skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're using AWS for your business/startup to store customer information and you don't have good answers for this already, then you aren't doing your due diligence.

To be clear, many businesses may not have good answers right now. Their response should not be "this is too much of a burden" but instead "wow, we really need to find this out ASAP".
As far as I can see, this seems to be a "global solution" which only outputs English
I think the legal implications people talk about are overwrought. Regulators are more interested in chasing down people who open flaunt the law, rather than repressing startups that can’t cross and dot their legal t and i’s.

My personal experience with the ICO has shown their quite lenient to mistakes, if you can show that you’re your honest best, and getting better.

No point crushing companies that are trying, better of getting the ones that just don’t care.
>My problem with this 'outing' of CA is that Facebook explicitly commercially exists to harvest user data for Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity etc etc so they can profile us.

Not only conglomerates but anyone with the money and know-how. Example P&G proxy fight:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-procter-gamble-trian-inve...

Neubecker said he has seen several ads on his Facebook feed that link to Trian’s “Revitalize P&G” website and to videos of Peltz and former P&G Chief Financial Officer Clayton Daley, who is advising Trian.

The video of Peltz features him sitting in Trian’s Park Avenue, New York City headquarters, discussing P&G’s future, gripping a Trian-labeled coffee mug that reads “Sales up, expenses down.”

In response, P&G has called upon more than a century of product marketing experience with its own “Vote Blue” campaign.

One YouTube video begins with an image of P&G’s blue logo and a banner proclaiming “Every Single Vote Matters!”. A narrator and series of slick images offer step-by-step instructions, ending by asking viewers to vote for the blue proxy card and to throw Trian’s white card in the recycling bin.

Trian won this fight.
To be an entrepreneur you need either luck or creativity (probably both). The last being mostly a mix of openness and intelligence.

It's a high risk, high reward gamble.

If you can't stand that, it's probably not for you.

Some people can't stand the opposite, so it's their only option.
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Can you describe some of your coping mechanisms? I've been really struggling w/ ADHD over the past year. It's hindered professional and personal goals but seems virtually impossible to fix.
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> I suspect Hacker News would simply delete the user's information from the site and explain that they control no data on the subject.

No, that would be illegal. Hacker news can set itself up so that it doesn't keep user data longer than 30 days, and then it can just always say it has no data, but, excluding that, you can't respond to an export request by deleting the user's data and then telling them have no data - that violates the user's right to see what data you have on them.
Thinking there is more diversity between defined groups than within such groups - that is the definition of racism. And why do we listen to these people who define the groups a certain way anyway? This is no way for us to pull together and work together. We shouldn't be suckers for the divide and conquer approach.
I bought a battery for my father's phone recently [Nokia Lumia], came from a German company [1] who - it appears - produce their own batteries. The only other one's were either the original batteries, which are pretty old now; or were one's being sold on Amazon from China that had very dodgy looking review profiles and claimed to be Nokia product but didn't seem kosher.

Batteries are dangerous and finding trusted suppliers is hard.

[1] Found the German company, VHBW, by watching a tear-down where the reviewer was impressed with the safety features in the device.
I don't know about this. Is a teleporter a vehicle? What about a vehicle which doesnt have wheels, in a world built around assuming that vehicles have wheels?
> No wonder why China is fiercely anti-American

What gives you this idea? I don't think Chinese policy is particularly anti-American. Sure, they're not a lap-dog like Japan, but I don't see their policy being informed by any particular animosity towards the USA.
If you work at a company with a large code base, you quickly come to realize that few people know how everything works. Most people only know a single part of the code that they are working on intimately. It's this intimately part that scares some people. Because each person working on the code intimately creates the picture that each person knows everything about the code. Which just isn't true.

Start small and make sure you talk to the maintainers and make sure they are comfortable with you and what you want to work on. Introduce tiny patches to begin with. You'll disarm any gatekeepers this way, and get people on your side with you. The larger the project, the more politics involved generally.
Spotify’s experimental voice control feature is an excellent end run around Siri
When China hoards its hackers everyone loses
For a static personal site like this one, I’d recommend using caddy, which would’ve done most of these things out of the box.
For some it is the fear of delivering ugly/subpar code.
Also, we should praise companies that actually encourage and support repairing behavior.

Case in point: Baratza coffee grinders. They establish repairing as one of the companies top priorities and part of their mission.[0]

They sell almost every part necessary for fixing their grinders[1]. They deliberately make them easy do disassemble and reassemble and provide lots of instructions on how to fix most problems, both in print and in video.[2] They also have a program of buying used grinders to resell them refurbished. Whenever a model is upgraded they also sell the upgrading kit for owners of old models.

[0] https://www.baratza.com/social-responsibility/

[1] https://www.baratza.com/product-category/parts/

[2] https://www.baratza.com/troubleshooting/
WTF?

Look at all those people not calling for a return to chattel slavery. Look at all those people not calling for Venezuela to invade and take over. Look at all those people not calling for mass suicides. Look at all those billionaires not calling for a return to 90% taxation for the highest tax bracket and the institution of a global wealth tax.

Indeed it is a totalitarian land.

/sarcasm, in case it wasn't obvious.
Tim O'Reilly remembers the 1990s 'Vi vs. Emacs paintball battles'
GPDR does not, and government checklists can not, ever, cause companies to have acceptable infosec. Any attempt at security-by-bureaucracy is inherently doomed to failure. This is why business consulting groups’ “security” divisions are the butt of countless jokes among security researchers. No bureaucrat, executive, or politician can ever make enough forms and flow charts to secure data.
I like this suspicion, but I don't buy into anymore. I think there is a floor to quality. However, even what we call cheap quality shoes nowdays are typically above the quality of what you used to be able to get many places, period.

More, if you want shoes to last a long time, I have found nothing beats having multiple sets and not wearing the same shoes constantly. I have not empirically studies this, though. So, if anyone has, I'd be delighted to see the results. I just know that if I buy an expensive set of shoes for me, they last about 6 months if I constantly wear them. I can, of course, resole them. But they are not magically doing better than the cheaper shoes I can also buy. Rotating shoes so that I wear a different set day to day makes a huge difference in how long they last.
Alright you two. Time to pull them out and compare. References please.
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I'm reminded of Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft. We have lost the ability, and sometimes the right when it comes to John Deere or Mercedes, to tinker on our own things. This is exciting news and maybe the next generation won't be so willing to just throw away a piece of crap and buy a new piece of crap.
Ahh I see thanks!

The strategy I’m utilizing is an order flow based momentum strategy .. no need for all the common indicators most retail traders use.

I initially started with a dual divergence strategy that utilized divergence on macd and rsi, but this order flow strategy is way more accurate. 90%+ out of 100 trades.

I’m not really interested in selling the system, maybe at some point down the road I’ll start some kind of fund; ofcourse then I’d need more than a couple strategies.
> You're either racist or you're not.

If only it were this simple...

In reality, life doesn't seem to be constrained to our underdeveloped conceptual boxes, no matter how much we get attached to them.
Short answer it is needed for a few things in all animals, so a source is needed. Most animals can synthesize it.

In evolution, sometimes a mutation will take away the ability to synthesize a vitamin. If the organism gets enough of it from diet, this is not disadvantageous and won't be selected out.

Vitamin D deficiency is present in all primates. So that give you some notion of how long ago the synthesis was lost.

Vitamin C is similar since it is readily available in fresh meat and many plants. It is absent in Haplorhini (the dry-nosed primates).
from my original Bloomberg link in post about FB

'Politicians running for office can be lucrative ad buyers. For those who spend enough, Facebook offers customized services to help them build effective campaigns, the same way it would Unilever NV or Coca-Cola Co. ahead of a product launch.

While Facebook declined to give the size of its politics unit, one executive said it can expand to include hundreds during the peak of an election, drawing in people from the company’s legal, information security and policy teams.'

It is harder to find information about FB's data sales policies (which are very opaque unless you speak to people high up in marketing large companies and their activities). FB's ad platform information is pretty transparent, but the quarterly numbers don't really add up for me based on spend by large firms like Procter & Gamble etc in those areas...
Awesome!

Yeah I’m thinking there will be more tax benefits if I traded via the business than personally.
Laptops and batteries are the mind blowing settings nowdays. A laptop is virtually unusable in about 5 years because the battery is effectively worthless. Buying a new one is expensive, ish. But way cheaper than a new laptop. And typically gets my laptop back to full operations quickly enough.
This is what I like about Rust and Rust's traits. You write a generic and specify the properties of the generic type parameter, for example that it must implement another trait or something.
I bought my kid a smashed phone, if he wants an unsmashed one I've offered to help repair it. Hope he takes the bait.
That’s not totally true. GDPR only applies if the data is stored in an “filing system”. Things like logs almost certainly don’t fall under that. (Unless you where feeding them into a data mining system, that would change things)
I was in Japan a month ago and these are everywhere! Pretty much every where I went (esp in Tokyo), they're in front of the restaurant.

After awhile, you'll notice they don't vary too much one to the other. But it's still a fascinating UX. I'm used to looking up photos on Yelp and yet I still found myself looking closely at...plastic!
Amiga: Gold 2.8 for Vampire has been released
Any company can be asked about gdpr, you can ignore it, and on the whole jurisdiction isn't going to cross boundaries (the u.s does believe it's federal laws apply globally, but it's rare they enforce it)

However should you ever do business or go to an eu country you may struggle.

Just like if you insult the Thai King, then go to Bangkok on holiday, you may well get arrested. Or if your company is accused of breaking the dmca and then go to the u.s on holiday you get arrested.
Contracts can absolutely require you to deliver something in the future. That's often the entire point. Penalties for failure to deliver often depend on circumstance -- e.g. "our bargaining position got better and we want a higher price" isn't an acceptable excuse but "oops, looks like an act of god destroyed your chips, now you'll have to pay the higher price" is.

Laws play a role too. The most egregious market manipulation tactics are often illegal, especially when monopolies are involved. Of course, this doesn't do much to dissuade the manipulation itself, but it does make companies jump through hoops to disguise what they're doing. Samsung can't send a video of someone in a Darth Vader costume saying "The deal has changed." to their customers, because that would be a smoking gun and easy to prosecute. "Oops, 3% of the product was destroyed, looks like prices will just have to go up" achieves the same end but keeps plausible deniability in tact.

Or it could be a legitimate accident. There is certainly no shortage of things to go wrong.

Just remember: Hanlon's razor is trivial to exploit. Live by Hanlon's razor, die by Hanlon's razor.
No.

Long answer: people actually tried to do it to Facebook, Google, etc. As a response, they each started offering self-service tools to download your data.
An interview of Ward-Perkins, to get a flavor of his critique: http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs/perkins.pdf
If you did that, in addition to geo-blocking (or redirecting to a page "Not available in your country") I would think (but don't know) that would be enough.

Then a user would need to take active steps (VPN, etc.) to sidestep your clear intent to not provide service to him, which would probably create some sort of "circumventing security" offense on his part.
Does it only scrape arxiv or other sites too?
> but there's a difference between "I don't want to be a customer of certain kinds of businesses" and "such businesses shouldn't exist at all".

There are companies tracking the SSID of my phone with wifi beacons to find out which stores I was physically visiting. How do I opt-out of that?

Sorry to bring the tired "you're not the customer, you're the product" line, but the way the industry is set up today, I'm starting to doubt there is so much difference between the two options.

Tracking and data collection is baked into so many services nowadays that you'd have to be extremely attentive as a consumer to avoid any tracking - also be prepared to face a lot of inconveniences and restrictions. If possible at all.
How is this different from creating a channel in Telegram?
Use Machine Learning to help tech pr*cks communicate better ;)
> and a firm tweaking my emotions to get me to abstain from voting with false information or to vote against my best interests with false information.

Better ban 24 hour news networks then. And any form of political advertising.
Why sexism is rife in Silicon Valley
Too bad they didn't get Steven Hawking to sign on :)
Sure, but how do you prioritize which ones to solve? The capacity for a society to solve problems is not infinite.

Furthermore, how do you define what a "problem" is for a society? It seems "because it happened to me" is a relatively weak definition.
Could you elaborate?

The Nordic countries are often seen as some of the most liberal ones. How much more liberal does (say) Sweden need to become before it meets conservatism, and what would that look like?
Why do we need this again? Who are your competitors? Twitter, Slack?

I see very little value in this tool, all this is going to become is another place to vault all your data behind proprietary protocol.
It's all over the literature too. Hell, half of Three Body Problem, the darling of a few years ago, is actually about the Cultural Revolution. No spoilers but suffice to say that the poisoned seeds sown during the ruinous waste of the Cultural Revolution precipitate everything in the story.
nginx + ngx_pagespeed module also.
I am not clear what you are up to, but you might want to read up on what Warren Buffet did in his youth. He kept investors in his fund below some cut off point that would have required him to register it or something. I think the cut off was around 100 people.
The DSM-IV definition for ADHD requires "clinically significant impairment in social, academic or occupational environments".

This was (somewhat controversially) softened to "clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with, or reduce the quality of, social, academic, or occupational functioning" in DSM-V (2013).
Looking this over, and looking at the startups I've either worked for or applied at, I really don't see how it would take more than a couple of hours to fill out the bulk of this form (the parts that would be reusable for every request after it), and then a couple of database queries for the specific data for the user.
And so the company send a spare one in the box when you buy it, yes? Because they wouldn't be so crass as to make you hunt down a part that cost them a few pennies and disables the machine would they?

Same issue for me with food mixer, mostly metal, key part is plastic and gets stripped, can't be replaced. Same with bread maker, rubber belt decays and company don't make the part available.
The minimax principle is used in chess and go and any other competitive two player perfect knowledge game. What improves is the selection of moves to evaluate and the quality of the board evaluation. Chess and Go absolutely use minimax with sleight, but important, modifications. Deep learning extensions with Alpha Go were specifically for move selection and board evaluation.

Alpha beta pruning with heuristics is one of the most fundamental extensions of minimax. It is still minimax.

The alpha go system still clearly applies only to perfect information 2 player games, because it is fundamentally extended minimax.

Edit: I'm not saying the heuristic extensions of alpha go, or the reinforcement learning of zero, aren't brilliant and important. That doesn't take away from the basic fact that it is an algorithm for perfect info 2 player games and one of them at a time (even if modifications can adapt it to other games). Heuristics will be fundamental to general intelligence, but alpha go is not general intelligence.
I’ve never liked the notion that folks don’t care about the environment unless they agree with one plan to fix it.
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Great idea.
I'd also like to see a tax based on environmental cost, the way some jurisdictions have "disposal fees" for certain electronics like printers.

The first thing that comes to mind are the throw away toys and gag gifts and dollar store items, but extends to anything that is poorly made or single-use, especially things where the battery is not meant to be replaced.

The burden needs to be put on manufacturer's creating more waste into the world.
Dynamic Hash Tables (1988) [pdf]
echo "Being able to afford good boots" | s/"good boots"/"good decisions"
Is it this Japanese chemical plant explosion from 1993 perhaps? http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Semiconductor-Industry-Fac...
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Let the robots have the damn jobs – all of them
* MAC, not SSID. Pardon.
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> What’s better: being culturally distinct and having a failing society (it’s certainly failing for some people), or allowing some more immigration and adapting? I find your comment curious considering the context of this article

Japan will be fine. it's already an overpopulated Archipelago so they do not need immigration. There is nothing wrong with wanting to preserve one's culture and way of life. Japan isn't a failing society by any standards, and certainly not the american one.
You just have specialization. Most places I've worked that deal with card payments, for example, opt for payment processors that lets them tokenize payment data because it means they don't have to store it with the according additional risks of having a copy of the payment data in their database. There are still plenty of payment provider options.
There is an excellent scene in Wim Wenders Tokyo Ga[0] showing wax food being made in Tokyo in the 80's. The scene itself is incredibly therapeutic to watch for some reason. But that could be Wim's filming style.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2Ej3AZ4c0
Both "sides" are just the residual echoes from mainstream narratives that are used to divide and control people - red (/blue) herrings in this context. Everybody essentially just wants individual autonomy and localied sanity, primarily differing on pain points, focus, and analysis framework.

It's unsurprising that many of the people who have done the work to seek out repair cafes have also traveled far from the mainstream authoritarian narrative, and have half baked "crazy" theories filling the gaps. I don't know that much can be done to help convergence, besides tearing down that mainstream narrative so that it alienates less in the first place.

And yes, it is frustrating listen to ignorant rants. But if the flavor of ignorance substantially matters to you, then you need to examine your own assumptions.
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It would be interesting to compare the views of those conscripted versus those that voluntarily signed up.
Tinder’s parent, Match Group, is suing dating app Bumble for patent infringement
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Yes, but that's fiction.
I must delete personal data "without undue delay". This opens up a few questions, which as far as I can tell the text of the regulation provides no guidance for.

* I (like most companies) have a variety of unstructured and/or immutable logs. I can't just DROP FROM table WHERE. Is it acceptable to delete this data by waiting a few days for a retention period to expire, or do I have to retrofit deletion functionality in?

* What if the retention period is a week, or a month? What if I've been advised to establish those longer retention periods for other reasons?

* If a bug is found in the data deletion workflow, is it an undue delay to say we'll tackle it next sprint? Do we need to drop everything and make it a priority now?

* Once we've resolved a personal data deletion bug, is it an undue delay to roll it out slowly over a week? Does it matter if this is our standard rollout process, or if there's a risky hotfix process we're deliberately choosing not to use?
I think stabilize is a better word, I hardly call a few percentage changes "coming down"
No, they're already localised into 22 languages: https://support.what3words.com/hc/en-us/articles/203105501-H...

But what3words is proprietary and requires licensing, while Google's codes are open source.

Disclaimer: I used to work on Google Maps, including geocoding, but not this initiative.
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This article is a little unclear, and the title arguably exaggerated. They're actually tracking where students swipe their student ID cards. Which, yes, is a form of location tracking. They don't have any idea where students are going off campus.
i paid $75 for a decent 240gb SSD back in 2014.

The price for a similarly decent 240gb SSD is still around $75 today.

Back then I thought 512gb/480gb would be available for $75 in 2017.
JavaScript doesn't necessary have to slow down the page. I recently optimized a full blown web app with basically just JavaScript to fully load in less then 200 ms.
lovely story! i think there are two factors at play that dont get mentioned enough:

youtube and the internet at large has made diagnosing and fixing lots of problems much simpler and quicker.

amazon, ebay, and 3d printing and other cheap ways of making things have created lots of cheap, decent replacement parts that can arrive at your house in 2 days.

these two factors make repairing things yourself a couple orders of magnitude easier than 20 years ago, say. i cannot believe its only now really coming to the fore