skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I live in massachusetts, and no matter how i vote (in presidential elections) it does not make a difference, because the state always votes democrat.

Two times in my lifetime a presidential canidate has had the majority of the votes, and still "lost" the election.

Most people ive talked to have agreed that often laws get passed by paying corrupt gov officials. People just kind of accept it.

I agree with you that auditable systems are not going to bring the change to democracy that this country needs. This system needs some fundemental changes.
Thus the “engine failure then land single-engine” is something that a mid-career airline pilot would have done 500 times or more in a sim that is so realistic it can be logged as time in the actual aircraft.

For actual evidence of how common this is, look at avherald.com --- as I write this, there are over a dozen engine-problem incidents within the past week.
rationality has gone elsewhere. Here you will get downvoted/flagged for thinking rationally. Money makes people emotional
I've the impression that representative democracy is clearly fragile at the moment (Cambridge analytica, concentration of media control, money in politics). I believe it would be very useful to consider adding some sortition to the mix of our current system.
I think you're probably being downvoted because Stamos is a bit of a hero to some people for things like this: https://boingboing.net/2017/01/23/facebook-cso-alex-stamos-i...
No, because you need to take into account the effort needed to de-anonymise the IP address.

> > (26) The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person. To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly. To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments. The principles of data protection should therefore not apply to anonymous information, namely information which does not relate to an identified or identifiable natural person or to personal data rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable. This Regulation does not therefore concern the processing of such anonymous information, including for statistical or research purposes.
That's not how the law works, and it's definitely not how lobbying works. Which is exactly why it's broken. And quite frankly even if there were "members" in my district, those members should be contacting their representative(s) themselves.
People living in the EU absolutely want control of the gathering of their PII.

The only complaints I've seen about it are concerning people responsible for administrating data in companies.

GDPR represents an ideology of not giving corporations free reign to make profits at any human/social cost, but to reign them in and give people chance to consent rather than be data-raped.

Could you expand on how you think it's (solely?) ideology? What's bad about informed consent wrt PII?
Regional difference. The common misconception here is that “Speed” is amphetamine (of some salt)!
Phone companies made fun of apple before they made iPhone.
Because its not the technology that's broken.
I agree with your statement, but I don't see how it applies here.

I did not consider the comment amusing. I do think putting the Bezos' ideas about high standards in the sobering context that Amazons provides for most of its workforce is right on point.
Helping others makes everyone one feel good.

I think I can argue that the level of fondness for power that we're talking about does not bring comfort, as it is the result of paranoia. It's from the inabilty to be comfortable with the world; not from a want to change it (which is a symptom).

To believe that more and more power (and money) is going to somwhow finally fix things is clearly a fool's errand of Sisyphean proportions.
> "it would never work, you just can't make people switch habits like that overnight"

Heh, isn't switching habits overnight literally what daylight savings time is? To avoid all the problems what we need is for everyone to stop changing overnight.

I also head comments like that. I'm not sure what they think happened a hundred years ago when this was implemented, or why our digital signage, real-time communication networks, and mobile phones would make such an implementation harder than it was then...
It's only certain elections that rely on the ever changing districts (largely state and federal legislators).

The districts only change every 10 years. The motivation is to keep the variation in population between the districts low.
> Choosing to instead regulate every single person who even accidentally has an IP address in their logs somewhere is the overreach.

It doesn't help your argument when you misrepresent the truth like this.

There's absolutely no requirement for every individual who accidentally has an IP address in their logs to comply with GDPR.
That's good news. Could you please point me to where these updated images are? I had been looking at the official site [1] once every few months last year, but didn't find the Ubuntu (or Debian) images updated. The dates are still from end of 2016.

[1]: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A64_Software_Release
Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
saw that. but I am still unsure why they need an own token in the first place
first of all that was a PR stunt. secondly the real danger as someone put it is not having money in crupto while world debt is record high and fiat currencies are going down and Blockchain is a paradigm shift.
I don't think the argument that "electronic voting doesn't work because x, y, z" is implicitly making the argument "the current system does not need fixing". It does, especially in america for the reasons you've outlined, among others, but in many other western countries as well.

But electronic voting, at least right now, doesn't solve any of the difficult problems. I think we as "the technological elite", in many ways, need to be responsible with what our hammer makes us see as nails.

A perfect electronic voting system would make the current system more efficient and likely increase participation, at least somewhat, but it wouldn't fix any of the real problems, and we don't have a perfect electronic voting system _anyway_.
I tried out frontendmasters and really liked the format. Some of Kyle Simpsons stuff was great. Currently persuading employer to pay the annual fee for me. Although the courses are latest popular JS frameworks which although i'm kean to dabble. Aren't my employers first choice for paid training.
Or maybe this https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
Is that not only the case for consent as legal basis though? If you're signing up to a service, then surely they can use fulfilment of a contract (with some very expensive lawyers drafting some nice ToS language), or legitimate interests (i.e. argue that a social network relies on real names etc to function)?

I see this turning into an in-app clicking contest though soon, a card comes up in the app with a little description, a cutesy graphic, and a "Consent" "No Consent" box to click before you can get to the newsfeed.
Cloud vs. On-Premise: When to Use Which for Multiplayer Game Development?
The article actually goes into some detail about why these technological "solutions" will not solve the real problems.
Dear American. Consider Eastern Germany
Russia doesn't have the resources to develop new advanced technologies. Most smart people left for high salaries, ones remaining make money in business, not engineering.

Russia's space industry has essentially relied on tech developed during Soviet Union. Try to think of any technology that's not encryption related that was developed in Russia in last 20 years.
This law suggests a shift to assuming no consent for gathering of PII, only gathering data when you have informed consent and a justifiable business need.

In the case of web servers I can't see a problem with not recording IP if you're also gathering PII; or asking for permission in the PII submission; or say dropping the last digits from a dotted-quad as a default.
Thanks for the pointer on FreeBSD for Pine. I wasn't aware about this. I've now found the images online, though it'll require some reading to figure out if it's appropriate for me.
> I don't really know what to make of the idea that it "has been discredited as a pseudoscience by experts"

The Wikipedia article actually does a fairly good job of listing the evidence for this claim (further down). In particular, they show polls of the lack of acceptance by experts within the field of psychology. So the best you could say is that it’s a fringe theory. Furthermore, several claims of the original creators very directly contradict established biological facts (treating physiological ailments such as near-sightedness or the common cold). This obviously casts suspicion on the rest of the theory.
I’m ok with this, the new article is unquestionably a better source.
If they scan it for ads, spam, and search, it has to be plain text.
The reason we are developing this markdown live editor is that companies have some non-tech editors, for them raw markdown is hard for them to learn, write without real-time feedback.
Facebook moves 1.5bn users out of reach of new European privacy law
Yeah it was hard to admit I was wrong.

I watched the video above and another one and I'm getting it a little better. Also another thing is that recently I've been riding a bike rather slowly, at speed where countersteering is not necessary and less visible, as shown in another video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C848R9xWrjc). And as for countersteering while the hands off the handlebars, I realise that usually my eyes are on the road, not the handlebars, so I'd easily miss the brief countersteering.

Thank you for your patience too!
> I'd figure big cities, like New York, all have had better infrastructure than this since at least the 1950's, when more options for advancing technologies appeared on the table.

The NYC sewage system dates back to 1850, with full coverage of the city only being achieved in the early 1900s. New technologies can and are added to the system (water treatment was introduced in the 1940s) - but there has never been a wholesale reconstruction of the sewer system.

[0] http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/environment/2005-the-...
It's like typora.io ?
> A Navy fighter pilot with over two decades of commercial flying is not going to get rattled by one engine out on a jetliner.

Spot on. Some seem to be going out of their way to embellish the stakes as if it's necessary to credit the pilot with being highly skilled. She already is, no question!

She doesn't need the exaggeration, it seems patronizing..the situation is what it is, no more no less.
Ok, so actually the puzzle has been cracked. Nothing else we can do. This end was definitely not happy.
Fun with C#’s local functions – part 1
My middle ground compromise on the decentralized Internt was to move my vanity domain to Fastmail. It’s not the vision of everyone running their own email system, but it isn’t the Google monolith.

Plus, their spam filtering has been pretty good (about as good as Google’s IMO), I get push notifications out of the box with iOS, and the general fit and finish of the product suggests to me that they’re... a company focused on email.
What PII are you gathering? Can't you just remove those fields, add a consent field, drop old PII from your DBs?

I imagine most CMS will have the option to do that at update?
Ask HN: Do you want data from a major food delivery site called foodpan?
Was there any "surrendering" really? The only competing launch vehicle was Proton-M. My impression is that Proton-M developer Khrunichev basically collapsed because of reliability issues and poorly thought out production relocation strategy (from Moscow to Omsk). It has little to do with Falcon 9; ILS would have lost the market share to any other company due to Khrunichev's internal issues.
Yes, we build and test our own kernels and userland tools and figured out which kernel versions work and which ones don't. You've got to keep a close eye on the IRC channel and mailing lists. We never had any data loss but a lot of unplanned downtime until it got sufficiently stable - for our use case - a few months ago.

Works well but we'd rather not have to worry about these kind of things.

(even before it was deprecated, it was marked a "technology preview", rightfully so - if you want to use btrfs, you need to stay very close to mainline)
A robot by NTU Singapore autonomously assembles an IKEA chair
Fun with C#’s local functions – part 2
Treehouse, Lynda.com, Coursera - informative, well-designed courses, programs and certificates that have helped e quickly learn what I need to know. I cannot afford to spend time on poorly designed courses - nor do I have the time to try out unknown YouTube teachers. Udemy is ok - but I have wasted time theresearching for the quality courses. Treehouse, Lynda.com, Coursera are more professional curators and offer consistently higher quality courses in my opinion.
I thought about doing an API, but is that really the easiest way to run a single command and get a single input? Seems like overkill.
I've only ever riden a bike and very rarely at high speed (for a bike), so that explain why I never had to countersteer consciously.
Playing around with Google Maps and Puppeteer to track parking lots
It would be easier in the same way that programming is easier than manual data entry. You guys are conflating two different meanings of easy, and, as usual, you're not right from your own points of view.

It's easier to learn to fly a small aircraft as a beginner. Once you're an expert, it's easier to use the automation and process tools at your disposal in an enterprise aircraft.
If you don't understand logarithmic scales, maybe you shouldn't be specing parts for a network-connected gizmos?
Installing macOS 10.13.4 will cause DisplayLink displays to go blank
A shark-shaped, climate-shifting blob of warm water is rising from the depths
Ah, a fellow masochist, I totally get what you mean; sorry if I seemed defensive/agitated.
There is also Zipcar Flex in London. You can park the cars in on-street parking, even paid or residents bays. But they have only agreed it with some councils so far. Map: https://www.zipcar.co.uk/takethebluepin#zipzone-map
I'd like to know how a 30-day hiatus from media, of any kind, prior to voting would change an election. If it is wise not to make key decisions during an emotionally charged situation, why not apply the same to voting?

#voteinpeace
You get the courts that the person you're servicing uses. Like when you sell to someone in a particular country and have to abide by their sales and tax laws.
How want you add a delete button with out adding a complete login system? Or do you want to allow everybody to delete every comment? And of course this is also doable, but the question is, is it worth for a non profit (non tracking) blog? Probably not. Is it worth for Facebook and Google? Sure.
Maybe http://www.redditinsight.com
Companies aren't humans. They only have the rights we choose to give them.
Apparently, it was a joke from the founders to teach the ICO community about the possibility of a scam... Basically erasing trust and fueling hatred against themselves what they achieved.

Message from the founders:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5_bwFf_byo&feature=youtu.be
pipio21: could you clarify "our software uses a fork of Dear Imgui that does not update the screen but just when necessary.", why and how did you have to fork the library? Could you share your work? Normally this decision is left to the application, as it is trivial to decide to not call any of the dear imgui function and stay idle, this is what desktop-ey applications using dear imgui that do not animate would normally do.
So, given that there's no DPA in the US (as far as I'm aware, there are also none in China, India, Australia, etc), how would the GDPR be enforced against an entity with no physical presence in the EU?
The author (or his editor) may have done himself a disservice with this easily-ridiculed title suggesting that the whole article is predicated on a false premise, as the article actually goes in some depth into why there is no technological fix. I almost skipped over it myself.
Signals. Searching for specific things, emails you're receiving in Gmail, videos you watch online etc.

Given Target was able to figure out someone was expecting based on behavior in their store, back in 2011 [1], even though they dont have a loyalty program, imagine what can be done with so many trackers that are on the web datamining your behavior from one website to another.

[1] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habi...
But raw editing with live preview gives me the same feedback, doesn't it?
MySQL 8.0.11 is GA
What does noyb mean? I can't see it anywhere and it's really frustrating me.
Ask HN: How do you train your developers?
I'm a CTO of a funded startup and we've managed to hire 10 or so developers by now. We've had to make some compromises when hiring because we have trouble attracting top talent because of salary issues.

While I'm happy with the amount of effort my team is putting in, I have a feeling we're losing a lot of opportunities by our slow progress. I feel there's a lot of new technologies we can leverage, especially in the cloud, but when I make a push for them I feel there's often a misunderstanding in my team of what certain technologies actually do and how they're meant to be used. We're having problems even with older technologies like postgres, especially with sharding, indexing etc.

I'm happy to lend a hand and fix problems as they arise but I'm being stretched very thin by now. I'd like to invest some time in educating my team, so I'm wondering if you have any recommendations on how you handled the issue.
TrueFlip – честные международные блокчейн игры с моментальными выплатами
Processing is a truly pleasant introduction to programming
If your store front is accessible to EU based citizens then you have an EU presence.
Exactly. In any case, ask a Communist where Communism had been tried and the answer will be: nowhere. True Communists see it like true Christians see heaven. It exists because book says so, but getting there gets stopped by evil others.
Satire is a perfectly valid form of communication.

Commenting here is increasingly feeling like a policed academic conference, rather than a "tech salon" which seems closer to its ethos.
Is there some reason you think these companies aren't using some of their VC money for this PR war?
Is this really surprising? Palantir's value comes from its data not that god awful interface it has.
Bee 3, the nicest issue tracker
Chipotle Might Start Offering Breakfast Burritos
Australia doesn’t exist and other bizarre geographic conspiracies
> I’m still convinced GM and BMW are deliberately trying to delay, if not sabotage, the mass adoption of BEV cars.

Interesting.

Can you explain both their (presumed) reasoning, and the indicators you see?
Never use an ORM that wants you to define your schema anywhere except the database. Never use NoSQL just to avoid writing SQL. (There are lots of valid reasons to use NoSQL, but that is not one of them).

First week or so: Change the DB as much as you like, directly, using the visual tools or create/alter statements as you see fit.

Once you're ready to do things right: Use change scripts. Save every create/alter statement, as well as data population and modification queries into a .sql file in a directory, named sensibly so that you can run them in order to exactly reproduce your schema at any point, on any machine.

Important to note: This is not hard. SQL is not hard. Avoid tooling written by people who think SQL is hard, that therefore build elaborate workflows that are in fact hard in an effort to shield you from having to touch the database.
Three Signs Saying You Should Outsource Mobile App Development
While the plural of anecdote is not evidence, I may as well pitch mine in: I hit practically every parked car in the neighborhood trying to learn how to ride my bicycle. So the original point rings pretty true for me.
Hungary, but I had two non-hungarian interview processes as well, one for Berlin and another for a multinational company (for the Hungarian office though, but six interviews out of seven was held in English), same experience.

The latter one had a fairly complex entry task which took me three full days and I had six interviews after that - during the seventh I gave up and told them we are not looking for each other here.
> Your neighbours has two children, one of which is a girl. What is the probability of the other child to be a girl?

The way you have phrased the question, the probability is 1/2.
I've looked at the compute module. It is positioned as the way to go for mass production - but the price point seems higher than the Rpi as you still need a base board for it to function.
$20 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-04W1431-ThinkPad-X220-i3-231...

$30 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X220-Motherboard-FR...

~4-10x Raspberry pee 3 speed, SATA, pcie, 1Gbit ethernet, battery backup.
Can get them as low as $10 with one USB port broken (either mechanical or fried).
Thank you for you answer. Would doing without districts altogether for federal legislator be a possibility? And on state level you could model on the congress with one chamber based on districts' majority and one other on population?
I work for a digital advertising company, handling the terabytes of data we produce each day - and we're not using it to track people or build profiles, we're using it to monitor our system and record important events. Several thousand publishers monetise their sites through us, so I'm happily neutral about the industry.
The hard part isn't even me or you using end-to-end encrypted services, the hard part is getting the majority of people to care enough that they do.
There's no real inherent reliability difference between SD and eMMC, it's all down to the individual controller implementation. Though some SD slots are quite flaky, i.e. the original RasPi models.

The eMMC that orangePi uses seems to be more reliable than the average SD card. Of course there are good SD cards out there and bad eMMC.
The campaign has reached 99% funding...
Then Websockets. There are few python implementations of
websockets module, this is one of them https://pypi.org/project/websockets/
And Bezos wept, for there were no more markets to disrupt.
Is that true for English language books in the age of Amazon, Goodreads, etc.?