skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clean air, clean rivers/oceans, controlled CO2/GHG, banning leaded gasoline for highway use, and similar items I think of as different in a critical way than zoning or local housing shortages. There's no amount of money (or other resource) that an individual can expend to buy clean oceans, air, or lower GHG. There are no practical alternatives.

There is an amount of money that an individual can spend to buy a house in Palo Alto. That amount of money might be higher than some people would prefer or elect, or (in many cases) even be able to spend, but there are practical alternatives in any case (to include living in other communities).

In a case where no practical alternatives exist, I agree there's a much greater cause for collective input and decision-making (to include at a global scale in many cases, as these aren't even a state or nation-state level of issue, though it's the states and nation-states that enact policies and laws to implement/enforce collectively-agreed treaties on some of these topics).

Where practical alternatives exist, I find the most local government level to be the most desirable one to make the decisions that disproportionately affect the people who live there over people who don't live there but might like to.
That's (iOS) not a solution for me.

EDIT:

Also, it's only 4in display with even worse screen-to-body ratio than Xperia.
Actually one new thing about the GDPR is that consumer rights organisations can sue companies/organisations to enforce privacy rights.

Max Schrems (who's case killed Safe Harbour) has set up an org None of your Business (https://noyb.eu) to do exactly this.
I looked around d.tube. It's mostly crypto related content. There's also a difference between racist content and conspiracy content. Conspiracy content, which has been growing in popularity and around since the Kennedy assassination, has only recently started getting thrown off of youtube and has started to draw a lot of people to new platforms.
On the topic of how languages and metaphors affect (and might even form the fundamental substrate of) our thinking, I highly recommend Douglas Hofstadter (he of Godel, Escher, Bach fame) 's book Surfaces and Essences (2010).
I designed a resume many moons ago in ruby and it was super unconventional https://github.com/metacritical/mycv/blob/master/Myresume.pd...

It got me interview at hacker friendly unconventional companies while most Enterprisy or non hacker friendly companies rejected it , some complained they dont want to compile the ruby code to get the resume. Two companies where i applied one was C42.in and other ThoughtWorks were among the only two companies which actually compiled the code. and then gave a call back.
C#/XAML for HTML5: Building web apps with C# and XAML only
Userware released C#/XAML for HTML5, a Visual Studio extension allowing .NET developers to build web apps in C# and XAML only, compiling the files to HTML5 and JavaScript. The generated app runs in the browser, on all platforms.

Check out the extension at http://cshtml5.com
It would be exactly the same if you just put less of it in the joint. Since you can't seem to do the math, the article you refer to would be using weed that is 9% THC. 14% (in that skunk joint) is hardly a quantum leap in strength. Take two puffs instead of three, was that so hard? Or would you advise people that inhaling more smoke from burnt plants is actually better?
Great techno adventure book on this subject by http://daniel-suarez.com/ "Change Agent"
This guy has more insightful ideas in his first 20 pages than most authors have their whole lives.
It's ok to take a picture of the street out of your front window

It's not ok to take a picture of everyone that walks in front of your house, timestamped and on top of that you search their picture on Facebook (supposing you could do that) and keep all that info forever
TL;DR summary:

“... the system was running too close to the point of exhaustion due to the intermittent crashes, and an event that should not have been a problem [high number of client reconnections] caused a high-severity incident.”
Native speaker here. My guess is that the censor is not "directly" banning letter "N", but rather, this was a result of some machine learning algorithm that recognizes "N" as part of phrases or sentences that have a high probability of containing other banned words. It is like query expansion in NLP, but in this case it has accidentally banned a word that is widely used in other context.

Edit: This looks like a more reasonable explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483061, N is the 14th letter in the alphabet, referring to the 14th item in the proposed changes [1] (the change that removes term limit).

[1] (Chinese) http://www.xinhuanet.com/2018-02/25/c_1122451187.htm
The front page is too empty and has no information about what the site does. I found this with more info https://poeticmystique.xyz/new-page/ but I don't understand how it works. I pay $20 and then someone else pays my $1000 bill???
Interesting topic! Looking forward to trying out some fance join algorithms
Flying Taxis May Be Years Away, but the Groundwork Is Accelerating
An ever smarter/stronger population could be a threat to China leadership.
I think the PM counts as all three by now; today's absurdity is "absolutely committed to dithering" [on the issue of the Irish border] https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/968828871356403712
I presume email addresses are PII?
GDPR is designed to not simply accept that "Peoples lives and most intimate details is going to be stored as bits. Get used to it." but instead try to change that.

Changing that is nontrivial, since it requires changing the behavior of everyone handling this data - so, something that can be done only by law. It will restrict Facebook, it will restrict Strava, it will restrict data stored on remote servers and home. While it won't affect likeliness of data breaches, it will affect the impact of data breaches - realistically speaking, many of the breached companies should not have had most or even all of that private data in the first place.

A data breach can't reveal information that you don't store; so a push to ensure that less companies are storing sensitive data, and those who do are storing less of it - that's something long overdue. GDPR is not designed to have people do X, Y and Z so that they can keep doing business as before; it's designed to ensure that many (most?) places where private data is used simply stop doing so.
I contribute in my free time to an organization called Love Justice (Previously known as Tiny Hands International). They're focusing on sex trafficking prevention globally, and we're currently struggling to keep the tech up with the organization as they are scaling. We initially started off deving just for the country of Nepal, but the organization is now expanding to over a dozen countries and we are working primarily on adapting the web app to support that.

They have some really cool stuff in the road map that we just don't have enough volunteers to keep up. Trying to use facial recognition to identify traffickers and discover repeat offenders, trying to map out trafficking networks as they travel through various countries, etc. But full disclosure, the cool stuff isn't really in active development right now as we're addressing other issues.

You can check out our repos here: https://github.com/Tiny-Hands - Currently we're using Django for the web server and AngularJS for the client. Hit me up if you'd want to get involved or learn more! (my email is my username with gmail)
We are a nation founded by smugglers, rabble rousers, and terrorists, with a deep, abiding distaste for centralized authority.
(Not to mention that once one has crossed the Schartzchild Radius time dilation becomes infinite from the perspective of the outer universe, and time freezes, so any process becomes frozen in its tracks, at least from the perspective of external observers.)
We're sort of reducing evolution to a hill climbing algorithm then if we only start taking into account genetics (which, being easier and faster to measure we probably will).

To overcome local minima though you need large sources of perturbation while looking for solutions to approximate anything close to a "global minima".

Evolution also automatically focuses it's attention on traits that survive better as the environment changes. Will our assessments continually assess the environment and make changes based on that? Can that ever be truly representative of gene expression that is definitely better for survival?

So long as there is constant conflict around this and one side doesn't outright win, I'm ok with it tbh.
What a _o_se_se!
With all the progress in machine learning it seems like there should be an amazing OCR tool that works out of the box for structured documents.

Does it exist?

I've used tesseract and its relatives, but they seem to have a hard time with any document that's not a single column. The difference between what they can achieve (which to be fair is amazing) with what I expected based on all the ML demos that only does the first 10% (numbers only, no structure), but does it in a 30-minute demo, is big. Things like affine transforms (scaling, rotation) and decorations like bold, underline, and weird fonts create even more problems.

Why isn't there a docker container with an AWS lambda function in it that takes any image format I upload (pdf, png, jpg as the most critical) and returns a UTF string of its content?

My god, I'm spoiled by technology.
Because 1) your analogy is off. People forget, a machine does not 2) GDPR is about privacy; tracking people's behaviour, linking things together without explicit consent is not allowed according to GDPR.
It's HipNewStartupLLC in Delaware that's got more to worry about. VCs will want growth, and at the start things go up. Then they want to expand to the EU, and they've hit the road block.
I'm reminded of https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6ab5y7/did_g...
The effect of elephants (or generally wildlife) being aware of where they are in danger is starkly visible in South Africas Krüger National Park: It's right on the border to Mozambique. On the South African side, wildlife is abundant and fairly well visible, but once you cross over the border, there's no visible wildlife. Some elephant droppings on the road, that's all.
It's crazy that we're talking about genetically re-engineering mammoths to help revitalize cold climates when we have such trouble preserving these elephant populations.
In the case of the light bulb, it depends if Wifi SSID & Password count as "user information". I don't see any details concerning the other device tested here.

I'm interested in what's exactly specified as "user information". Wikipedia[0] says that it's "any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address."

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords 's pinboard.
I initially read that is 'gnomic truths' which might have been even more interesting ;)
But these studies are merely going to give you a correlation. It will always be very hard to prove direct causality without experimentation, which on humans is not really feasible or without a full understanding of how the brain works, which we are still very far from.

The other thing is that the way I like to think of our brain is like a muscle. Our DNA drives much of the range in which we can develop our muscles, people born with a certain body type will never be an athlete, but even if you are born with good muscular capacity, a KFC-eating couch potato will never get to the olympics. What one does with this capacity matters a lot. Only science will tell but I like to think that the brains works in a similar way. Some kids will never be geniuses but there is still a wide range in which they can evolve so there is no reason to corner them in a box.
You are right, I think I would.
Ordered it just now – not on Amazon ;)
I've heard stories of this happening on the retail side. They monitor what products third parties are selling well, then start selling it directly themselves.
And consent can be revoked, and must be as easy to revoke as to give.
So if I have a higher risk of heart disease than average, the advice will be to eat well and exercise. This is indistinguishable from the current guidelines without any genetic information.

No rational human being should consent to their genetic information being correlated with their IQ. This kind of data is a surefire way to convince otherwise entirely capable people that they should give up on life. It's abhorrent that anyone could conceive of trying to make money out of such a test.
I wonder if having for-profit organisations/startups who's core mission it is to protect these fantastic animals would be more successful vs non-profits or government projects. Not necessary to make a buck, but in many cases, for-profit organisations get more done because of the constant pressure they feel to perform.
What services on AWS do you use with Kubernetes? Any good resources re: Kube and AWS?
The company from PA (USA) needs a EU VAT number to operate in the EU... The VAT registration would be revoked in the specific member state where it was issued.

If there is a tax agreement between a specific member state (EU) and the US, IRS can show interest in Joe.
If there are like a thousand sales in a specific member state (the taxation is not EU wide global), no one will show interested, so if Joe is small - it's very likely Joe is safe.

Operating w/o the VAT could also spring money laundering interests -- the institutions concerned with anti-money-laundering cases tend to have rather long reach.
I sell random stuff on Amazon, buying wholesale. Current run rate is ~200k/month, more in Q4, figure profit somewhere between 5-20%.

Started 2 years ago buying from stores etc, shifted to wholesale a year ago.
Xi Sets China on a Collision Course with History
One general rule of life I've learned: it's never better to live in ignorance. If you have a chance to learn a fact and the idea of knowing it fills you with dread, you should regard the hesitation as a strong signal that you should go ahead with learning it anyway. Even if it's initially painful, the knowledge will be ultimately useful.

Scientific facts about ourselves, both general and specific, are among the most painful. We go through lives deluding ourselves. That's why modern scientific introspection is so important and why it'll ultimately lead to a better world.
>And yet suns with far more mass than is needed to make a black hole exist. Because simple heat pressure keeps the black hole from forming.

A star has internal fusion/fission that keeps it's mass from collapsing. Once a supermassive star runs out of energy, the entire thing comes rushing centerwards (and some of it gets explodified as supernova)

>You are talking assuming the black hole is already there, and saying quark degeneracy can't resist that, but you forget the black hole has to form first.

Blackholes aren't magic. To form, a certain matter density must be reached in a certain volume of space (which can be surprisingly low; the blackhole at the center of the milkyway is not much more dense than water at normal atmospheric pressure). Once you have reached this specific point, you get a black hole.

From an outside perspective, being pulled into a blackhole looks like being redshifted out of existence and torn apart, for the infalling object, nothing happens (unless the BH is small enough).

The black horizon around a black hole is not a simple line, it's a smort of smudge leading up to the real border; the closer you get the more redshifted everything becomes. Thus, for the naked observer, it might appear as though the object has been swallowed even though it might not have yet crossed the event horizon.
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My daily reads include the South China Morning Post and TechNode. And the A16Z and YC blogs feature great in-depth insights. But as you might suspect, apart from insider knowledge. There is very little real-time coverage and analysis.

https://a16z.com/2018/01/13/super-apps-china-product-innovat...

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-hidden-forces-behind-toutia...
Seems really easy if you have sputtering equipment, which has been around for awhile. Unless by almost everyone you mean garage hobbyists.
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Fallacy.

Bad guys can go after bad guys. Good guys can still go after the remaining bad guys.

If we sit around waiting for he without sin to cast the stones, if on the off-chance that such a rare soul exists, then that small army-of-one will be outnumbered and overpowered and neutralized.
No, that's not presumed to be freely given consent.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/ "Consent is presumed not to be freely given if ... the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance."

If the data is actually needed to execute the contract (i.e. a delivery address if you're mailing stuff to the user), then you don't need separate consent; but if it's not (e.g. just revenue) then any "confirmation clicks" that are tied to site access being cut off would be just that - simply clicks that don't count as freely given consent.

Also, if you consider giving a reward for acceptance of GDPR consent, then you must also consider that consent can be revoked at any time (including 5 seconds afterward) and it must be literally as easy to withdraw consent as it is to give it.
Assortive mating is just mating. Mating has always been based on fitness; the metrics are just now changing.
This is the "online" (abridged) version of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Bayesian-Methods-Hackers-Probabilisti...

There's a full version of another good book ("Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python") available as a PDF from the publisher here:

http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/

(related Amazon reviews)

https://www.amazon.com/Think-Bayes-Bayesian-Statistics-Pytho...
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I just can't help thinking of https://blog.codinghorror.com/monkeypatching-for-humans/
As others have noted: Laws with examples would be to specific to survive fast technological changes. Laws do mostly contain the 'spirit' of the idea and are applicable to many different situations and times.

But the European Commission does gives examples: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

This is of course no nginx configuration. But the thing is.. there is no one size fits all example configuration. The situation depends on: 1) What do you use the data for? 2) How long do you really need it? 3) Can you securely handle it? 4) Has the user consented?

Saving ip adresses in log files can be fully complaint IF you only use them for legal reasons (sue an attacker, ...), have severe access restrictions on the files, delete them as fast as possible and get consent from the user prior to saving the logs.

It depends on your goal, workflow and abilities if you are allowed to store this data, and you must decide for yourself. If in doubt.. don't store it.
Every mention of rewilding Scotland I've come across has been talking of reintroducing extinct native species such as Lynx and Wolf. That's along with smaller animals and reducing deer numbers.
This feels like satire. China censored a meme sufficiently obscure that people aren't even sure what it was?
Since at the event horizon (schardzchild radius) time dilation becomes infinite, essentially time ceases there. That's why it's called an “event horizon”: because events (four-dimensional coordinates) become disconnected there. As time is frozen (from an external observer's perspective) stuff ceases to move and just “piles up” there. From the in-falling matter's perspective, however, the transition occurs in finite proper time. Once it has crossed the horizon, it finds itself inside the hole where the direction of space pointing towards the horizon (inwards) becomes ‘timelike’ (in the sense that its flow cannot be arrested and it is unidirectional) and time becomes ‘spacelike’ (in the sense that it could be negotiated at will).

No experiment that I know of could confirm this because everything will depend on extrapolation from less extreme and finite scenarios.
Unisys has some pretty good models. I know virtustream has done a decent job. Sorry I don't have any real data for you but I can say that microservices are a much better (or should I say, more "direct and fair") way to consume cloud apps. Many customers are now paying astronomical prices for SLAs that simply aren't sustainable. Until consumers catch on I don't believe providers will push them due to revenue.
OECD: Social security too generous in Finland – Universal income a no go
Modern-day lysenkoism disappoints me. The blank slate model is thoroughly discredited, and people as eminent as Pinker have written extensively about it. While you can still find plenty of blank slate support in polite society, those espousing the idea are operating under something akin to religious faith.
Headline should be: Chia baed letter from iteret after people used it to attack Xi Jipig
Yes, we’re launching as iOS only to start. We do have a webpage (hiredremotely.com), but for now it is a landing page for the app.

Why do you say you’d, “be reluctant installing yet another app”?
Would Municipal Bonds Fund Solar Rooftops in Indian Cities?
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Welcome to every other industry, where "breaking things" and doing whatever you want with reckless abandon isn't considered acceptable behavior.

It's not like you couldn't say the same thing x1000 with respect to finance laws.
what kinds of things do you sell?

how do you advertise?

do you have a marketing campaign? how do you know people will want to buy what you have?
Government censorship is no fun, but the best part about this article for me was learning that Xi Jinping is sometimes compared to Winnie the Pooh. The comparison picture is dead on.

https://twitter.com/vinayak_jain/status/899886641157783553
The really scary part of that article is the screenshot of Weibo with every message censored automatically with "content is illegal".

If you think this sort of thing could never happen in the west, I think you're underestimating how quickly it could happen. The constitutions and bills of rights of any country are not laws of nature that can't be broken- they're words on paper that governments or populist movements can easily ignore.

Consider any politician you disagree with deeply and ask yourself: if they could ban dissent from their views, wouldn't they?
The problem is that you probably don't have an exact idea how difficult each piece is and might pick Chopin after Chopsticks.
Looks good. Someone gave a lecture on PyMC at work last week and put PyMC on my radar. This book is also on O’Reilly Safari, and I just started reading it.
Lee Smolin proposed a really compelling concept in "Life of the Cosmos" - that the reason our universe has the universal constants that it does, is the product of natural selection at the cosmological level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin#Fecund_universes

His idea is that production of black holes is the universe producing offspring, and our perception that a black hole is constrained within a coordinate space in our own universe, is an illusion.