skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it might seem a big deal to give up a platform with millions of followers (2.6M, apparently), it's much less of a sacrifice for a company that has a large presence on Instagram (which the article notes Musk has said is "borderline", and he's not deleting) and Twitter. Also, they're in the news all the time, both for their victories and failures.

So this is a great way for Musk to brand Tesla, SpaceX, and himself, without actually giving up much in terms of his social media reach.
Eh, at that level, an actual effect from mobile phones could have been masked by a bigger decrease in some other effect. Besides, cancer diagnosis is often delayed relative to exposure to carcinogens. I'm keeping my tinfoil hat firmly in place, thank you.
At times I've added a graphviz output method to a data structure; it's pretty handy, and you don't have to do a separate design diagram.
I've built a cloudwatch metrics stack that reads out of lambda's logs. There's no other way to get data out of your lambda for "free". XRAY is an option but not everything you'd want.
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>This concept of a "race", in terms of genetics, makes sense for classification purposes, just like all taxonomical classifications of living things.

I could classify computers based on the case they are in, and I would see some interesting trends given the extent that computer casing is decided by the people the build the computer and there is a very few entities who are responsible for the majority of computers. But does it really make sense to use it when you can compare it based on other factors and combinations of factors, like the internal hardware, manufacturer, and year made?

Race is extremely oversimplified and groups too many people together, and comes with a lot of historical baggage in not just its usage, but the ways we considered certain groups members of certain races.

I think humans can be grouped based on common genetics, but race focuses too much on certain phenotypes instead of being based on overall genotypes. Instead of looking at European or African descent, what about descent of historical population groups? Are groups from northern Africa closer to those from southern Europe or Southern Africa?

Groups that share phenotypes are likely to have similar genotypes on average than those who don't, but why depend on this when we now have access to the genotypes?
Diverse crews bring more information and perspectives to the table, and among intelligent, open-minded people the best ideas are generally adopted. The more ideas and perspectives there are to choose from and combine, the more likely the group is to achieve an incremental improvement over the state of their art. Consider it in terms of network resiliency against uncommon environmental effects.

Mirta Galesic and others at the Santa Fe Institute have done a lot of work on this topic:
https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/mirta-galesic
Wouldn't she just starve to death in hunter-gatherer times? Or not even be born?

I don't know which is better, living and suffering, or not living and not suffering. It's a philosophical question I am not equipped to debate
So, no?
Not to devalue privacy (at all), but if the GDPR is so far reaching that anonymous posts are expected to comply with this, that destroys much discussion. Don't see why that's a reasonable expectation. That's no longer private but public data.

If you contribute to public knowledge/discussion, then taking your ball and going home leaves huge gaps in history, the same way you see [deleted] throughout many Reddit threads.

Is the GDPR that far reaching?
Introduction to property based or How I found a bug in a 1M download repository?
This comment is almost a parody of Hacker News comments:

"The evil statists are only bringing down the hammer because the glorious technologists DARED to threaten their power!"

The reality is that what's driving this is the end of the honeymoon phase with tech. There used to be a general sense of trust in the big tech companies. People could take Google's "Don't Be Evil" stance seriously. This very comment has this view as its unspoken premise, that the tech companies are good and glorious and it's outside forces that are harmful and want to suppress them. As a result, they were treated with a special hands-off approach in most areas.

It was the tech companies themselves that eroded that trust over the last decade + through their behavior and interaction with people. As a result, there's no longer that store of goodwill and a willingness to extend them special treatment, so now they get treated like every other company.

Because, of course, whatever they tried to sell the world, they WERE just like any other company the whole time. They just had a shinier surface.
> Also how would you make memcpy() safe

Easy, don't have memcpy().
To be clear, cyclic references are just as much an issue in GCed languages. In Python I had to use weakref lib to ensure cyclically referenced objects are still GCed. Rust is the same in that aspect, you use the Rc builtin type and create a weakref for one of them.
Ironically, this ends up being pretty much a spin-off since the companies which founded and own Pivotal are working on a merger themselves.

We’re back to this model of “innovation” I guess.
Group chat doesn't exist in sms.

Also it is quite old fashioned and painfully limited wrt/attachments.

And expensive for thise with families/friends abroad.
Lean into that uneasiness. In addition to a nod, give them a long meaningful wink also. Then instead of an awkward accident, you have a fun puzzle for everyone think about for years afterward. Practice this at bars when you accidentally make eye contact with someone and be at peace with the beautiful chaos that will 100% ensue.
In that case, people are just looking for anything to rabble about. Facebook did nothing wrong here.
Your argument seems to be that racism is perpetuated by any discussion of race.

Another perspective is that race is obvious, and racism is a particular view of race that is passed down through family and culture--so therefore we can only fight racism by consciously acknowledging and addressing it.
A YC (2015 I think) backed company did just this. Collated Backpage ads to assist Law Enforcement in tracking down child sex slaves. At the time they were called Rescue Forensics and were acquired a year or so ago.
So all web sites (most, anyway) are subject to the GDPR because they may record EU IP addresses in logs?
It seems that anything praiseworthy Zuckerberg does never generates praise. On the other hand any opportunity to criticize him is always exercised.
>Yep. I agree - it's pretty easy to slip up and public IPs are fairly easy to monitor.

Public IPs are NOT easy to monitor correctly when
A. It's supposedly Russian Intelligence HQ
B. They are claiming they can identify the specific office it came from
HN certainly processes IP and email addresses of individuals within the EU.
There are cases out there, like LICRA vs Yahoo! [1] that could suggest otherwise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!
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A related question to the community, if you have ~5 years of experience, is it okay to have a resume that is more than one page? This includes other sections besides experience (i.e. skills).

What are the communities' thoughts on length of resume?

Edit: clarified question.
We already have this. Just use C++ and stay away from the features you don't want. If you want to enforce specific restrictions then start an effort to provide a formal C++ feature restriction specification.
please read: https://blog.axeptio.eu/en/2018/03/20/gdpr-and-united-states...
ah.. of course, yes.

I was just responding to the specific language in the parent post that seemed to convey that the author of the article knew about the disability and 'decided' to have the child regardless of this 'fact'.

Of course, there are some wonderful wonderful people in this world who find themselves being adopted by equals.
While it is probably hard to understand, the other poster's interpretation is legit as it is referencing an acknowledgement of rights. Without such language, you could provide your voice to this and then when they release, you could say "hang on, I never agreed to give you permission to release this to the public, use for your own purposes, etc."

As far as "may" vs "should"/"will", that'd be very unlikely for them to put into the terms: what happens if they decide tomorrow to abandon the project and just leverage a different data set? They'd now be beholden to release something.
It's related to the Dell - VMWare reverse merger. They have to raise cash to fund the merger.
Unfortunately, AFAIK there is no way to check that if he hasn't tooted. Also, bear in mind it might not be him..might be a fake account, but then I'd suspect it would have been used more.
The GDPR only cares about privacy, not quality of internet threads.
Note, if your account is already deactivated when you try to delete it you will again be asked for your password despite being already logged in. You will also be asked to complete a CAPTCHA. This will invariably result in the error message:

"Incorrect email/password combination"[1]

This is despite being logged in to FB with the same password.

The fix is to change your password, log out and log back in with the changed password. You will then be able to delete your account without issue.

Maybe the author could add this information to their post?

People have been asking on the FB help forum for years about how to resolve this error. FB refuses to answer anyone asking for help with this error. I'm guessing their failure to mention this or address this is quite intentional.

Oh and the audio versions of the CAPTCHAs are all completely unintelligible gibberish. I'm guessing this is intentional as well.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=4018056...
The company is rotten to its foundations. Even the core mission is a terrible idea. Connecting all the world's people already exists -- it's called the WWW.

Every time Facebook, the company, communicated with me, I felt like I was dealing with a manipulative gaslighter. I'm glad that it is no longer a part of my life.
A certain friend country of the US I'm sure would be up for doing this and getting paid for it.
Couldn't agree more... it's called keeping in touch with a face to face, a phone call, a letter, an email, a text etc. Your Facebook "friends" who do that are your real friends.
Nothing should be demonized. Anything that hinders humanity should be regulated and monitored, proportional to the threat. That is all that is needed.

Out of sight and out of mind enables thriving dark markets. To eliminate dark markets, the open market must be all inclusive. There needs to be only one market.

For darker material, we need more aggressive inclusion tactics.

For example, pedophilia should be considered an extremely dangerous disease. Imagine if we treated Ebola or AIDS as a crime. No one would ever be protected or cured (or neutralized), and carriers would be hiding among us.
If I understand correctly a trespass case is reported in the article as a charge against press? This is not bending the truth for some agenda? The criminal charges are not over the coverage of protests, but by breaking some law in the process of doing it.
"I'm Bond, James Bond, and I am allowed to break any law because I am a journalist".
Patchwork state privacy and net neutrality regulations are cumbersome and ridiculous. Any such requirements should be debated and enacted on the federal level.
It's amazing how this blog requires 1.6MB of data to show me a single page of text.
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He is thought to be the only journalist ever to have been charged both civilly and criminally for reporting on a matter of public interest in this country.

It seems misleading to say that has been been charged for reporting, rather than to say that he has been charged while reporting. I haven't read the charges, but I presume the issue is lack of perceived immunity rather than separate laws against reporting. But this does raise the question, are there crimes that journalists frequently commit for which they are not charged? The implication is that prosecution is rare because of immunity, but a simpler explanation would be that prosecution is rare because journalists are generally law abiding.
Or decouple the content from the username/email, GDPR approved, content is still alive
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After the Tesla fatal accident, there was some discussion about the difficulty of stationary obstacles. Apparently, there are so many false positives, that they're quite readily discarded (otherwise the car would stop all the time).

See discussion here, "Why Tesla's autopilot can't see a stopped firetruck": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239010

As the victim was traveling perpendicular to the movement of the vehicle, I wonder whether that had anything to do with it. If so, quite a severe limitation.
I think it would be best if there would be no adblockers but instead of there would be easy way of paying directly for the content without being bothered. If I cannot easily opt-out from ads by paying price which is compareable to potential ad revenue.

Until then I continue to pay for Spotify and using adblock for the web.
Two pages is OK if that extra information is telling the person reading it something important they wouldn't otherwise know. Ie. different skill sets.
I haven't researched that particular point, but I'm not sure that your HN comments qualify as "personal data" under the GDPR (they'd need to personally identify you).
1. My day job (as a programmer in Silicon Valley) already pays a lot, and I expect the pay to increase over time, but if the ratio of [prostitution pay] to [day job pay] was as high as it is for most people, then, yes, I think it'd make sense to do that.

2. If a whole lot of them did that, then I expect the price would drop a great deal, so such a campaign might be dishonest—well, actually, in some respects that is like a stereotype of a STEM campaign, with some companies bemoaning how hard it is to find talent while not raising their low wages. Other than that concern, yeah, I'd be happy with such a campaign.

3. I don't have children of my own yet, but I have sisters and a niece and female friends, so I will imagine them in that situation. I would have two concerns: STDs and hard drug use. For the first, I would look up some statistics—e.g. flying on a plane feels a little viscerally unsafe, but in practice it is pretty safe—and the practices of the Nevada brothel in question, and let's say that I'd conclude the STD risk was negligible. For the second, I would make certain that my child (a) knew about the risks of various drugs, (b) was prepared to deal with pressure to take drugs, and (c) knew that she could leave at any time and come back home.

After those concerns were addressed, yes, I would consider it an interesting experience for my child to have. Lucrative, get to see a bunch of people in an unusual set of circumstances, probably get practice in negotiation and in reading people, etc.
My impression is that people use Rust for correctness, security, and speed over ease of use. Although I do think once you get over the initial learning curve (which is admittedly large) it mostly makes sense.
What terms did you agree to before making the webpage? If you didn't license them to use your code or give them ownership outright, you probably have copyright and they are probably in violation of your copyright if you can prove they misappropriated your code wholesale.
People make group chats in FB messenger. If you don't have messenger, you don't get to be in the group chat.
They "do not support that". Agree that it would be a nice workaround. Should also be technically trivial.
Do all races have equal capacity to play professional basketball?

If not, what rational basis could one have in claiming all races must have equal capacity in other areas?
https://equityzen.com/path-to-ipo/dropbox/

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I'd love to hear about your experiences — email in my profile.

I've been doing some writing and speaking on why AI seduces founders into pursuing lots of cool ideas instead of marketable products. I'd love another data point.

Could do it anonymously if you'd like, or hold off until after you bail.
How would EU law compel a non-EU entity to delete content based on the residency of the user?

As an example of the opposite state, where this does definitely apply: Tarsnap complies with Canadian law around collecting names/addresses for users who are located in Canada, because Tarsnap is operated as a Canadian business. But if Tarsnap were located in the US, it would not be responsible for collecting that information from Canadian users.
This is the first I'm hearing of Pivotal. Are they a cloud provider or something? I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what they do from their website.
If we'd all start programming in stable, mature languages instead of letting peer pressure goad us into using betaware and worse, work would be a lot simpler.

It would also encourage organizations large and small to start releasing complete, polished products instead of the "move fast and break things" crap that has infected the industry.

Imagine if car makers worked the same way.
I'm not sure I'd say "one or more times" really sums up going dozens of times, as umanwizard said they have. While I'll give you that we don't know if they have a PhD (which, sure, would be more definite authority), evidently they have the means to travel extensively, which could well put them in more diverse areas than someone from Mexico would go.
> No! You can rationalize any language problem away with this argument.

Sorry, the sole problem is incompetence. Coupling incompetencr with the inability to learn is a problem that no programming language solves. If you insist in shooting yourself in the foot, it makes absolutely no sense to complain that the gun is broken because it doesn't guide bullets away from your foot when you intentionally aim at it.

The object slicing problem is C++ 101. It isn't the language's fault that people who don't know the very basics end up doing mistakes.
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>I believe they always retain all data forever, as a trade secret. They don't need no stinking laws to do that.

GDPR?
For Facebook to truly die someone needs to come up with a bare bones social network that has all the basics - friends lists, photos, address book, messaging, groups. Charge $1 a month. No sleazy tracking you everywhere on the internet, no ads, no newsfeed filled with garbage clickbait ads and conspiracy theories. This would be insanely profitable assuming it reaches some critical mass.
I'm not sure how this case suggests otherwise, but Yahoo is not HN/YCombinator, and Yahoo is most definitely impacted by the GDPR.
a 2 page resume is absolutely five with that level of experience; and assuming you're not using an 8pt font.
Because SMS only supports text, but not any form of multimedia. Granted you can use MMS but that's really expensive and only does photo and video. Also, SMS has no encryption or sender authentication, not even any way to prevent MITM sniffing or spoofing (which is why online banking SMS verification is unsafe as hell).
Figma’s really gunning at a Slack with this move, as Sketch’s plugin ecosystem is a huge reason as to why it’s successful. (Edit: this doesn’t bring extension support, but is definitely a step towards that goal)

For any other designers on HN, have you switched to Figma to Sketch, and if so, why?
I had a lot of success starting with a designer resume template and toning it down.

It ended up looking like a hipster restaurant menu, which I guess is what I was going for.
I think it's fantastic too, in that a) it would be great if the world worked that way, and b) it's a fantasy that the world really does work that way right now.

What you take as a starting point, I see as a distant goal that will take a lot of hard and uncomfortable work to reach.

> So why not just directly measure viewpoint diversity and strive for that, then?

By all means, go for it. If you can figure out how to do that you will become a very successful person.

> Also, a diversity of circumstances is not absolutely equivalent to a diversity of race.

Of course not, but in 2018, without any diversity of race in a collection of people, you will not achieve a diversity of circumstances that is representative of America.
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Point of order, the iPod went no where until they added syncing with a PC - something everyone point ted out as being necessary on launch.
I never created a real Facebook account, even many years ago when "everyone" had one, and friends and family thought I was crazy and disconnected.

I had created a few test accounts for work, so I knew how it functioned, and even did some API work with it, and some site integration work.

But just in the last month or so ago I tried to setup a new account, and it was so creepy, the requirements they asked for. A real name, a phone number and SMS delivery, a photo of my face?

Nope.
It's a goal of Rust to be simple--one look at the RFC repo is enough to see how important that is in the language design--but there are other goals too. In particular, nobody has successfully proposed any alternative to memory safety without GC that doesn't involve lifetimes and borrowing (and reference counting is just a form of GC).
Yes, but you need to explicitly target the EU. What that exactly means will be determined will eventually be determined in court, but some examples:

- If you offer your products in Euros, which is the currency in most of the EU
- If you offer payment methods which only exist in the EU or one of its members
- Otherwise suggest you target EU citizens

Hacker News exists as a generic website on the internet, but it does not to target any country or region specifically. Therefore HN should be exempt from the legislation.
Yup, which is what makes GDPR so dangerous.
So what? Countries don't get to make laws for other countries. That's the point in having markets of ideas.
AFAIK one of the things that they are trying to do with Cloud Foundry is abstract away which cloud you're running on.

They are kind-of the OG multi-cloud vendor.
Many of us use Telegram.

Others use Signal.

Signal advantages: tptacek thinks the crypto is good.

Signal disadvantage: It wont work with limited permissions on your phone according to some people on HN.

Telegram advantage: somewhat more userfriendly. Larger userbase. Works even if you limit its permissions.

Telegram disadvantage: every cryptographer seems to think their crypto is bad. Uncertainty wrt their relations with Russian government. (I think they are enemies but some think they are very good friends or blackmailed into cooperation.)
Thank you for calming down the hypochondriac in me
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Or he could dupe someone else into making changes as a take home interview homework...
I disagree completely. I've worn several hats at every job I've worked at, each one demonstrating a different skill set. I will reword, change the order of, or even completely delete or swap out bullet points under jobs to highlight the skills that a particular req is looking for.

If you're "just another developer" applying to a "just a developer" req, then yes there's probably no reason to tweak. For anything else, you should absolutely be reconfiguring your resume to highlight your relevant skills.
Slander is oral speech; libel is the one you're looking for. My understanding is that a statement has to be false in order to be libel, but I wouldn't advise the poster to take legal advice from a rando on HN like me.