skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you do or do not do should not be grounded in the consequences that you will face but in what's the best for your users.

If you feel that your users rights are of no concern to you then you are of course entirely able to ignore this law and to pretend it does not exist because in practice there will most likely not be any consequences whatsoever. You do not have a place of business in the EU, you do not transact any business there to begin with so you are free to ignore the law. And this is doubly true because you are 'small fry', nobody will notice.

Except for your customers maybe. And then that time that you got hacked and you lost all the data you collected over the years because you forgot to implement life cycle management. And this will then marginally affect the ability of other companies like yours to be able to do business.

And little by little the people that chose to ignore the law will start to become a large enough problem that something will be done about it (I hope). Which might mean harmonizing EU law and US law, or it might mean that you can be fined just as if you were in the EU for those breaches were you are clearly deficient.

In the end I don't think that you will enjoy the results much. But since you are small fry you probably will get away with it. But collectively, you and your buddies will harm American enterprise more than you probably realize.
So you're saying it's seriously gross negligence and lack of security on the part of ad networks and publishers alike. I can accept that. Due to that negligence, however, they both are, willing or not, part of the threat and have to be defended against.

I also agree that browsers could and should do more to stop unnecessary scripts. At some point, a blacklist will not be enough (I think we're here already) and a whitelist will be the only viable approach going forward. The question is, how to curate a whitelist for the majority of users? Also, why Firefox and other open source browsers don't include things like ad blocking and script blocking by default.
I would hazard a guess that people buying electric cars are also more likely to buy solar panels and in the near future, large-ish batteries.
if other people still upload pictures of you to Facebook it's the same thing
Optional, as in "does not have a significant impact on the interview, i.e. not a binary hire/no hire issue." Interviews are, from my experience, stressful for both sides, at least at the beginning: we have used this simple task as a way to get a conversation going. If, on the other hand, we had met a candidate who would insist that we're doing this just to stress them and that everything is a trap, we would probably be worried that meeting an actual problem on the job might be too much strain on their nerves.
> “Winnie the Pooh” — the Xi’s online nickname

Anyone have the backstory for this?

EDIT: I see a couple of links below that compare him to Winnie the Pooh in pictures. Is the intent behind it to be derogatory or is it just poking a bit of fun?
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Not really. Freshman in 2001, though finally graduated in 2008 (took some time off in the middle to work).

> I also resent them
This was the absolute biggest problem I had in University.
This is already built into the Chrome Dev Tools on the Performance tab. You have to start it manually, but you get much more detail and low level feedback: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/eval...
Without being an expert on the subject, I hope some of what is learned from the engineering of those big honking machines might be relevant for attempts at sustainable fusion.

Plus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_physics#Practical_app...
obviously not, it has to be within context brother/sister :)...comparing drugs to employees ?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
Or does it nor matter?
Firefox has a popup when it notices any tab using a lot of cpu -- no need to run 'top'.
Projected future of smart speakers and voice in eCommerce
https://www.google.com/search?q=winnie+the+pooh+tigger+xi+ji...
It's hard to say at this point, or even after. It's on a nexus of vague things. First "internet laws" have a history of leading to nothing much, like the EU "cookie law" which everyone "complies" with by popping up a nag. Second because online jurisdictions and how these get enforced is ambiguous. Third, because the enforcement path is still pretty unclear. It may be all about a handful of high priority cases, with small sites getting a pass.

Ultimately, there are all sorts of laws all over the world. With an online, potentially global business, you're breaking some of them. Turkey does not really expect some international user generated content site to comply with their political content laws. A bigger site based in Istanbul... You'll get a knock on the door.

About ten years ago, I had a client with an e-commerce site, for workplace safety gear in Australia. They sold to the US, but rarely. During bird flue, they somehow got on the radar of some US advertising standard. There were some politicians actively policing it anyway they could (not courts).

Tldr is that they had their payment gateway and PayPal shut them down immediately (someone got scary phone calls). Even shutting off all US shipping, and adding a big red "No US" sign didn't help. They had to drop the products. So.. jurisdiction is often erratic.

I think the last (possibly most important) point is cultural. If it takes, GDPR may impact consumer expectations and you may need to do it for that reason.

If you want to avoid GDPR, just hold back for 3-6 months until after the date. It'll get clearer as it progresses and if you're as outside the purview as you suggest, you're probably going to be fine ignoring it at the start (or forever).
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You can kill almost any computer if you plug in a power cable that switched hot and ground. That's not a fault of USB-C. It's completely unrelated to the subtleties with resistor marking.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Was there any issue with killing computers outside that one batch of backwards cables? Seriously, if a power cable is 100% backwards that's got nothing to do with any standard.
Apparently they also banned the letter "n":

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=36939
Will any information that enables identification of the individual (or the other ancillary information spelled out in the article and regulations) be in the blockchain? If not, doesn't sound like it.

Here is one way to think of this. Any EU citizen has a "right to be forgotten". If there is nothing in your records to identify that person, the you don't need to provide that ability.
It's just markup, you can get the same hubs (same exact hubs, I verified this by comparing the internals) from AliExpress for $20-50.

(Charge pass through, Ethernet, SD, microSD, USB Ports, HDMI 2.0 all in one adapters.)
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So basically this legislation will make it less likely websites will accept European currency and localize to European languages?
Nigeria sends raw data on its oil sector for OPEC to refine and send back
Porting Vulkan applications to the Xbox One maybe?
Algorithmic Impact Assessments: Toward Accountable Automation in Public Agencies
Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0
For ignoring the GDPR as a small business owner operating on the internet the chances of individual consequences are nil.

High profile cases would have a much higher risk and companies that went out of their way to advertise the fact that they are going to break the law would run a significant risk.

Show me just one example of a company located outside the EU without a legal presence inside the EU that had an executive detained upon entry for breaking an EU law that does not normally result in criminal prosecution.
> Feher said the constituent management software the federal government uses is “very expensive and not really want we needed at the local level,”

I think this is a great way to find startup ideas. There's a lot of expensive and awful software that needs to be replaced with modern websites and mobile apps. The other day I was reading through this huge thread about IT people who hate IBM's WebSphere product with a passion [1]. (Excuse the explicit language.) I guess this is the enterprise / government world. And it's not just IT, there are underserved government workers, insurance agents, accountants, etc. working with outdated and terrible software. Patching things together with spreadsheets, or pens and paper.

I posted this the other day, but it's also relevant here. From @patio11: [2]

> Here's an exercise you can do: do you understand what a life insurance agent does all day every day? Make it your mission for a week to do so, well enough to explain it to a close friend who has no access
to your sources. All you have to do to learn this is read and make conversations happen. (People are happy to talk to you!)

Go and talk to real people and solve real problems!

P.S. Congrats to the Seneca team on the launch!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7zb7jt/ibm_jav...

[2] https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/im-patio11-patrick-mckenz...
It's open source, full code is here - https://github.com/sagivo/StockStalk
I see "helps me work" used pretty often as a rationalization for drug use that's actually a coping mechanism.
How should I learn Java Web Development?
I am a freelance developer doing most of my work with Laravel (PHP). However, I want to branch out and learn Java, primarily in the context of web development.

My main question is this. What would you say is unique to Java web development that I should focus on as I learn?

I understand that syntax is easily picked up, and design patterns can be translated from one language to another. But are there special paradigms that make Java development different than a language like PHP, Ruby, and Python?

In other words, what's the 20 % investment that will get me 80% return to become a professional Java web developer?
Its so infuriating that they never show the top and bottoms of phones so you cant tell. On another note, does anyone know how modding friendly Nokia phone are, i.e do they have open bootloaders?
> not usable in any other context

I'm using Dart for the web and on server side. Really loving the language.

> seems like Google is foisting this on us arbitrarily

It's been in the works for at least 2 years now.

> There better be something special about Dart

A good article on why Dart's a good fit for Flutter: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf

> no-community language

I think there's room to critique Dart with regard to how it's very much Google-driven vs community-driven. They mostly make decisions based on Google's internal customers. That's a problem if it wants to grow.
The comparison is disingenuous. The internet makes anything you build automatically global. You're blasting software engineers for not knowing worldwide regulations. How many New York lawyers know the regulations of France? How many local UK construction companies know the building codes of Japan? None.

Knowing all regulations in the world for any given industry would be a full time job. The people you seem to be implying exist do not exist.
Consider the case of an EU citizen traveling in the US transaction in USD. This person is covered. Even if they are in the US.
Yes, as explained in the article:

> While Windows, unlike macOS, does have Vulkan drivers from GPU companies, applications sold through the Microsoft Store are only permitted to use DirectX.
You could ask the same question about any car made in the past 5-10 years. They all run millions of lines of code, and none of it is open source. It turns out not to be a problem.
To me, 1 and 3 is just a little off kilter. It doesn't sound quite right.
Umm, what the hell are you talking about? Which organizations? The NRA or Google?

I'm not even disputing that I'm part of the problem, but I would like you to elaborate on what you think this problem actually is.
They look really cute together
I would have just assumed that the major factor is that your mouth is full of fast-dividing cells. In short, the lining of your mouth is constantly replacing itself, which is great for injury (and withstanding enzymatic action of saliva), but it’s also why chemotherapy causes so many problems in the mouth and GI tract.
You might find some stuff here:

https://forum.basic-capital.com/search?q=chinese

Disclaimer: I run the forum, but there has been a lot on conversations about china and investing
China bans Winnie the Pooh over internet jokes comparing him to President Xi Jinping

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/winnie-the-pooh-fal...
Blockchain solution that's fusing the company entity into a payment gateway
"changes in the brain" is too vague to be useful.

Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS) is supposedly a thing that can last months, but it's just an observation of a collection of symptoms - no analysis of a specific mechanism causing it that I have seen.
I would not take any of the claims at face value. This article's submitter also has a top comment pointing to a piece calling all claims into question (http://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoin...).
"You do not have a place of business in the EU, you do not transact any business there to begin with so you are free to ignore the law. "

Wrong. If you have a customer from the EU or any component of your infrastructure in the EU, you must comply with GPDR.
Yes. Not because you're doing anything wrong yourself, but because the cost to the user of allowing third party scripts is too high to tolerate nowadays.
Ask HN: What to do with Information addiction?
Has anyone successfully gotten over the information gathering addiction. Subconsciously all I keep doing online is keep reading about new technology or new information and do nothing about it. When I decide to write about something or work on new project, my brain automatically goes online to search for next new thing. Wondering if anyone has solved this problem.
> They've just finished pushing out Dartlang 2.0

Note that Dart 2 is only available in pre-release builds. Work is on-going.
We can already telepresence into the meeting. I moderately understand your argument, but I think the parent is talking about meetings you have to be in physically. And if your argument is "Why do you have to be there physically" I would counter that if you don't have to be there physically why do you ever need to get into a self driving car.
No worry it's a perfectly fair point. In our experience, Notion is a great tool and can work within small teams adapted of product and technical people.

But the complexity of their structure makes it really hard for non technical people to apprehend. Channels make Slite easy to use for anyone in your team. The second thing is that Notion is built like google docs or paper with a loose notion of team : it's an open tool, where permissions can get messy pretty fast.

We have teams of 150+ people on Slite for this reason.
I recently had a post for a dental implant installed and the doctor used ground cadaver (or maybe bovine) bone to help grow new bone around the post area. Is that related to what you are talking about?
I don't use Facebook myself for a few years already, which is paradoxical as they were headhunting me recently to lead one of their ML teams and didn't mind that I quit them long time ago :D But maybe they were just harvesting my own "outlier" training dataset - who knows if I was filmed while onsite and now my gait is analyzed to smallest details including reconstructed skeleton and muscle attachments, my appearance is predicted for the next 30 years under various aging assumptions, maybe later used to fabricate realistically faked video etc. These things are now possible and not that difficult anymore.
I have to say I fall into this bucket.

Most of the cold calls I get are, in fact, scams— so to save myself agony and time-out-of-life, that's the category it goes into for me.

--

Two shorts:

Number one:

I regularly get rotating numbers calling from scam credit collection agencies (second-tier, purchased bad loans allegedly). I regularly now get called for somebody who isn't me, and they're always threatening. Though my favourite was receiving a threatening call once about 'urgent business matters' that pertained to me owing a significant amount of money in outstanding debt to the company I currently work for, and hold accounts with. Ridiculous. That's the camp cold calls fall under for me.

Number two, and so much more infuriating:

a major telecom company held a sales campaign in the lobby of my apartment building. For a week! Every day when I arrived home I would be confronted by two or three sales people to try and convince me to change internet providers. And god they were persistent. Even worse, two of the four elevators were down so most of the people in the building were sitting ducks who couldn't very well escape. Couldn't even deal with the doorman to pick up a package without one sidling up to try and sell to me while I was in a conversation.

Just thinking about it grinds me. If I need something, I will look to buy it. If I recognize inefficiency in my day or workflow or whatever—I will pursue a solution. If I am unhappy with how much I'm paying for internet or some other service, I will try to find something better.

What I don't want is to be confronted and put on the spot when I'm not actively seeking to do business.
From what I can tell (I'm no Haskell programmer), in that solution there's no declared relationship between the class and the weapons they accept, right? It's just a side-effect from the fact that you can't create a Player without passing through the gauntlet of mkPlayer?

If so, is that a practicality issue, or an Haskell limitation?
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I'm not saying he's not in scope and should not comply I'm saying he can get away with ignoring it in practice, which was what he was asking about.
Hi Chris! We all need better documentation/knowledge-base software/processes. I personally love workflowy, but have always admired the idea of gingkoapp.

Have you tried to think about hierarchical data like gingkoapp?

How about "structured data" do you have the idea of templates that require these xx data points?

A melding of the "content blocks" from project Gutenberg for WordPress & Gingkoapp's hierarchical data would make for a killer knowledge-base I'd gladly part with money to have personally & professionally.
I don't think its negligence really, though it is bad. The problem isn't extremely widespread and it seems only smaller networks that don't have the resources are affected (google fixed that problem on youtube very quickly).

I don't think white/blacklists are the best solution, though they do work most of the time right now - I'd rather see a flag that publishers can enable to browsers that lets them use more resources. IF your site is a web-app, allow it to use a lot of resources. If its a blog / non-intensive site, simply don't let it use a lot of resources or just ask the user if they want to use more resources.

I don't know if sites would self identify or if a browser could just analyze them on the fly, but this approach seems to make sense. (A little rocky at the start, but it would scale effectively).
So what's the definition of "customer from the EU"?
>It's almost to the point of overtaking wired services in both data rates & cost (just get those monthly data caps up and I'll switch).

The data caps can't be removed. Wireless has much lower bandwidth limits overall--the spectrum would be saturated if everyone decided to move to wireless. It can't happen with current technology.

Not to mention latency is much higher.
I stopped spending time culling a couple of years ago on the bet that in a few years machine learning will be pretty good at it. I’d rather cull when I’m generating training data.
As someone who occasionally suffers from canker sores, I wish it were true that they'd heal faster than say a paper cut.
You could levy the same criticism against any external component. It should go without saying that you won’t realize speed gains by upgrading your SD card if the SD card is not the bottleneck.

That said, 800mbps is plenty fast for watching video, as long as each second of the video is less than 800mb.

Or maybe I’m misunderstanding you?
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Another note app?

I get that this is a massive problem space but with dropbox, notion, google and loads of other companies working on the exact same thing.... I have a hard time understanding why Y Combinator accepts companies like these.

Either way, excited to try it out; sounds like you've put a lot of BS&T into this.
This is a great question that unfortunately doesn't have a good answer. Ignoring the question of backups, GDPR's requirements have the implication of imposing a workload on database engines that, in most modern architectures, is either pathologically expensive or not currently possible. Some companies are approaching this from a "best effort" standpoint rather than conforming to the spirit of the regulation because the technology simply isn't there to make it feasible for some cases. I've been working on this problem for the last year and this is (IMO) a major gap in the regulation; it presumes that something is possible that isn't for existing applications that are otherwise universally viewed as harmless and permissible.

Scalable database engines that can support the letter of the GDPR in terms of data handling don't really exist. This is not a problem that can be trivially solved by patching an existing database engine; the requirements of strict GDPR data handling violates fundamental design assumptions of common database architectures. If you look at, for example, high-assurance databases which have a similar set of requirements for data handling as GDPR, they are never used when at all possible because their performance and scalability is terrible. (These databases are conventional architectures with GDPR-like data handling controls added.)

A database engine capable of strict conformance with GDPR while maintaining vaguely comparable performance and scalability relative to what we are used to would require a comprehensive new database engine design from first principles. This is something only a small number of people are capable of designing and implementation would be a very substantial engineering effort. Possibly a business opportunity -- one of the reasons I've been thinking about it, having worked on high-assurance databases in the past.
Works fine for me in iOS 11 / Safari / Private mode.
The collective economic effect of that will be massive. Please do. And realize that you are ceding the single largest market to your competition.
I'm worried about them because they will replace human error with computer error, which although rarer, is systemic and harder to predict and deal with. Human error is bad, but I don't want to wake up one day and find a Heartbleed-level error in self-driving cars, or the equivalent of a hardware-level recall.

I'm always surprised people are so accepting of it, to be frank.
In my last 4 years of working in node, I've had this issue once. I think you people need to pick better dependencies.
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He'd be exposed to increased risk by not complying(lawsuits, criminal action, etc.). It's based on his risk tolerance, the problem is it's hard to quantify at this point.
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I just discovered flutter today and made this post[0]. Good to see a beta release, pitching the alpha version of something to use in production is kinda difficult.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16472139
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