skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very low rate of increase, and while it may be statistically significant given the right statistical massage, I don't think I would hang my reputation on that p-value. This research group has come under fire for their numbers before, both from Congress and I believe from NIH. This is just one of hundreds of similar studies on environmental effects, and I don't want to say that these people are in the profession of making mountains over molehills, but I have not read anything about the authors or their institution which has given me any confidence in their result.
> Though I deeply disagree with political affiliation being a protected group

I was born in a totalitarian country, and so I don't find "you can choose your political views" very convincing.

What about religious views? You can choose these as well.
Just the EU. If I'm not mistaken, being a US company they are not even forced until GDPR takes effect.
I do understand this.

I am just wondering what happens when there is a vested interest in attacking or suppressing the company involved.

For example, if a company becomes unpopular on social media and by "public opinion" (such as Facebook right now), a court can feel pressured into a slanted decision. Given that so much is now based on opinion, what defense does the company have?

It seems that if someone had the intention to nail a company on GDPR as a PR attack, regardless of the amount of effort the company put in, they almost certainly could.

(I don't work for Facebook)
GDPR in Plain English
I see supreme court challenges all over that.
Cool concept! I never did like setting up reminders to check "whatever happened to that empty domain name"...
I would argue that the sea between "sex slavery" aaaand "sex worker" is just as vast as that between professional engineer and enslaved engineer. Again, polite society would have you think otherwise...
Without commenting on the original article, this is my main complaint. Plus, I'm not a fan of the sigil heavy syntax, not that modern C++ is much better.
GDPR is basically written as something to be hashed out in court. The question is not "Are you compliant?". The question is "Can you use what you've done to tell a convincing story that you're compliant enough that you shouldn't be punished after a breach? When someone at the regulator's office might be looking to make their career over the corpse of your company?".
Ask HN: Have any of you found living a hermit like life more fulfilling?
Living simply, focusing on goals rather than chasing outward pleasures feels very fulfilling. However, there is always the fear of missing out when looking at the constant stuff and experience seeking lifestyle of many people. Hard to run a life experiment by living life twice (A/B testing) so I would love to learn from the HN community which lifestyle has brought you more satisfaction.
> * Apple has a website dedicated to accessibility. But that doesn't mean people can easily find the site and may not think it's achievable or worthwhile to add that type of technology to their code.*

Apple also used to feature the top accessibility apps in the App Store. They still have a section with featured accessibility apps, but it only shows up if you search for it (and even then, it shows up as a "story"—a potentially confusing name/category).
Here are some ideas:

https://hackernoon.com/can-we-be-honest-about-ethics-ecf5840...

https://towardsdatascience.com/an-ethical-code-cant-be-about...

https://hackernoon.com/on-the-difficulty-of-creating-a-data-...
As others have said, the law isn't a technical spec. it describes what you should do, not how you should do it. The concept of "due care" http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/due-care.html

comes in to play here. GDPR, at its core, is about legally requiring businesses to care for customer data. It gives customers increased control over how their data is used, and how it should be protected.

In answer to OP's question "how do I know it is appropriate," as a first pass, how would you feel if your most important personal data were being treated that way? As a developer, if that makes you uncomfortable, that's probably a warning sign.
If their intent is to cash out now, they are probably happy enough. Anyone with a long-term interest in the company would probably prefer for more of that valuation flow into the company's coffers, rather than to the underwriters and others with little long-term interest.
Agreed, we've also written about why the best use of your time is to start with a baseline (even in Computer Vision!) https://blog.insightdatascience.com/always-start-with-a-stup...
Unfortunately not all systems are Solaris running on SPARC, with memory protection enabled.

Something akin to Intel MPX.
A better comparison would be that the privately owned toll road operator must check for drug traffickers itself or be shut down by a law like this.
Just bringing some information about "assault rifles"

Assault rifles, by military definition, have selective fire.
None of my AR-15 rifles, or semi automatic 10/22 have that function.
I cannot have assault rifles without a manufacturer license as a civilian.

"Military grade" weapons are garbage, my guns are far superior than military grade in quality and reliability.
Tokio and futures are still in their infancy. We'll get there at some point hopefully
> a set equal amount for each major party candidate

So the government gets to decide which political parties can run candidates? That sounds a little too much like certain 'democratic' dictatorships. I don't think we want to (or can) put that much power in the hands of the government.
They are banned in some municipalities in the US. Sonoma county, CA, for example.
WTF? You can't smile at a coworker of the opposite sex? Since when? They smile at me often enough. It's a smile, which is a form of acknowledgment.
Excellent question!

No, I live in Brazil where prostitution is not illegal but profiting from prostitutes is.

So brothels and pimping are illegal - although there are plenty brothels, you only see pimping on very high level escorts and I never saw a place with sex slaves (but I saw this kind of place in other countries).

So this is my point, prostitution should be legal and physically safe both for prostitutes and Johns (nobody being beaten, mugged or otherwise ripped off) the same way tobacco smoking is legal. It is my opinion about safe recreational drugs as well. And like tobacco, companies should be prevented from mass-advertising.
"Apple donates $5 million to hurricane relief, makes it easier for customers to donate": http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/08/technology/apple-donation-hu...

(just search for [<company> donates], and you'll find examples of charitable donations for every single Fortune 500 company)
The bankers will sell this as building "momentum" for the stock.

It does not benefit Dropbox directly in any way, it is literally $360M that could have gone to Dropbox but went to the bankers and their clients.
I live in the valley, have several friends at Facebook, etc. I don't know anybody who hates Zuckerberg. I don't hate him. But I am very upset with Facebook-the-company and Facebook-the-system. What bothers me most is that, to the best that I can tell, Facebook-the-company and especially Facebook-the-system just _do not care_ about me or you as individuals.

I have a thread on Twitter that goes into more detail here: https://twitter.com/jf/status/976250584213803008
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I didn't "equate" them, but asked a question regarding whether Tesla will start caring about privacy as well. Why does that bother you? You seem to be angry about it.

> Having a Tesla and driving it does not meaningfully invade your privacy in any fashion more…

They track you by the millisecond versus a few times a day, perhaps you are not aware of the details:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/03/the-custo...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/02/19/the-big-...

Basically Tesla uses your driving metrics against you when they choose to, but will not release the information to help you. It has been a lose-lose situation for the consumer. I'd heard they might give the ability to disable it, but details are hard to find to nonexistent.
I'll second Michael's page, he has definitely provided a useful starting point.

The law itself is not written for engineers as an audience. Not even for non-specialist-data-protection-lawyers as an audience.

That said, as an engineer, I found a book targeted to non-specialist lawyers to be enormously helpful: Peter Carey's _Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law_: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VU5XJHK/ref=oh_aui_sear....

It's not cheap, but if understanding GDPR is a professional concern, consider it a resource for explaining the history and motivation for the requirements that Michael extracts.

In the wake of the data protection issues we're having here in the US, I would love to have a GDPR-influenced regime.

And for small business, it mostly just means- be careful and respectful of people's personal data- which can be done without it being a burden.
B goes bankrupt because it runs out of money to hire lawyers.

Right, that's like any other malicious lawsuit – i.e. this is totally irrelevant.

I'm self learned, garage based entrepreneur with $1000 in my bank to either buy food or hire a consultant, is that required experience?

Yes. If you don't have the knowledge or resources to correctly comply with appropriate regulation, then you should not be operating in a space. "I didn't know that I needed to keep raw and cooked meat separate" would not be a valid excuse in food prep; why would "I didn't know I needed to use a secure hash" a valid excuse for an engineer?
Effective how or toward what ends? Seems to me that how someone views this issue is simply a function of how to skew and distort one's self image to more positively reflect how they want to be seen.

So for example if you do something you don't truly believe in or morally support for your work, then having psychological distance between your work and personal life makes more sense because you aren't staking "who you are" in your work. So you decide to define "who you are" in the other portions of your life.

Again, this seems to be cognitive dissonance at it's finest.
Out of the loop here, are people mad at Facebook for third-party apps that use their oauth data sharing API?
Interesting, especially considering that Facebook is/was a customer of SpaceX: https://www.wsj.com/articles/spacex-rocket-test-hit-by-explo...
Even ANSI/ISO C working group acknowledges that “thrust the programmer” doesn’t quite work.
I think the only way to test this is empirically. Just see how many people they kill until statistical significance is found.

However, that's horrific and implies that the engineers are using something of an evolutionary algorithm. Obviously, this does not cut the cheese.
I didn't make clear in the first paragraph, but ultrasounds are screening tests, not diagnostic tests. The expensive blood tests are diagnostic.

Screening tests are inexpensive, low risk, high recall (i.e. high true positive) tests meant to indicate if high precision (i.e. low false positive, low false negative) test is warranted. Often the diagnostic tests are more invasive, potentially riskier, and more expensive.
Just an FYI: hunter gatherers haven't been a significant portion of the overall human population for thousands of years. Like it or not, humans uncovered an ecological niche in the form of agriculture that was vastly more successful than hunting and foraging. The cost of occupying this new ecological niche is that we started working all day, every day.

And it's nice that 14th century peasants didn't work much, but as the article you linked to says, that happened to be a time of particularly high wages because the Black Death greatly reduced the supply of labor. In other words, it was not at all representative of the general lifestyle of a peasant.
Well, quite, but in the BBC article it could have been either IMO.
Maybe Frama-C as well.
> Lifting is a concept which allows you to transform a function into a corresponding function within another (usually more general) setting.

What's there not to understand? :)
I disagree with this. A lot of GNU C works on both, GCC and Clang which covers most platforms out there.

Those extensions are useful and allow better portability across architectures. E.g. SIMD extensions is much better than writing two implementations with NEON and SSE intrinsics.
Don't get him started. He needs to focus.
Things I like about Facebook:

* seeing what events in the area my friends are going to, helps me know what's happening around me and going there

* facebook groups for some friends / professional organizations

* following bands / band tours so I can get updates about them

Don't really care about anything else on there. Can I keep just the good parts somehow?
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If we were not analyzing ourself the different races would be called different species, never mind races.

Butterflies are called different species based on much smaller differences. Or for example the two moths in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution

Calling different races different species obviously would upset people, so we don't. But let's not pretend the differences don't exist.
Did you forget the fake news during the election? I'm from Quebec and I remember being ashamed to learn that some people near I lived made a living pushing fake news website just with the help of Google Ads on these pages. They made a profit with fake news. Do you see now how much cheaper it is to push a fake narrative that people want to believe?

The share button is the cheapest ad campaign you can ever hope for. You only pay for the first view, all the share are free.

It also helps when another country pays for your ad campaigns ;) but that's a whole other story.
Briton here. The vast majority of people will not care at all.

I object to the term 'cynicism'. Inductive reasoning, maybe. There's nothing inherent in the definition of a British person that necessarily includes apathy towards current affairs.

But most swans are white, there's nothing cynical about that, and similarly I say with no cynicism that most British people forgot about this five minutes after hearing/reading about it, if they heard or read about it at all.
I'm 29 and childless; I average ~8 hours of sleep per night and take 15-30 min. nap 2-3 times a week.

I run fairly seriously and get sick quickly if I sleep less than this.
Elon Musk is already using #Mastodon. I suspect he has possibly supported it in other ways as well, through public praise and/or contributions.

https://mastodon.social/users/elonmusk/followers
Because someone who is otherwise very busy privately questioned the veracity of it. From a bayesian perspective I decided that it changed how certain I was of the stories I heard from the founders. I know I heard a story that was essentially as I originally wrote it, because it was repeated a number of times, I'm just not sure about how embellished it was.

So given my new uncertainty I decided to remove it.
The new 7.x features are going to make it easier.
The Philosophy of Science
Glancing at your first citation, nothing in the summary seems to challenge the idea that people of all races see much bigger differences among races (for example, when someone like James Damore start dogwhistling IQ tests in their footnotes) than actually exist genetically.

Sure, there are genetic distinctions among groups of people. But as soon as someone mentions black or white people, the discussion isn't about these kind of fine genetic distinctions. They're about stereotypes that are much more social than they are genetic.

Now in the political realm, the significance of these terms and the groups is completely different because of the way groups have been treated historically on the basis not of these fine genetic distinctions but rather these crude social racial/ethnic identifications.

I'd prefer we avoided using footnotes pointing to scientific publications to oversimplify more complex political discussions or to justify the economic and social marginalization of historically disadvantaged groups based on purposeful misreading.
I just downloaded all the data that FB has on me. It's quite surprising to see every single message and wall post I have made and others have made to me.

One thing I realized is that even if I delete my account, facebook will still store my communication with other people in case they request to download their information too. So I'm not sure if it would ever get deleted unless both parties delete their accounts? For my info to truly get deleted, all of my contacts would have to delete their accounts too.
>Even something as simple as abstracting a new helper function often turns into a veritable odyssey because getting type annotations right can be so difficult (especially where a third party library is involved).

This is a sentiment I can't say that I share or even understand. You have a compiler doing inference, it will tell you what the types are if you ask?

A lot of times when I find myself writing something where I'm unsure of the concrete type -- I'll just stick a bogus type ascription in the expression somewhere. Then I run `rustc` knowing full well that it will fail. Somewhere in the error will be a message of the form "found <x> expected <y>" and now I know what the inferred type is.

>The horribly anti-user futures system, compiler messages generated by a misused macros that are second only to C++ template errors in how egregiously difficult they are to parse, universally terrible documentation and lacking examples, unstable APIs, type annotation hell, and so much more.

Given the author's dig at the `futures` crate though, I have a feeling a lot of the verbosity in errors they are seeing is due to the extremely long chains of combinators that the futures crate encourages. I haven't run into these errors myself since I'm avoiding async IO in rust until an `await` style abstraction becomes available. In my opinion: jumping into using an async library/runtime that is undergoing heavy development is probably not the best place to start when it comes to learning Rust.

I think this is one thing that Go definitely got right: having concurrency baked into the language that encourages a "syncrhonous-style" of programming is absolutely the way to go for approachability. I'm not sure that I'd go so far as to call `futures` user-hostile, as the tokio devs are doing great work, but it certainly isn't user-friendly yet.
When you have a success rate of 10%, blindly dismissing everything gets you 90% accuracy, but it's not particularly insightful.

Show HN threads tend to get both constructive and mindless criticism. I don't think it's wrong to point out the unhelpful kind of criticism.
Certainly not 'lengthy', and I don't think "with the community". The initial state of this was two-day warning saying "this is happening Monday", which might count as prior notice but certainly isn't a dialogue.
6-7hrs. Go to bed between 10:30-11:00pm, wake up between 5:00-5:30am. Forcing functions: my wife works 5am-1:30pm so I have kid duty in the morning. Have 3 kids, including a baby. I'm in the office 9am-4pm, but refuse to stay later because family (kids' sports, dinner together, etc), so I put in 1-2hrs of additional work most nights.

To tie this to the post about workplace culture/stress affecting health, while my current schedule is perfectly sustainable, the one thing that got cut out of my daily routine as a direct result of spending 1.5hrs commuting each day is exercise. I went from running 40-50 miles per week and hitting the gym 2-3x to playing sports 2 days a week, going to the gym only on weekends, and not running at all.

I refuse to allow work to rule my life. If I consistently have more work to do than I am able within a reasonable amount of time (say, 45 hrs/wk, max), then I escalate and make it a management problem.
Oh come on Drew, after ringing that bell I want to see a cool "hi" by dhouston as the top comment.
I said less than $100m. I don't know how much the acquisition was for, but I know it's less than that.
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This piece makes an important argument, but if you look around Twitter for the academic reaction to it, it is not unanimously positive. In particular, you can find neurogeneticists taking issue with a thesis built from "there has been enough time for natural selection in human populations" and "genes probably play a role in intelligence"; the story is apparently not that simple given what we apparently know about genes and intelligence (polygenic, impact multiple other things besides intelligence).

So while it may be the case that "race is purely a social construct" is an untenable and unproductive position, it does not necessarily follow that a solid case for "achievement and behavior is strongly genetic" has been made.

Since intelligence and genetics is the third rail of population genetic studies, isn't the author's specialty, and isn't at all clear, it's a little confusing as to why he went out on this limb. Pinker sure is happy about it though.

A good next read:

https://gcbias.org/2018/03/14/polygenic-scores-and-tea-drink...
Considering some of them seem to patrol tube stations at rush hour with MP5 sub machine guns they aren't exactly warm and cuddly friendly police either.

Fact is in a busy station on a morning even if you knew someone was a terrorist and could see him you couldn't actually shoot him without gunning down about 30 civilians between you and the bad guy. An MP5's on display is a show of force against the populace not a reassuring sign of protection.
GP does not appear to be disputing the claim that money matters in politics, (s)he appears to be disputing the insistence that this is a bad thing which must be removed.

Currently the only leverage that someone from outside the government class has is money, and reform that takes all of that power from the citizenry and puts it in the hands of the government is downright scary.
moral worth and capacities
I remember this post. One of many "show HN" posts that have hit it big. Congrats!
The traits implementation section is god awful and in an utterly unusable order because the ordering makes no sense.

I find myself always just looking at the source to make sense of things rather than the docs which kind of defeats the point.
Others are giving an optimistic interpretation. Here's my pessimistic one (at least in the GDPR's case): they want the wiggle room to subjectively apply these rules on companies they don't like. The intention may be valid, but with the boundaries vague you can bet that enforcement won't be uniform. It never is and history has shown how ambiguities in law can be bent for targeted application based on political will.

Also, most comments will say this is just how it has to be because the law cannot be very specific on highly technical matters. I believe that part is true, but it is not just how it has to be. The other option is the absence of the law and alternative measures to tackle this problem (e.g. education/awareness, encouragement of alternatives, public equivalents or assistance w/ caveats, etc, etc).
Considering that Elon and Mark constantly disagreed on subjects like AI, this isn't surprising.

Also notable is that typical Tesla customers probably don't rely on Facebook anyway so this should not have consequences.
They took down gawker by targeting their advertisers. Before the hulk thing their ad revenue was decimated.
8-9 hours. If I don't, I usually take a nap.

Also, be aware of "sleep debt", which can be paid back up to 1-2 weeks, during which you will sleep longer than normal, but it is normal, because one has sleep debt that is being paid back.

source: The Promise of Sleep, Dr. William Dement, Sleep Researcher @ Stanford University.