skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Dangerous When You Build Things You Klutz, but MIT's Robots Will Save You
Algorithmic Consumers – Harvard Law (2017) [pdf]
Does Amazon do this in .de/.co.uk/.es/.fr presence, too, or is this only a .com thing?
Could this be related to electronic music shows, especially techno? Flashing lights and regular repetitive beats that act as a base to dance off of.
> Age checks – you should ask for the user’s age, and if the user is a child (below 16), you should ask for parent permission

Please tell me this is only required when age is relevant, such as for sale of alcohol and tobacco?

Otherwise, surely most data holders don't need a customer's age, and this would be forcing them to collect more personal information!

And personally, as a consumer, I don't want to provide information that isn't relevant, so I'm more likely to use a competitor that doesn't ask for such needless PI.
I've done computer science courses in my university on pen and paper. Same for every course around mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering in general.

Not because people couldn't afford computers but because the don't help you a bit in understanding theory.
I would categorize Medium as a product rather than a publisher, there's quite a bit of the ambiguity behind the term "website" these days.
Do you also do ReactNative?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box
This is not true generally anyway (in most mainstream systems it is much simpler to update or delete when appropriate), but please consider e.g. the GDPR where the ability to delete personal data is mandatory, and the "keep everything forever" mindset is precisely what that legislation is designed to remedy.
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Note that in lots of countries if you play music "publicly" in the office then you theoretically need a license for the office, but everyone listening individually does not.

(If you are ever cold called by the PRS, never say you play music in the office!)
This is interesting. How did you actually find people to respond to the surveys?
Source? I couldn't find anything from a cursory search.
There is very likely a person or group at Amazon that considers this a feature, at least when product commingling was introduced.

In an ideal world with no counterfeits, product commingling is an efficient thing to do, and if a product is commingled, there is no point in giving the 3rd-party seller top billing, the customer should feel like they're buying from Amazon.
Like pollution laws, it's nonsense if not enforced worldwide. The web can't be contained to a specific locality anymore, it's against the core idea of the technology. The people in the EU who are responsible for this have no clue about the technology.
I'm subscribed to the correspondent but it's more their mission and work I'm supporting than actually paying to read their articles, though they are very good.
There’s something seriously wrong if this is the advice being doled out. It’s as if we’re ok with the haphazard shopping experience and there’s a set of guidelines on avoiding being scammed. It’s the kind of thing I never have to worry about with so many other retailers but we all stick with Amazon because Prime perks.
Show HN: Get Rails performance metrics into Chrome Dev Tools
It's worth the learning curve. I can't count the number of times some horrible multithousand-line pandas contortion has been replaced by a dozen lines of Q. After working in Q for awhile, you go look at someone's R code or Pandas code or whatever and you're like, "Shut up and get to the point!"
That painpoint with the default browser you mention is likely down to SNI (Server Name Indication) not being supported on Android Gingerbread and below. So some websites will not work in HTTPS for you.

For a phone, anything running Ice Cream Sandwich or higher will be fine with the default browser
I think the way to do it is simple. You need to develop the mental fortitude to simply spend some time logically planning out what you want to learn/do and why, and then just start doing it. Meditation helps with this focus/execution. Measure twice, cut once.
> I have not dealt with US healthcare

Since we're detailing anecdata, I went on a working holiday to the US and had an accident in work. I was fully covered under my travel insurance, and doubly covered under my employer's insurance. I broke several bones in my hand and needed a costly operation to insert pins. The payment approval time from insurers took longer than the minimum wait for the operation before bones fused. I did not have the operation and have had problems in my right hand since.

I take your point about other European countries doing it better, I'm sure that's true. But the article is using the US system as a metric. I'm living in Ireland and would love to have a system as good as the NHS over here. Everything's relative but when you're comparing the NHS to clearly inferior systems there's not much point playing devil's advocate. There are enough individuals with a vested interest in the disassembly of the NHS as it is.
Wow. Did you file a patent?
Maybe we should create some discussion system where in order to post you need proof of expertise (PoE)
The difference is that - in theory anyway - all of the balls are the same.
It's actually one of the best value health care systems.. Sadly it is being made inefficient by the current government.

If we are going by anecdotal evidence, the NHS has been absolutely brilliant for me.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/14/nhs-holds-on...
Interesting. Do you have a link to your consulting company? Do you have a blog on GDPR related topics?
Correct me if I am wrong, but these SMS-based login setups are only sending a message to your phone number. It's about as secure as sending an email to your email address. There is no end-to-end security between the original sender and the subscriber's phone and SIM card to ensure that the message only gets to the correct recipient.

You only need to hijack the victim's phone number so that messages are sent elsewhere. This can be done by technical or social hacks such as porting the subscriber's number to a new provider or pretending a phone was lost and having the phone company register a replacement SIM. There is no need to physically intercept the victim's phone, so it is not in fact a second factor.
Does the GDPR state that all this needs to be automated?

Given how infrequently a small business will get requests to delete, restrict or export data, is it allowed to just do it manually when requested by email?
Reactionless? Presumably the reaction mass would be... air.
I cannot imagine why anyone would want to intentionally violate someone's privacy and ignore their stated preferences; to use their data in a way they would not want, regardless of what country they live in. It surprises me that anyone would want to make an insecure system on purpose and take no responsibility for being hacked.

That's what "ignoring the GDPR" means on some level.

It just so happens that the GDPR provides a powerful tool to protect me and my rights, even when I'm in the USA on business, at a Starbucks on their public Wifi.

There's a lot of guffing about IP addresses and weblogs that is confusing a lot of people. Without knowing what kind of information you think you need to collect without permission and without benefitting the person involved, it's difficult if you're a chicken little, or if you're a scumbag spammer: I'll have no sympathy for the latter, but am happy to try and decode the GDPR for the former (within reason: I'm doing some GDPR consultancy at the moment)
I tell you what would be amazing: content aggregators (like HN) that charged and distributed money to the content providers.

Unfortunately it's really hard to build a community if you charge.
> Aren't computer skills a prerequisite for office work everywhere now?

Not at all, especially in places where paperwork is done on paper.

> So maybe that familiarity with computer UI will help students later.

90% of the students will not have need or opportunity to use that word processor before the UI will change completely.
we have Prime products that we mfg, sell and ship directly. basically you have to be very diligent about shipping by their cutoff times and use a service that guarantees the delivery date and must generate your shipping labels through amazon so they can track it all. we hooked up our existing ups account and dont have to purchase shipping through amazon. we ship out all orders same day (not just amazon) but it's easy to lose Prime status if you fall behind.
The issue started long before that, with the Fire phone vs Android.
Right, this is the scenario I was thinking of. Most systems that include any type of communication nowadays require you to use a real identity. An ex-employee that asks to have their identify obfuscated from all their work breaks the system of record to answer questions like who worked on what, what decisions were made by whom, etc.
Switzerland is not part of the EEA. It has a bunch of EEA-like bespoke deals with the EU.

The most obvious gap for a traveler is that the EEA mobile roaming price regulation doesn't apply if you are on an EEA operator and roam to Switzerland.
Putting large data on the stack is a good idea as a standard Fortran optimization, at least (gfortran -fstack-arrays and ifort default, I think). You typically need to increase the stack limit greatly for HPC jobs. I'm not aware of that causing trouble for profiling, and would also be interested in how it does.
Skillful Service Is Born of a Quiet Heart
Apple's latest Magic Keyboard is an atrocious piece of garbage whose keys are so sensitive that they trigger when you breathe on them. Apparently Tim Cook thought it would be a good idea to make this the only keyboard you can buy from Apple and cancel the old model that humans could actually use. I bought one of the older ones from Amazon and now I get to worry that it's going to be a counterfeit that phones all my keystrokes home to China. Nice world we're building here.
I’ve noticed this with Tesla, too.

I imagine that if people could take short or long positions* in programming languages and technologies, it would be difficult to find the current quality of reviews and discussion around those topics.

I’ve been a fan of futarchy and prediction markets, but this phenomenon gives me pause.

* I’m aware that investing time, effort or credibility in a technology is taking a long position in it, but direct financial positions seem to incentivize a different class of behavior (EDIT: probably because they require an investment only of money, rather than of these other resources that produce commitment or knowledge).
> and stops people from forcing their morals on me

Those are almost certainly not their morals that they're including in the recipe, but rather their monetization strategy. Those brand-specific ingredients are likely examples of brand placement.
I’ve been reading the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and it seems to contain certain loopholes that may be exploited by less than honest agents. The sad possibility is that the mere existence of such loopholes can push an otherwise law-obedient small companies towards mostly-ignoring GDPR in order to remain competitive.

For example, there’s this huge “if” concerning personal data removal, reiterated in multiple sections of GDPR. Quoting the very first section about data processing principles[0], personal data can be stored even after you’ve achieved the initial explicitly stated purpose, as long as it:

> will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by this Regulation in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject (‘storage limitation’)

How wide is the range of activities that can be reasonably claimed to be for scientific or statistical purposes, or for safeguarding the rights and freedoms of your user? How strictly would this be enforced in cases where scientific and statistical purposes are closely intertwined with commercial interests, as it often happens?

Meanwhile, the referenced Article 89(1)[1] doesn’t seem to take a hard stance except for requiring “data minimization”. Even pseudonymisation is explicitly optional, as long as you’ll have a convincing argument that pseudonymising the PII you’ve collected prevents you from fulfilling your “statistical purposes”.

I’m not a lawyer and I’m wondering if someone with more expertise can weigh in on this.

[0] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-5-gdpr/

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-89-gdpr/
Putin has a certain reputation to maintain?

The simulation with warheads dropping on Florida reminded me of the old idea of dropping Tungsten rods from orbit onto your enemies, I'm surprised they didn't propose that one too.
There's an exception 'for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.', but there's situations where that would not apply. E.g. commits fixing a single spelling mistake are probably not copyrightable.

Also, I doubt you can just keep a copy of all data you ever process, just because it might some day be useful as legal evidence.
What should they do, exactly? Even they got sold a bunch of counterfit Apple chargers. The sellers are using OEM bar codes and the surface of the items match the OEM virtually perfectly.
The Coming Extinction Event in Software
Neil Postman wrote, “Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” As a humanist, I don't have invisible gods or an afterlife to comfort me into apathy about the human condition. If I want the world to be a better place, I have to make it so and having children is an important dimension to that.

We've limited ourselves to two because my wife and I are both full-time software developers and we can't handle "being outnumbered" as we like to joke, but raising two boys is a remarkable experience. I've experienced many kinds of love in my life, love for family, romantic love for my wife, but this new kind of love for our children is so powerful and pure. It's so precious, drives me to be a better person for them, and I am so grateful to experience it.
You modify someone else’s liver, as a quick and easy method of assassination.
The NHS is based on solidarity. Good luck with that in the US.
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This will never happen. But I think we would actually be better off if Google / Amazon were to cut their service across Europe. Other business would be created, with healthier concurrence, I hope!
As a freelance developer I'm quite sure that if I were to force my clients to comply with as strict an interpretation of GDPR as this, I would pretty shortly find myself replaced by a freelance developer with a more relaxed attitude to GDPR compliance.
I admit, that would be exciting and interesting... but also probably impossible. Communication requires shared context, and it is likely whatever our experience of reality is bears no relationship whatsoever to theirs. Imagine Super Mario Bros is a simulation that hosts intelligence. Do you think he interprets data that ultimately becomes pixels on a screen anything like the way we do?
I don't see how public health can dramatically improve until we start to have radically different conversations about diet across all levels of society. If you follow the money spent in health care it leads directly to obesity and related lifestyle diseases.
I would pay $5/mo to use Twitter, but only if every other user paid the same amount and there were no ads.
Why would you say that? If you can get sued for a piece of code written 30 years ago, then it seems legitimate to me to store legal evidence for at least 30 years. As far as I know there is no time limit to being sued over something.
Flask and SQLite3
If I understand what you mean, then we would expect dark matter to not clump around "ordinary" matter, but that's what we find.
He should be blaming their distros. It's their policies causing these problems, not a true technical issue. They should include those (modified) libraries as part of his app's package, where only his app uses them. This is actually the simplest way to package anything: include all the dependencies, isolated from the rest of the system. He's right, Mac and Windows figured this out ages ago.
Pretty sure the format was more open than this statement makes it sound. More, I doubt it would have been too expensive (compared to the alternative costs, it isn't like the other formats have been free), to make open.

And, there were certainly some features that were insecure by design. I cannot defend all of it. Nor am I intending to really defend any of it. However, there are more than a few warts in in HTML/JavaScript that were insecure-ish by design.
Reasonable discussion doesn’t happen on the internet (serious).
>These things are the most over-the-top method of beating missile defenses. A normal response would be to just deploy more missiles

Deploying more missiles would be visible and would clearly demonstrate aggressive intentions.
How is Lambda better than a PaaS like Appengine(not that appengine would be a good choice) for CRUD apps ?
Pitfalls when Learning to Program
Whatever you're experienced with. I know it's nice to write a backend in js and easy to learn Python, but if all you ever did is writing C#, then there's nothing wrong with using it. You only know jQuery? Don't worry, you're probably being paid for the result and not for using React. (This is obviously not true if you want to learn new technologies)
While last year didn't see particularly outsized top end homerun figures (like the old steroid days), the increase in the huge number of people hitting 20 and 30 or more homeruns is interesting. That plays to the notion of what you mentioned about staying near limits, as a lot of people saw a lift; alternatively, the ball is juiced. Stanton and Judge hitting 50+ is very odd historically as well.

2010: 18 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 77 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2011: 24 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 68 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2012: 27 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 79 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2013: 14 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 80 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2014: 11 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 57 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2015: 20 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 64 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2016: 38 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 111 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

2017: 41 players hit >= 30 homeruns. 117 players hit >= 20 homeruns.

Something substantial changed in 2016.
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Ah, OK, you were joking. Sorry for missing it, I had my humour removed at birth :)
Contranyms would be identical in the embedding space, no?

I'm actually intrigued that nobody has made a text processor named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bedelia yet. :)
Team size. (Although, at scale, you're actually talking about dozens of teams.) The problems that occur at scale have to do with dividing work, cross-team collaboration and coordination, and the sheer volume of work being too large for any one person to fully track and understand.

I'm not saying Star Citizen development is perfect. They're doing a lot less automated testing than I prefer, the code they show in Bugsmashers isn't particularly well designed, and they would have benefited from adopting feature teams and timeboxed releases much sooner than they did.

But software development always looks easier from a distance than it is in reality. The problems are fractal, and don't make themselves known until you're deep in the middle of implementation. (This is why so many projects are under-estimated.) Your criticisms lack that nuance. You say they're writing crummy software, but you offer no evidence other than 50,000-feet hand-waving assertions. It comes across as either inexperience, or an axe to grind.
Ramming (or the threat thereof) is very much a real-world tactic:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ship

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellburners
Overall this is a great compare and constrast article, but I do have one quibble with it.

> In the US, I've always been able to see a specialist within a few days. Score one for America.

This is really, really heavily dependent on where you live and the number of doctors and specialist doctors in the area.

I live in a mid-sized city. If I need to see a typical general practice doctor for a routine problem (coughs, etc.) I can usually be seen the same day, but I'll probably have to wait a 2-4 hours depending on when I go.

But if I need to see a specialist (allergist, dermatologist, sleep doctor, etc) and it's not a life-or-death emergency, it's usually a six-week to six month wait for an opening. It literally took six months before I was able to see a dermatologist last year.

My only other option is to drive 2 hours away to the next (bigger) city that has a medical school and a large concentration of doctors. Sometimes you can get an appointment in a few days if you're willing to drive. This is actually what I've started doing when I'm referred to a specialist.

And if you live in a rural area, even routine medical care can be difficult to come by. Many towns will have a small clinic staffed by a doctor who lives in the community, but often this doctor may have rounds where he covers several communities in a geographic area. So, for instance, he may only be in the office in your nearest town Mondays and Thursdays. So if you need to see a doctor and the local nurses can't handle it, you either have to wait or drive to wherever the doctor is that day.

Where I grew up in East Tennessee, we also had a volunteer service called Remote Area Medical [0], which provided free service to very remote areas of Appalachia. I remember going to the Knoxville airport with my Dad once and seeing their DC-3 fueling up for its next trip.

[0] https://ramusa.org/
It wasn't the company's data to begin with. Modern businesses have caused harm to countless individuals by treating data cavalierly.

The GDPR puts things right. It brings the externality into the market, and now the market can correct.

Businesses that rely upon slinging private information around irresponsibly need to adapt. If they can't, their failure in the marketplace is just.
There are more than 1500 coins and tokens on the market, I’d wager that you could find a cryptocurrency project that fit almost everything that’s said in those discussions.
TLDR: If you modify pixels enough, you confuse humans, especially when you only let the humans look at the tiny blurry image for 70 ms.

rolls eyes I feel like this article totally misses the point about why adversarial ML tactics are interesting. The fundamental reason they work is that computers don't have any abstract notion of a cat, a toaster, a banana, or even gravity or matter. THAT is why they're easily fooled.

To stack up two adversarial images and say, "Look we fooled humans too, OMG humans are just like computers!" is like saying, "We erased the lines on the road and both self-driving cars AND humans got confused, OMG humans == computers!"

I know the article isn't saying humans == computers, but .. come on .. I'm not seeing any merit to this investigation
In a way that saying you are developing nuclear-powered ones does not?
(In progress) Restoring the original source code for FORTH on the IBM 1130
I think it's axiomatic that every human endeavour is flawed.

It's pretty clear NICE works rather well and is now accepted by both political sides and the profession. Let's start there.

In terms of funding the NHS spends a smaller proportion of GDP than most developed nations. If we can nail defence and overseas development as x% of GDP, why not also for the NHS? Perhaps consider increasing to the average EU spend?
Scientists studying how fiber influences the microbiome
The GDPR does not state that it needs to be automated. I assume SME's will also not automate this unless they get a lot of request. Basically all features that are required by the GDPR are already in most common SME software.