skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but you have to be on that company's radar, before they add it to the list. (Something unlikely to happen en masse before your startup is large enough to handle it appropriately.) And in the case of copyright takedowns, the extreme volume comes in part from the fact that Google and other companies of that size have even implemented bulk reporting tools explicitly designed to permit requests of that type and volume that the average user, or even corporation, doesn't have access to.

I don't know the answers to these, but I'd wonder if RTBF would allow for you to set restrictions on who can submit requests on behalf of who, or the volume permitted by a given reporting entity, or the level of automation permitted in reporting. Presumably the EU would much rather than you make reasoned, well-thought responses to carefully considered and submitted removal requests, over a bulk import/bulk decision process that leads to a lot of incorrect behavior.
The article omits what I think is probably the most important datum: '0.2% of requesters accounted for 20.8% of all accepted delistings. Many of these frequent requesters were individuals using law firms and reputation management services.' That's a total of about 214,000 URLS deleted on account of 1000 individuals. The most prolific requester requested 5,768 URLs relating them be removed. It's unstated how many of these were approved.

The sort of individuals using law firms and reputation management services to try to erase information about themselves from public access, are generally going to be the individuals whose information has the most probable public utility. But they're also the individuals who can most threaten Google with lawsuits and other difficulties should they not comply.

The internet is something that will live on long after we're all dead, and it is creating a living chronicle of the times. The more this chronicle is interfered with, the less valuable this information will be. Einstein's 'marital demands' [1] (not what you might think) of his wife would almost certainly fall within this 'right to be forgotten' yet they now provide a all too rare glimpse at the less 'sculptured' life of one of the most important figures in history. This yin and yang, good and bad, nature of people helps provide a more balanced, and less idealistic view of actors in the past - and present.

Perhaps the thing becoming ever more clear is that search is something that needs to be decentralized. It's all too easy for the player in control to exploit the data for their own personal benefit, and they also end up working as a single point of failure for access to said information.

[1] - http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/albert-einstein-imposes-o...
I think it would be more impressive if you predict the NEXT recession.
Credit applications and tax forms have the incentives in the opposite direction.
...or, just accept that if you are going to have kids with no income, both the parents and the kids life is going to be tough. If you're going to make decisions like that, you shouldn't expect the rest of society to pay for it.

You may call that sexual morality, I call it common sense.
Rethinking the Smart City – Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria
Fair enough. Especially In the case of the iPhone there seems to have been a lot of 'wasted' vertical space that could have otherwise been used for the display (albeit requiring a different aspect ratio). But my point still remains - Is the 1-2mm of extra screen space afforded by an edge-to-edge display really worth it? For me at least the answer is no.
Modeling States and Transitions in Relational Databases
In a lot of engineering circles, you can get away with hours of having your headphones on, wearing the exact same cut and color of shirt 365 days a year, fidgeting constantly, and not making eye contact. It’s not paradise, but there are much less friendly environments.
I've had multiple teachers tell me that if you can't explain something you don't completely understand it yet. grok what I'm saying? :)
Qt has QStateMachine http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstatemachine.html which is modeled after State Chart XML https://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/ (but no XML is required to use it)

It's LGPLv3 if you use Qt > 5.6 (LGPLv2 earlier), and 5.6 is getting old now.
People taking drugs to be more productive at the keyboard. Now that’s not exactly the scene from the movie where the hero wins the girl. Don’t worry though, just remember - you’ve been instructed - that everything is getting better.

As you are.
It was almost exclusively new grads
I think it comes down to the risk that a single software developer can pose for an organization. With great power comes great responsibility so hopefully if the committee is ruthless then people that are hired are trusted with a lot of power (no guarantees on that however :) ).

I feel your pain, as I recently finished an onsite with multiple developers, and wrapping up with the hiring manager telling me that I "will be developer 'n' on the 'xyz' team" and should expect to hear from the recruiter next week. Needless to say, the recruiter emailed me the next week to let me know that they were moving in a different direction and that I "should keep in touch" ... no feedback given (and none expected).

Good luck in your interviews!
Now the Ghibli is essentially a Chrysler 300 I wouldn’t put it past Fiat to try.
One simplistic state machine in web/mobile is mouse/swipe motion handling – mousedown transitions into "in motion" state, mousemove tracks that state, mouseup transitions into "finished motion" state, runs event handlers, and transitions again into "idle" state.
You may also find interesting the Beej's Guides.
https://beej.us/guide/
Einstein was a highly public figure, its unlikely that such things would be removed from public view, or a lawsuit to such effect would be winnable.

Information parties like Google has goes far beyond what you see publicly, and its not being retained for your benefit, its being retained for Google's, and Google's and your goals are not in alignment.
> White male CEO is the only one to actually finish

Does anyone seriously still think the wage gap is due to sexism/racism?
Good point, and then there’s just the question of, why do it at all? Nuclear weapons on a submarine makes sense as a deterrent against first strikes, but a surface ship is as much of a target as a silo or ground based mobile launch platform. The whole idea reeks of BSD in the worst way.
curious to know how the wrong hires were wrong, and if they were wrong in the same way
Meg Whitman -> Consumption of Tide Pods

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Meg%20Whitman&...

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Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
150ms is huge given latency within a EC2 region should be a millisecond or less, although I suspect this could be working similar to BetFair where they internally queue and process the orders in a batch every 200/250ms rather than real time whilst giving the appearance of real time ('taker' being matched within the first batch since queued).
I agree with you mostly. I just think that this is an interesting usage of variational calculus, which is not that well understood by other programmers, so I wanted to write this article about this, in order to introduce other programmers to the topic.

And also because I thought the literature about this out there wasn't really that readable, and I always think there is value in writing expository texts like this.
Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Accused of Swindling $5B of Cryptocurrency
I also appreciate the provided references.
I've been wondering: How will Right To Be Forgotten be implemented in blockchain products, where forgetting is supposed to be impossible? Am I misunderstanding something fundamental about blockchains?
Yeah, I think it's heavily inspired by that yes. Many techniques in geometry processing take heavy inspiration by image processing techniques.
In countries like Vietnam it is customary for employees to have their own mat and nap for half an hour under their desks after lunch, even at bank offices. It helps that in these countries people are used to sleeping in crowded conditions, noise and light no issue (and being pretty trim too).
That's dope! Would try it for my next project
Your example is incorrect. In your example, matches_secret's runtime depends on the input. You should reread the link that you posted.

An algorithm is said to be constant time (also written as O(1) time) if the value of T(n) is bounded by a value that does not depend on the size of the input.
This is a great initiative. The hyper enthusiastic nature of our tech industry hides many of the underlying problems.
You can also mention about the tech addiction that is ruining so many people. I am one of the victims and not a recovering tech addict. But one particular friend of mine had it worse. He is borderline ADHD, high sugar and fat due to sedentary lifestyle, anxiety issues, eye problems, headaches, insomnia etc. I am not sure how many people will have to suffer before this problem is addressed.
One of the biggest issues with OOP is that it’s hard ;) I gave up attempting to get good at it after trying to read Bertrand Meyers’ Object-Oriented Software Construction book. If I need to be able to keep 1300 pages worth of info in my head to write well designed software, maybe it’s the wrong approach.
Pretty nifty! Nice visualization and execution. It reminded me of a game a friend of mine wrote as a Greasemonkey script back in the day, where you do the work: http://www.playwikipaths.com
Most distant != 6
What do you think are some things tourists and backpackers miss about Ecuador when they visit (whether it be tips, misconceptions, or spots to visit)?
Technically, you can not build DCs globally to support all over the world. In case Cloudflare, their services are quite different to others, for Dropbox the problem is cost saving and customers, sure they don't have much customers in Asia or China.
For just encrypted storage like Apple icloud, abusing cloud providers might be the best way to go. If they want to provider premium Icloud such as "Swiss-like", they could build their DCs below ground under granite rocks ...
This may be a very broad question, but has anyone else thought about whether our basic fundamentals of logic are flawed, and if so, how?

Wouldn't a logically sound system be devoid of any paradox?
The whole problem is anthropomorphism. There is no bus, there am just I, and the bus is part of my experience. There are no other people, even -- only me and that which looks and behaves similar to me. So I rationalize exterior events as just as involuntary as my own thought. When I rationalize that as free will, I must rationalize other exterior stimuli as expected, wanted and willed, too, but then there is no interior left. Which is a contradiction, so nihilism is the only solution. If that sounds like bollocks, I will still find a way to rationalize that.

> Plenty of passengers ride the bus, but the bus is not redefined by this.

The busriding-experience is shaped, which is all that matters. How many parts of a ship can you change until it's not the same ship anymore? There never was a ship to begin with. Just a build. Perhaps this is why Americans love the gerund. "building" is a process and an object at the same time.

> ... lasting impact on the bus itself and shape the experience for all parties involved

This prompted me to answer. I couldn't say it better.
The trouble is finding those people.

Most people I meet are literally stereotypical consumers and couldn't come up with a unique idea to save themselves.
I'd move back to them if they could implement something similar to Spider Oak, where I can choose where to sync individual folders on the machine. (IE, preserve my /home/username/<documents/pictures/downloads>)
There are lots of things which are publicized like this but never go anywhere.
In the usage metrics section
Guayacan (Tabebuia) is a family of trees very common all over South America. In Brazil it is called Ipê Amarelo and is the national flower of the country.

In Brazil, there is also another variety in purple, called Ipê Roxo, just as striking.

The flowering of the Ipês/Guayacanes is one of those things that mesmerize foreigners but Latin Americans are too used to it to pay attention.
In the forums people are suggesting to wait for the official announcement, but yeah it's been up there for a week or so in some regions.
Context, Inputs, and Techniques for Valuing Cryptocurrencies
Interview of Jill Wetzler, Director of Engineering at Lyft
You might be paraphrasing a little there [1]

> Pramod: Yeah, I like the programming model of Go. Using goroutines is so much easy and fun. In fact, we are using at work for building a distributed application.

> Ryan: Yeah, I think it’s… for a particular class of application, which is like, if you’re building a server, I can’t imagine using anything other than Go. That said, I think Node’s non-blocking paradigm worked out well for JavaScript, where you don’t have threads. And I think that a lot of the problems with kind of the call-back soup problem, where you have to jump into many anonymous functions to complete what you’re doing has been alleviated these days, with the async keyword, the async feature that’s in Javascript now.

> So, kind of the newer versions of Javascript has made this easier. That said, I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would use Go for that. And honestly, that’s the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not the best server-side system ever.

> Yeah. I think where Node has shined, weirdly, on the client side. So, doing kind of scripting around building websites. So, Browserify, for example. Kind of bundles up client-side Javascript. So, you can have all this server-side processing of client-side Javascript. And then, you know, maybe small servers to… maybe little development servers, and here and there, maybe some real servers serving live traffic. Node can be useful, or it can be the right choice for it. But if you’re building a massively distributed DNS server, I would not choose Node

[1] https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/epi...
iPhone 8 starts at $700 not $650
If caffeine makes you tired, you probably have ADHD
lol, interesting read. I used to work on a graphics project with a state machine at its core, and user actions are defined to trigger state transitions
GPAs are not normalized across universities. The higher the average GPA for the school's graduates, the more likely grade inflation is at work.
I am not up to date on the research. A few years ago the stimulant in mate was more broadly classified as a xanthine, not specifically caffeine.
That sounds doubtful to me. I'm not a lawyer (and I don't think it sounds like you are either?) but at least in the US, my understanding is that courts grant quite a bit of latitude to people speaking freely about their own experiences. I don't really know though, but I would definitely be surprised (and incensed) to find out that this is a widespread problem.
I’m guessing thst it’s not that the Russians and Chinese are seeking to fight in LEO, but kill satellites from the ground. LEO is a stupid place to fight, but a devastating place to damage your enemies communications. If you ignore treaties and are willing to spend an absolute fortune you could consider orbital bombardment, but you’ll feel,stupid when your enemy just nukes you back.

These things make for great sci-fi, but they’re for shit in reality.
3D scanners are not the only source of mesh data. 3D modelling, simulation, etc. can produce consistent meshes which you may still want to fill holes in. I agree this isn't novel, but it may be useful in some instances.
Where do you think its coming from now?
Oreo-driven dev board showcases octa-core Snapdragon 845
We use GitLab. We can edit through the web UI or through the command line, with Git and Vim. And it's free -- it's part of GitLab Libre, formerly known as the Community Edition.
ES5 and ES6 differ a lot. There's reverse compatibility, but they do differ.
Can we finally dispense with the "Apple is the defender of user privacy" propaganda now?

As has always been the case, Apple positions themselves as defenders of privacy only when they don't have to stick their necks out too far, and when it's convenient.
How hard would it be to get a couple of Senior MTs and SSBN weapons officers to go to those surface ships? Then they'd at least have personnel experienced in handling nuclear weapons.
Actual title: "Does anyone think that Seth Godin's altMBA is worth the money?"
The internet is something that will live on long after we're all dead

Yup, but how much of what’s online today will? Bitrot kills, and it seems like a lot of today’s content will be gone long before we are. By conflating the net with the content you’ve avoided that key issue.
How We Learned to Love the Bill of Rights
From the parent:

> when you see people in this squat position in Asia etc you will notice that their spine is rarely flat if they are fully down in the squat. This is generally fine so long as the spine is not loaded.

the exact same thing applies to knee position. You don't want your knees past your toes when loaded, when unloaded it's totally fine.
I haven’t seen anyone posit a theory as to why Western people bend this way, so I’ll go:

Extreme sex and body shame.

We receive, from a young age, shame about exposing - even with clothing on - “sexual” parts of the body - breasts, butt, and crotch.

Women are strongly motivated to tuck in the backside because it is both shamed and unsafe in our society to stick out our butts. This is why women squat to tie their shoes in public. Rape, assault, catcalling, is so prevalent and a constant awareness for women in public. This pose would also be considered “unprofessional” in a workplace.

Men are discouraged as well, lest they incur the worst male insult in our society : “gay”. Men are shamed and called gay from childhood if they take this hip-hinge pose. So they stop.

Bending at the waist exposes the vulnerable backside in a way that is unsafe in historically Puritanical Western society.
Vampire squids don't feed on blood.
> I remember him talking about how drugs were much easier to handle when you start late and is much more mature. Turned out he was wrong and couldn't control it.

No, he was right. It's just that this drug still wasn't easy enough.
Do you realize that none of what you said contradicts the GP?
I spent a majority of my programming career developing business process automation solutions on top of a graph database that incorporated state management in the middleware layer as a first come citizen. State transitions were triggered and it had strict schema.

It was amazing the amount of features we could push out with great stability and scalability using this middleware. We build huge systems that just ran like clockwork and was easy to explain and reason about.

Sad part of this is that the middleware is not commercially available without buying they vendors domain specific products.
This is one of the reasons I think Agrello will be a successful project, as it aims to have an AI engine process legal contracts into smart contracts. Granted it currently still currently requires a lawyer of a particular region to create an interpretive template.
COUNTLESS 3D– Vectorized 2x Downsampling of Labeled Volume Images Using Py/Numpy
This is exactly my impression after taking a quick glance through these articles as well.

If anyone is curious and would like to see a practical demonstration of this data-oriented approach of modelling problems, I highly recommend this talk from Mark Bastian in Clojure/conj 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb823aqgX_0

In it, he contrasts the data-oriented modelling approach with a traditional OOP approach for implementing a board game, and was able to come up with a complete implementation of the game with the former approach that was shorter than even the structural boilerplate for the OOP version.

Another related talk that I loved was Chris Granger's 2013 talk on Light Table: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Eu9vZaDYw

Where he walks through his process of building a game in ClojureScript using an Entity-Component-System architecture, which is very well suited to this data oriented modeling approach.
It's not just a matter of personnel and the equipment. There's a whole infrastructure, including logistics, legal, security, etc, supporting these weapons that would need to be replicated or expanded for surface vessels.
As an autistic man, I don't get that impression at all. There are hundreds of articles discussing autism from a mostly male perspective. Pointing out the differences in expression (and diagnosis) in women takes nothing away from me.
Do you have a concrete reason why you think it's unlikely? I have a different opinion about how large a search engine company would have to be before being able to "handle it appropriately", but maybe you have a good argument that trumps my experiences.
Fun fact: The J language implements general finite state machines as a language primitive -- `;:`

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d332.htm
That 3d spiral cutout was an awesome visualization of the tripled space time
Found 2,318 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Firebase to Precipitation in 16.80 seconds!

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Firebase&targe...
The reason I'm suggesting a detectable padding is for a different "kicking yourself" scenario: What happens if some system ever doesn't strip the junk? Now you've got corrupt data, and its been corrupted in a way that you cannot reliably fix.

In the case of hashed passwords, suppose the user entered "foo" but you stored hash("foo42156"). Now the user is locked out, and there's no way for you to fix it on their next login attempt, because you have no way of knowing how much of it was "real" anymore.

In contrast, a deterministic system (like "pad with newlines to 256 bytes") allows you to take their next login attempt, validate it under the older method, and "upgrade" the hash to the correct de-junked version.

It's not just passwords either: The issue of corruption also applies to all variable-length non-hashed sensitive data you might apply this scheme to. For example, security-questions, e-mail addresses, financial account numbers, etc.
Yes, understating your income when reporting it to the IRS (for taxes) is fraud.

However the situations being discussed are credit/loan applications. Since understating your income in that application doesn't generally provide any material benefit, there would be no "element of actual or attempted pecuniary gain"
I have related experience with QStateMachine versus hand-written (state variable(s) + switch + some freeform manipulation): if your state machine is "pure", using the framework is nice. If your state machine needs certain interesting transitions such as undo which don't fit in, you may be better off writing it yourself. If it fits at all, a funny state machine is better than no concept for your state variables. You still get most of the benefits.

I guess domain-specific transitions like undo and cohesion mean similar things to state machines: requirements that don't cleanly fit into conventional state machine models.
What you often see instead of a simple state enum is 5 boolean getters and a bunch of logic that has things like "panic if this bool is true and this one isn't, that should never happen." Whereas with a simple state enum representing the same thing you can often just make the invalid combinations have no representation at all.