skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lawful basis of consent are a joke. You could capture all data under "legitimate interests" and then allow all further processing under "statistical purposes”.
Because there are numerous network effects* for specialized concentration of labor.

*Network effects are unfortunately only understood as a handwavey buzzphrase in tech, but they have been researched and defined in extreme detail by economists. Think non-ergodic math.
Please. Enough with the groundless conspiracies. There are no misinformation campaigns coming out of the EU or any other liberal democracy.
When they re-route the rapid transit bus 1 block so it ends up going down my street during street repairs, my kid and my wife and myself get regularly woken up starting at 4:45am. Then the bus keeps going till midnight. Yippee what fun!
You raise an incredibly interesting point here. "The biggest threat is their own people." Scams are so prevalent here I often think that what looks like 1984 style policies and procedures is seen in their eyes as a form of protection. To the outside world it is draconian. To them they are trying to protect from internal marauders.
> Seems that power companies should encourage consumers to mine Bitcoin. Problem solved.

Blockchains will likely continue to generate considerable demand for electricity for the foreseeable future.

Blockchain firms can locate where energy is cheapest. Currently that's in countries where energy prices go negative due to excess capacity and insufficient energy storage resources (batteries, [hemp/graphene] supercapacitors, water towers).

With continued demand, energy companies can continue to invest in new clean energy generation alternatives.

Unfortunately, in the current administration's proposed budget, funding for ARPA-E is cancelled and allocated to clean coal; which Canada, France, and the UK are committed to phasing out entirely by ~2030.
>Political stability encourages growth

Absolutely. That is why the US, thanks to having a multi-party democracy, never got anywhere with the industrial revolution. And that is why Putin's Russia is leading the world in technological innovation and economic growth.

Of course, if when you say "political stability" you mean the absence of things like civil wars and coups, well yes, that really helps economic growth. But I don't think Xi is making himself dictator-for-life because China is on the verge of that sort of instability.
I agree. There are so many times I've wanted to hand someone some cash to watch a movie or TV show and not been able to, and resorted to torrenting.
Now, for TV shows, I have a wonderful little automated workflow of ShowRSS > Catch.app > Transmission.app > iFlicks.app > iTunes.
I have the latest TV shows the night they air, ad free, HD quality, with metadata and artwork, and it costs me nothing.

The only thing comparable, for some shows, is either iTunes or Hulu Plus, and with iTunes, 3 bucks a pop doesn't seem competitive in the slightest.

There's gotta be a more sustainable way to do this...
And, although in these days of Stripe & PayPal, etc, it's not such a big deal, the ability to take credit cards for bills is the difference between being paid immediately vs. waiting 6-9 months for the invoice to be paid because you're not an Approved Supplier and Purchasing needs to get a waiver to pay you.
I follow Mastodon quite closely. Its creator, Gargron, produces social networking software with roughly 1 million registered users. He has 685 patrons, and nets $3,267/mo income.

That's less than $40k/yr. Though it's a richly diversified income stream and he has no boss (or rather: 685 bosses).

https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

It's an interesting story, and one I'm watching closely. As I get older, I break out in ever-faster cases of hives when someone claims to have "completely upended these economics". You might consider this the New Hives Mind.
Malta: an island of secrets and lies
Here's the whole list: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings
> By anecdotal comparison, the last Nokia I owned was a windows phone, did not require a case, and lasted me 3.5 years without a scratch.

Yep, with the exception of the 925, every Nokia WP device I've owned has been an absolute tank. The 925 suffered from a broken charge/USB port, common on that model, but if it wasn't for the dead platform I'd still be rocking my 640 and 650. My mom is happily using my 521 from five years ago, getting nearly a week on the original battery and loving the OS (she's not into apps, she just wants phone/text/photos).
I'm not sure. I'd rather be poor in a trailer in New Hampshire than rich in California.
Thanks for the answer.

That page acknowledges the issue, which is all I was curious about:

"Getting back to the online search, being conscious of not wanting to send the wrong message to people, immediately before the search box I put a very clear, very bold message: "Do not send any password you actively use to a third-party service - even this one!""
The Oreo update was released one month ago for Zenfone 3, which is not bad given the Zenfone 5 is coming out soon.
Or perhaps more positively, "e-waste production falls".

It's not surprising that the market would reach a saturation point; manufacturers are running short of ideas to improve their products, and even starting to resort to removing features.

Especially in the low-end/unbranded smartphone segment, I've noticed newer models aren't actually getting better. Several years ago they practically all had removable batteries, microSD, dual SIM, and a full complement of sensors; now it's nearly impossible to find such a complete combination anymore --- they're all missing one or two things.
1984: CIA smuggles cocaine into the US

2018: FBI smuggles Apple engineers out of the US
Social justice?
1 BTC.
That's definitely pretty crazy. I wonder what this means for progress on connecting the "next billion". Also, I hope it comes as a signal to VC money to shift out of the era of low hanging "everyone has a smartphone" fruit.

The smartphone golden era may be coming to an end, pumped for whats next.
Do you have any contact info? I'd like to give this a shot as a pool player and a computer vision engineer.
Why on earth does CNET have autoplay videos?
Unhappy and desperate people are more vulnerable to bombastic promises and convenient scapegoats.
CPM advertising model
Great another shake down by a lawyer :(

Since we are not based in the EU and don’t have a business presence there I think I might just keep following the intent and wait for the EU to be more sensible.

I really do wonder how EU companies are going to comply with all this. What an enormous waste of resources to catch a few bad actors.
We’re doing a UI blacklist? Add “fixed floating headers/footers on mobile that make me feel like I’m looking at your sight through blinds”.
Good point. I didn't consider the fact that land zoned for higher density would fetch more money. From that perspective, if your goal is to increase the monetary value of your investment, it seems like a win
Yeah it's all been debated over the years too.

I some how doubt an HN poster that appears to have a chippy attitude is going to be revealing anything new.

What a waste this board is. Such generic, banal arguments for $pet_platform
It's weird how people don't realize that the flyover states also have big, metropolitan cities. When I moved to Kentucky a friend of mine honestly asked me if people wore shoes there.
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How are REITs opaque? You can find out exactly what they own and there is no easier way to get get in and out of a property investment than through a REIT, especially larger ones.
It is not citizenship, but residency.

Yes the regulations make no sense and they really aren’t enforceable outside of the EU.
How is it like that?
And we definitely don't stage psychological warfare officers in major news organizations.
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The question wasn't directed to most people which is a good thing because I don't think most people would spend $10k on anything other than a car or a home.
We've gone so far we've went into the opposite direction - "it'd be great if there wasn't a fireworks factory next door to the house I'm building".

As someone who has spent close to the last decade trying to figure out where to put down "roots" it's utter insanity to me. It's clear as day that one of the most evil parts of American society is tying what is typically far and away your largest "investment" to housing. It creates insanely perverse incentives.

It seems to me that most folks have lost their collective minds and forgot the reason we needed housing in the first place.
So in the future it won't even be possible to visit a friend's front door without being tracked by Google/Amazon/Facebook/etc?

A while back a friend of mine bought one of these "cloud"-connected doorbells, and hadn't even considered the privacy implications. After I explained it to him, he thankfully returned it and went back to using a normal doorbell.

People who install these should be forced to install a sign just outside of the camera's view informing visitors that, by proceeding to the door, they agree to Amazon/Google/whoever's privacy policy and ToS.
1. Find clickbait article with title "<unpopulous midwest city> is the best state in the US"

2. Post on HN

3. Generate endless controversy as to whether SF, NYC, etc. are worth the cost of living
A fanatic read for engineering oriented founders.
Deliberately misleading title.

Scientist have proven what the indigenous have claimed and practiced... congratulations to both.

Why make it sound like One side is a loser.. sounds like race or belief baiting to me.
When I started driving, I realized I couldn't focus well, especially at night.
At the minimum, you would need a t2.micro instance with enough disk to store files before you've copied them to wherever you're going to do the watching. I've tried doing this with a t2.nano, but the memory there simply isn't enough.

There are dedicated torrent box packages out there, but I have no personal experience with them, as for me tmux + rtorrent + nginx has been sufficient for years. It used to be that only certain versions of rtorrent supported magnet links, but the latest Debian stable ships with one that works just fine, so there's no longer any need to compile anything from source.

I do recommend reading through rtorrent's configuration file because the settings can make a difference in how long it takes to download something. Also, be sure to adjust your security to allow BitTorrent traffic.

As for cost, it's never been a problem: I haven't seen an AWS bill above $60, which includes a bunch of EBS volumes, the instance, the bandwidth, and my various encrypted long term backups in S3.
Long ago I setup an NNTP peering system at a major Usenet provider. This article made me go look at the distribution of articles across the top providers (this is what I lived by back in the day): http://top1000.anthologeek.net/#stats

My feeder is still doing well, and it looks like Usenet is still doing well. 32 billion articles in January. That's a lot of article reading to do. ;)
I think we need to take it seriously that there are systemic problems here. We are allowing a system to develop with a few big winners, a lot of losers and little or no middle class.

I believe Marxists see this as the inevitable endgame of capitalism... by rewarding hoarded capital, there is no possible conclusion except the centralization of wealth to enormous levels of disparity.

Even for those of us who travel across boundaries, in some parts of the world I personally feel ridiculously wealthy (which objectively I am) whereas I can't afford to raise my kids in the manner and environment in which I myself was raised (which was not considered particularly wealthy at the time).

Politics seems to have failed us on most fronts, and the big problems are really international and therefore beyond the scope and reign of political animals, even naively assuming they cannot be bought out or sidestepped. Perhaps then, fundamentally as individuals we can only analyze the net effects of our actions and try to contribute to positive change instead of perpetuating a self-serving culture.

More snarkily, "Oh, you can't make a good living producing content on the internet with $1000s of dollars of e-toys?" ... this is perhaps something of a first world problem, where others are still down the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy.
Well, the idea is that I would have to store a variable and access it without races, so I would use an external storage library. This is pretty cool though, I've never used python threading for state, thanks a lot!
It continues today in the social sciences:

"Overall, Marxism is a tiny minority faith. Just 3% of professors accept the label. The share rises to 5% in the humanities. The shocker, though, is that as recently as 2006, about 18% of social scientists self-identified as Marxists"

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/03/the_prevalence_1...
https://www.theonion.com/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionat...
The overall rate of growth declined, but from the article: "For the full year, smartphone sales increased 2.7 percent to 1.5 billion units"

This really seems like we're just hitting a saturation point in terms of physically putting these in people's hands. From that stat, we're talking about 20% of humans in the known universe getting a new smartphone in 2017. Some significant chunk of them probably handed their phone down to someone else (or sold it), some much smaller percentage went from a feature phone to a smartphone and a big chunk of people just held onto their current phone because it does what it needs to do and smartphones are becoming a mature market.
Unfortunately, you still need some communication with the outside world. To the local observer, the clock will run at the same rate no matter where you are. Only distant clocks will change.
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> The only info I have to go on is their about page. The second sentence of which is "We fight anti-Semitism and all forms of hate."

You realize that is describing the polar opposite of an anti-Semitism group, right?
Des Moines has a large network of skywalks connecting many of the buildings downtown. I think it’s actually a bad idea as far as urban planning is concerned. When you are in the skyways it feels a little bit like walking around a giant airport. They also draw up all the pedestrian traffic and make the city look deserted outside. Not sure if that has anything to do with it but I don’t think it helps.
I wish there was a kind of "dead man switch" app that would wipe a device if it is not unlocked for x days or met some other kind of personalized criteria.
You could say the same thing about lots of blue states.
If you're an accredited investor and willing to make it $25k instead of $10k, this is totally available right now on CrowdStreet and similar sites (although CS is the clear front-runner in quality and quantity of offerings).

Sponsors looking to raise equity to purchase a property pay a fee to list their projects on the site, CS does some amount of due diligence on both sponsor and project, and when you invest you're buying an equity stake in the entity that will actually purchase the property.

If you want "safeguards for bad times" you'll have to do your due diligence and dial your risk tolerances appropriately.
> buying nicer feature phones

That's a thing? I grudgingly switched to a persistent surveillance device two years ago when the buttons fell off of my last feature phone and the new feature phones were enough worse that they were basically unusable.
Not against using it, against building it in the first place. Say someone lives in the suburbs and doesn't want to be upzoned. They could vote to block a bus stop from being added
Is this Heaven? No it's Iowa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-B5cyfK6A
I moved away from Iowa, as have a lot of people over the years.

The growth rate lately has been about .5% per year, and the population actually shrunk in the 1980's. [1]

The weather sucks there. It's cold as fuck in the winter, and hot and humid as fuck in the summer. There's maybe 4 enjoyable weeks the entire year.

The politics suck. Steve King is a US Rep from Iowa. For whatever reason Iowa keeps electing him in, and it's embarrassing.

The jobs there suck. Des Moines is a small town, and other cities are even smaller. There just aren't enough tech jobs to keep ISU and Iowa graduates in the state. The best and brightest leave.

Yes, Google has a data center, but it's in Council Bluffs. Have you ever even heard of Council Bluffs before that?

[1] http://population.us/ia/
Maybe they could be forced to take the slow route. Or lane.
Standard server logs with IP addresses must be disclosed in a privacy policy but you do not have to seek consent for them because you collect them as part of a business critical need to prevent fraud. See Recital 47, which includes the language: "The processing of personal data strictly necessary for the purposes of preventing fraud also constitutes a legitimate interest of the data controller concerned." https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/r47.htm
Well considering how easy it is to demonstrate this censorship. I would not trust anyone intentionally acting as a gate keeper. If the algorithm is missing something due to a blind spot that's fine. Also that tends to be small not an entire broad category or single word terms.

The same applies to any search engine. Weather or not you agree with google on this particular instance. They may do it with something you disagree them about in the future.

Needless to say I have not been using google for a while now.
Totally agree about open data and we actually do integrate with a large number of systems via http://www.open311.org/, an open standard built by cities and vendors working together.
A 1W LED is soldered to big heatsinking planes on the PCB it's mounted to, which is itself designed to sink heat away into the phone body. An SD card is wrapped in plastic, slides into a plastic slot, and touches the phone with only a few small pins.

Plus an LED behind a lens and cover on a phone or inside a flashlight is perfectly fine to run at 60C, but eject an SD card at 60C into your hand and you'll be throwing it across the room.
If a bus is your noise threshold you should be living on a farm, not one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the country.
I'm not sure something that has only been around for 10 years can mean a 'Life' of poverty.
Data centers don't really lead to many jobs. Prineville, Oregon of all places has a FB one, and it's as automated as can be.

Also, being able to ride my bike here is worth an awful lot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8UVHrhwCHybhE2LU2

Not sure how much of that kind of thing you get in Iowa.
Psychological pricing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
This is the approach I take. It’s not for everyone, but it can range from simple to complex depending on what you want to do.

I have a variety of WiFi cameras, all of which are on a dedicated WiFi network that cannot access the internet. I use Zoneminder to handle the recording, motion detection, etc. Zoneminder is pretty versatile, but it’s ultimately up to the camera to provide a compatible method of access - RTSP works well for cameras that support it, but if you have a URL on the camera that will return a JPEG that will work too.

Most of my cameras are low-end D-Link models, they work fine with Zoneminder. I recently got an Amcrest camera which, after some cajoling, works very well with Zoneminder. Using a JPEG URL that Zoneminder polls never worked for some reason, but RTSP worked perfectly.

If you want to go this route, look for evidence that other people have gotten the model you’re interested in to work with software like Zoneminder, Blue Iris, or iSpy. Generally this means that the camera supports open standards that you can use in your system.

If you don’t want to go the Zoneminder route, some cameras can do a lot of the work internally. All of my cameras, for example, have some degree of motion detection and the ability to upload files to an FTP server or send an email. The biggest challenge here is that none of these cameras can be configured to do this without either a Java Applet or a vendor-provided browser plugin to view the live video and define the detection zones and parameters.
I went to Iowa as well and really enjoyed Iowa City. I think it’s a great place to get an education but I also lived there for a year after college and was happy to move to a larger city.
I'm aware of luxury services that provide similar services, but I would pay 10k for a matchmaking service that could guarantee a lifetime connection with partner.

It could be a service that goes the extra mile in terms of discovery to find someone compatible in terms of values, interests and hobbies, etc.
We set them up that way and then someone who isn't so strong with networking opens it up to 'fix it'.
I joked about doing this back in 2013. I was watching Portland, OR and Bend, OR real estate on it's steady climb back when homes in both of those cities were what I'd consider/call affordable. I know of a few "next places" but I try to hold them close to the chest just in case I convince my wife to finally leave California. My point is that it's quite disheartening seeing the so-called value of land and homes rise at such high rates in basically _every_ city and town west of the Rockies.
A Embedded Linux Server in a RJ45 Connector: The Lantronix XPort Pro Lx6
It really does feel like a lot of policymakers don't actually realize how onerous their requirements are, and in turn, how much this hurts smaller businesses that can't afford dedicated resources to keep up with all these issues.

Of course, for the policymakers, it's a win, because as part of a rent-seeking bureaucracy, they can expand their empires as they produce more policies.
I'm curious what you mean by "get interesting"? What would you do in such a situation?
The award rejection that shook astronomy
In Energy and Civilization, Vaclav Smil points out that in terms of embedded energy, an automobile, with over 1,000x the mass of a smartphone, has only 100x the embedded energy.

Given replacement cycles, humanity now invests more energy in creating smartphones (life expectancy: ~2 years) than automobiles (~10 years). By year-of-use embedded energy, autos use only 30% of the resources of smartphones.

(p. 344, box)
This isn't what the poisson distribution tells you.

You will, on average, wait 10 minutes. If you hitch hiked that road 1000 times, you'll have waited 10 minutes on average.

But that doesn't mean you won't wait longer that 10 minutes on a given wait. In theory, you're waiting time will follow an exponential distribution, so you could wait 1, 10, 50, or even 1000 minutes (although quite unlikely)!

But again... On average, you'll be waiting for 10 minutes from car to car.
> Just yesterday, I spoke to someone who mentioned Usenet as a means of pirating movies. I cry a little inside whenever I hear that people only know of the once great decentralized discussion system as a dumb pipe.

To be fair, this was true even in the mid-90s. A lot of my college peers knew of Usenet only as a source for porn JPGs & GIFs.
A new look at an old dog: Bonn-Oberkassel reconsidered
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I thought someone else got involved later on, one of the guest sharks I think.
The regulations are ridiculously broad [0]. They appear to cover everyone in the world no matter where they are or what their citizenship. The EU seems to be aiming for a universal human right.

"The principles of, and rules on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of their personal data should, whatever their nationality or residence, respect their fundamental rights and freedoms, in particular their right to the protection of personal data.”

0. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...
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