skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the geography is important, there are still more affordable locales in the Bay Area without being in SF or SV. Dublin/Pleasanton/Livermore/Tracy, Richmond/Pinole/El Sobrante, even Newark/Hayward/San Leandro are all traveling distance to VCs, and it's actually possible to buy a house for some of the employees who wish to do so.

I wonder the same thing as you though, there are so many great cities in this vast country, and we are a highly connected society thanks to technology. Why is physical geography still important? You could set up in another city, and even after plane tickets to Palo Alto to meet with VCs, would still come out ahead.
> have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat

For some context in case anyone was curious, please see the page numbered 116 (but 118 of 240 of the PDF) from this report from the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/111213a-lwop-complete-repo...
Or Enron.
As a PCI compliant company I already treat data as a liability. So much data collection is unnecessary, or the the result of defaults, like logs left on that nobody ever looks at.
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. If a business can't do that, it indicates that they don't have control of the information in the first place. Most of the regulation is about adding routines, documenting the data management and updating user consents. Smaller companies under can skip some of the documentation.

The only major requirement that can not be fixed by documentation or updating user consent, is the requirement to not store data more than necessary, which depends on your business. If you need to store data for a longer time period than absolutely required, you need to either anonymise it or delete. If you run a business and need to store purchase histories to meet other legal requirements, you have a valid reason to store it. If you use it to track which purchases a specific user has done to optimise targeted advertisement you will probably have to anonymise it.

This can of course be a complex task, but I don't think it is a good argument against GDPR. Why should I lose control of my personal information just because it costs money to process it responsibly? At some point a regulation has to be implemented and some companies will unfortunately be impacted even if their intentions were good.
Plastic anything. Low quality screws getting stripped. Flimsy wiring. (I'm not the OP, but I'm speaking from my experience.)
The same survival instinct was also shown by German soldiers returning home on leave from the Eastern Front in WW2. Many of them instinctively shot any dog they saw in the street, as they had learned to do on the front to protect themselves from dog-borne bombs.
The threshold was $100 in Louisiana in 1996 for the case referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607471
Some famous runner who's name I can't remember and probably didn't exist anyway once said "I can't run 200 miles. But I can run 1 mile - 200 times".

Start from page 1 and iterate from there.
A lot of specialised tools can be replaced by elbow grease and ingenuity. In fact, that's half the fun and victory if you manage to fix something. Usually a set of appropriately sized screwdrivers and various pliers is all you need.

> If I open it, I am afraid I won't be able to put it back together.

That happens, but: the thing was broken anyway, and, now it's twice broken and disassembled, so you can throw it away in good conscience, hopefully having figured out how to approach it correctly the next time, so it's not even a waste of time.
You could get access to the full friends‘ user profile data in Graph API earlier than v2.0. If you had 500 friends, and granted friends_* OAuth permissions to an app, the app had access to 501 user profiles.
Not sure what you mean by 'structure' tbh. I have numerous wikis ranging from my generic, catch-all 'Notes' wiki to subject-specific, project-specific and (more recently) one that takes advantage of the excellent Journalling features of Zim.

I shy away from much hierarchical organisation (on the assumption that's what you meant by 'structure') being a long-time user and aficionado of the Original Wiki (Ward's Wiki). All I want is the simplified markup and (mostly) the wikilinks-made-by-CamelCase.
> To enable efficient manual counting, we'd have to redesign our ballots so that they could be physically separately into federal, state, local sub-ballots, for separate processing.

This is how Australia does it. It works fine.
> A small subset of people buy shitty products (1$ bicycle lamps, lights, cheap-as-shit appliances like clocks, hoovers

This is not so surprising if you consider that both the desire to repair and the tendency to buy less expensive things can be driven by the overall drive to spend less, perhaps due to personal financial circumstances.

It's a well understood phenomenon that people bias the financial short term over the long term in quick decisions.

EDIT: In addition, many times, the higher quality option for a given type of product is many times more expensive than the "cheap" option, due to things like market segmentation. Given the lack of higher quality middle-priced option, it's pretty rational for people to choose the cheaper one.
Depends on how intensive your game is and how fast your computer is and how much memory you have and so on. Personally I can not afford a top-of-the-line computer.
Look at where this discussion started. It started from someone talking about the Viet Cong and the US. Then you said there is no such thing as the US because it's so big and diverse. In this context the US has to be seen as one unit or how else can you describe a war?

As far as Sweden goes I bet the people living north of the Arctic circle have little in common with people living in Stockholm.
Is anyone else at least a little curious what sulfur concrete smells like (on Mars)?
same principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXglwbyMydM
Have you tried stock Android lately.

I just switched to a cheap (<$300) Android phone from an iPhone and it's been better in every way except the camera. iPhone used to be miles ahead of Android, but the lack of product focus and the decreasing attention to detail at Apple have allowed Android to catch up.

One example: my iPhone shit the bed recently and I tried factory resetting it. In the OOBE, I had to enter my Apple ID credentials and do two-factor auth 3 separate times. Apparently the different screens were implemented by different teams and didn't share the authentication context. I only had to sign in to my Android once.
Rethinking Approaches to Diversity And Inclusion
This analogy does not capture the problem that the human brain constantly forgets...
You're making the parent's point. This is disproportionately burdensome to companies that don't have people dedicated to writing policies or lawyers dedicated to reviewing them.
Australia also has these features in its electoral systems. The measures are simple, highly visible and effective.
Ask HN: What are the resources to learn hacking?
What is the nature of this subsidy?
Their USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter is a small detail. If they paid attention to it, they would stop selling it. It's an insult to customers that they even continue to sell it.
Not OP but yes that is correct, capacitors work by building potential. A functioning capacitor starts at 0 and moves to ∞.
> Talked to a few of the GDPR "Consultants" and as soon as people have some more in-depth questions how A or B can be handled, you just get a surprised look. I'm all for better protecting my information but if you introduce these regulations you, as the regulator, also have to have answers to basic questions.

Talk to better consultants. Consultants are not the regulator. The regulation itself is in plain language. What do you consider is not thought through?
There are sentence maximums for different crimes for a reason, and often people are unjustly sentenced to the maximum level. With your analogy we should just have the option to sentence everyone to life for any transgression and then just tell everyone "but they won't".

I don't understand why this is constantly handwaved away with statements that claim to tell the future. If you are correct that the violations aren't as large in some cases, that can codify it a bit better than "trust us".
Unfortunately our (speaking as a Canadian) system doesn't seem to be truly liberal or democratic. Every five years or so, we elect a parliamentary elite selected for us by the Toronto business community. The the parliament does its best to distract the public from the true policy objectives of the government (i.e. growing the fortunes of their moneyed masters by all means necessary). this system only barely meets the loosest definition of democracy and is closer in spirit to a republic or an oligarchy. It seems that whatever liberal tendencies our government has is a holdover from last century and losing ground to American-style neoliberalism.

What worries me is not that this system might fail, but that it be replaced by a state-of-the art dictatorship that treats the population as slaves.
Providing a download link to a TLS-encrypted site that's only accessible to a logged in user would probably be the easiest way to do that.
For firsthand testimony by American soldiers involved in similar operations — I cannot recommend Winter Soldier, the 1972 documentary film, highly enough.

It's something that every American adult deserves to see.

Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67rpbi

Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x681bui

In short: The film records a 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War event in Detroit, where dozens of veterans spoke in public, to the media and on the record, for the first time, about war crimes that they had seen and taken part in, just months or years before.
It isn't.

You'll note that they carefully failed to disabuse anyone of the notion that the entire thing took place online.
I'm not sure the article is even correct. There's always been space for suitcases next to the driver. Passengers never sit next to the driver - all 6 seats are in the rear. This new cab presumably still has that space available.

The boot (trunk) of a standard black cab is tiny, and never used for luggage anyway. 3 of the rear seats (the rearward facing ones) fold up and down, so in normal use (when there's less than 6 passengers) there's plenty of space for large suitcases in the passenger compartment. This is how they're used now, and I really doubt this new cab (which has a larger passenger compartment) will have a problem without any boot space.
Recently I almost threw away our stove because one of the burners melted. I was about 2 seconds away from submitting an order online for a new stove when my wife asked how we were going to dispose of the current one. Suddenly, I realized how tragic it is to throw something so massive. I got my screw driver out and tinkered behind the stove for 20 minutes, ordered a couple parts, soldered a little here and there, and had the whole thing 100% operational with a total output of about 2 hours. I honestly could hardly believe it myself. I did the same thing with a broken chainsaw too. And it’s so rewarding to actually fix something.

If you’re even remotely handy it’s remarkable how easy it is to fix things that you might otherwise just throw away and replace.
I work at a BigCorp and we are taking this very seriously, adding processes and new retention policies to all internal datasets, and reconsidering our interactions with partners.
India's democracy collapses as a multitude of amendments are passed in minutes
A brief history of AI in Finance
Isn't it obvious? So their heads are closer to the Sun and don't freeze up ;-)

Regarding skin tones: What often registers simply as 'black' or 'Asian' from a predominantly white perspective comprises a wide variety of phenotypes and backgrounds, just as there's considerable variation in how white people from different regions or countries look.
dang, so literally any tune or other aftermarket mods are not street legal in CA? another reason not to move to SV I guess.
There is no such thing as 'throwaway culture' instead there is economics. In developed countries it simply is cheaper for the consumer to purchase a new LCD monitor than simply pay for a skilled engineer's labour which would arrive at the same price in addition to the uncertainty and time this takes.

In less economically developed countries, it is exactly the other way around, electronics are rarely being thrown away, in this case the repair engineer's time is significantly lower than the price of most western electronic products.
Possibly, but remember it starts with the user authorizing a company (FB) to release his/her data to a third-party. If the user doesn't trust the third-party then it shouldn't authorize the data sharing. The question I guess is that FB then agrees to share the data under certain conditions (that the third party only uses the data for an agreed purpose), and if this agreement between FB and the third party isn't honoured, shouldn't FB then sue for damages on behalf of the user?
What if our intuition is wrong about the relative costs, both economical and environmental of some repairs? In particular, just because a small part of a larger whole is broken, doesn't mean repair is the more economical or environmentally friendly act.

To take a facetious example, suppose I broke 300 random pixels of a 1000x1000 LCD display that cost $100.

On visual rough intuition, it's seems clear that less than 1% of the screen is broken, it intuitively would seem absurd to toss the LCD screen versus fix it. But automated manufacturing technology is so good that it really doesn't cost a lot to make a totally new one.

On the other hand, your time is relatively valuable, as are some replacement parts. Suppose you spend 10 hours ordering parts, soldering wires, debugging, testing, etc to get it to fully functional. Why not spend a fraction of that time at work, and another fraction of time volunteering at park cleanups or buying carbon offsets?

The numbers above may be off in one way or another, and depends on the product, your pay, and belief of environmental impact of things like throwing stuff away vs volunteering / carbon offsets.

But one point seems clear to me -- which is that if I broke what visually seems like 10% of a $100 product, the fully-burdened real economic and environmental cost is a lot more than $10 to repair it. And the lynchpin is the automated production makes new stuff relatively cheap.
Personally, I used Jekyll for a while before switching to a simple Makefile based approach. I write everything in Markdown, which gets compiled via Pandoc, concatenated with a header and footer. I also recently started using pygments to generate colorized inline HTML to syntax highlight code blocks.

If anyone is interested, I wrote up the process[1], although I have not updated the post with the pygments script yet.

[1] - http://cdaniels.net//2017-11-22_make-static-site.html
Yes indeed, we need to redefine "data breach" to include "against terms of service" to make it easier to go after all the future Aaron Swartz's.

If you redefine a concept and use it against your political enemies don't be all that surprised when they turn around and use it against your political allies.
Those all seem like things you could fix
The only thing that changed here is you swapped one type of money-like asset for another. Previously you owned bonds and now you have cash. Anything you could do before you can still do. (You can pay for stuff like factories with bonds.) I don't see why you think you're suddenly richer. QE has no impact on your wealth because you're just swapping similar assets. Now you can argue that it does send a message to the animal spirits leading to your risk preferences to change (seeing the Fed act so boldly makes you more likely to invest) which leads to a rising stock market and eventually a general "wealth effect" ... But this is kinda voodoo magic and no longer a quantitative analysis even if it's real.

(BTW in reality the market for government debt is very liquid. What you're really describing hate it's liquidation risk. It becomes an issue for more think traded instruments but not for bonds.)
Not really. You have what already exists for handling investments, e.g. you pay Yomoni (a tiny startup) to make decisions for you but your money is handled by one of the big banks e.g. Crédit Agricole. Your point is somewhat valid, but also amounts to "there is a government-enforced monopoly for large companies in the airliner production space". Damn right there is. For the same safety reasons.
Actually if its data held on a EU national they are required to divulge it or be in breach of this. They don't get to dodge it just because they are in the USA, the law applies to any organisation storing data about an EU national.
Foreign companies are now allowed to fund Indian political parties, leaving the country up for the highest bidder.
Most of this seems wildly wrong and naive.

What hn probably should do is offer a "takeout" option and a "delete me" option on the account page. The former would export every comment and submission along with vote counts, links to upvoted comments/stories profile data etc. All in machine readable form (eg: s-expressions).

The latter would delete profile along with data. Or, possibly, simply anonymize the posts.

I'm not entirely clear on the GDPR vs publishing - i don't think it's meant as a tool for "book burning" - and I've yet to see an interpretation vis-a-vis public discourse. There certainly are laws governing public archives that override parts of the GDPR in certain contexts.

So while hn would probably have an obligation to export all comments, I'm less clear if they'd have an obligation to delete, under the GDPR.

If the ip is logged along with actions, that'd also be considered personal data, and fall under the GDPR.
The first figure, the bar chart based on the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey shows almost the same expenditures in Atlanta, Georgia and Los Angeles, California, with somewhat higher overall expenditures in Atlanta and somewhat lower housing expenditures relative to transportation in Atlanta.

However, Zillow gives a median home value of about $220,000 in Atlanta: https://www.zillow.com/atlanta-ga/home-values/

Median list price per square foot is $219

Median home list price is $310,000

Zillow gives a median home value of about $663,000 in Los Angeles: https://www.zillow.com/los-angeles-ca/home-values/

Median list price per square foot is $478/sq foot in Los Angeles

Median list price of homes is $750,000

That is a radical difference in housing prices that does not seem to show up in the figure in the article. Presumably salaries and budgets are proportionately lower in Atlanta than Los Angeles.

Is this really an accurate and adequate explanation? I know people who have moved from Atlanta where they could afford a house and had to downsize to a smaller apartment in the San Francisco Bay Area which is somewhat more expensive than Los Angeles, but in the same ballpark.

Is Los Angeles really more affordable than Atlanta?

[ADDED]

The US Census reports:

Fulton County, GA (Atlanta area)

Median Household Income (2012-16): $58,851

Per capita income for past 12 months (2012-16): $39,101

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fultoncountygeo...

Los Angeles County, CA

Median Household Income (2012-16): $57,952

Per capita income for past 12 months (2012-16): $29,301

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescount...

Note that Fulton County, GA (Atlanta) has a higher median household income than Los Angeles County, and much lower median home prices according to Zillow.

It is unclear what the consumer expenditure report is computing. It may be the percentage of total expenditures NOT INCLUDING SAVINGS AND TAXES, rather than gross income:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cex/calculation.htm

Hence people in Atlanta may be saving more but spending a similar percentage of TOTAL EXPENDITURES to people in Los Angeles.
> A lot of specialised tools can be replaced by elbow grease and ingenuity.

This. A long time ago I remember making a custom screwdriver head to open a video game cartridge by softening a bic pen cap over a candle, then pressing it over the cap for 10 seconds. Let it cool, and voila.

I've also found the same approach indispensable for doing simple carpentry without all the specialized tools of a wood shop.
It's actually not likely at ALL. Guido van Rossum said[0] on multiple occasions that it's un-pythonic and it won't happen.

Edit: I didn't see shakna's comment.

[0] http://neopythonic.blogspot.de/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimin...
All those people who complied with the 1995 regulation and in the UK the subsequent 1998 Data Protection Act that passed it into law must be feeling a bit smug about this, as they will have this process in place already.

The new General Data Protection Regulation is a welcome incremental update, which brings in much better methods of enforcement against the cross-border nature of large data processors. Facebook of course were not around in 1995.

I also welcome the need for explicit plain language privacy terms. Any law that pushes out legalese must be welcome.
The economics you are describing create throwaway culture. The problem with this is that economics cannot override ecology.
Even if you're not in that business you need to be prepared to answer these questions.
It would be nice if you told us what this command does for you.
On this topic, today (3/17) is a world create day via hackaday https://hackaday.com/2018/03/15/get-together-and-hack-this-s...

Not exactly, the same thing, but definitely brings together like minded people
> just waste more of your lawyers’ billable hours?

Why are you using lawyers to respond to DPA / GDPR requests?
The entire reason the tech startup thing works (to the extent that it does) is leverage: each employee serves a very large multiple of users. Anything that changes that calculation has the potential to eliminate the value proposition.
> It's pretty simple to think that so many years ago, the distinctions were simply not there, to the extent where you would have seemed like a crazy person trying to impose them. And yet all people wanted to do on that thread was talk about present differences.

Far of "the other" has existed about as long as humans.
As a personal anecdote, I had to sit down a friend who was driving Uber for a few months - to break down his costs and the money he made - turns out that in his case, after all expenses (car, personal - like child care etc) -- on most days, he was losing money, and he made a max of 3-4 dollars on a few days.

He was aghast, and now does not drive. Many people who do not have jobs get suckered in to the promise of 'working' but end up in a worse situation.

I believe that we in the tech community need to self-police ourselves about these predatory practices that we have engendered on the society and call out those who suck the very last blood drops from the general population, that does not have the skills to analyze their situation.

This is no different from the various regulations around pay-day loans, etc.
> avoid EU customers

If anyone from the EU visits your website, and you're collecting server logs or analytics with IP addresses in them, you're now processing personal data of EU citizens and subject to the GDPR. They've written this regulation such that pretty much everything on the internet is subject to it.
The study also points out that there's evidence for sexual selection as well.
Slightly off topic: Why might be the reason Apache Traffic Server usage hasnt caught on?
Most people can consume cheese and yogurt, but cannot consume raw milk. This is the distinction commonly meant by lactose tolerance (whether it holds up to a technical analysis or not).
Related course (w video lectures): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9311752