skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story is slightly off topic, but I think fits enough.

My parents decided to try to lock down my computer usage around 11yo, not so young as OP's kids.

My mother was very religious, my step father kind of passive and quiet but a bit radical leaning. I think our eight year cold war over what they thought was pornography was actually something that helped me get more interested in computers. I mean, not that I didn't have an interest in pornography but no more than any other preteen boy. In fact probably a lot less. However, their entire evidence was banners from crack sites left in the cache and an MP3 on a zip disk of 'Fatboy Slim is Fucking in Heaven', but when they ran it it was a video that didn't play because they didn't really know what an MP3 was.

Anyway, he had site black lists on the system and later the router, a special censoring ISP, and definitely monitored me like crazy. But I deployed key loggers, booted linux (from any weird media I could figure out), set up ssh tunnels and vpns to scavenged boxes my friends would let me put at their houses, I learned tricks of the windows file system to hide entire sections of the drive. He would nuke my keyloggers and not tell me and rotate his admin passwords. I even monitored him remotely via CDC BackOriface. I learned how to use a hex editor to mask it from virus scan. We have still to this day, never talked about it. I think he was/is proud.

I think it's really good to keep the very young ones from wandering into places that will hurt them, but a kid with a curious mind probably isn't going to be stopped with countermeasures. I think communication is key over all. When I look back at it, the thing that upset me the most is the never talking to me about their fears but snooping then gathering whatever confirmation of their fears that they could find and attempting to penalize me. This closed off a lot of communication opportunities we could have had to grow as I was learning about the world, but in the end it helped me learn something that's a big part of my life in a way I wouldn't have learned quite the same way otherwise.

Hack the Planet.
I'm not a lawyer, but it my impression that the main thing that is different with the GDPR is the threat that it will actually get enforced.

In discussions about the GDPR I see things that are part of Dutch law for years, in some cases dating back to the 1970s.

In practice nobody cared. In extreme cases the data protection authority would say something. But they were mostly understaffed.
The local 2 year college nearby created a Charter High School for grades 11-12 where there High School students take college classes to count for both college and high school. It was good for my son who graduated a few years ago. More 2 year colleges might have similar programs I am not sure http://middlecollege.guhsd.net/
This is only for MASSACHUSETTS so please go behind a shed and shoot yourself, for providing no value to the internet just another garbage link for 1 state.
Finish watching and you might find out.
Why should you have to get credits before you leave High School? Just teach more advanced subjects in both High School and College.

I agree with what you are saying but I think it’s a product of a failure somewhere else in the education system. No child left behind and other programs hinder education by applying one size fits all policies.
I came here to post a very similar comment, thanks for posting this. While the public internet didn’t exist when I was a young kid, it did as a teenager. I can assure you my parents had no clue what I was doing and I turned out ok because my parents did the important thing, spent time raising me.
Lots of services send me legitimate e-mails asking me to update my credit card information. I'm supposed to click on those. They come from Netflix and all of the text in the e-mail tells me to click on them. I don't click on them because I don't trust links from e-mails, but I'm supposed to.

No service ever sends me account verification e-mails for existing accounts. I'm not supposed to click on those. The text in the e-mail has instructions about whether I should click on it. This makes it different from the credit card e-mail.
I've heard similar comments about the 1.2 stop lenses before, but not one person making them ever used them when they said it. In these cases it is probably the "high end bias" at work: X makes a very good premium Y, therefore I assume their low/mid-range Z is good as well. We see this frequently with CPUs and GPUs: X has the performance crown, therefore for performance, buy X, regardless of price segment.
> Companies need to stop making mirrorless cameras, since they're not useful.

They sell, so they appear to be useful to people. Just maybe not to you.
I could ask the same question about other services like Netflix, Amazon Freetime, etc. I’m so tired of services completely missing the ball on what I want as a parent, which is really nothing more than presenting my child a locked down profile with access to content I have whitelisted - but everything operates on the curation+blacklist model instead.
The Dell XPS 15 (not 13) can do 32GB.
> GDPR seemed unnecessarily overburdensome and limiting last time I looked into it. I don't think we should have anything like it.

Can you provide some more color here? Without concrete examples this statements is pointless.
Re blockchain technologies: while there is an obvious intersection between the world of blockchain and P2P, blockchain technologies are slow because BFT adds many requirements to the game. Basically blockchain technologies use P2P to reach a common state and this could not be necessary in your use case.

You can take a look at OpenBazaar and Particl for P2P implementations.
> The legislation is far from perfect. At nearly 100 articles long, it is too complex and tries to achieve too many things. The compliance costs for smaller firms, in particular, look burdensome.

Not here, but I have seen many comments on other sites that imply this will be a burden on small companies implementing this and worrying about whether they are compliant with some rules that can be interpreted in different ways. Also answering requests for information which range from the benign and can be automated to the letter which caused a stir on linkedin [1] and can be viewed as complex and costly for a small business to answer.

The reason why I talk about small companies, in a lot of cases another already overworked person will need to wear another hat and may or may not do a good enough job. Verses the larger ones, they can implement a small task force and get this out of the way.

I know some commenters on HN would disagree with this and mention that these smaller businesses who don't adopt GDPR should go out of business. But I largely disagree. Businesses which close due to regulations, results in larger market shares to those left standing. Meaning that competition and what largely benefits the consumer dwindles down. Another knock on to this would mean that prices go up, due to those same regulations.

However, what I haven't seen talked about which I wonder if it will make the GDPR moot. Is that Trump is currently engaging in a trade war and I wonder if any lobbying attempts are being made for him to exempt US companies from it[2]?

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

[2]: https://martechtoday.com/president-trump-save-us-from-the-gd...
I love my Dell XPS 15 9560, upgraded it to 32GB Ram, 1 TB SSD. Use it on my desktop with dual 32" 4K monitors attached to the Dell docking station with the laptop closed. Ubuntu and Windows works great.

The key is the GeForce 1050 with 4GB in it. That just rocks. The CPU is good as well: 7700K.

It is also very light, thin. This was actually the main selling point for me. Because I bring it everywhere with me.

I've had it for a year. (Also I have never had this coil whine issue that some mentioned - for me it seemed like FUD, but maybe it affects someone.)

There is an updated model coming out in a month or so, same design, just updated GeForce 1050 TI and a 6 core Intel Core i7 8xxx processor.
> Hey, I think you don't understand what blockchain is. This is the reason why you mentioned distributed hash table. :(

Oh, I understand blockchain quite well. Well enough to see when it's forced
into the role of DHT or some other protocol/structure that by itself was cheap
and efficient.

> Can you explain how can I make trusted mmo lifecycle database if the system requires anyone can participate the node? I think you can't solve. If you can, explain it.

With the vaguene requirements you have used here, just put a digital signature
on the data and you're done.

As I said, you haven't described why you need blockchain in particular. You
try to defend it by saying that you don't see any other way to implement
a distributed data store for your game, but it means nothing, especially with
the numbers of people blinded by blockchain hype. If you used just about any
other distributed protocol, I wouldn't even bat an eye, but with blockchain
you don't get the benefit of the doubt.

> I think that you are feeling good when you scoff something new.

No, just when I scoff somebody who uses the wrong thing in the wrong way for
the wrong reasons.
FreeCAD 0.17 Released
If you can barely remove your harness and get out, odds are you won’t be able to locate scuba equipment and use it
I had forgotten how terrible non-Mac track pads could be until I had to help my mom recover music on her Acer. It makes the entire laptop nearly unusable.
> there are no advantages of a mirrorless camera over SLR tech.

Here are a few I can think of.

- Less moving parts, so increased reliability.

- Possibility of faster shutter time (assuming the autofocus issues with mirrorless can be resolved).

- No high precision SLR mechanism means more engineering budget to spend on better sensors, etc. Thus producing a better camera at the same price.

- Viewfinder shows a truer representation of the final image since it's reading from the same data as what will ultimately be captured.
This will be awesome, same for Netflix. Another problem to fix is limiting watching to certain times and durations. I wonder if there are third party apps that aggregate across YT and Netflix and has these features in a legal manner.
> if you have proven the module using the unsafe code correct, you do not have to treat code calling it as unsafe

Yes, I know, but lomnakkus said "code NOT bearing the [unsafe] tag is guaranteed to be memory safe" without adding this qualification. Without the qualification, the statement is incorrect.

>The difference in Rust is not that it has unsafe blocks

Indeed. That’s what I said above.

For some reason, Rust advocates don't like it when people point out that unsafe blocks, in and of themselves, do not add any kind of safety guarantees to the language or limit the effects of unsafe code.

Of course Rust's type system is able to express important invariants that C++'s type system can't, and this can be used to prevent iterator invalidation etc. etc. The point is that if you do have an unsafe block in your own code, you are going to have to go to the trouble of constructing a formal proof -- using tools that haven't been fully developed yet -- in order to be sure that any of the rest of your code is safe. And at present, the proof requires a translation step, which cannot be formally specified, from Rust code to LambdaRust code.

Rust is undoubtably much safer than C++ in practice. I just think the extent to which it provides hard and fast safety guarantees tends to be exaggerated somewhat in its marketing.
Side bacon or belly bacon?
Vaclav Smil, the man who has quietly shaped how we think about energy
There is one place where it's dynamic, which is that if your very first click is on a mine, then it'll relocate it to the upper-left corner (or the next available spot).
Yeah but you can easily add a mechanical adapter, e.g. Nikon sells the FT1.
Half an hour in I'm left thinking: "this is a great trailer, but where's the documentary?"
Always a good option to consider -- a reasonable laptop and great self-built desktop can be cheaper than a great laptop (if any such exists). Especially if you can ssh into the big machine for high-performance tasks.
I wrote a bit about this [0] in terms of exploring Dell and Lenovo as options with a focus on Linux. I also quite like using LTE with my development machine, I'm doing so with the T470s and Fi [1]. I feel like for Linux the primary advantage that Lenovo has is the historical RedHat/IBM partnership where many RedHat developers are issued/choose Thinkpad as their primary machines to hack on. This typically leads to the crowd effect in ensuring the hardware has good support.

I think the thing that makes me the most sad about Lenovo and Dell is the two incidents they've had in relation to consumer privacy [2][3].

[0]: https://storrgie.epiphyte.network/linux-on-the-t470s/

[1]: https://storrgie.epiphyte.network/project-fi-archlinux/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

[3]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/dell-...
Shouldn't one of the main properties of data poisoning be that it should go undetected? otherwise the collector agency (FB, whatever) can just develop an algorithm to flag that new data.
You can’t easily overcome the force of water rushing into the cabin, and you don’t want to get tumbled around like a ragdoll, so you wait until the cabin is somewhat settled
No, it has nothing to do with the presence of the unsafe blocks. Rust would be exactly as safe or unsafe as it currently is if the requirement to wrap unsafe operations in unsafe blocks were removed. The only difference would be that it would be more difficult to grep for code that used those operations.
I can see playing and winning against ICE with electric motors, but against the efficiencies of a turbine? Ummmm....
Why do they define small companies using the number of employees or money they make? In today’s world laws should me made based on the amount of data a company has. If they have data on upwards of 10 million they need to comply to all data protection and privacy laws. Companies should and will plan their funding and operations accordingly.
This is great! I just used it to make 2 stickers.
If you live near a large mall, Microsoft stores should have Surface Book 2s to play with. I went a few times before buying mine and am happy with my purchase.
If you’re not scuba trained this is going to be pretty useless. Breathing from an oxygen tank whilst being unable to see (no mask), and constantly and steadily breathing as you descend and ascend take training. Not to mention the shock of the cold water and having to remember all this scuba training info. I think it would be useless for anyone that’s not an expert scuba diver, better to improve the harness so that passengers can actually release themselves.
I think only if watersheds are required to terminate on an ocean, but that does not work for basins that are not connected to the sea, one notable example of which is not that far south of this point, containing the Great Salt lake. An alternative view (touched on in the article) is that technically, the fork is the end-point of the Atlantic-Pacific divide, and everything upstream on this creek is in a watershed that has one end on one branch downstream of the fork, and the other end on the other branch. In this view, it is the paths downstream of the fork that are not in a watershed. This is not a useful viewpoint, so I agree that this is a corner case in which the tree model does not work.
It is not a dumb question.

Depending on where you're embarking from, equipment like this may already be available - though not with a 15-minute supply, more like a minute, perhaps.

When I've flown from Norway in latter years, our survival suits (worn throughout the flight) have been equipped with a rebreather device - you bite down on a mouthpiece connected to a plastic bag integrated in your suit, and as you exhale into the plastic bag, you can then draw the same air back in again - no CO2 scrubbing. The mouthpiece is equipped with a valve which lets you breathe normally while above water; you then close it as you are submerged and breathe into the bag until you've reached the surface again.

The idea being that this will do for a minute or two - and in that minute, you're either out of the wreck or dead.

(I've asked the simulator instructor how long we spend underwater - he shrugged and said 'On average, six to fifteen seconds' - so a minute is a long, long time.)
I've had my 9560 for about a year and love it as well. I run Ubuntu on it flawlessly.
Could Americans take advantage of EU protections by using European services?
Arise, O Great Deity of Wisdom
XPS 13 is a brilliant work of art. It looks good, is fully compatible out of the box with Linux and has many many more posts than the macbook.
It is also USB type c chargeable.

XPS 13 + fedora beats the crap out of a macbook.
As someone who has had one for a year, it never affected me. It always seemed like FUD to me, but maybe it affected someone.
So I should have explained my assumptions more.

If you plant 1050 trees at $105 per year (I rounded to $110), the will extract 18 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year. This assumes that you need to just make a one-time payment and as long as those 1050 trees are alive and healthy, they'll keep extracting 18 tons of carbon from the atmosphere every year.

Since we can't assume those trees will keep on living and being healthy as long as you're alive, we need an average healthy lifespan for them. Instead of trying to figure that out (googling resulted in wildly different answers), I decided to assume their healthy lifespan is 10 years. That seems very conservative, but it does give us round numbers to make the math convenient.

So every 10 years, you would need to pay $110 to keep offsetting your carbon. That comes out to $11 per year.
Generally I agree but I think the law should take a different slant. Rather then providing consumers recourse after their data has been collected we need to provide individuals the right to control what data will be collected. All devices should have a label describing what kind of data collection they do. This label should be on the packaging in easy to understand human terms (not buried in the EULA). Additionally devices would be put into classified into one of 4 different classes:

Class A - no data collection

Class B - anonymized statistics for diagnostics that cannot be used for marketing

Class C - anonymized usage statistics that can be used in aggregate

Class D - Targeted collection that can be used for targeted marketing

Consumers should have the explicit right to opt out of any and all data collection without risk of impairing the primary function of a device. For example there is no reason a TV should need to be anything beyond class A (maybe B). A smart speaker on the other hand needs to be a B maybe C. Nothing should need to be a class D.
I have a love/hate relationship with FreeTime Unlimited. At $3 or so a month it’s a great value, but I really wish there was a whitelist option for parents instead of the blacklist they already have, my wife and I have grown tired of trawling though the lists every month to ensure we keep some of content we don’t care for blocked.
Seems pretty reasonable to me. There can be 9-10,000 flights in the sky at any one time (go check out any of the flight radar/tracking sites).
Its a thorny legal issue, and frankly I think there is very little support for GDPR in common-law.

If you voluntarily walk into someones private shop, can you demand that the shop owner doesn't catalog that event? Is there an expectation of privacy while walking on the public street? If you voluntarily agree to receive access to a service in exchange for data collection, can that legal contract be invalidated by decree?

Don't take this as some sort of support for Facebook, I personally have never bought into the idea of social media. Luckily for me, I was a full adult long before social media appeared, so I was able to rationally see that the mass privacy invasion vs "free stuff" calculation wasn't worth it.

Having said that, you can't stop people from voluntarily submitting their data in exchange for services - there is simply no legal theory in support of banning that.
I was able to custom-configure the XPS 13 with a non-touch display and 16GB here: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13/spd/xps-1... (US link)

I run repair shops for a living, and I'd certainly recommend the XPS 13 over a HP. The build quality of the HP Envy laptops we get in are terrible. The XPS 13 is just a better laptop.
I took classes at the local juco as a high school students. I met three types of people. The first were kids like me who all ended up at good schools. The second were older, actually junior college students. They were smart and worked hard. They ended up at decent schools too. The last were people didn't do well. That was either due to motivation or other factors.

The middle group was the smallest by size.
The weight for the mass of the passengers scales with the volume (m^3) while the area of the solar cells (and wing) to lift them scales with m^2. The typical solution for human scale aircraft is to fly faster (higher stall speed) and extend the length of the fuselage. Unfortunately, that combination doesn't increase efficiency so you end up needing even more fuel (or area and weight for batteries and PV).

The demonstrated PV aircraft are already pushing the lowest wieght, lowest drag wings with the highest efficiency PV and energy dense Batteries. This is a case where bigger is harder (not so with Zeppelins where structural material weight/stiffness scale to much larger sizes).
I didn't say that. I said it should be available to every student, which is not the case.

It's directly a failure of the primary education system, but it is more a failure of leadership and resources than anything else.

As far as NCLB, the response to it is a bigger problem than the law. There's nothing in it stopping states from investing in both helping underachieving students and in helping other students get ahead. NCLB didn't tell Oklahoma to slash taxes and burn their schools.
Let’s not forget music too. There’s amazing music production apps on iOS / Android. On the programming front, I think Swift Playgrounds is fantastic for younger audiences.
the cohen brothers are excellent at adapting books to films.
I haven't watched the Corbett Report completely but it had too much conspiracy theories in it.

Dulles brothers were very pro corporations and very very anti communist.

John foster Dulles that became secretary of state under Eisenhower after ww2 was pro Hitler at the beginning of war (before US involvement) as an ally against Soviets. US banks gave Hitler huge loans before the war that helped him to rebuild the economy.

The idea that a small country can challenge a corporation interest was something the Dulles brothers couldn't live with. The iran coup was the beginning. They used CIA to insure corporate interests anywhere in the world and they used communism as an excuse to do so.

Mossadegh was one of the most democratic leaders of the middle east at least. At the height of his power he refused to close communist newspapers that were attacking him.
Can you imagine Trump having that power and not using it because of his belief in free speech?
I had no issues with Linux support, just follow the guides and you can install stock Ubuntu with no problems with GPU switching and docking station support and everything else.
We moved away from libp2p at the project I work on because of major instability problems in browsers. Our dapp that used libp2p would crash after a few minutes and was generally not easy to use.

EDIT: I'm referring to the JS version here.
You've explained why dots don't matter is a useful feature, but that has nothing to do with whether it's responsible for some security issues.
Lean AI and Clarifai
But they are also close to the main grid so could charge up a big capacitor from the mains to get a boost.