skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calling the TV repair man when the TV broke used to be the normal thing to do. Today you just buy a new one. Replacing a capacitor is easy and cheap when you know what to do, but even when you have to call a professional it's usually much cheaper than replacing the whole thing. Still, people don't do that anymore.
Good law is hard. HIPPA prevents gossip. That’s about it.

The sales director for a drug manufacturer knows that you’ve filled a prescription before the claim is filed.

Enfamil and Gerber knew the estimated due date of our baby — although the only interaction we had with anyone was a miscarriage at 8 weeks and a near fatal complication.
Saudi woman:minister tells UN of Arab girls jobs: bonanza in Kingdom -
I did a sea tour in engineering on an aircraft carrier, and we would get in the routine of standing watch, eat, go work on paperwork in the office, sleep, work out, eat, stand watch, repeat for days and days on end. Not in a bad way, I didn't mind it, I was young, it just got to be routine to spend your entire existence within a sphere of around 150 meters or so. After a while, me and my friends realized that it was unhealthy, so we started going outside to get some sun and watch the airplanes landing and taking off.

And then, on a later topside tour, I was standing 3-section watches and then one of the other guys transferred so we went to 2-section watches (port and starboard) while I trained the new guy. The problem was that the new guy was also my roommate on the ship. So we'd stand watch for 6 hours together, go eat together, go back to the stateroom and sleep at the same time (in bunk beds, of course), wake up, eat, go back on watch together. Except for bathroom breaks, we literally spent 24 hours a day together. It only took 3 or so days of that before we were both begging for the sweet release of death...
It was not by accident, but it might have something to do with the delimited continuations implemented for guile 2.2
https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...
Captain Train’s Obsession Over Customer Service – The Blogpost Edition
Getting a SEM would be the easy part. The hard part would be sample preparation and interpreting the results.
How I Doubled My Salary in 5 Months and Got an Amazing Job
I fear the current "Diversity" zeitgeist has become a shakedown scam by so called experts to line their pockets based on the threat of bad PR. In my experience these "experts" and "founders" advice on attaining "diversity" boils down to excluding technically competent but "over-representitive" groups in favor of other "under-represented" groups within the hiring process. The members of these "over-represented" groups, i.e. Caucasian and North Asian males of American origin, become the hires of last resort. In effect a quota system is established in order demonstrate the desired proportions of "under-represented" groups within a role are being achieved thus preventing negative PR.

Parallel with exclusionary hiring policies a propaganda campaign within a organization must be waged in order to brow beat members of the "over-represented" groups into accepting that such exclusionary policies are necessary and just in order to achieve some nebulous moralistic goal as defined by the "diversity" "experts" and "founders". From said propaganda the members of the "over-represented" groups must learn to accept and fulfill the role "ally" toward all members of the designated "under-represented" groups. This role can be simplified into "supporter of exclusionary policies of which I'm the target".

Mind you the "experts" and "founders" advocate for "diversity" and "inclusion" only within job roles that are typically male dominated and techincally oriented. The exclusionary hiring policies and propaganda campaigns never include increasing "diversity" within female dominated roles, e.g. HR, Recruiting, etc., or non-techincal roles, e.g. Custodial, Facilities, Security, Transportation, etc. This is so because the threat of bad PR doesn't hold much weight when certain target groups are not members of the "over-represented" group within the role.

Ultimately, I fear the current methods of addressing the "diversity" issue are counterproductive, hypocritical, and morally prescriptive in the same ways that other zeitgeist initiated crusades have been in recent history, e.g. "War on Drugs".
> There are reasons that are useful to users to keep their IP addresses in a database, and there are risks with keeping their IP addresses in a database. This is why the ICO also recommends you blank out the last octet of the IP address.

Note: If you are going to use that IP address for determining location (which is common when dealing with the EU, because that is one of the things the EU considers acceptable evidence to justify your choice of which country's VAT to collect for an online sale), do the location lookup before blanking the last octet.

I had hoped that the first 24 would be sufficient to determine country, but that is not the case. For example, here are current results from MaxMind's GeoIP service:

5.62.58.243 US
5.62.58.244 US
5.62.58.245 DE
5.62.58.246 DE
5.62.58.247 DE
5.62.58.248 US
5.62.58.249 US
5.62.58.250 US

A couple weeks ago, BTW, 5.62.58.244 was identified as DE. This suggests that it might be a good idea to keep the full IP address around at least until you file your quarterly VAT MOSS documents, so that you can do another lookup then and possibly get a more clear picture of who you owe VAT to for the sale.

PS: I have no relationship with whoever owns those IP addresses, as far as I know. A few weeks ago I did GeoIP lookups on all 4 billion IPv4 addresses to find all the ranges of US IP addresses (there were 22029 ranges) as part of optimizing a filter that is supposed to reject non-US traffic from certain reports. To get an example for this comment I looked through those ranges looking for one where there were two different US ranges overlapping the same /24, and 5.62.58.0/24 was the first one I noticed.
Ask HN: How to manage software engineers?
I have been running a company for last three years, started right out of college. We were a team of 6 people until last year and have grown to 15 people today. The engineering team is at 10 now and I am slowly transitioning from a "developer" to a manager. Would like to hear your experiences on how to do the job better? Any books/blogs to follow on scaling the engineering management and guiding people? What tools do you use for tracking? How frequently do you give feedback?
This. If you don't have a location in the EU the court can't send you any orders to comply with. This is how Facebook doged German privacy law. The only reason why Facebook had to answer a EU court was their settlement in Ireland wich they had for taxation reasons.

The EU want to implement something like a virtual settlement for Businesses to extend their reach. Arguing that if you make profit in the EU than you have a settlement there. But as long as your country isn't willing to help the EU getting you there is nothing to fear.

At least I don't see what they could do. Ban your product... yes... But more than that?
Yes, and as America's economic power (and unity) wanes, it is losing its ability to sustain its freakishly powerful military, while China's meteoric rise makes them a very attractive new primary strategic partner. There's certainly all sorts of behind the scenes "influence" the US can still apply to traditional "allies", but the reason they've been able to do this so successfully is because of their economic dominance, which is disappearing relatively rapidly.
Bad charging ports drive me bananas!! Ports should be designed to outlast all other components! It seems like the most fragile part of half of electronics.

I have had micro USB ports crap out on me on several different products. The low tech solution - high purity rubbing alcohol to clean and and tweezers to remove debris and move the prongs back in place did the trick all but once.
That's right, it averaged out to net zero over more than a century. Afterwards, it steadily declined in value to 4 cents.

It's a fundamentally different behavior, both in direction and magnitude.
There will be an entire generation of kids for whom spying on everything they do on their computer till age18 will have been normalized.

What happens when they start participating in denocracy. It's hard to imagine they'll have the same expectations of personal privacy after that.
You may not even need to cross-reference it, Facebook asks you what your political affiliation is and displays it on your profile (or did, at one point)
How do you know what individuals will do?
Completely agree. You need to be careful about capacitors. Generally, a YouTube video will warn you about a part/product you need to look out for. I replaced the run capacitor on my central air unit for $10 and saved hundreds of dollars in repair costs. It's been years and the thing is still running. Just had to watch instructions on how to properly discharge the capacitor.
> When compared to modern day Russia, it's hard to argue we have the unquestionable moral high ground.

It's very easy. Putin is a dictator and the Russians have no democracy, undermine others, poison people, etc. The U.S. doesn't have clean hands, but there is no comparison.
Kindles are great, too.
I think for anyone who hasn't been hiding under a rock this is pretty well known. There's no real game here, just those who have been paying attention and those who have not.

If any of this comes off as a surprise, I would do more digging into most of this.
I have a hard time understanding why it is justifiable to use 1.8mb of javascript to produce a static website.
The author's site is plain text, stylized and opens a modal (with animation) when you click on a link. It looks great, but I don't see why 1.8mb worth javascript is required to produce this (of which there a good chance <5% is actual code for the site's functionality/styling).

When it comes down to it, what you should be optimizing for is efficiency of delivering information to your users. Animations don't help there in cases like this. And I doubt the javascript is helping either.

EDIT: 1.8mb figure is from the bundle.js file from the author's live website
I don’t think op is claiming that method is tail recursive, just pointing out you can get away with using recursion and LRU cache.
Unless you have put effort into squeezing as much logic as possible into each line, the less code the easier it is to maintain. With more code, more stuff can go wrong. It's not just because we are bad at writing code, we have probability against us. If the bug average is 1 bug per 100 LOC then 100 LOC will have less bugs then 10k LOC. We also have physics against us, reading and comprehending 10k LOC of code will take much longer then reading 100 LOC. With that said I do agree with you that LOC don't say much about anything. It's a stupid metric. With higher level languages, a 100 LOC file might actually be millions LOC if you include all the libraries. Them being libraries means they are mostly decoupled, which makes things better, because coupling is the root of most complexity.
You don't need a lawyer when you talk to the police, you just need to not break the law.
Option C is that the letter was written in bad faith, and the sender intends to "rely on the exact wording rather than the spirit of the law" in order to get me in legal trouble.
The people replying this to me don't get what I was saying. It's not worth it to apply a 21st century us or them when the particular us-es and thems in reference have not yet evolved. I would further say that if you look that far back and rather than add perspective you can only see current tensions frozen in time you are petty.
This is a stupid discussion. So I’ll continue it:

Facebook was authorized to have the data. CA was not authorized, at least not to retain the data. Therefor, it is a data breach. Facebook was the breachee, CA was the breacher. And Billy-Ray was a preacher's son.
Take the simple and common case of a startup storing personal data on an AWS-hosted service. Can you account for who at Amazon has access to that AWS instance, how many physical copies of the data may exist in Amazon's data centers, how you can assure that deleted data is really deleted, and so on?
TzLibre, an implementation of Tezos, based on a fork of DLS-Tezos
>People can hold a broom handle in all sorts of positions that would be impossible with even an empty bar, possibly ingraining bad habits.

Just to be clear I wasn't intending my comment above to be used as a stepping stone for weighted overhead squats. I just find that keeping a bar overhead forces proper shoulder, spine and hip posture that enables one to squat properly down the road. For some, it causes that "aha" moment when it comes to squatting properly.
I dunno—you could argue that, after WW2, most of the Japanese fighting spirit transferred over to the business culture.

Even as late as the '80s, Japanese business culture was notoriously macho and aggressive. When I first read about herbivore men, it was framed largely as a reaction against '80s Japanese business culture more than anything else. I'd be more inclined to argue that herbivore men came out of the recession of the '90s; they saw how the bubble economy collapsed and said "screw this, I don't want any part of it".
Massachusetts Says to Probe Facebook, Cambridge Analytica
Ask HN: Is it legal to start a business that requires 0 customers?
I’m currently developing a trading system that is only utilizing my personal funds. I’m considering starting a business who’s sole purpose is to utilize those funds to keep making money.

I’m not interested in starting a hedge fund at this point of time.
"Recycling" electronics means shipping them to Africa where they're first dumped and then burned to recover some of the metals. The results are as disastrous as you would imagine, both for the environment and the people. This is what it looks like: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/feb/27/...
The original Star Trek and Captain Kirk as a character were much closer to portraying a "Navy in space" than the socialist ideals that would start to creep into TNG.

Although I find your criticism to be fair for TNG itself - when Roddenberry had greater creative control and the Federation began to be developer as having evolved beyond petty human desire and conflict, although there were some exceptions because sometimes the writers didn't get the memo (Barclay's OCD tendencies and Geordi keeping a holographic girlfriend come to mind) and it's just impossible to write good drama where all of the characters are just insufferably perfect. Even Superman has to have kryptonite.

But TOS is the series where McCoy is pretty openly racist towards Spock and where people get into fistfights all the time - it's a lot more grounded in plausible reality.
Personally I don't need a manager but I always have had one. They are somewhere in the background, not really helping me with anything.
Yes and about half way between then and now it was about $100 for 16GB.
I feel as though the rectangle/square example falls down mostly because of a linguistic trick.

Rect->Square could be a perfectly reasonable type hierarchy, as long as you don't allow self-mutation of the very attribute that defines this specialization. But then, mutation tends to wreak havoc on inheritance anyway (e.g., covariance/contravariance) -- and almost everything else. When I take the needle out of my record player, it can't play records any more, so is it really still a "record player"?

This isn't special to any particular type of inheritance, either. If you let all the air out of your ball, it's no longer a sphere, so even with purely ontological types, you're already in trouble. Inheritance isn't the problem. Mutation is.
Marketing. I think for most that's number one.
I'm kinda in your boat. IMHO, GDPR needed something for small businesses. If you're doing reasonable, expected stuff with your small businesses and you reply as such to the example letter, there should be no need to use a lawyer. And it should be codified in the law, rather than relying on prosecutorial discretion.

There should be a distinct "If you adopt these reasonable policies, you are legally in compliance with GDPR".
Which is why w3w is a really novel approach to this: https://what3words.com/
You would tell nazi patrol which cellar jews are hiding in? You are a good patriotic boy!
Like most hard things in life the most honest advice anyone can give you is stop worrying about getting stuck, embrace confusion and learn to love being lost. If you can learn to not lose confidence when you’re in the wilderness then you have learned how to learn. Unfortunately this is challenging to do. It’s like telling someone the way to do a pull up is to do a pull-up. For self motivated people this is all the coaching they need. For most however, they need someone to hold their hand through all the steps.
The analogue audio is still pretty subpar. It's just (12bit?) pwm into a simple RC filter. the hdmi output is fine though, and there's a whole aftermarket of boards providing better audio (typically using their own dac on the i2s bus)
It doesn't need to incriminate anyone. It's sufficient to just intimidate everyone into conforming to whatever expectations are laid out. It's actually more corrosive to just prevent any "undesirable" behavior than to catch people who are "guilty."
Americans are drinking a daily cup of coffee at the highest level in six years
As said in other comments there is no obligation for any company to store personal information, and without such information the request can be easily dealt with by a simple form letter.

Companies storing and losing PII have a huge negative impact on the affected users, like e.g. credit card fraud or tax refund scams. This bears a huge actual cost to the victims, either because they never get back the stolen money, or because they need to invest significant time and expenses to fight for it.

A company trying to make money of my PII should better be prepared to handle it securely and to delete it upon request. Handling of GDPR requests must be calculated by them as part of the data handling expenses.
If they make it, and not sell it, now they have to store it, insure it, and secure it. And then if they have too much, and run out of storage space, they now have staff with nothing to do.
"I have no idea why people still insist on building their startups in SV. As a startup founder, you want to be penny pincher and have maximum runway." People build their startups in SV because they disagree with your latter sentence.

If you want to penny pinch and build a long runway, yes, SV is horrible. SV is where you want to go if you want to spend exhorbitant amounts of money to hire top talent (i.e. outbid Google and Facebook) in expectation of making even more money.
what's the non-government solution for an implementation of the EPA?
Early-stage startups with just a couple of founders who are too overworked to give a good answer about data protection are probably too overworked to actually protect the data itself, law or no law.

People keep making this kind of argument, but it makes no sense.

Personal data isn't protected from leaks and privacy intrusions by documents or emails. It's protected by encryption, or only being processed by software with a clear purpose, or simply not being stored in the first place.

I suggest that it is not only possible but also quite likely that a reasonably diligent startup will be taking reasonable practical steps to secure personal data but will not have formal documentation or automated processes in place of the kind that would deal with a SAR like this.
Are you sure? I've watched a bit of it and it seems to approach the war with 20/20 hindsight. "Oh of course it was wrong to be there".

It ignores some of the mindset that got us there in the first place.
Roughly: a flash memory shortage started in late 2016 when everybody but Samsung was having trouble transitioning to 3D NAND flash memory, and Samsung was having trouble with their third generation of 3D NAND. All of the flash memory manufacturers are now producing 64-layer or higher 3D NAND and prices have been coming down for a few months, but they're still higher than 2015 prices.
I wasn't questioning his election. But if you have a history of shady business deals and long standing connections to less than scrupulous elements of the business world, why on earth you want to be President? It's the most scrutinized position in the world. Once you become President everyone watches your move with a microscope.

For someone like Trump, who has a history of sketchy finances and dubious business practices, it seems attracting attention and investigation is the last thing you'd want.

I guess critical thinking is "elitist self-congratulatory narcissism"? /s

I also think it's funny that your post blasted the liberal arrogance in the most arrogant churlish way possible. Basically disproving your entire point. Nice to know that California doesn't have the condescending asshole market completely cornered ;)
100,000s were murdered in Vietnam as well. That the US played a role in further mass murders in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and so on, is the legacy of the US never having the honesty to own up to its actions. It should all be condemned.

The problem is that the political elite in the US doesn't see it that way. Military leaders from Vietnam who committed mass murder were awarded commendations. Soldiers who raped and tortured women and children were given awards for kill counts. A Secretary of State whose actions led to the genocide of millions of people still enjoys political celebrity. And a President who killed tens of thousands of civilians by remote control was given a Peace Prize. This is America.
There have been many instances of price fixing and collusion among DRAM, Flash, and storage manufacturers going back to 2000 and before.

If however you can attribute the price hikes to a natural disaster, say a flood or power outage, then you'll receive less scrutiny for sustained price increases.
It creates good form because it forces your shoulders, spine and hips to be in the proper positions for a real squat. Of course, there are ways around this (such as inflexibility as you mentioned) but I've found it's a great teaching method for transferring into real back squats. In general it's much harder to screw up an overhead squat than it is a back squat, and often (in my experience) people struggle to kinematically understand even a weightless body squat.

If you've ever spent a couple evenings trying to teach someone proper back squat form, you may know the struggles involved. In my experience a quick lesson on overhead squats speeds this process up greatly. And just to be clear, I'm not advocating anyone try weighted overhead squats, I just thought I'd share what I felt was a great intro/supplement into this "Asian" squatting.

Also, 125 is a solid overhead squat!
> It sounds like they never had full access to the Facebook profiles beyond the 270k who installed the app

That's completely speculative, and we don't need more speculative information ... I'd much prefer to wait for evidence.
This seems like a very good reason to have a law about it: if the only reason you log IP addresses is that it's on by default and you haven't thought about the risks of storing it, you should think about it for your production servers. Otherwise it's purely a risk and has no benefit. (And the risk is to your users, not you, so it makes sense that a law would be needed to give your users the ability to complain about that needless risk.)

If you make the active decision that you specifically want the IP addresses, great, you can do that. Just have a strategy for keeping that sensitive data secure and getting rid of it at some point.
Or mechanical fuse as someone else pointed out: something cheap and easy to replace that will break before something expensive and hard to replace when over the design load.