skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find interesting is that Tyler makes it all about his personal POV. Everyone _he_ talks to in Washington is obsessed with hour-by-hour politics. Everyone _he_ talks to in San Francisco and Seattle are obsessed with blockchain. But only in other places he's apparently never actually visited, he assumes, those people probably have "regular lives". The only thing this post shows is how insulated Tyler's own life is from the vast majority of Americans.
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Hardly. ICANN is not an EU organisation. The idea that GDPR is a global law is a new thing.

Also,

The letter also has harsh words for ICANN's proposed interim solution, criticizing its vagueness

Of all the people to criticize others for vagueness, EU data protection people are the very last who should be talking. GDPR is nothing but vagueness.
Maybe the goal of the Russian government was to block the Amazon and Google APIs in the first place, and they used Telegram as a convenient excuse. Just a thought.
Hackers Can Hijack Emergency Sirens with a Radio
123reg charge for whois privacy too, as do a bunch of other registrars.

Always felt like mild extortion.
And a major source of microplastic waste.
I would bet substantial number of companies have not even begun GDPR compliance until around Q3 2017. It would be interesting to see the prevelance of GDPR in quarterly earnings call transcripts over time..
From the diagrams included in that link, it looks like there's going to be a real problem if "the big one" happens during severe gusting winds.
Swifty Protocol-Oriented Dependency Injection
This is just old fashioned nihilism. The Earth could be vaporized tomorrow and "nature" wouldn't "care", but I think we can all agree that it would be bad by any standard meaningful to us. 'Human bias' is the only way we have of judging anything as good or bad.
This app maker says his work saved thousands during Hurricane Harvey
Having worked in ad-tech for a while, and dealt with cookie matchers and retargeting -- I'm actually surprised to the degree to which companies keep pursuing this stuff .. because it wasn't clear to me from the statistics that it was actually effective.

I was involved in the relatively early days of this, so probably techniques have improved. But I worked for a startup that was doing search retargeting, among other things, and when I ran the numbers I just didn't see a huge increase in click-through rates. The data just wasn't there.

Like I said, I'm sure techniques have improved. But I still continually see ads retargeted to me that are both creepy and ineffective. Marketing me things I've already bought. Or lost interest in. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen an ad based on retargeting that I thought "oh yeah I should pursue that."
> Before Tesla, electric vehicles were funny experimental things for hipsters. Very few people bought electric cars,

You're forgetting the biggest competitor to all-electric, the oil industry which lobbied against all-electric cars. GM had an all electric car in the 90's but people were only allowed to lease them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
New tech revolutionizes fight against ancient diseases in Africa, Asia
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Very likely flagged because it paints the EU in a bad light. I've noticed that criticism of the EU or anything data protection related very frequently gets flagged or downvoted.
Google: A Collection of Best Practices for Production Services
That's the problem, though. People do that, and then to indent 12 spaces, your guy who uses 4-space tabs will put three tabs, your girl who uses 8-space tabs will put a tab and four spaces, and your ace who uses only spaces will put twelve spaces. And after a year of sharing code doing this, your formatting will be farked and you'll spend half your time fixing other peoples' "broken" indentation.

I have no issue whatsoever with using tabs in an editor, as long as it saves them as spaces on disk.
ARM Linux isn't really slimming down, so the chips need to grow to catch up.

You're starting to see devices like the Renesas RZ/A1H that has 10MiB of SDRAM on the die and can boot Linux out of a single cheap QSPI memory part.
WhatsApp is probably backdoored though, so your end to end encryption will only keep your internet café from spying on you, not the governments Facebook is friendly with:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/13/whatsapp-backdoor...
My mileage aired from yours: I would have been happier simply wth pitctures rather than something that hijacked the scrolling and interrupted the flow of reading. Reading on an iPad fwiw.
It's also very popular in Italy (SAILA Lquirizia Purissima — very powerful stuff!), so definitely not the Northern thing.
"roll-your-own-crypto" == DH-RSA-AES with GPL implementation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(service)#Encryption_...
Same!! I wasn't on there for as long as you were but I created so many sets and now they're all gone!!!
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. They probably have a data-sharing agreement with Russia.
LawGeex raises $12M for its AI-powered contract review technology
That's true.

But as the person knows they are configuring a web server, I would say this is more carelessness / incompetence rather than an "accident" in the same way as losing a Diamond Ring would be.
People like to blame someone for their own failures and this is why often socialist parties are so popular, because they are good at creating false sense of security.
A Comparative Analysis of ChatBots APIs
Blame zoning!

Shockingly, the people who own property less likely to collapse in an earthquake do not want big buildings next door. So big buildings are being built on harbor fill. What could go wrong?
Yes, yes it would. Systems thinking is hard. (Eco)Systems thinking is nearly maddening. Even if one could account for many variables (for an acceptable value of many), one would still have to deal with everything else, which often includes stupidity, irrationality, politics, emotion, villains... Nature makes many errors, but at least it isn't stupid; those errors result in the adaptations that make the world work. This process involves a lot of death, but it works. Or, it did. I am somewhat familiar with ecosystems and environmental restoration, and I don't mean to discourage anyone from positive thinking; in this case, however, I really think people need to try to comprehend the mechanisms before experimenting.

I reiterate: systems thinking is hard.
> So do you think it's good idea for Amazon / Google reputation to cease their service to any SaaS if kremlin dont like it?

No, but I don't think that's how it would be spun -- I would exect it to be framed as a ToS violation.
Yes, in large part because their service is good.

You're conflating legal restriction on individual behavior with market/individual-preference constraints.

"Life" in general is constrained. We are not trying to get rid of limited options (every choise is between limited options), we're trying to limit totalitarian control over individuals.

That is, behaviour which is artificially constrained by imprisonment, punishment and death for the sake of preserving tyrannical power structures.
Good point. The Left/Right model of politics poorly reflects the complexity and nuance of people's actual views. It is good for encouraging us-versus-them conflict but terrible for real understanding.
Possibly a slight spoiler, but Andromeda Strain does exactly this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
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You miss out on the entire nationalistic aspect of right-wing parties. Do these Chinese immigrants owe more loyalty to Italy or their home country? Have they expressed a desire to integrate? Does their "frugality"(read: low wages) drive native Italian purse makers out of business?
I typically wouldn't, since I grew up working on 1MHz 8-bit cores. But working with some of these tiny M0 and M3s, there's nothing slower than 60-120MHz now.
> You can describe what a webserver does in anthropomorphic terms if you like, but it's not the webserver's "intentions" that are relevant. It's the intentions of the people who control the website and the intentions of the person who accesses it.

And how do you prove intent? This is a technical problem with technical protocols involved. Intent should be provided via the protocol. If the protocol says resources are public, unless otherwise stated, you can't rely on a human to answer, post factum, what resource is private.
Thanks for reminding me of that workaround :-)

I wonder if I used his tool back in the mid 90s... Ah, can't have been - he says he first put utilities on the web in 2001
We have some parts of the subway in Paris which are elevated, but the street under the rail can't be used for trafic, it's usually parking space or empty. So now the city is building tram or bus lanes above ground.
Not very realistic for a lot of personal websites. Sure, newfangled ones that leverage similar pipelines as of web applications, absolutely. But a large fraction of the Web is still a bunch of PHP scripts cobbled together on some outdated hosting service, or equivalent.

Not everyone with a website is a web developer, or paid a knowledgeable and modern web developer to make the website.
If you use a non-technical approximation of the term as the placeholder for the true bearers of liberty and freedom, then sure.

As far as others considering them "lefties", to some people, a few checkboxes put you in a generalized "leftist/liberal/fascist/democrat/communist" category, which these people consider to all be the same thing. For instance: pro-immigrant, gay rights, and weed-legalization would be the end of the discussion for them. Their analysis is over and they don't care to discuss it any further.

There's a lot of people like that. I meet them frequently.
Two men holding hands would, in my opinion, qualify as a depiction of presumably gay men, while being free of sexual content.

(though it's culture-dependent. I heard that in some Arab countries it's common for straight men to hold hands between friends)
why not, I mean criminality of all sorts happens and this isn't even criminal. Of course it requires not meeting HR or interviewers after interview/on hire, which means it's really only good for big companies.
Around here (Northern Europe) almost all soft drink bottles are recycled/recyclable PET nowadays.
Overview of the Efficient Programming Languages (v.3)
15M IPs blocked. Are they going to block the whole internet??
That's a very narrow, opinionated restriction of the term technology, but accepting it for the sake of argument, isn't that what Engineers do?
Gmail Confidential Mode: Send “Secret” Messages to Recipient
> These are higher-level permissions and should not be free for the taking.

But there has to be a balance though, right?

Steve Jobs called the computer a bicycle for the mind, but actually deploying simple apps can feel like a mousetrap for the soul - it crushes your will to create.
It's not like WHOIS wasn't problematic before, e.g. even inside ICANN people have been pointing out conflicts with data protection laws for over a decade. And ICANN not being from regions with stricter regulation isn't actually that relevant, since ICANN doesn't directly run WHOIS. The registries and registrars do it, many of which are in the stricter jurisdictions.

GDPR being globally applied certainly ups the overall pressure, and is the reason they want to change the overall wHOIS rules instead of making special rules for individual countries, but the key thing seems to be the fear that there actually might be painful fines now.
You know the "pro" in prosumer refers to professional, right.

I don't really understand why you think only people working for profit with an OS deserve not to be data-raped though.
If his website was down, his email could be down too, if on the same downed server. I suppose an automated monitoring system could phone him though.
Exactly... And nature itself is a construct of humans. We're certainly anthropocentric in our ways, but that is only problematic if we view ourselves as separate from our environment somehow.

Unfortunately, many do.
Number of people who go bankrupt every year due to medical bills
The new right in the US is also more ambivalent on the free market, though; note Trump's attempts at trade wars.
Sure, but your carelessness doesn't absolve me of my crime. If you lose your diamond ring out of carelessness, it's still not ok for me to steal it.
The point of the landing is to drastically reduce the cost of space launch, not to impress people with a snazzy demo. With disposable rockets, 80% of the launch cost is the throwaway first stage.
And this is why the headline reads "U.S and UK want to harm Russia" to me.
C17 standard
A golf ball sounds like something to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCUCa0Bvh1k
Elite Dating Apps Threaten to Make America’s Wealth Gap Worse
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How to save your Ethereum Dapp users from paying gas for transactions
Surely we can improve the Safari UI to overcome this. (Thinking of how effective chrome tabs on desktop that show which tab is playing audio)
Thank you for posting this; I was trying to find a concise article about this phenomenon.
Scientists discover hidden structure of enigmatic 'backwards' neural connections
It's more like leaving a bunch of manhole covers open on a public street and suing someone for falling in.

FFS if I go to https://www.booking.com/city/ie/cork.html it loads fine. Apparently I'm breaking the law if I use my criminal-mastermind hacking skills to ALSO go to https://www.booking.com/city/ie/dublin.html

It's just ridiculous.
I have been arrested for taking too many straws.
>"Don't roll your own security" has been the marching drum of an entire sector of IoT companies

And now it gradually translates into "don't own your devices, cause you can't handle security", both for users and small and medium size vendors.

And the meaning of "device" is gradually translating to "any stuff we wear or use". Welcome to the shiny IoT future.
Quake 3 source code review (2012)
It seems to really struggle with cultural references.

Sleippnr triggered "hamster" instead of horse.

"Long way down" triggered "game" instead of "motorcycle".

"Pecking at her nose" got "hairbrush" instead of "crow".
The last I checked, Microsoft doesn't create shadow profiles of people who don't have accounts. Nor does Microsoft make it hard to turn off privacy, or sell the data to research firms in an attempt to create profiles that be used for advertising or manipulation. Also, the last I checked all this attention to Windows 10 data collection usually includes a comprehensive list of how to turn it off. Finally, when you set up Windows 10, one of the setup screens actually lists out these options and gives the user the chance to turn them off. You could argue that these should be left off by default, but I'd argue that allowing developers to collect telemetry data for debugging purposes, and forcing people to keep their computers updated is a good idea, since most normal users don't bother.
So that the public knows they aren't making secret phone calls to lobbyists or what have you. The purpose of transparency is always to reduce corruption.
In American English, "Überstunden" is often called "comp time" - comp for compensation - you worked really hard overtime/to meet a deadline, take some paid days off (usually not officially vacation etc.) to make up for the time you spent...
> I'm confused on why a launch with proper permits and communication with the city would change the situation.

Level playing field? It sounds like several companies did the right thing and worked with the authorities to make sure they didn't cause trouble, and then the three in TFA jumped the gun and launched anyway.

As a governing body, you can't allow that precedent to stand. If "ignore regulations and do it anyway" becomes an optimal strategy then everyone will do it and your commons will be tragic.
Well, it won't be any large or mega city. Statistically as they grow larger they'll homogenize. It's far more likely to be some tiny hundreds of person, barely incorporated place no one has heard of. In those the deviation won't be smoothed out.
Don't forget tax and living expenses (rent isn't cheap). Saving two million on a single engineering salary is going to take closer to a decade than a few years.
Ah, so many links are in Chinese.

I wonder if it would be a good business to setup a website dedicated to curating these non-breaking news on China in English.
>And how do you prove intent?

I believe that’s something they teach you in law school. Lawyers have been working on that problem for a while! IANAL, but I don't think you are going to be able to find a concise answer to that question that goes beyond the immediately obvious.

>Intent should be provided via the protocol.

Sure, if you say so. That’s not how the law works, though.
This isn't a case of a small and occasional nuisance. This _Atlantic_ piece has already been cited in-thread, but it deserves a re-airing:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup...

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2018/03/b...

An image search turns up more instances:

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=imgo%3A1&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=...

And: for the record, I bike, and have done so for decades. It's fair to recognise real problems, however, and not trivialise or dismiss them uncharitably.
There's a pull request with 127.0.0.1 in it.

https://github.com/zapret-info/z-i/pull/10/commits/8394b2026...

Wonder if they'll merge it.
https://youtu.be/qq6NfsWGNu0?t=1m11s
You articulated this very well, but somehow I've lost the thread (if I ever had it).

Are you essentially agreeing-with/supporting what /u/smallnamespace said?

It seems we can all agree that hiring software developers, while having no false negatives and no false positives is hard.
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I think Texas is big enough to be a State, and identity, and an ideology.
> I am glad that websites cannot play audio without the user first interacting with the page. I am also glad that websites can't play audio in the background...

Websites yes, but if you choose to "install" a webapp to your home screen, it still cannot ask for or get these permissions. Not that users ever do install apps without app stores, but that's another story.
Understandably, since that press release is devoid of any real information. Seems quite reasonable to disregard it.

That's one thing that bothers me about security in general, that it's so super political and it's a bit hard to just be interested in the technical aspects of it without being sucked into political bickering to some degree (can't follow Twitter accounts of most security people for that reason). Of course, I understand that it comes with the field since many adversaries simply have political motives. Still annoying though.
Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics probably doesn't contain technical information that's new to any of you, but Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk

On the subject of hypertext, The Web That Wasn't gives a nice history of the idea (for anybody who thinks it starts with TBL -- surprisingly many people!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8

Another reframing-oriented talk is Clay Shirky's "It's not information overload, it's filter failure", which ultimately leads to Shirky suggesting the kinds of user-oriented filtering features that Mastodon has implemented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

At the intersection of neurology and information science, Peter Watts always has something interesting to say, and as a former marine biologist focusing on the nervous system of starfish, this is absolutely in his wheelhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo

This one ("moving away from defensive programming") justified strong typing in a pretty clear way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I

Dan Dennett is just as relevant as Doug Hofstadter when it comes to metacognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0

Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science starts slow, but if you don't have much of a historical background (like, if you're only vaguely aware of what happened in CS in the 70s), it's a laundry list of things you should look up and be aware of before you start your next project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ

Everybody should understand procedural generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU

Likewise, since AI is hyped up right now, we should all remind ourselves that IA is a thing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narjui3em1k

More hypertext history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8

Even more hypertext / UX stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs

A great explanation of Fourier transforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

Allison Parrish does mindblowing things with corpus statistics by treating term vector spaces as generalizations of 2d image formats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc

Finally, these aren't tech talks but instead UI demo reels. If you have any interest in UI or UX, you should watch them. They are wonderfully cheesy, mostly doable, and despite being more than 20 years old, nobody has bothered actually implementing the useful features shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAJPoc23-M
Really? We are looking to use it for some of our work but are aware that the UI/UX esp around keys is a bit messy. Would be great to see how your simplifying it.
I made it six years; that was enough for me. I wonder what percentage of coders secretly resent the place.
> We know how [...] decomission plants

There are some poeple in Tchernobyl and Fukushima that are eagerly waiting for your call with instructions.

Sarcasm aside existing long-term storage projects also turned out to be problem-prone i.e. look up Gorleben[1].

1: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-curse-of-gor...
https://2018.schors.spb.ru/

16M already.
You can see here how russia has started to "burn": http://downdetector.com/status/telegram/map/

(However this might apply: https://www.xkcd.com/1138/ )
> "Hello, yes, Christian Kastner? Your website is down. Just thought you should know."

This is a perfect example for one of a positive effects of the GDPR afforded to natural persons.

I haven't been associated with that domain for 15 years or so. Why is someone still maintaining my personal data, some of it now wrong/obsolete, in a public database?

Edit: Just to be clear, I don't see a problem with the parent having posted this information here, as the parent just reposted this from another public source. The problem here is clearly the other source.
there is when it derails conversation. this is called whataboutism.

we can have a separate conversation about that separate issue which I agree needs to be addressed, but not in this thread..

if you need help understanding what whatboutism is here is a great john oliver explanation [0] that will help why this is bad and that pointing out hypocrisy does not create a moral equivalency.

please try to focus on the conversation, and open up a new thread on the issue you would like to discuss, not here.

[0] skip to 6 minutes if you would like to get to that point, I think the entire video is worth a look.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZAPwfrtAFY
In all honesty, I'm sure the south wouldn't mind the social welfare state with all its trappings if it wasn't draped in progressive supremacist ideology.

Surely there's an opportunity here, driving forward things like public healthcare (or public education) sans the diversity rhetoric.