the park.
I pay $75 for 7/0.768Mbps and $220 for 50/10Mbps for 2 business lines.

My only option is Spectrum cable. They are offering 100Mbps fiber for $770/month if sign up for 5 years contract.
Autorouting has been getting a bad rap because the autorouter in Altium is total crap. It creates design rule errors while failing to route the board.

But there are good autorouters. Back in the 90s I had a license to PADS, so I had access to Specctra and then Blaze. I still use the version of Blaze I bought then (originally for Windows-98) today. It used for my relay computer:

http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/

It routes the entire board in about two minutes.

Unfortunately these tools are now very expensive ($6000).
Awesome pic - and just as mind blowing.
Is there a 4k version of the pic?
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.
Because empire is what the british or europeans do. We were born out of freeing ourselves from an evil empire. So since birth, empire had negative connotations. To say we are an empire means we are just as evil as the british empire or the french empire or the spanish empire. But we are the beacon of freedom, liberty and democracy. So we can't be an empire...

Every nation lies to itself.
If any markup exists, and if Instacart splits some of that markup with the retailer, it seems like obscuring the facts to state that Instacart does not charge a _separate_ markup.
Surprisingly, in Myrtle Beach, SC we have multiple high speed providers choices: HTC (as in htcinc.net, a local telco cooperative offering gigabit fiber), or Spectrum, who just minutes ago I heard for the first time that their new default tier in our area is 100mbps. Not sure if they go much hiher though, because a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that expansion.

Either way, I'm happy with my high speed fiber service. And I likely have competition to thank.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16359779
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So we should take away the power from the user to choose that for themself?

Razer's lack of cooperation is not taking away freedom from the user. Razer did not promise to provide "Linux" support and they are not obligated to do so. The firmwares themselves are already non-free and generally have EULAs tied to them which take away that freedom . If you wanted that freedom of choice in the first place, you should have bought hardware that offers that.

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How exactly does it hurt them to have unofficial Linux firmware?

It does hurt Razer to have "unoffical Linux firmware" because they would have new liabilities, possible legal issues in terms of licenses or an image problem if an update results in a brick.

I can't believe how many people think they are entitled to support for something that was never claimed to be supported. If you want "Linux" support, buy hardware that offers just that.
The folic acid in fortified food is simply not sufficient to reduce the risk low enough of these serious neurological birth defects.

https://www.webmd.com/baby/folic-acid-and-pregnancy#1

We have been fortifying food as a response to the fact that pregnant women aren't uniformly getting enough folic acid. Downplaying prenatal folic acid supplements is like saying we don't need to worry about driving safely because people have added seat belts to cars. (One could imagine safety equipment that is so good we don't need to worry about how well we drive, but we're not there yet.)
RAM speed is definitely important for CPU and GPU perf, but much like other Ryzen parts it hits a point where higher end kits provide little to no benefit. 3200MHz is about where you start hitting seriously diminishing returns, especially considering cost of high end RAM kits.

You can see a much larger gaming benefit by overclocking the IGP. In most tests I saw today, an overclocked Vega8(1100MHz) in the $99 part easily catches up to the stock Vega11(1250MHz) and can be pushed to ~1500MHz.

https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/xRaven-3-...

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/AMD/Ryzen_5_2400G_Vega_11/images/...
Awesome picture!

Could someone explain to me how a DSLR camera can capture an image of a single atop? I thought atoms were very very small, like so small only an electron microscope could "see" them. Maybe this device has been misrepresented and it is holding a small amount of atoms rather than a single one?
Encryption keeps us safe. It must not be compromised with ‘backdoors’
Your argument seems to imply that people thoroughly read the TOS for every website they use.

Even if you do that, most people don’t, regardless of country. “Disclosing” things by putting them in the middle of a document that people don’t read was deemed insufficient.

It reminds me of a cute exchange from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:

Mr Prosser: But, Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

Arthur: Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything.

Mr Prosser: But the plans were on display…

Arthur: On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.

Mr Prosser: That’s the display department.

Arthur: With a torch.

Mr Prosser: The lights had probably gone out.

Arthur: So had the stairs.

Mr Prosser: But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?

Arthur: Yes yes I did. It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.
Are you running your own Masterdon server yet? I'm working on migrating my blocks to a new docker structure and hope to have mine up this month.

It starts with people like us, in tech, running our own services and connecting with friends or even strangers in our field and growing out from there.

I don't think any one big thing can (or should) replace Facebook. The future of the Internet needs to be diverse and distributed. People need to learn about RSS feeds again and posting their content to a variety of services or hosting it themselves (if they know how).
You don't? The joke of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force needs to be updated with the Crystal one, near as I can tell. Nearly every thread where Ruby's discussed has the Crystal Guy (specific identity of any given Crystal Guy up for debate) parachuting in.

Crystal is not the next language for this Ruby developer. Ruby remains it, along with JavaScript when Node makes sense. It often feels like the folks evangelizing Crystal really don't get why people use Ruby--if I need static typing I'm going to go use Kotlin or Rust or C++; looking like Ruby and not having any of the things that make Ruby valuable to me (namely, the features implied by dynamic typing, and to forestall the usual, no, Crystal macros don't replace it) is a demerit, not a positive.
Not true anymore since the VAT laws changed last year
same here....went from rolling our own to Chargebee...so glad we did
(This week) Reading list to keep up-to-date with technology
I didn't realize DSL speeds were even possible above 7.1 Mbps, have things changed? ADSL is (or was) very much dependent on total wire distance and overall copper line quality from the nearest telco switching station. Top speeds were simply not possible above the 2-mile mark and that was pushing it. Rural areas, forget about it.
this, perchance? http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/classic/message5877.html
From the article:

> When illuminated by a laser of the right blue-violet color, the atom absorbs and re-emits light particles sufficiently quickly for an ordinary camera to capture it in a long exposure photograph.
If you want to roll your own for your friend group the easiest is https://buddypress.org/ on some free/cheap hosting + a 25$ theme to make it look modern.
Sure, but they have all the control over the result of those actions.
No, they are giving ways to do it outside of the db. You really answered your own bias on this. You want the db to handle it, so you wouldn't use sqlite in the first place.
I think you need to step back and ask why that sounds more "terminator/ominous" to people. And from there, maybe re-examine why you're doing it.

Just because someone thinks that it might sound bad is not a reason to not disclose it. If people think that FB image tagging training their systems to recognize people's faces is bad, that's probably a signal that shouldn't be ignored.
Kinesin
According to the law, you have to give certain rights to the user, including the right to demand cease of use and deletion of the data. So, you do not own the data and are not free to use it however you wish.
Not true, you can leave the website. The website of course has to not track you until you don't leave.
Do you have anything specific in mind about how you'd simplify it while keeping the overall experience? That's what I meant by the question.

Far as Kay, he's been building things on LISP's and Ometa-like languages in STEPS that I was aware. Given that, Im not sure how much he really believes im Smalltalk these days. Maybe he's implemented new Smalltalks that I just missed.
I find it surprising that people have gotten so used to Facebook's abuse of data that they cannot even imagine things being different. You uploading data to Facebook to share with your friends does not mean that you give consent to have it stored, analyzed, and sold for profit.

If I upload data to Dropbox, my bank, or my health insurance, I don't expect them to be sold to advertisers either. So what if there was a social network that actually respected its users and didn't exploit their data for its own ulterior motives? Seems to be an inconceivable notion to some.
“And the EU acts as judge, jury and executioner.”

That’s true only if you regard he EU as a single entity. Laws made via the EU will be turned into national law, and independent judges will judge all cases, up to the EU high court. By the same right you could call the US judge, jury and executioner on all laws and rules made and enforced by the US government (FACTA anyone?)
This kind of thing is top of my list when I think about how little enthusiasm I have for taking our current on-premise, installed enterprise software, and trying to turn it into a SaaS. As a small company, we've barely got the horses to handle the much-lower levels of complexity involved in building and supporting a mostly monolithic application, where we can offload all of the ops and deployment and first-line support duties to our customer, once they've got it installed and running.

I just start checking out when the idea of creating a cloud-hosted, multi-tenant version of our product is raised. Scale, security, liability for data protection, 24/7 operations support, billing, and metrics for billing, all this stuff we don't currently worry much, if at all about, would become first-class concerns. Unfortunately some people seem to think you just wave your cloud wand at things, and poof! everything is magical.
In Amsterdam Central Station they are now building stuff for passport control, security checks, etc. This is on the east side, around platform 13 or something. I don't think it is all the way at the back (15) but I never bothered to find out. Certainly not a separate terminal.

Another interesting detail. I'm told that the Eurostar uses a train signalling system that is incompatible with the one used on the Dutch railways. Which basically means that they have to lock out the entire section between Amsterdam CS and the start of the HSL just to let one Eurostar go through.
I'm a bit fuzzy on this, but I think any motherboard with DisplayPort 1.2 or better will do the job. DisplayPort has been ahead of HDMI on the 4K60Hz game.

Picking a random NewEgg motherboard with AM4 & DisplayPort, it looks like it would do the job (see Specs):

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681313...

So does the cheapest board:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681314...
Facebook is perhaps the last company I would trust with my email.
Wow, I don't know, I would say 5 challenges / week.

That's our third step though, first our recruiters filter applications (I have no idea how many people are funneled out at this point)

Then we have a 30 minutes phone call to discuss experience and presell the company. We also try to answer all their questions
at this point and explain the challenge. Something along the lines of : "so the next step will be a take home test. We just want to see how you code, don't put too much pressure on you, just do your best in the time given"

Historically we have only been looking for pretty senior engineers, although we are relaxing this a bit.

The company has also been sponsoring a lot of visas (even with very interesting salaries, senior mobile engineers are hard to recruit .. most of them are already happy where they are), I think that take home are a good way to handle this case.

The applicant can take the exercise whenever he wants (the only limitation is that we might not be available to answer their questions in the middle of the night) and shows us what they can do.
I guess I interpreted that remark differently. Prenatal vitamins are great, but is amazing how easy it is for them to sell some amazingly expensive prescription vitamins when really cheap (and good) options are available.
That's not a reasonable defense, though. Not to mention, it's been shown quite a bit that FB is still gathering information on people who are not members of Facebook.
> We have a physics engine and we want to allow users to write custom c++ functions that can be linked in at run-time. We'd like to allow our users to swap in their own custom integration or timestep methods for example.

Can't you achieve that with plain old dlopen etc? I suppose name mangling can be bit of pita if you want to have truly c++ interfaces instead of extern c ones.
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I disagree. I followed the shopping case closely. At no point was it obvious what Google did wrong, or why providing shopping results is a problem but not maps or videos, or how you would predict and avoid such problems in a new company and product line.

Nor are any of the other cases clear cut. Apple's case isn't even about Apple, it's more like a power struggle between the Commission and the Irish government.

We saw how Germans reacted to the rise of Facebook years ago. It wasn't through some 'grassroots' social network or open source. It was simply a local clone of Facebook, China style, right down to cloning the UI:

https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/facebook-sues-german-socia...

If the EU succeeds in convincing the rest of the world that it sees their firms as cash cows, all that'll happen is that people who live in member states will have to live with crappy local ripoffs - no different to China.
Almost certainly not seeing as the single hw largest device is currently 12TB. Someone would have to pool together 10+ (and more for redundancy) just to store the single file.
It should work with Chromium, IIRC, however you'd need to install the Widevine DRM plugin to make it work. It's available in the non-free section of most-distributions, being closed-source and all...
You can't claim "Caveat Emptor" when you have no means to know what is happening with your information.
a photo of you that you didn't agree to be uploaded is against the laws

I've never heard of this before, is it a part of GDPR?
It very much is FB in the wrong if they are using that data for anything.
How does sending email to it prove it's not a duplicate? For example:

john.doe@gmail.com

johndoe@gmail.com

Both resolve to the same email at the users end.
That's a good point about the unknown duration. Just redeployed the site with video controls added. Thanks for the note.
Because nobody forces you to use websites that track you or Facebook itself. It's your voluntary choice and in many cases also your payment for the seemingly free service.
But I just explained how people don't necessarily have that choice, given that they still collect data on people who are not members of Facebook.
I setup a discussion group to connect with other engineering managers to share ideas, ask questions, discuss problems, network, and provide/receive mentoring.

We'll make sure there's no recruiting, spamming, job postings, or other solicitations.
The Irish double doesn't have anything to do with VAT.
And the Irish double was replaced with the "Single Malt".
It would be a loss for Ireland and Malta, still not a big loss.
Stronger Than Steel, Able to Stop a Speeding Bullet–It’s Super Wood
Neither are "next languages," all three differ significantly in scope. For the western Ruby dev (meaning Rails people) there is a much clearer and more consistent path forward with Elixir/Phoenix.
That's an EU law, FB is US company.
Oh dang, yeah, ADUs! We're actually launching a new ADU department this year dedicated to ADU law. This is extremely relevant to our interests! :]

Thats an odd determination for staff to make. I've not heard of that trick before but I'll certainly look into it!
Isn't that serverless?

What's your angle: IDE, testing, orchestration, monitoring, billing?