skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say nope to every point.

> Our cc’s are all impacted and getting the classes you need is nearly impossible. Many people end up taking 3 years to graduate.

This problem is not unique to CCs; this happens at all public schools. The solution is to plan your schedule years ahead. Most school officials readily give this advice, it's not a secret.

> When you do transfer to a bachelors program, you’ll find that your cc was missing a lot of the pre reqs you need for your major (depending on your major). I’ve seen a lot of cc students at UC schools have to go back and take freshman and sophmore level classes. (total could end up taking 6 years overall)

There's almost always a test you can take after transfer to verify your level of play.

When I transferred to a UC, they wanted me to retake some levels in my foreign language that I'd already completed at CC. Or, they offered a test I could take to jump ahead. I took the test. They saw that I could hang at the higher level. They let me enroll.

I wanted to take an upper-level writing course without taking the underclass pre-reqs. The program asked me to audition by submitting some samples. I did. They saw that I could hang at the higher level. They let me enroll.

This is fair and reasonable policy. UCs are world-class universities and they have a responsibility to maintain that standard. CCs offer everything needed to prosper after transfer (I think this is state policy), but it's up to students to make the most of their CC time.

> All the other students when you transfer are already friends and have relationships with the professors and local businesses. Whose going to get the prestigious research position, the new guy or the one whose been bonding and proving themselves to the professor for 2 years? Same goes for internships.

These are public schools. You are invisible to professors and faculty for the first couple years. I was better known to my programs after taking my transfer tests than most of the students who'd already been there for years. As far as friends go, again, these are public schools. They're too huge for any one clique to run the roost. Making friends has less to do with your transfer status and more to do with...your ability to make friends.

> Who you spend time with shapes who you are. If you are a bright individual, it can be frustrating or depressing being around some of your peers in CC. My girlfriend took an online cc class where they had to submit a paragraph to their class forum. Two students literally copy and pasted her response word for word.

I took vector calculus at my CC. Do you assume my vector calculus class was full of idiots just because it was at the CC?

What still surprises me most about CC was the large population of incredibly bright people I found there. They're not hard to find, but it's incumbent upon the student to put themselves in the more challenging classes where they congregate.
Noob question How is that person-identitifying information?

Seems like it's machine-identifying information. You can't tie it to a real-world name and email (which the top voted comment claims is the essence of GDPR).
Indian runaway train takes 1,000 passengers on engineless journey
Considering how long DSLRs have been out compared to how long mirrorless cameras have been out, I don't think it is a long time at all.
There are some online services where you can find a language exchange partner (to help practice each other's native languages). This is useful if you don't want to pay for professional classes. You can meet periodically by video chat and help each other practice.

Practice or study with native speakers is valuable because native speakers have a "native speaker intuition" to quickly and confidently resolve uncertainties about how to say things. On the other hand, if people haven't studied linguistics or language teaching, they might not be able to explain why they say things a certain way (because we all know and use rules in our native languages that we've never thought about consciously and never tried to explain). So you shouldn't assume that native speakers will always be able to give you helpful explanations of why they chose one way of saying something over another.
Computers are very good at taking something they've done once, and doing is a billion times.
Maybe checkout the dat project https://datproject.org/ which is whats used by BeakerBroswer etc.
> What’s stopping him ?

People’s intelligence? People are still able to tell lies from truth, media pressure from propaganda. The best proof is all media told americans not to vote for Trump, yet they did so.

And to the point, Zuck’s understanding of its electorate will get him votes or not. For example, Facebook’s censorship of republican topic is not something that gets votes. Facebook’s employment culture of getting rid of males and whites won’t get him much votes. It doesn’t depend how you spin it. It doesn’t matter how many times we explain or how much data they have on us, what matters is whether Mark personally understands whites, cis, both genders including males, etc.

Milo even made a tutorial about how Democrats could win back the white/male/cis vote again, it’s not like it’s not ELI5’ed already. Some people, from the top of any aparatus, still wouldn’t understand that stirring up hate against whites doesn’t get them votes.
You lease an apartment then find out you're in an entire airbnb building
Assuming I understand this correctly GDPR basically make products like Mixpanel’s JavaScript (browser loaded) library and other similar products from other companies unusable since they are oftn setup to collect data (including IP addresses) on first visit. Adblockers make the data collected incomplete even if this wasn’t an issue.
But the statement wasn't "many people block tracking", it's "the majority of people using ad blockers are doing it for tracking and not for ads". That's a far different statement that is far harder to back up.
This.

I'm on a ThinkPad t470s, amazing little machine, I love it more than my old MacBook Pro 2015.
Like a Google Reader for videos!
Personal anecdote from which you may be able to pick a thing or two: back in the day RPGs were not translated. I stumbled upon Chrono Trigger and found the game amazing but could barely understand anything beyond the basics. I sucked it up and got a paperback dictionary. Mid game I was barely referring to it, and by the "end" of it (several dozens of hours, possibly hundred; got 10 of the 14 or so endings) things were treading along nicely.

I followed up with Day of the Tentacle for which the complete Full Talkie was only in English (the French one had only partial voice over in English) and since it was so hot at the time to listen to voices in games I really wanted to get that experience, so again, I went for it. It was much more involved as DotT relies on wittiness and humor a lot, so that was definitely a step up. By the end of it I was really getting good at listening instead of just reading the English subs.

From then on I got lots and lots of exposure from movies and TV shows because I began to catch how flawed or lacking some of the French dubs were for the stuff I watched.

The missing part was speaking, and for this I happened to be repeatedly tasked with preparing and presenting some stuff in English class. The key points being: "repeatedly", like, a lot (once a week for three years) and "preparing" which really helps in progressing (you can't realistically be expected to wing it at talking if you only were doing "passive" activities like reading and listening) because I had to both write and rehearse presenting beforehand, which are both "active" tasks.

The "fluent" part then comes out as the sum of all this experience.

(Also, at some point I switched all of my OS/software/phone to English. Little tidbits like this mean I was faced with English every single days for the most trivial things, so that it just becomes second nature)

(Also also, getting involved in online communities, but not lurking: interacting instead, stepping right outside the comfort zone.)
Misleading title. Implication is that Romans don't clean their anus as thoroughly by not using toilet paper. But it turns out they use a brush to clean. Amazing.
You can display ads, just not personalized ones. Might even lead to more static image or text based ads, which have a higher chance of not being blocked by users
Is the US government GDPR compliant, or does it not do business with EU citizens?

Or are they granted an expection for being trustworthy good guys unlike these unscrupulous businesses?
It's an opportunity for you to build a video service for your country.
OK, we've taken Iran out of the headline above.

All: this thread is an unsalvageable trainwreck. If you want to recite low-substance talking points or smack each other over the head with political and national insults, please do it somewhere else. Posting that way here will eventually get your account penalized and/or banned; it's not in the least what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Of course you can serve ads, they just can't use any personal information or tracking unless people have consented. Ad blockers will still be a thing.

As for consent, you have to be able to refuse. A consent box popping up each time would be the dumbest way to do this, but not that different than those full-screen email/newsletter begging boxes we have now.
I have an Asus Zenbook UX430U and it suits my needs.

Modest CPU/RAM, runs Linux great. 14".
I did the CCC path about 6 years ago in Northern California too, but I did 3 years instead of 1. Tuition was free with the BOG Fee Waiver (I think around 50% of CCC students get it).

Not having to worry about financials really helped in reducing the pressure of changing majors. I went from CS to Mfg Engineering. If I had to factor in an additional $20000 into that, I probably would be working in a job I disliked rather than exploring other options.

On top of going to school for free, and living rent free, I was able to have a job for a few years which basically paid for my expenses in a 4-year.

Hardest part of it all was convincing my parents that I didn't want to go to Berkley even though I was accepted, but would rather go to a CC. The stigma behind CCs was the only hurdle.

All in all, got free school, had a savings, and knew what I wanted to do for a career. Would recommend it to anyone. PLUS I got to have my mom's cooking for lunch and dinner.
Yes, I do it too - I have ublock orogin, privacy badger and httpseverywhere. I do it because the web is faster without ads and trackers. Just look at devtools and see how much time is saved by blocking requests.
So 5 people out of how many million? Just Adblock Plus on Chrome has over 10,000,000 installs, and "most" of 10,000,000 is a big number. Even bigger when you say "not using it for ad blocking"
Serious answer, those people are not in the business of responding to legal enquires from customers. Even if they did it is still an example of "burdensome".
If I have an IRC service that shows quotes from people and has 'last seen' functionality is that covered by GDPR? Some of the users are from EU countries, does that mean those features need to be turned off or have some sort of acceptance exchange with users?

Would filtering out EU IP ranges be sufficient, or does this also apply to EU citizens traveling outside of the EU?

The referenced page says that asking users to provide a birth date isn't sufficient proof that they're over 16 years of age, how should one verify age for something like an IRC bot?
Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
Two very comparable cameras with the same sized sensor:
http://camerasize.com/compare/#724,718

Sony's mirrorless camera is also more compact than SLR cameras with smaller (APS-C) sensors: http://camerasize.com/compare/#724,708

They're also quieter (no mirror slap) and having an electronic viewfinder allows you to see what will be recorded. For example, you can directly see the effect of a longer exposure or higher sensitivity.
And both seem to be completely missing the smartphone revolution.

I think it would be great to see some Canon or Nikon tech in smartphone cameras, but they should've tried to do it like 5 years ago. I'm not even sure they'd have that much to offer smartphone makers at this point, for the same reason Intel wouldn't have too much to offer to Qualcomm in the smartphone market at this point - these companies already have all the expertise and experience they need in the markets they already dominate.

Smartphones have already almost completely wiped out the compact camera and "amateur" market for DSLRs. The predominance of ML accelerators in smartphones and new innovations (like using multiple cameras, or light-field tech, which Google may still use in future Pixels) is going to take smartphone cameras to the next level in the next 10 years.
Anything not lambasted on the front page of HuffPo is acceptable.
LoolEditor: edit office files directly in ProcessWire CMS
HiDPI on Linux is pretty much non existent. I am telling from experience. I have booth a decent 4K external monitor and a HiDPI IPS internal display. The only setup which is ok in the sense of least horrible is Gnome mutter Wayland with experimental per monitor fractional scaling enabled. And this one is only ok if you can restrict yourself to the few ported pure GTK3 Gnome apps. Which means not that much. No Firefox. No Chrome. No Thunderbird.

And the speed of fixing HiDPI on Linux has actually slowed down.

Frnakly, and I am a hard core Linux OSS fan - come back in two years and check again.

The Linux desktop IS dead.
Fuck Zuck, let him burn in hell
In this case perhaps, but it usually becomes some sort of deep claim of how the universe work. And I do think asynchronous computer execution is not even close to how the world operates, so it’s not even a good metaphor.
National attacks are not ok on Hacker News, regardless of which interpretation of current events you subscribe to. Please don't post like this again.

Edit: I want to say more about this. The overwhelming majority of HN users are legit community members, from lots of countries. Imagine being a legit community member from Russia and seeing people posting like you guys did here. It's frankly disgraceful.
Communism has a problem with coordination.

That's a classic observation. It may no longer still be true. Scaling works better now that we have enough computer power. Amazon doesn't have a problem with coordination. Nor does WalMart. Alibaba and Tencent don't seem to. All those companies are above the quarter-trillion dollar level. They approach the scale of the USSR's entire consumer goods economy.

There's no longer a limit on the size of a monopoly. It used to be that big companies had trouble getting out of their own way. The successful giant companies now seem to be past that problem. In a capitalist world, this leads to one big monopoly in each category.
It's not the law that's the difference here. The clue is under the headline:

> The GDPR’s premise, that consumers should be in charge of their own personal data, is the right one

That's not just the GDPR's premise, that's the very foundation privacy as a civil right in Europe, and has been for a very long time.

The GDPR is just yet another attempt to force companies who have wilfully ignored the rights of millions of Europeans to start complying with laws we already had in place. It's not something new, just an iteration in enforcement.

America should make laws that suit America's values and principles, but as it stands, America has no deep concept of privacy. The GDPR is alien to American values.

(BTW, that quote is subtly wrong but illustrates the huge gap in perception: it should be "citizens", not "consumers"...)
Would you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing the political flamebait thing repeatedly. It's destructive of this site and not ok.

In particular, comments smearing an entire country are bannable offences here regardless of which country it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
lol you're definitely right. It was one of those words with Es and Rs and a couple of Gs.
How does SpaceX transport the Falcon 9? [video]
That’s neither opt-in nor opt-out, but stronger. Companies only may have data they need for doing their business. If you cancel a service, accounting and similar laws may dictate a company has to keep your address and payment info for a couple of years, but that’s about it (this actually is covered by the implementation of the “data protection directive”, the precursor to the GDPR, which has been in effect since at least 1-1-1999. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive#Le...)

Student clubs (yes, the GDPR applies to them, too, even if they are 100% volunteer run) that want to keep address info of past members for communicating with alumni, for example, have to make that opt-in.

“necessary for running the business” has some gray areas. For example, an athletics club will want to keep a list of club records, photos of past victories, etc. That’s something that is allowed as “necessary for being a sports club”. I don’t know whether there’s any case history on this)
How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS
Get a native anglophone partner and go live with them, force them and yourself to speak in English exclusively, especially when you argue or when you do errands together.

This forces you to simplify concepts to get your point straight at first, then pushes you to ampliate your vocabulary.

Learned Portuguese in 1 year this way.
No appreciable different at all, with a 35W processor RAM power consumption just isn't an issue.
If these products don't take steps to be GDPR-compliant themselves they are going to be unusable, yes. Which is why I assume most of them will do in some form.

E.g. an analytics product does not have to collect IPs. I've seen one company in the field requiring customers to explicitly mark form fields as safe for tracking the contents of in session replay (so they don't accidentally end up with your customer addresses, while still allowing you to see how far people went with the signup process, which product options they had selected), ...
I have noticed the opposite, that Sony bodies run far cheaper than the comparable Canon (although I never even considered Pentax).

My 42MP A7Rii runs $2300 new compared to the Canon 5DS which is $3800. Same thing when I bought my Sony A6000 and original A7.
I have an XPS 13 and also cannot recommend it. Same deal with the coil whine (it's a very annoying buzz sound). After a while, my battery began to swell too, which has broken the touchpad and visibly elevated the keyboard.
No. That’s like saying one could conduct a root cause analysis on a pile of parts on the ground, asking why they haven’t formed themselves into a car.

Root cause analysis, by its definition, assumes that you are starting with a functioning system (turns inputs into the proper outputs) that failed unexpectedly.
Don't forget Dr. Strangelove, which is based on a very serious novel about nuclear war, "Two Hours To Doom" (published in the US as "Red Alert"), which Kubrick and Terry Southern turned into a comedy. (Today the book is out of print and largely forgotten except for its relationship to the film.)
Personally, I use adblocker for both purposes, but if not for tracking, I would be disabling it on many more websites to support them.
Ask HN: Anyone using grpc.io for mobile back end in production at scale
Anyone using grpc.io for a mobile backend in production? Any nuances around this. Looking to use this for an app having a 1Million MAU Android and iOS.
You can tie such visit to a real person. For example, if this is a Facebook user, and your site includes resources from facebook.com, Facebook will know exactly which real person visited your site, and the user did not give you consent to share such info with Facebook.
Anecdote: I frequently use kdb+ for small tasks. For me, its in the "all-purpose" category. The limitations are only in the ability I have to use it.

For example, removing nonconsecutive, duplicate lines from a file, such as a CSV file:

exec echo "k).Q.fs[l:0::\`:$1];l:?:l;\`:$1 0:l"|exec q >&2;

where Q.fs is a function in a script thats bundled with the interpreter; the chunk size for reading the file into memory is adjustable by editing the function.
We took the reference to Iran out of the title.
I doubt it. My observation is that if there is an enormous amount of money to be made disrupting an established industry with practical tech, it happens. Money trumps law in many cases.

E.g. Uber
Some sort of Spotify car speaker likely to launch on April 24
Hyper is nice too but its electron based if you're against that sorta thing.
I use Anki as well and it really is fantastic.

I use it for languages, math, and code (there is a really good markdown plugin).

15-30 minutes every morning is enough to keep many things fresh in memory.
The Grand Tour did it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2018/02/16/grand-tour-...
Good for him that he isn't black in today's America.
Why not do it like with cookies?

People are already used to accept these cookie policies, so why not just widen it to GDPR related stuff?

Also how much can be caught with "security" reasons?
If they lacked the foresight to be born wealthy and enroll in an ivy league college, that's their fault.

Cyni-casm aside, yours is a crucial point I think gets forgotten too often. Just yesterday I was scrolling through the comments on a Fox News post about an 18 year old who'd been sentenced to 25 yrs for being present during robbery when his friend killed someone.

Obviously substantially different crimes, but the comments were mostly people salivating at this "animal" getting "what he deserved."

Anyway, thanks for mentioning this point.
>It's kinda like Alexander Graham Bell, claimed by the Scots (in England they call him British) the Canadians and the Americans.

... and "universally" (i.e. by the British, the Canadians and the US people) attributed the invention of the telephone, which was invented by an Italian, instead ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.int...

Though the Canadians are still not convinced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci#2002_U.S._Congr...
Another difference is that China has kidnapped Chinese nationals, while the US has "rendered" mostly non-US nationals, if I understand correctly.
Note, again, this was their response when this article was written in 2010. "...since leaving Harvard for Silicon Valley nearly six years ago" is referring to 2004. Just clarifying, because when I first read this I thought, "what was Mark Zuckerburg doing in Harvard still in 2012?"

It'd be interesting to hear what they'd about it today though. Probably nothing.
That's usually the opposite case, wider apertures mean more light which gives the AF system more to work with. The AF speed of my 135L drops significantly if I put a 1.4x teleconverter on it despite needing to move the same amount of glass.

Most wide-aperture lenses have larger AF motors to compensate with the exception of a few unique lenses that use a gear instead of servo motor(USM in canon parlance).
Depends on the pharma rep in their area.