skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Numbers Behind MoviePass and Why It’s (Probably) Doomed
Cambridge Analytica Took 50M Facebook Users' Data
At $dayjob-1 we relied on this to pull in your Facebook friends as contacts. Eventually FB limited the scope of this to friends who also had the app.
When I worked at what was then Inland Steel (Indiana, US) they had a coal fired 60 Hz power station. It did not produce all of their power but it did produce a significant amount. The reason it was there was that they could use steam after it had passed through a portion of the turbine for other plant processes.

Chip fabs are in a different situation. My understanding (and I am far from an expert) is that typical power interruptions such as the momentary loss when a breaker trips and recloses will interrupt production. A quarter second might as well be 30 minutes as it will cause all motor controllers to drop out. Chip fabs need something akin to a giant UPS (or alternative power feed that they can switch to in a few milliseconds. Such equipment exists and is costly. The business case is the cost of the power conditioning vs. the expected lost production due to potential outages.

Perhaps Samsung did have something that could ride out a short outage but not the one they faced. In that case there is a vast difference between 1/4 second drop and a 30 minute outage.
What is Math washing?
Let's be realistic here. This headline is nothing but partisanship. The only reason this is exaggerated as a "data breech" is because of the connection to the Trump campaign.

The real scandal is that such data is so easily harvested and freely available.

I'd be interested in seeing how much of facebook's data repository was used in targeted political ads by all parties. Including Russian agitators who have been shown playing both sides.
I'm white, 20yo, and squat a lot. Strange though this might sound, I actually squat for hours on end at the computer. For me it's more comfortable than sitting. Also I'm 6'2", so long legs. Ya, I know I'm weird. :)
Just to be clear, the Indo European migration is presumed to be a trade/culture migration—there’s not a lot (any?) evidence that this resulted in much increased genetic transfer.

Furthermore, I was under the impression milk consumption generally spread from the middle east with rudimentary cheese production with rennet, reducing the lactase to an easier to digest level. This might have been after the europeans started their genetic movement, but I don’t believe that culturally the practice of milk consumption originated from Europe. Also, milk consumption has never been directly proportional to genetic disposition to it. Even now milk products can be popular in largely lactose intolerant cultures—maybe the ice cream is worth the farting!

Of course I’d love to be corrected. But you seem to be conflating two or three separate narratives here—this might be how you end up with stuff like Jared Diamond pseudoscience. In particular, I don’t believe Indo European migration was a physical migration of any particular people—and genes typically take a bit longer to move than evidence points to with the Indo European linguistic/cultural migration. This was at one point particularly key in debunking arguments like, say, “the aryan people taught the indians how to speak”. Now of course we have much richer tools at demonstrating both the diversity of known languages and deep roots connecting them, and better narratives to explain them.

But hey, I’ve also made arguments that milk drinking might provide a huge resource advantage in a world where nobody drank it, allowing for economic and reproductive benefit.... maybe the milk drinking did europeans “sprint” east.
Origami-Folded Hydrogel Paper Instantly Generates 110 Volts of Electricity
People with ADHD think less in silos and can form quicker parallels between different verticals. That's the formula for much of creativity, problem-solving and stand-up comedy. The main challenge in daily life is a hard time with taking decisions and prioritizing.

I have been working for three years on a ADHD friendly Taskmanager as an obsessive side-project to solve exactly that daily life problem. In 6 weeks I will open it up for internal trial testing - volunteers welcome - just send me an email if you wanna join the trial (first version is Android only).
Mukesh Ambani says his daughter seeded Jio in back 2011
my mistake, he said "graph libraries" and a graphing library is in the article's short list.
I don't think I would allow my daughter to have a laptop where the spyware comes pre-installed.

Assuming the school district doesn't abuse it (like webcamgate) what's to stop every hacker from here to Moscow in this day and age?
"It never had a chance" was a five century long empire. Sure it was destined to fall, but that's the nature of empire so far, which invited comparison to modern times. And your description of the early expansion somewhat works for the conquest of Italia, but after that they were considered a threat.

>I think it is not by accident that during this early period the Senate was still politically relevant and vaguely democratic.

The senate had no actual power starting with Augustus, who turned it into a ceremonial institution. The only time it did have a shred of power was a succession crisis, and it maintained that power throughout.

>But I am also just strongly tempted to blame regional divisions on poor governance, although there were probably other factors,

I don't understand what you're saying here.
Each country will have a Data Protection Authority (DPA) which is the regulator in the country. The ICO is the one in the UK.

The last letter of the GDPR is Regulation. A regulation is very different than than a Directive (the pre-GDPR law is based on a directive). There is very little wiggle-room with a Regulation, even between countries. The ICO also works with other DPAs currently as part of Working Party 29, which ensures the DPAs are working in Sync.

So the ICO advice is worthy of close study, especially if your local DPA (assuming you have one) has not commented or given guidance on a certain matter.
GDPR has been known for 3-4 years and was finalised in 2016. They should have had 2-3 years to go through their systems.

Was it posted in their local planning department in Alpha Centauri as well? Because to most people running microbusinesses -- which is most businesses, remember -- it might as well have been.

If a business can't do that, it indicates that they don't have control of the information in the first place.

Not at all. It's quite possible that an organisation has been reasonable and responsible about handling personal data and its staff know exactly what it's doing and why, but that the formal documentation and automated processes referred to throughout today's discussion aren't in place because they have never been necessary before.

Why should I lose control of my personal information just because it costs money to process it responsibly?

The trouble is that different people will have different interpretations of "responsibly". For example, I'm not sure it's irresponsible to have been storing and processing data for legitimate purposes and entirely with the subject's informed consent for years, and also to be concerned about the cost of updating or replacing all of those systems because the subject is now being given a retrospective right to withdraw that consent that they didn't have before. While this might be considered desirable in terms of reining in data hoarders like Facebook or Google, it also imposes burdens on organisations with different models and lower risks to data subjects. Some sort of balance is needed between these competing priorities.

At some point a regulation has to be implemented and some companies will unfortunately be impacted even if their intentions were good.

Right, but this is exactly why both unambiguous rules and proportionality are important.
It lists a minimum and a maximum on page 34 and it’s a fair range. Am I missing something?
If I google the home pitches of a few famous clubs, they all have different sizes too.
Apple to Take Chicago Field Trip to Display EdTech
G20 Summit 2018 Crypto Agenda
Probably wouldn't say this if you were underrepresented.
A Quantum Leap for Basketball 'Bracketology' (2013)
Hire the most skilled people available to fill any role. These are companies, businesses, they have a duty to investors and stock holders. If you're worried about giving jobs to anyone other than the most skilled applicants, please redirect your attention to the schools and educational institutions.
In recent years America seems to be very eager to compromise. First it did for security after 9/11 and now for right thought after Trump.
Abusing Duo 2FA
This is actually the only math class that's required by the 6-3 degree program, MIT's CS degree. Many people do take linear algebra, though.

Source: https://www.eecs.mit.edu/curriculum2016 and I'm a 6-3
Haha, don't pull too hard on that thread here my friend!
encrypted.google.com is going away
Fire and Fury is also almost entirely fiction. The author had no access whatsoever, is known for just making shit up, and has admitted that he made shit up _in this particular book_. Yet some people continue to treat it as a documentary account of some sort.
Optimizing a Static Site
Background : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/google-encrypts-more-s...
Why must such things be driven by start-ups and not simply culture?
I think you're over-estimating the amount of people that consider the environment when choosing to repair or not.
It's hard to do anything DOM based at 60FPS and a moderate number of points, if that is the main crux of your problem then I think you picked the correct route (custom D3). Still I find it's hard not to rinse peoples CPU in the browser when doing this.

Alternatively if you have nore than 10K points it's probably time to abandon DOM based methods and just redraw everything every frame directly (canvas / webgl).
thats much harder to justify to regulators and inquests.
Ok people keep saying there was no backup power but there was, it was just not enough to power everything. Source: http://m.yna.co.kr/kr/contents/?cid=AKR20180316130000003 maximum estimated amage was around $50mil usd. It says it's their internal transformer that failed. Up to 60k wafers were affected but not all of them are unusuable.
>The token will have value based on there being value in the company or asset being tokenized.

The token doesn't de facto inherit the value of the business. That would only be true to the extent that the token represents a claim on assets or profits or other tangible benefit; in other words when the token acts like a security, in which case we have already solved that. There is also a co-op model that exists and conveys some of this benefit.

I don't know what a token adds to these scenarios, and in fact are not even legal in the US to act as securities unless the buyers are accredited (most people are not). Sure, until recently, the token has made it easier to skirt non-accredited investor status and other regulatory matters, but it doesn't make it legal or a better solution and, in any case, the SEC is moving in on that.

I appreciate the spirit of what you're saying, and want it to be true. It's just not currently the case.
Web Scraping with Python: Illustration with CIA World Factbook
Then never talk about any other group like "the Chinese", "the Russians" or "the Nazis" again either. Because these are also millions of diverse people too.
iHeartMedia, owner of iHeartRadio, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Google Home now speaks Italian, indicating that it will soon be sold in Italy
I'm currently taking a near-identical course as a CS freshman, and while I lack the programming expertise to adequately explain the importance in that field, it's definitely valuable to learn. I've never enjoyed a maths class more, really.

It offers so many 'hacks' to working with numbers, which I could imagine would make code more efficient and avoid unnecessary computations when dealing with very large numbers.

Separately, my increased mental efficiency with problems involving numbers is really surprising. There have been interview questions I've read about in the past where I've thought "someone must be a genius to be able to answer that through mental math," and it all makes so much more sense now! It's taught me about dozens of visualizations that can break down these problems in much more manageable ways.

As an example of a mental maths problem on my midterm: How many numbers between 1 and 99,999 have digits that add up to 10? (23,500 would work whereas 23,510 would not). While initially I would have no clue how to answer this, learning about the balls-in-bins method solves it in an incredibly simple manner.
no.

(not least because they didn't move in until a good while after ios 11, which was released a good year after the development was heating up the most.)
While My Lai was horrible, evidence collected since then such as in Nick Turse's book "Kill Anything That Moves" [1] and at the Winter Soldier hearings [2] show that Mai Lai was hardly an aberration. Horrible atrocities committed by US soldiers were widespread in Vietnam, much more so than most people digesting the Ken Burns narrative realize.

What's important to learn about My Lai isn't just that it happened - that Americans are indeed as capable of horrible atrocities as anyone - but that almost no consequences resulted. In fact, as Turse discovers, Army officials who were aware of what was happening in Vietnam later moved to take control of the Criminal Investigation Division in order to suppress investigation and prosecution of the innumerable war crimes that took place. The most significant prosecution that took place was of Lt. William Calley, who ultimately received 3 1/2 years of house arrest after being convicted of hundreds of murders. The message that this sends to the rest of the world is that we are imperialist killers of the highest order, and we are above the law.

Without looking at these atrocities in the eye, we are doomed to repeat them. And so we have.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Soldier_Investigation
The Computer – Stephen Hawking
Why are you calling it Target by CA? Its such a great advancement in technology.
it was in TFA, btw
> But some things are so easily expressed as a recursion but require considerable thought to be turned into a loop.

Do you have some examples of problem+solutions where tco works fine (in a language with tco) - but the manual translation is hard(ish)?

I wonder in part after reading the Julia thread on tco - and difficulties with providing guarantees in the general case with tco:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4964
You're using the word "confidence" to mean the same thing the parent comment meant by "trust".
but the supply still needs to grow to not experience deflation

What's wrong with that ? Seems like an obsession to some people
Milk does not naturally contain very much vitamin D, so that's a silly reason to expect lactase persistence to have evolved.

The original study[1] doesn't suggest a connection between lactase persistence and vitamin D. It does discuss those topics in close proximity, though, which I suspect misled the author of the (popularizing) Science article.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/10/016477
> hard to justify forensically picking through years of historical access data

If querying is so onerous, then why the fuck are years of historical access data even being stored ?

This desire to keep reams of nebulously categorized surveillance data "just in case" seems to be one of the issues at the heart of this legislation. If it has business value and a legitimate purpose, then formalize it. Otherwise, delete it.
I thought it was just 3rd party apps like Spotify but that sounds like an iOS bug.
OK, let's assume I buy this argument, that being creative is much more important than being able to concentrate. Let's say, for a moment, that someone with ADHD would make an excellent hunter-gatherer.

Point one: This is not a hunter gatherer society. A highly successful hunter gatherer will do very poorly in today's office-bound society. If you want someone who can only be a hunter gatherer to be successful in today's society, you can't just tell them to "calm down" or "concentrate harder", you have to make accommodations.

Point two: All the creativity in the world won't help when you get bored of a painting, a story, a novel halfway through and can't finish it. Note - I didn't say "don't want to finish it", I said "can't finish it". Just like someone with clinical depression can't just snap out of it and be happy, someone with moderate to severe ADHD can't force themselves to concentrate.

Point three: ADHD does not just affect concentration. Another big impact that ADHD has is on the ability to connect an action and its consequences if those two are separated by more than a few minutes. Funny image -> immediate dopamine response -> fantastic feedback loop. Doing your homework -> discomfort and frustration -> very negative feedback loop.

Now imagine trying to live in a world where doing work and getting paid have no correlation in your brain. You have to intellectualize that doing work leads to getting paid, except you can't concentrate on it long enough to care.
> "De Morgan's laws" maybe a few pages.

It could be an entire book, though :)
How does dropping a bunch of out of context quotes contribite to a discussion? Why was this voted to the top? Clearly I should just skip the first comment tree entirely when reading comments on pieces about "programming paradigms."
Tencent is putting a robot research lab in China’s manufacturing heartland
Big tech firms are helping disabled people better navigate the real world
Video: How SimCity's sandbox was built
From the very beginning there has been a rule that you were not allowed to persist data more than a few days in your own dB. But it was obvious there was no way for fb to verify what you did or did not keep.

There has never been substantial control on profile data harvest on fb. It was whatever you could get users to okay, which was a lot given the value your app had to appear to provide.
So, are we witnessing a modern form of selection pressure? Are genes related to ADHD favorable for not only coping with, but taking advantage of increasing availability of information in our modern age?
Exactly, GDPR is only asking for Security 101 Basics.

* Data Classifications

* Privacy Impact Assessments

* Log Reviews

* Incident Reponse
in my finite state machine framework that i built, this is what i do. a state machine is modeled by a class and the states are child classes. for state methods, which are defined by the parent class, i force them to be overridden. then if that method isn’t supported in a certain state, it just does nothing. there is support for sending a return message stating the method sent is not valid in the current state (this is within an actor framework), but i found for the most part doing nothing is fine for most use cases.
Phones get thrown away over a $10 battery.

Wouldn't be so bad if a replacement battery didn't cost $80+.
Why? We already have too many alerts interrupting our lives. The best thing you can do is have fewer alerts, not more.
Unfortunately, that guidance still doesn't provide specific, actionable advice in even a lot of everyday areas, as we've seen in just about every HN discussion on the GDPR in recent weeks when recurring themes like backups or log files or payment processing services come up.

Also, having "fucking reams of advice" is not a good thing. To be practically useful for the kind of organisation we're talking about, advice needs to be clear and concise. A starting point that will take days just to read through and understand isn't very helpful.
I find the link "Pssst…the real reason why we should #MentorHer" to be rather angry and prescriptive.
There appears to me to be an increase in the number of propagandic articles dictating how men should have.
Are you talking about IT/"cyber" security to become a security researcher (sometimes called whitehat hacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security))?

There's been a couple of good links to tutorials and CS courses in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15986100
I tend to agree with the $10 phone battery example, but not necessarily the TV or fridge example. Perhaps I'm biased because I know how to repair the first, but the latter two seems like I need to take time to learn the specialized skill of diagnosing it and repairing it.

Repairability isn't a very visible or salient feature of a product. So manufacturers probably do underoptimize for repairability. They can probably do more to make the most breakable parts user accessible and have self-diagnostics.

In many of the cases where repairing makes sense, the manufacturer often does make it easy. We change the oil filter on the car and don't throw the car away. Yet if a engine bricks on a 20-year-old beater, even experienced auto repairman may recommend scrapping the car over an engine replacement -- despite the engine being a visually small part of the car.
This is a satire right? They could just not animate the container if that was the case!
Since I may not have time to update my article for a while, here is a link to the script[1].

I am unclear on your dnt script? What does it do? I don't have any facilities on my site to track users at all as it stands.

I will probably be mooching parts of your CSS though, thanks for posting it here!

Edit: you are correct, I seem to have forgotten to include <HTML> tags... I should probably fix that.

[1] https://gist.github.com/charlesdaniels/ac5fa6e3e77aef5ff5c85...
My experience is the same with the new keyboards. My friends, too. It's like nobody tested them longer than a week or two. My computer is 3 months old, various keys stick/misfire, and my T key stopped latching. It comes right off. My Macbook Air didn't have this problem in 4 years of use, it has to do with these new tiny-action keyboards.

The action of the keys is so small that a tiny grain of dirt will stop the key. So the testers must've only tested it for a week inside a cleanroom.

I can't recommend the new Macbook Pro. My next computer will be an Air (if they don't "upgrade" the keyboard), a 2015 Pro, or something else entirely.
The Ken Burns doc is informational in some ways and a joke in others, particularly in the way it frames America's involvement from the outset as one of having been "sucked into" an unwanted war, a framing which is unsupported by historical evidence.

The reality is that the US systematically executed tens of thousands of unarmed civilians and committed countless atrocities along the way including regularly torturing and raping civilians, as was documented by the American government. But this contrasts the the image of America as most people see it, which is why Burns saw it fit to exclude the full extent of US war crimes from his documentary.
Sure, because they can't really compare; they've never been anybody else. ADHD is mainly talked about as the set of negatively-experienced differences. It's easy to see the good parts as just their personality.

But the notion that it has benefits is hardly new. In the classic book "Driven to Distraction," the author a psychiatrist who also has ADHD, wrote about discovering ADHD: "I knew I was a slow reader [...] but I never had understood why I came up with different ways of solving problems, why I had an intuitive approach to so much, why I tended to think outside the box, why I could be so impatient so often, why I was so quick to draw conclusions, why I had an oddball sense of humor, and so on."

He writes a longer article on the benefits of ADHD here, and makes clear that the negative traits are also often the positive traits: http://www.hallowellnyc.com/HallowellNYC/LivingwithADD/Benef...
Why Parquet files are useful and creating with Java
Google Builds a Synthesizer with Neural Nets and Raspberry Pis
Time for land value tax.