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Thanks for those links. Even with those recommendations, I think we honestly have no idea how to maintain software systems for 20+ years. Shame, because almost every other kind of industrial system we produced up until about 30 years ago _did_ in fact have the ability to be maintained for decades. Look at the B52 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress). Still going strong 60+ years after its first flight. Designed to last. Individual ones were built to last. Sure, it's seen upgrades over the years, but the core was just so well thought out and so _simple_.

We might never be able to build systems like that again. Simple is key, and we just can't help ourselves.
I've just begun commuting into NYC on Amtrak, and it leaves on time to the [i]second[/i]. After years of my commute impacted by subway delays, NJ Transit delays, and an independent ferry service that had its share of problems, Amtrak is really quite refreshing. I had forgotten that things were supposed to be on a schedule!

I lived in NYC for 5 years, and had no idea that the subways were on a fixed schedule. I thought they just came when they came.
And even if he misread what actually happened, the point was young people get serious consequences quite often. Why should Zuckerberg be viewed any differently? Either change the system to judge younger people especially minors less harsh or be consistent.
Consider the common situation where the algorithm is a machine learning model. Nobody knows how it works; the best you can hope for is a bit of documentation for how the algorithm came to be created.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z5msJXVv918
I'd say they missed drone and new creative creator market.

Smart phone is on a different market that they inherently have no experience or incentive to pursue.

Drone and creative creator are what they should always be looking for in the first place.
Their batteries last significantly less and the lenses tend to be bulkier than equivalent DSLR lenses.
This takes away most of the advantages.
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I purposely live within easy biking distance of the office for this reason, which I'll admit is a luxury that not everyone can afford. Fortunately tech pays well.

Between my own bike and Citi Bike I can get everywhere I need to without relying on any form of mass transportation. Biking is frequently the fastest form of transportation, depending start/end point of the trip anyway. It certainly is for my daily commute.
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It is easier to learn when you are not fully aware that you are "studying", at least that is the case for me.

Consuming different kinds of media like books, audiobooks, video games and movies in English can help a lot with that without too much effort. Combine that with joining some English-language forums in which you actively participate, and you have a relatively cheap way of improving your language skills.

If you have the means, add travel into the mix and try to immerse yourself in the language and culture for as long as you can afford while avoiding people who speak your language.
> The friend/accomplice did not kill anybody, but was killed by police in a shootout; the defendant was charged with murder for this death.

What the actual fuck? Then again, I can't say I'm suprised that it's in Alabama.
I happened to have had the luck to grow up at just the right time to have some subset of foreign children's television in NL be subtitled still - and combined with the ability to read early, ended up remarkably fluent in English at a pretty early age.

I'd imagine the same goes for other people who grew up with subtitled children's television shows during this brief phase.
> Relevant ads also save users (the segment that buys stuff from ads) time from researching for products and services.

That is specifically not wanted.

Several European governments are subsidizing projects to provide consistent and exhaustive comparison tests between many products instead, so customers can for each category of product they may need find massive comparison tables, find which products fulfill their needs, and can buy the cheapest one.

This makes the market more efficient, because the best product for the lowest price wins, instead of the best marketed product.

One such example is the Stiftung Warentest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiftung_Warentest
BART isn't immune to horror.

A few years back, I almost planned to take BART from the airport to a hotel on California Street. I'm lucky I chose to rent a car and stay in a car-friendly hotel in South San Francisco instead, because BART stopped entirely due to a strike. That was 4.5 days, costing the region about $73 million per day.

It bewilders me that such a mess is tolerated. That properly calls for emergency replacements (possibly National Guard) and for the strikers to be convicted of criminal mischief endangering public safety.
> ayurvedic doctor

So not a real doctor
>Would you still support it?

Omg. Yes. This is better than the stuff in my wildest dreams.

Fining people for bad opsec is a tremendous idea!
Well if you’re using a VPN then your ISP can’t see much. Some VPNs offer DNS too.
>You're paying to use their platform to connect with your "friends" by giving up your rights to whatever they can scrape off your phone.

The general public (especially in developing countries) don't understand this at all.

In many countries facebook/messenger/whatsapp is unmetered thanks to facebook subsidies, which makes 'giving up your rights' the cheapest way (sometimes the only affordable way) to pay for a service to communicate with people.

Facebook is bundled with pretty much every Android phone ever.

People without facebook accounts have profiles, they're just not generally visible.

They've put a shitload of money and effort into forcing themselves into the position as a totally pervasive social arbitration platform, where the social cost of opting out makes it impossible even if you ignore the fact that your friends are probably still participating and happily handing over your data for you.

What's bizzarre is how people who do know these things still seem to expect 'perspective and common sense' from a totally uninterested and mostly uneducated public, and how people who do know these things can ignore just how creepy and predatory Facebooks practices are.
I think I’ve learned the most from listening to podcasts. I would recommend Hello Internet for the conversational nature of their “two dudes talking” genre and the show’s impecable audio quality.
Is a single request like this from a single individual excessive or repetitive though??
While you can easily add the adapter, you are using the lens in a way it is not designed for. It will work for various definitions of work, and casual users might never even notice the difference. But it will never be equivalent to its native usecase.

Some random issues of the top of my head..

1) Tiny tolerance/alignment differences between the target mount and adapted mount can cause the lens to become decentered or be mounted at a tiny angle to the sensor plane.
2) special mirrorless camera features might not work as well e.g. eye AF in sony / object tracking / etc
3) possible autofocus hunting issues on outer focus points or autofocus performance will be impacted
4) pro level lenses like the canon 500 F/4 combined with a 1Dx type body unlocks a faster focusing mode which wont be available with an adapted lens.
big +1 to this response. I got a lenovo (thinkpad x series) and it hit 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, obviously implying 4.

I tried really, really hard to like the lenovo. It just was not built good enough for every day use. It was just a piece of shit.

One more very important point:

If it breaks and you need support, what happens then?

MBP: take it in to a nearby apple store. if not immediate fix or replacement then very rapid turnaround

Lenovo: Send it to china! and wait 6 weeks and maybe you'll get the right computer back, and maybe the problem will be fixed
The idea is that users will no longer give services so much data if it's guaranteed to become public (and thus services will no longer require or even ask for it), so the rule will tend to enforce itself.

And if they do, then the data being public prevents those services from gaining a competitive advantage from the data, thus making it easier to compete with them, and resulting in a more competitive market and thus better services at lower cost for users.
What mainframe systems do sounds pretty close the quote. They can still run decades-old software, even if the hardware platform underneath now looks completely different, since they can emulate everything from the old system, or have newer interpreters for the same old languages.
I view life in 1 year increments. For this year, I aim to become fitter and healthier.

On the professional front, I would like to switch to a different team and seek new challenges!
I find it eery that a documentary that isn't telling people what to feel or think or do is criticized for being incomprehensible and boring.

Maybe we're already far more doomed than people realize.
I took a trip to ny last week and the area i was staying at (near trump tower, off lexington), the closest subways were the 2/3/E/M but apparently on Saturday the 2 and 3 weren't available going downtown, so I had to walk a block or so to get to another line to get where I was going.

Then I was in Brooklyn to watch a show that night, we got out around 9PM and was trying to figure out how to get back into the city, the line that was suppose to take us wasn't running it's normal route, so we had to take one stop into Barclays Center which renamed another line to the line that we wanted to go on. Seemed like the locals knew about this though.

I didn't experience any major delays, but it was more like there was so much work being done that you had to spend extra energy remembering which line was available only one way and starting at which station. Google Maps was definitely very helpful.
As a user, your opinion rarely matter.

Zuckerberg compared to other CEO level executives have a fairly good track record. Somehow his mistakes were not an issue for you for last 10 years and now you have a tough stance against him. What you are buying into now is a form of propaganda where it is fashionable to bash him.
If big budget games would be a guaranteed success you wouldn't read about studio closures and layoffs every few months. Also you never hear about failed products, a game that you know about is more likely to succeed because obviously it was marketed well. Usually failed games sink without a trace and are forgotten within days or weeks.
Well actually this analysis by White & Case of the same case[1], seems to suggest that it may not be (paragraph “impact on businesses”) personal data if the business has no means of linking the addresses to users.

[1] https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
Ask HN: How to start a open source project?
Hello HN community!

For years my goal has been to start my own open source project.

I would like to know your personal experiences developing a open source software, how do you start, and how do you get your idea?

I want to start something, but I don't know what.
If anyone is searching a MOOC to comply his work with GDPR, this one was really concise and complete : https://bluelearning.fr/formation/rgpd/

PS : Ask for English version, they can do an English version, they did one for us.
My only point is - your entire statement is basically "trust facebook" - no one should trust facebook.
Personal information is the product facebook sells - it should surprise no one when that data is sold.
Also Dutch is probably the major language that's most closely related to English.
I just work from home most days now because of how bad it has gotten.

I had to move back to Queens a few months ago near where I grew up and the trip to SoHo that used to take at most 45 minutes is now 60-90 min. A few times I was stuck on the E for around 2.5 hours.

Living in the outer boroughs has become a huge disadvantage.
I'm a native speaker, but one of my roommates didn't know much English when I met him. After about a year, he was 70% fluent in English. Coming to America and making friends is pivotal in learning English.

Firstly, be immersed in the culture of the language you're trying to learn. It's easier to learn English if everyone around you speaks it. The social pressure to learn it will trump your own motivation. You will be motivated to learn English if you want to interact with people.

Secondly, work with native speakers on a project that has nothing to do with learning English. Find something you find interesting and find native speakers with similar interests. We worked on a side project, and he was learning English and programming at the same time. We were doing something fun, and it helped him pick up the language faster.

Finally, watch English comedies with your native English friends, ask them to put on subtitles. We watched Silicon Valley (HBO) and he started to get the jokes pretty quickly. It helps to have a sense of humor. If you're new to English, your English friends will find some of your sentences funny, and that's a good thing. Laugh with them and learn more.
Facebook (probably) has logs of data access, i. e. the API calls third parties have made.

But, unless there are any security bugs in Facebook's code being exploited, each and every API call is legitimate, prima facie.

The issue with Cambridge Analytica, for example, was with unauthorised retention and sharing of data, as well as its use for purposes not covered by the API access agreement. These circumstances cannot be detected from the logged data alone.
Deep Work by Cal Newport - just a mashup of random cliches. Felt like I got duped into reading one of these "ebooks" by Internet Marketing types.

Utopia Is Creepy by Nicholas Carr - this one I haven't read. Probably the only non-fiction book I couldn't bring myself to finish. Super chaotic, I don't know about the other 2/3, but it seemed to literally be random blog posts compiled into a book. And given the book's premise, it just felt too hypocritical.
Here's the harrowing experience of a multi-millionaire athlete at the hands of the police: https://www.theroot.com/video-nfl-player-michael-bennett-ass...
I dream of the day that I can discover the various companies who have any data about me...
The fastest way to go rasterize fixed sized tiles on LRB was boustrophedon—only requires ~9 registers, and takes 3c per 16 samples, amortized.
If all information you have about a person is their email (and usage data) then this won’t make a difference though... The GDPR considers even an IP address personal data, even if you have no way to correlate it with a real person. So where does this leave you if you have to respond?

Imagine I’m sending a request for information from a given IP address, requesting all the personal information you hold on that IP. I kinda proved that I’m using this IP and it’s part of my private data... but providing all information on this IP is likely to leak data on other people and there’s no way legitimate the requester
> No, it will basically make a newsmedia site unprofitable.

Good. We don't need that much "news" anyway. And I think my need would be more than covered by national TV which is sponsored by taxpayers money and BBC, which also has no advertising.
There really won't be much of the value lost if we won't have sensationalized and invented news any more.

Another point to consider is that need for news or just for some brain filler: I am puzzled by appareant inability of many today to be alone and in silence. As if then some thought that they cannot be comfortable with start to be loud enough to be heard.
In college I took:

* 1 literature class (shakespeare elective)
* 0 philosophy classes
* 1 history class (history 101)
* 0 art classes
* 2 science classes (physics 1 & 2)

I don't believe these gave me a wide-ranging perspective on these topics. I think my experience is pretty typical for technical majors.

The idea that most students develop this sort of thing in college is pretty clearly a myth.
I researched this and didn't find a conclusive answer yet. What I found out is:

The original plan was for both the GDPR and the ePrivacy Regulation [1] (not to be confused with the ePrivacy Direcive) to come into effect on 25 May 2018. The ePrivacy Regulation would have had a special exemption for analytics cookies. If that would have been enough to not require consent for Google Analytics I do not know.

Now the ePrivacy Regulation is delayed but the GDPR is not.
I didn't find a lot of information about what that means for the time after 25 May 2018. The following is from German sources (primarily e-recht24.de [2]) and is only from a German perspective.

Google's terms [3] in accordance with German law currently require consent in the case of AdSense but not for Google Analytics. According to [2] this is in obvious conflict with current EU law but the EU Commission denies that.

e-recht24.de [2] is careful to avoid a clear statement about the situation after 25 May but from my understanding they hint that the situation will not change. German law is already in conflict with EU law and this fact is ignored by all parties. The GDPR will not change that situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_(European_...

[2] https://www.e-recht24.de/artikel/datenschutz/8451-hinweispfl...

[3] https://www.google.com/about/company/user-consent-policy.htm...
Hopefully this castrates Google Analytics so much it's useless and goes away.
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Some of us have no use for our ISP's DNS servers, due to government-mandated cencorship.
Work is underway to support Time-Sensitive Networking in modern operating systems: https://schd.ws/hosted_files/elciotna18/b6/ELC-2018-USA-TSNo...
The biggest difference is the Tube doesn't run 24/7. You have a guaranteed maintenance cycle.

Also my understanding is that European unions are less corrupt than American ones.
as a Kraut: if you start now, you're practically too late. It will be interesting to see which major corporation will face the fine of 20 million Euro or 4% of annual turnover the first.
The CCs have the cost model worked out better than the universities, and can curb spending since they don't rely on public funds to support sports programs, sprawling administrations, large campuses, etc. It's about the courses and the students, and providing the most practical courses. I think it's an excellent way to deliver the basic general education and lower level courses of an undergraduate degree compared to taking them at a university because of this cost basis alone.

Rethinking how we deliver lower level courses in the university, by either providing them online or through CC seems to be part of the answer to controlling higher education costs that are spiraling out of control as states cut funding to public universities.
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I was addressing "privacy". It sounds like you have other reasons to not use your ISPs DNS servers. Fair enough.
There is a sales and marketing side to this story as well. Switching costs in photography are quite high if you are invested in a system. Changing systems means selling every lens you own at a greatly depreciated price and purchasing new equivalents at full price. Canon wanted the pro sports market and Nikon was deeply entrenched. 300mm, 400mm, and 600mm lenses that are der rigeur for the sports pro (plus a few others like the 70-200mm) are far more expensive than camera bodies. Canon heavily subsidized the switching costs for key influential pros to get the ball rolling. These incentives were strategically timed to coincide with some of the innovations mentioned in the article. Had they not primed the pump and switched all there big teles to putty gray the battle would have been much tougher.

As far as the Nikon vs Canon thing, I remember a Helmut Newton documentary where a tourist hands him an instamatic camera to take a picture of the tourist with the model. Newton obliges and they show the finished shot. Which looks exactly like a Helmut Newton. It's not the hardware....
there is so much hate towards this I am getting very positive.
> Seemed like the locals knew about this though.

I think about this a lot. I know what it means when the AC is rerouted along the F to West 4th and can plan accordingly. How the hell is a tourist supposed to figure out how to get to Fulton?
... the best camera is the one you have with you. I love my DSLR but now the multi-lens systems (iPhone X and others) that allow bokeh make it even less compelling to bring my DSLR. If they had a stronger telephoto option, it’d be a done deal for me unless I was shooting professionally again. Sure, I love the control of an SLR but I love always having a good camera with me even more.

Going beyond that, innovative ideas light the extreme mult-lens systems from Light start to offer features a DSLR can’t reproduce in a form factor closer to a smartphone. Disruptive innovation comes from flipping orthodoxies and that is exactly what we’re seeing.
Solve the problems you have. If your only motivation for the project is "it's open source", you're not likely to get super motivated to continue.

Otherwise, just start and upload to GitHub. Maybe let some related community know that it exists. There's not much more to it.
> we're not at the point where science possesses a monopoly on working medicine

Science is the best mechanism we’ve found for developing towards truth.

> Believing that every pre-scientific practice is pure hocus-pocus that should be rejected out of hand seems to be a strange conceit

Red herring. I’m not saying it should be dismissed for research purposes. It is a pseudoscience because its practitioners make unfounded, and in certain cases false, claims.
Same argument applies there then. Your VPN provider can already see what websites you're visiting, so use their DNS servers if you can. Don't add yet another third party.
The trains should only run on tracks that are completely enclosed (More control on the environment will realize better reliability, and as an aside nicer living space. Raised tracks are ugly.), Also they should run on rubber wheels like the Montreal metro has since 1966.

Both metros should have barrier between platforms and tracks since they know where the doors will open. It's sad but a non-negligible cause of delays are due to people jumping on the tracks.
I've spoken to some folks that worked in the VPN provider industry... many of them aren't the bastion of consumer protection they claim/are perceived to be. With the exception of Tor (and even that has been found to have problems) I'm not sure "single-point" anything will really provide you with anonymity.

I think it really comes down to your threat model though and what tradeoffs you're willing to accept for anonymity (e.g. captchas, performance, etc).

I think the sweet spot for CloudFlare's offering is if you're in a country or service provider that takes liberties in overriding DNS responses.
You can bring a Thinkpad to any authorized service partner and have them fix it, just like with Apple. And unlike Apple, Lenovo actually has on-site support if you want it (even standard with some models). I had one Thinkpad that developed issues, but they always quickly fixed it.
Yeah, I just got back from Japan and ended up transiting four of the five busiest train stations in the world(we did not visit Yokohama). My takeaway; the US will "never" have great public transit. Other than bus issues in Kyoto due to the amount of tourists visiting shrines(205, 59, etc) it was.. eye opening. BARTs issues and costs are a joke. NYs reliability is a joke. We are not in the same league. Many countries put us to shame on public transportation.
Stupid question: With -1, how would I suppress the return value? Use a function?

k)a:{-1@?0:`:input;};a[]
My understanding is that the MTA is funded by New York State, not NYC, so it's not like the city can just levy its own taxes on businesses or something to fund the subway - though I sure wish they could, and I bet the MTA does too.