skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I’m going to have to start learning Russian. An explanation as to why will follow.

As the article states, there will be a monetary price to pay in order to implement and then uphold GDPR. The fine is also stated in Euro. If the legislation is made so that it deters companies in first world countries from breaching it, then what is the result for countries like România or Bulgaria where 249 euro is the minimum wage for one third of the work force.

East Europe already has a long history of using pirated software especially when a game or photoshop are the monthly food money.

This move will begin a segmentation of the internet with new Scihub sites popping up left and right that are pirating content from Western sites and making it free with maybe malicious ads in the East.

The privacy regulations will be nonexistent and as the sites will be in Russian, there’s no reason to be targeted for EU citizens.

After Facebook and Twitter being used by Russia to do propaganda, imagine the fun of having the entire eastern bloc trapped in an internet bubble due to commercial reasons from the west. Screw WashingtonPost.. long live Sputnik.
A programmer is a computer code writer. A software engineer aims to be a more efficient, elegant and scientific programmer.
I don't like either search engine right to be forgotten or anti-discrimination laws. Does the problem really need to be solved?
you can be affected even if you did nothing illegal, say you were young and stupid and you were in some camp X(like a political party, or some gaming group, or some sect), then for some reason this things happen:

- the fact you were member of X and you done some comments gets a good Page Rank

- X becomes very unpopular, people that believed in X ideology are seen as idiots,racists,violent

- you got older and smarter and you realized your mistake

- you made some other good things during your life, like maybe won chess tournaments, volunteered,donated to charities,raise children

And the problem will be that your mistake will be on the top results on web search wile your good stuff will probably not be online or if it is will be on 3rd or 4rd web search page(the even where you won the chess competition has a bad page rank)

Many issues you can say are a society problem, like a murder, you can argue that the society is at fault for creating them, allowing guns, drogs, bad education.

So for this problem I think there should be some technical solution for affecting the page rank of some pages on Google or other searches in some conditions, and now we need to find some fair conditions when this should happen, maybe google could fix the algorithm to not give such a big page rank to this kind of stories in general.
Voters also lack the power to implement a Brexit
Indeed. A place where people in general actually don't WANT to litter to begin with, instead of one where the government has to continually pick up after them and cleanliness has to be enforced by fines etc., must be so refreshing to live in just for that alone.

It's even more admirable when you consider that Tokyo has been the world's largest metropolis by several metrics (at least until recently, but even now it's #2 or thereby), and compare it with the state of other densely-populated cities:

[0] http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=garbage+in+New+Delhi

[1] http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=garbage+in+Karachi
Your point earlier was:

"Very, very few places are outright criminalizing it."

But securities laws DO outright criminalize victimless behaviour.

>>As for why those regulations exist, you can look back in history to see why those regulations were initially enacted (lots of fraud in the securities space)

There is no justification for criminalizing consensual economic exchange. Doing so in the name of preempting crime is a case of guilt by association, and collective punishment, against all the innocent parties who take part in this kind of activity.

As for the consequentialist justification: the result of accepting the principle of paternalistic restrictions on voluntary exchange is current securities laws, and they are totally dysfunctional.

It costs $6 million to do an IPO. This excludes 99% of the population from being able to directly access the public capital markets.

And then we try to deal with the symptoms of this unequal economic access with welfare and other forcible income redistribution schemes.

The real solution is to return to a free society where we don't create structural barriers to economic participation.

>>or just look at the more recent history of crypto activity,

I see a lot of innovative projects being funded. I see rapid innovation that has totally transformed distributed consensus technology over the last five years.

We have major problems in our world that cause over 50 million deaths a year.

We need to be willing to take risks and deal with the inconveniences and volatility of freedom to solve these problems.

There is no path in front of us that doesn't involve risk. Either the risk associated with our current problems, or the risks associated with experimentation/innovation in trying to solve those problems.

That's the reality that society has to face in order to make an informed decision on which path to take.
I was hoping that it would be narrowed.
I have some words of caution ... Whatever it is you do or don't do, you'll first need to get buy-in from your spouse.

E.g. "daily routines" are harder to implement if they're important to you but not your spouse. It's difficult enough to deal with kids, when you're also dealing with an indifferent or opposed spouse, well ... good luck with that!
Reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8asb4i/dark_side_of_e...
As I recall, the effect of this was reduced hiring of black and Latino candidates, which employers used as a proxy for criminality.
This is like the Green party for POTUS: runs everytime but never gonna happen.
What's stopping a regime to enact these regulations in 30 years, if it feels it needs them?

That argument works against things like data retention laws (the new regime may find 'new uses' for data already retained) but if anything, GDPR discourages data retention
Ashik526
I am unsure about Fukushima being a buggy design. To me it has sounded more like mismanagement and negligence than anything else.

Case in point - the plant disaster happened because the tsunami was higher than what the sea walls had been designed for. From what I have learned, Japan has plenty of evidence that magnitude-9 earthquakes and the following tsunamis have happened in the past. The protections in Fukushima (and Daichii) were designed against less.

To fail under expected peak load is bad engineering. To ignore evidence and go with insufficient safety margins is something worse.
The economy in the early 80s was in pretty bad shape as far as the average household was concerned, and computing wasn't a "thing" yet. There wasn't yet an internet, not in anything resembling the modern sense, and there were nearly no services designed to be accessed from a computer.

So for the majority of the consumer market, computers just didn't really offer $10,000 of value.

The business market was maybe a little bit different, but still, businesses suffered badly through the early 80s too, and a computer would be an R&D expense moreso than a business expense. It would be a very long time before computers could do things beneficial enough to businesses to justify high upfront costs (plus the costs of finding or training anybody to operate the things). And, computers represented quite a big change in operations, and as anyone that's done any kind of business consulting has learned first-hand, businesses hate that.

With all due respect to the people who are much smarter than I am, the folks that invent and pioneer technology so often view it through a very different lens than the people who would use it, and they really struggle to bring the technology to larger society. Dean Kamen is my favorite example of a brilliant guy creating amazing technology that nobody can afford or find the right use for. Someday somebody else might come along and give the world the same thing but much cheaper and in a different package, and it'll change a lot of lives, and there will as usual be people to say, "But Dean Kamen invented it first and did it better." Well, sure, but nobody knew about it.

Despite the flaws that his detractors are always eager to bring up, that was something I respected about Jobs (and a few other industrialists) -- the combined ability to understand new technology, visualize how it could be brought to a broad market, and then do it successfully.

It's kinda fun to imagine how things might've worked out if Apple had never visited Xerox. Maybe SGI would do it instead and Apple would be that company that made the boxes we all played Oregon Trail on. But, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be using a Xerox OS.
Considering hundreds of millions have bought an iPad, and sales are strong 8+ years on, it's not much of a minority view.
> Silicon Valley feels a bit like the British Emplire at its sunset.

That general premise has been widely forecast at least three or four different prominent times across the last 40 years in Silicon Valley. There was a time in the 1980s that it was supposedly dying. In the early 1990s it was supposedly dead. In 2001 it was supposedly dead.

The sun isn't setting this time either. There is no competition for Silicon Valley anywhere on earth on the horizon.

China does not directly compete with Silicon Valley. The notion that they do, is entirely a myth. China's tech companies are trapped inside of China (that's why Baidu never actually proceeded to challenge Google globally, which used to be widely expected). US tech companies get the rest of the world to play in.

Talent that is drawn to Silicon Valley, isn't going to China instead (plenty of it that is local to China may be staying home in China rather than moving to the US). China is dramatically less welcoming to foreigners than the US is. The US hands out a million green cards per year. It's almost impossible to become a citizen in China as a foreigner.

Not to mention that little problem of China having few human rights, near total state censorship and an aggressive dictatorship that has been rapidly revoking the few rights they acquired. It's so bad, they're banning joke apps in China now, because apparently, according to the Communist Party, jokes are contrary to Socialism. [1]

[1] https://advox.globalvoices.org/2018/04/11/no-laughing-matter...
Linkedin Nearby Feature
Linkedin launched long-awaited Nearby feature which lets you see the people who are near you at a conference/meetup/airport or near in general.
The same happened with GTalk, first completely standard XMPP service then some extensions to it, then abandoning. Embrace, extend...
I've only just started learning Rust but having spent 38 years programming I largely agree with his sentiments.

Typing .unwrap() forces you to acknowledge that what you have may not actually be what you expect.

Explicit flow control makes what is happening clear to understand and reason about without jumping about the code via exceptions.

Type conversions should also be explicit, (and automatic type conversions would needlessly complicate the Type Checker in any event).

I am sure there are places where "ergonomics" can be improved, but it is far more important to avoid the many (accidental) mistakes made by other programming languages.

Rust is going to be around for a long time. So any mistakes made now will also be around for a very long time.
ashik526
> Hard to separate pending tasks from just conversations.

Emails aren't tasks.

In any case, Outlook allows for assigning tasks to emails and organize them.

> Hard to split conversations into separate threads when two topics diverge.

An UI/UX design issue.

If the subject is no longer the same, one could provide an UI feature that allows them to be viewed separately.

> Leaving a conversation isn't just your decision: you have to both reply all and hope that no one else replies all using a previous email in the thread.

Leaving a conversation is my decision. I just stop replying and create a rule to delete all further emails using the same topic from the group of senders.

> In a corporate email, inability to prevent mass emails from other employees. Hard to do for personal email too.

In some emails clients, specially corporate ones, it is possible to customize how send, reply and reply-all work, either via group policies or custom plugins.

GMail has not wanted to, which is quite different from being able to.
It's the law in the UK (and presumably similar in the rest of the EU).

Every conviction must be declared for a small number of years if asked. After that period it must only be declared if you're applying for a sensitive job (e.g. school teacher) and it resulted in a custodial sentence.
https://cran.r-project.org

It’s as close as anything I can think of. All function and little, if any, attempt at style.
When EU dictates what can be in the search index it is "right to be forgotten".

When China or Russia does it, it's at least "censorship", and probably also "dictatorship".
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City Hospital Doctor: ER Surgery Game
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I really don't know why people keep paying attention to this guy. He's clearly very good at selling himself but not much more. The silly explanation of polymorphism based on syntax, makes it seem like he's never heard of multiple dispatch, or typeclasses.
>As a starting point, can you quote any evidence that a tablet is better than a paper book? Both for reading and for more general educational activities?

Have we regressed to the point where the simplest statement requires third party ("scientific" references)?

A table offers 100x the functionality of a paper book.

Even just in reading mode, it can carry 1000s of books in it, one can take notes, highlight, search them, remember its position on each, it has its own light (adjustable to match ambient levels or go beyond them), increase the font size (ever though about those with no perfect eyesight? Sucks to be them with paper books huh?), even spoken to the reader through TTS.

Not to mention that the price of ebooks is much cheaper than paper books to boot (and that one can even pirate the latter, if they are so inclined). Or that there are also 100,000s of FREE ebooks (classics, and such) but seldom (if ever, except for charity or so) free paper books.
Hmm yeah... I think I completely agree with this, the whole point of rust (for me) is safety and less surprises - the surprises tend to be misguided ergonomics.

But is this a real danger now? Is the ergonomics initiative trying to make rust into JavaScript or Ruby? That would be unfortunate, languages should be different and the point of rust is sacrificing some ergonomic for safety and in the end more power...
> How will it make me a better developer?

Well, focusing a component of the system (software development) while neglecting to consider how that component interacts with the whole system (society and ecology), is exactly the sort of myopic thinking that systems thinking proclaims to remedy.
ebooks can migrate from ipad to ipad (or any other system) without any damage to their contents.

books can't.
Milos Forman, Director of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Dies at 86
Why I'm automatically deleting my old tweets using AWS Lambda
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What happens to Facebook in Europe
80 people have been convicted of treason in Germany since 1993? More than 3 a year? That seems... shockingly high.

What were they doing? How many independent acts of treason was this?
Is that an arbitrage in the same sense that selling puts is an arbitrage?
>"believed"?. Yoğurt is a different bacteria.

Citation needed.

>If yoğurt was oxygala Greeks would continue to call it oxygala.

That's not how language always works. Greeks have adopted foreign works for things they themselves had in the past (with their own words), and also use ancient Greek words for things that were imported much more recently. Even something as basic as water has changed name from ancient Greek times.

Words have complex itineraries and adoption cases. Sometimes a newer foreign word is adopted because that's when a product gained more popularity (and the older one has been forgotten), or merely because it's thought as "more modern" to refer to it by that name.

There are is even "reborrowing", when an ancient words is re-imported, centuries or millennia later, after it has been adopted and slightly altered abroad.
"dont hate the player, hate the game"

Capitalistic tendencies in capitalist companies is not shocking.
A New Kind of Science
There were numerous design errors that enabled the flooding to destroy the plant. For example, venting the hydrogen gas into an enclosed area, which resulted in an inevitable explosion. There's plenty more, if you read a step-by-step account of the disaster.

Engineers iterate their designs based on past failures just like software engineers do. It's just that the life cycle is so much shorter for software, the iterations come thick and fast.
I have seen this over and over with people that have eventually built incredible products or services. The company/product/service etc. can work as a signal eventually. An “entrepreneur” is a lot like a scientific researcher. It isn’t until after the experiment has been shown to work that your risk is then rewarded. The people with high agency that have a fair amount of confidence in their abilities and don’t view themselves as a statistic tend to be able to weather this period the best emotionally.
The only reason that 70% tax didn't destroy the economy was because for much of the time after WWII, the US was the only first-world country stable and not rebuilding from the war. It was also possible because the effective tax rate was way below 70%.
I'm afraid I was arguing against the use of the war metaphor...
We consider them costs because they are. If you can execute code on your server farm 1% faster, you can save millions of dollars in server costs. Hence software engineers who work on server farm code tend to get paid very well.
Nobody chooses high risk over low risk. People choose various degrees of autonomy, based on what risk they are willing to accept.
Your analogy is so atrocious it's almost as if you do PR for Facebook. Furniture is passive and doesn't detract from wellbeing by absorbing a significant proportion of active attention.
If people are aware of this, what if someone finds the variations, and modifies the document and then leaks it, framing someone else for the leak?
> There are some good server-side tools for this (QPDF, PDFTk, PDFBox, iText, Hummus)

Fake news! QPDF[0] can work offline on local PC - just download AppImage and execute it on your Linux desktop!

> but for better speed and privacy I really wanted a 100% client-side solution.

Think, you mean "offline solution", because "client-side solution" is always mean that is part of some "online service".

[0] https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/releases
> i mean, why work on something if there is no technology differentiating you?

Technology doesn't differentiate, value propositions do.
Understood. Thanks for the response.
What I don't think many people get is that these types of people and structures and institutions they exist in largely exist in order to perpetuate inequality in many ways.

It's not just google though, this is fairly widespread in America, and I bet many of these companies that practice hiring like that are either doing it because thats what everyone else has done (without realizing the reasons or not articulating the real ones), or because taking those kinds of candidates means not only do you get a potentially useful in their job employee, but you get access to another kind of elite-social capital.

https://youtu.be/PMotykw0SIk?t=595
Having worked with React and Ember, in Ember I am super productive. I can setup a whole app in a couple of days. I think the market is so big in front-end that even a relatively small market share is actually quite big in absolute numbers.

Having said that, one of the reasons that Ember's core development seems so slow is because everything is announced beforehand, even discussed before hand. So if a feature A is proposed, it first needs to be submitted through RFC, go through a long period of discussion in Github then implemented and only then released. So it appears that it takes a long time to deliver features but it isn't really like that.
It read fine to me. I didn't read any implication that young people don't do anything more complicated than social media posts - only that when do they could use a larger device.

(sorry I know posts like this don't make interesting reading, I just know how frustrating it can be when you put effort into writing something to avoid being misunderstood but still get taken the wrong way... so wanted to point out that at least for this reader the negative connotation was not there)
Gender pay gap
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Is that an actual question, or are you trying to deflect the valid criticisms of globalism by slandering it's opponents?
Trying to change owner of account on CRM 4.0 using a plugin?
The difference seems blatantly obvious to me: once I purchase furniture, my interaction with the manufacturer is done. The manufacturer will not monitor how I use my furniture. My furniture will not suddenly stop working because the manufacturer does not want to manufacture it any more. My dining table will not change into an arbitrary different piece of furniture overnight. Manufacturers are not competing to see which of my chairs they can make me use most. Manufacturers compete up until the point of sale, then it's done.

"Tech" in general is probably the industry with which we interact most on a day-to-day basis. The change from 'no tech' to 'pervasive tech' has been extremely rapid, and we are starting to understand some of the implications of that. So it seems only natural to look around and say "hey, maybe this is different from furniture".
Yes that was I had in mind but you state it much more clearly. Thanks.
Do you use "force" to grow a garden?

Gardening is often proposed as an alternative metaphor to the more common metaphors of war and sports.
Scientists Make a Molecule by Manipulating Just Two Atoms
>> that explains a new theory of why some people choose to be entrepreneurs.

People don't 'choose' to be entrepreneurs - Choosing to be an entrepreneur is usually the first step but it doesn't make you an entrepreneur. It can take decades to reach the point where you can become one.

I've been trying for 10 years and I'm now only partially an entrepreneur in the sense that I earn a decent amount of passive income from a side business but I'm still also an 'employee' because I still have a day job too.

It takes a long time to build up the network that you need to become an entrepreneur.
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At least they're trying to be as transparent as possible, and working with the ietf certainly gives it some additional legitimacy. Google as usual just goes the "we're big enough, so accept it or go fuck yourself" way. They're the new Microsoft of the 90s, only much worse.
There's a canonical ring homomorphism from the integers into any commutative ring with 1. When such a homomorphism is unique, you often omit it, hence mathematicians sometimes just write numbers without equivalence class brackets.

This is not limited to rings of the form Z/nZ.