skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If we are all deceived then that claim is false, regardless of its utility.

Not really, knowledge is relative: Our claim of "The earth goes around the sun" claim is equally true, regardless of whether we are in a simulation or not. If we are in a simulation, there may not be a real earth, and real gravity may function differently than our gravity. Obviously this piece of knowledge is about our own earth and our own gravity.

If we are in a simulation, then the claims we make are about the simulation and are still provable. If one of use were removed from the simulation, they would be forced to potentially learn an entirely new set of rules and facts. Their knowledge about the our simulation wouldn't be false, but it would have to qualified as about a particular simulation rather than as about reality.

> The factory is made of steel (utility) its products are made of wood (truth), that utility features in the production mechanism does not mean it features in the product.

I don't understand this metaphor.

Truth and Utility are measures we use to evaluate beliefs or claims. In your metaphor, they would be the QA process in the factory. At best they are the QA process as the factory builds itself.

The Doctrine of Uniformity, the scientific method, mathematical proof, visual proof, trust in experts, holy texts, and really the entire sum of our existing knowledge are what make up the factory that produces our beliefs and claims.

> My observation about "the simulation hypothesis" is that it isnt a hypothesis at all.

It certainly is a hypothesis, but may not be a scientific (i.e. testable) hypothesis if there are no associated testable predictions.

I don't get people like you who seem to think there is some magical set of "true claims" that somehow exist outside of any knowledge structure. To me, claims can only be made within a knowledge structure and those claims can only have meaning (let alone truth) by being evaluated within that knowledge structure. I'd be curious to hear you explain how it could be anything else.

I personally think our sense of "truth" arose as an instinctive heuristic for estimating the utility of a claim given our limited existing knowledge and experience.
I was sure this was going to be an MTU issue. I'm glad it was a bit more exciting than that.
All true, but the fact that “hanging chad” became part of the national lexicon for a while really speaks to a poorly design ballot.
My new favorite thing is libraries that track every mouse move you make, every scroll action, every key you type, etc., including things you pasted into a textbox by mistake, and send it back over a websocket or something to a third-party service so that the website's UX people later can see how real people interact with their website and optimize it. Google for "website mouse tracking" or "website session replay" to see a bunch of startups that do this (many of whom have ads at the top).

I am incredibly excited for the GDPR to make these products too much of a regulatory burden to be worth considering.
Yes you are correct. What are the costs compared to the benefits? Is the additional privacy going to be worth it? If we discover a few years from now that European companies are sharing roughly the same amount of data with other companies as their American counterparts, just documenting it better, have you gained anything?
I think that's it!
I certainly hope so. I'm not sure about Germany though. I have a feeling they're much more sticking to the rules (My company is based in Germany, but I'm not German, so it's kind of an outsider's observation).

But it's not even just about getting to a point of getting fined or under some kind of investigation or audit. It can be all those clever customers who would use some automated service or a template, just to waste your time ... At least that's what the original post is about, but I hope it won't be too common.
Sometimes inactive just means complete. I think SCXML was specified a while ago, I can't vouch for any particular library, but it's possible the library does what it set out to do.
Perhaps services that help build mailing lists will offer a feature of handling GDPR requests on your behalf.
That really isn't the only reason the gdpr can cause headaches you'd rather avoid.
> Either way, ancient Northern Europeans had to mutate into pale-skinned milk drinkers, because their land is not very sunny.

A (perhaps pedantic) correction: it's more accurate to say that mutants who were pale-skinned milk drinkers were more successful at surviving and proliferating in Northern Europe, and so the population gained this mutation. Natural selection is not a driven process, it doesn't have an objective; it is, however, a driving process, where it favors one aspect of a population over another.

I think the correct wording is always important when talking about natural selection because these processes are more stochastic then we tend to believe.
Ironically, the amp link isn't loading for me. Non-amp link:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/scott-ke...

In any case, this Atlantic article was beat to the punch by Ars Technica two days ago:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/scott-kellys-medical...

HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16599612
It's incredible how process definition and adherence provided a competitive advantage even thousands of years ago.
Japanology had a great episode on this. I highly recommend the whole series. https://youtu.be/YULgJf_48FQ
Lol, low cost alternative. Latex is free!
I think it's very clear written. It's a nightmare letter because it ticks all the boxes, so to speak -- author asks all possible GDPR-related questions he can ask and business is legally required to respond to.
If a business cannot afford to properly handle and audit customer data then it should avoid any sort of collection. Businesses that produce value from customer data should be able to pay for necessary protections.
Hancock doesn't enjoy much reputation in the scientific community, with good reason: science is about what we can reasonably believe to be true, Hancock is more about letting the imagination fly, based on cherry-picking something here and there. It doesn't mean that his theory about a 'mother-culture' will eventually prove totally incorrect, but there is ample reason to remain skeptical as long as there is no "smoking gun" so to speak.

One good reason to await solid evidence (if such a reason might at all be needed) is that the idea of an ancient, superior culture has been used in ideology before: the Atlantis story was one of the cornerstones of the Nazi mythology [0], but of course without the archaeological evidence to back it up. No need to repeat past mistakes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_archaeology
You are being completely disingenuous here.

1. It is not normal marketing to have tens of millions of Facebook account data on your own private server. This isn't standard practice by any company large or small. Standard practice is to use Facebook's advertising system which does not reveal this data.

2. The wrongdoing wasn't just "breaching the terms of service" it was the transfer of account data from one party to another for the purposes of influencing an election.

3. It is not innuendo.
What about critical infrastructure?
Dams which could flood big areas are one example which would be absolutely destructive
Our discussion is centered around perception and semiotics. How is it that Trump benefits from what you perceive as a liability? To you, his past dealings and the controversy surrounding him communicate that he should not be President of the United States. Yet, these dealings and this controversy are viewed by his base as bona fides. Applying critical thinking this problem is difficult when the concept of critical thinking itself has been abducted to mean "conclusion: Trump is bad". Diversity of thought, empathy, and dignity are not afforded to Trump supporters by the left. It certainly goes both ways, as can be seen by the degree to which his supporters support him out of spite for leftist orthodoxy. The complaint that the left heaps praise on Islam and non-European culture while denegrating Christianity and European culture is very real, and there is much to convince Trump supporters of this. Trump goes far out of his way to cause multiculturalist backers of tolerance and empathy to treat his supporters with disrespect, judgement, and complete lack of empathy. Rather than fretting about who is an asshole and who is good and just, I seek to understand what is happening and why.
1) Facebook collects and builds a profile about you
2) Facebook allows third parties to target advertisements based on the profile
3) Advertisements are tracked
4) Browsing habits and advertisement tracking reconstructs who was targeted
I wanted to send you an email or a twitter DM, but your HN profile doesn't list contact info. (I'm anonymous because I am a moderately visible figure in the tech community and don't want what I say to result in my company getting flamed.)

I wanted to tell you how impressed I am with how patiently and clearly you've responded throughout this comment section.

I likewise think the intent of the law is admirable: prevent future Equifax-es, give people control over their data, and centralize the requirements so that companies need to comply with a single EU standard, instead of 28 country-specific ones. But the amount of discretion left to regulators and the lack of any sort of proportionality built into the law make this all very scary. We are expecting a fifteen person small business to have a totally impractical degree of _documentation_ and _formal_ processes, which are 1) very expensive to produce, 2) totally unnecessary for an otherwise reasonable and well-intentioned group of people, and 3) crucially, basically orthogonal to actual data privacy and security best practices.

And even if you comply with the letter of the law, just reading and understanding an email like the one in this post will require hundreds of dollars of company time – beyond reading it, it will need to be escalated, someone will need to loop in a few other people to help with any new technical details, and so forth. If the fully-loaded cost of a white collar employee is $75/hr, this all gets expensive very quickly, and that cost can be levied on a company by an email that can be sent in one minute. Nobody is going to bring down Google with GDPR-spam but it would not be hard to do serious damage to a company of ten people.

There are a lot of well-meaning thoughts in this thread from people who are frustrated at the status quo but unfortunately don't understand how little this law will do to change it and how huge its costs will be.

When you try to deliver a novel product and build a business around it, you are forced to develop a strong sense of practicality and an understanding of the machinery of a business. Most people have never done this. Despite being very intelligent, a lot of these people haven't experienced the realities of creating a business, and as a consequence they don't really understand just how harmful this kind of law can be.

I admire how patient and articulate you are. (And I think your thoughts are clear and your point of view is correct and badly needed.) Would love to buy you a beer sometime.
How do views on nuclear weapons/energy even come up? What are people bringing in?
Do you have recommended improvements/modifications? Sounds like fun.
> You people should pick your battles. It would help if you knew the battlefield first.

I am so glad you know more than the UK, EU, US etc governments who have identified Russia as the primary source of instability for elections.

And since when has this been an either/or scenario. You can focus on both Russia and China.
Capacity is the same, but how about durability of performance of those drives?
If you use a product like SalesIQ it creates noise in the dashboard as users enter and leave (and hit interim targets you define)
Who said anything about adtech companies? I'm talking about risk mitigation here, even for fully compliant companies.
> requiring students to live in dorms with students taking the same classes.

> Sure, I think it should be opt-in.

So which should it be? You seem to be Co trash ting your self here.
I think you didn't mean it, from your later comments, but you came across as saying we shouldn't only talk about My Lai because the other side did bad things too. Yes, they did bad things, but it doesn't excuse us. We claim we are better. Just like in the Iraq War 2 and our prisons where we treated people horribly, it doesn't excuse it just because someone else also did bad things. I think that's a core principal.

It doesn't lessen the horror of atrocities if the other side did it.
I usually register on non essential websites with a custome address like website.com@domain. Over the years I experienced several hidden data breaches as I look once in a while into my spam folder. This regulation gives me as a customer a good feeling as businesses are required now to think hard about their data protection strategy. As a business owner I have no problem answering these requests as I designed my software with data protection from the get go. Now it’s at least a requirement for all businesses which is good. This is a huge benefit for the consumer.
Personality Tests and the Downfall of Democracy
My secret is time management. Outside of your daily obligations where are you spending time? Can any of those things be swapped out for more time to learn X?

Yeah this has been the key to me learning things faster, finding more time.

Another secret, find podcasts with people who are experts at X that talk about X.

Surround yourself with as much as X as you can.

I’ve used these techniques to learn, JavaScript, ruby, php, java, swift and more.
The same way anything else becomes fake news: a headline that is seemingly the product of a mental function that optimises for the most sensational emotion under the loosest possible construction of the facts (and sometimes even looser than that).
That's just not correct. It's an inability to focus on things that are not deemed interesting at the moment, and an inability to pretend otherwise. Give someone with ADHD traits a tricky problem that they believe in solving and you'll have to tear them away from it and force them to eat and sleep until it's solved.
Which is also why these modern cars have turned a minor belt failure into an expensive catastrophic failure, often destroying much of the engine.

I'd hardly call it a design to aspire to.

I'd probably compare it more closely with a system where everything receives a mutable God object.
You have a lot of informed opinions because of course you were close to the war and your family was. I hope to see you continue to share your ideas, even if you are suffering some criticism.
What's the risk of storing an IP address. IP addresses aren't people and most people have a carrier natted or rotating address.

The real question is what value does storing the IP address even hold?
As a huge civ fan, I couldn't agree more with this analysis. Civ2 is still my favorite, I wish we could fork it and just enhance/enrich that version. I know freeciv exists, it just isn't quite the same IMHO though

In particular I found it way too easy to get a tech advantage and march across the map in 5.
https://youtu.be/8QKzS_w_Ko0
How many kids ? I often wonder how they would like seeing how stuff work instead of just using them. Also linking with future physics/math education.
No it's different, and thought to have evolved independently. See e.g. http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou...
I'm involved in GDPR-compliance taskforce in our company, and I can answer this question.

GDPR is very broad and open to interpretations, which will happen only when someone got caught, i.e. during first legal battles.

So, transition period does not really help, be that 2 years or 4. We need to see how this law gonna be enforced by regulators, and which common IT practices constitute breaking the law and which are not.
That's a great article that always deserves a read once or twice a year.

> Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

This sentence so succinctly summarizes the current "blockchain" craze that it's hard to believe he wrote it in 2001.
Yes they have considered it. And they have identified they are Russian.

You really think governments wouldn't have checked this ?
Development process in the early days of a startup
Talking to a lawyer is a great idea, along with talking with an accountant too. You have way more tax advantages being a business versus individuals. If you need help it will be easier to hire someone if you already have an operational business up and running to help management of your business operations and administrative duties. Though if your business plan starts to pan out it might be hard to not have customers even if it is a small amount.
Your blog is one of the best sources to get new traffic for your app. Search content marketing if you're not doing it already. I knew a client who go at least 20 signups per day using a blog post that ranked #1 on Google.

Of course your content has to be amazing and needs a few backlinks from industry leaders or authority sites. Also the most important part of your blog post is the bottom section where you have your call to action to convert the reader into a subscriber, so don't ever use a generic click here type CTA.

E.g. If your blog post is about 10 ways to lose weight, then add a resource box below which says "It's time to get started, download this FREE time-line pdf I prepared for you which helped me and 1000 members of this website lose over 10 lbs in 22 days" and bam.. there you have a new signup!

P.S. Goes without saying but you must give good advice. You have to win their trust, the article, the pdf must give them what they're searching for (give them 80% and remaining 20% after payment).
The company has openings, they just aren’t advertised. Cold email the companies you dream of working for!
The CLOUD Act, however bad it may be, is a reaction to the US vs Microsoft case, wherein Microsoft tried to resist the government grabbing data.

Microsoft doesn't pay academic shills? Come on.
I ride a 48 year old Honda motorcycle. This baffles some people who didn't know a vehicle of that age could still be on the road.

It's not mint or original but it's nice. Everything works fine. The valves need to be adjusted soon. The transmission isn't silky but it shifts, probably a bent shift fork from abusive riding some time in the last 5 decades.

Everything about it is designed to be maintained by the average person. With a little mechanical knowledge and some patience anything on that bike can be fixed. It even comes with a tool kit.

There are a couple of repair shops in town that rent out spaces to work on bikes like this. They keep a mechanic on staff to provide help and even supply tools. I rent a garage from a friend and a few of us keep our old bikes going there.

Not all old things were built like this but this bike is a shining example of how well made things can last lifetimes.
A REVOLUTION IN HIGH-SPEED INTER-CITY TRAVEL
Prion Disease Can Lurk in Your Brain for 30 Years Before Quickly Killing You
Shouldn't they store things like vegetable seeds or other products you can grow yourself so you're not worried about shelf life, it takes less space and is healthier?
It's both. Very little goes on in Russia without the knowledge and/or support of Putin.
Quick-Start Budget [pdf]
Why the nerve agent that poisoned the ex-Russian spy is so mysterious
Staring at Firefly Aerospace’s hot rocket-engine flames in a Texas pasture
With guile and Racket, a non-linear reverse! at the end of a map is as fast as doing a non-tail-recursive map.

There are trade-offs for both. The TCO'd map is a lot faster to restore when using continuations, but is not multi-shot continuation safe.
I appreciate that you want to do right by your children. I'm glad you wound up with a better situation under conditions of misdiagnosis. When medication is clearly unnecessary, I agree that better not to.

But it is not true to say that every single case is the same.

Making universal statements about the nature of ADHD and universal statements about available treatments can deter people from seeking and receiving help that would work for them.

Experts are more likely to diagnose correctly than layfolk. No single error changes that fact. Insofar as people are deterred from seeking expert attention, the net effect is harmful.

Attributing the differences in our experiences to a uniform medical conspiracy against the public doesn't bear on whether treatments work or not for different cases.

My parents cared too. Nobody told them about ADHD, because it just wasn't a commonly-known thing in that time and place. I was smart enough to stumble forward through school, with their love and heartbreak and the dedication of many frustrated teachers. But I would've done a lot better with just a little treatment. And I find it hard not to take personally the idea that others should be discouraged from seeking help from a professional.
I'll volunteer (will email later). I don't have an android phone but will happily pick one up if this ends up being something I can/should use (been meaning to switch anyways).
Good point about the portability and the emojis idea is clever, but I think the main purpose was to be able to speak then easily.
All I can say is I feel like adhd meds saved my life. If you’re struggling, at least talk to a doctor to find out options. Don’t run away from learning more.

But there is no blanket treatment for everyone.
Zoho Creator is also an incredible rapid development platform, with webhooks other features for business process automation, as well as integration with other apps. It also has mobile capabilities that include an offline mode. There's a freemium version, but it can scale over a thousand users, if needed. Awesome platform at an unbeatable price.
A few things from my own experience -
- Be patient. Everyone has different learning curve
- Focus on processes. When something breaks, find out how can that be avoided through process
- Create a 'I or We did it' board - let people share when they feel they did something cool.
- Use Trello effectively
- Always give feedback in private or a comfortable place like cafe
- Spend 15 mins every week one team member
Standardizing Node.js Version in an NPM Package
Billing and marketing (such as double opt in lists) data is private data.
> bake privacy into your company from the start. Create a culture that takes it seriously and threads it through everything it does.

Replace "privacy" with "security" above, and you'll get the widely accepted best practice approach: "you cannot bolt on security later", etc. Likely it will work for privacy equally well.
C library public headers are commonly two levels deep to so that projects using them can add the "include" directory to their header search path and in their code have #include "<libname>/header.h". It helps avoid filename clashes.
And obviously I won’t be admitting to murder, therefore I must be a murderer?

The linked article, once again, provides no proof (or even mention) of any data being sold by Facebook. I have no idea why you keep piling on irrelevant articles.