skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not clear at all by this definition if I sell guitar picks on my personal store and I’m located in say Zimbabwe I’m either forbidden form selling it to the EU or will have to comply with the GDPR which can be prohibitive to me due to local laws.

The GDPR isn’t clear only anything it rewrittes agreeable concepts of localization which have much more severe applications than simply the GDPR.

It also provides zero channels and infrastructure for non-EU entities to comply to the GDPR in a manner which is offered to local EU companies.

If the GDPR would define its scope as if I can buy form you you must comply what stops the EU form mandating I must collect VAT on their behalf?
Who’s responsible for the software we build?
they fear the words "consultant" or "contractor" I think
We literally have thousands of years of proof that governments always abuse their power when they think someone is their "enemy". So it's strange that people default to "trusting their government." I blame this on America's blue-team/red-team political thinking, which forces one to stick to a party no matter what.

The standard for "enemy" could also be as low as they choose it to be, which is also weird that people think the government wouldn't go after them because they are "innocent", as if these people get to decide who is innocent and who isn't.

No, it's the government that does that. Courts may have the final say in the end (unless you're indefinitely detained for multiple years first), but until then the government can do a lot of damage to your life if it comes after you. Even putting you through years of lawsuits, stress and money spent on lawyers would be bad enough. You may win in the end, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory.

And that's if you don't take their plea deal first when they scare you with multiple bogus charges that you think shouldn't even apply to you but you're too scared of the 50 years in prison sentence they're threatening you with.
I think the problem is market economy. Media organizations are businesses which are organisms that focus on the bottom line. I.e. making as much money as possible.
Usually the only way to fix these market failures ( I consider this dissonance between monetray value and actual long term value to be a market failure) is with formal regulations or non formal moral regulation.
The former is tricky and the latter is requires cohesive cultural values and structures. Sadly (imo) the most effective coltural structures are religious.
The gdpr only applies to EU residents. People here on tourist visas are visitors not residents.
Also from Germany. Last time someone told me "we just can't get enought decent devs" was a company with the worst hiring process I have ever seen.

They wanted me to build an app, with backend and frontend, and design (the design had to be "beautiful"), test it, all in under a weekend while I still was working fulltime at some other job, and I told them, they knew.

It was a Deutsch company. The name is GuteFre.The worst take home test ever, of course I didn't do it.
Think of the health benefits on long flights. Sitting is the new smoking, right?
Most non-technical people (and even many technical people) don't know this. I am myself surprised that the Facebook thing caused such an out cry now, but that's what happens when you bring these things to people's attention.
Because they wish to appeal to the spirit of adventure these people have. They're washed up mercenaries of the state who desperately want to feel relevant one more time. I wish people would stop helping the war machine. Stay the hell home for once.
Thank you for posting this. I learned a lot about Coinami that I didn’t know.
I'm assuming this is the "LSP" discussed? https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

Mapping json-rpc onto xpc... Sure why not
It would be a shame to take down your old blogs as I'm sure people get value from them.

My approach is one very much based on risk - how likely am I to receive requests from data subjects requesting deletion of their data? How likely am I to be subject to a targeted attack where people try to remove information from my server? How likely am I to be the subject to enforcement action if my server is hacked and data is leaked?

On one argument operating a blog is a purely personal activity and so out of scope of GDPR in any event. If you're outside the EU, GDPR will only apply if you are actually offering goods/services to those in the Union, or are monitoring them. I take the point about analytics in the second place, but in the absence of analytics, I don't see that making available a blog constitutes the offering of goods/services?
Yes. Like I can’t retroactively ask you to remove what I said from your blog post.
“The blessing in sustenance” causes and ways to bring it
In the title?
I love typora, but this is open source which makes it extendable.
What are the features of Pseudo mode?
My teenage daughter showed me Grasshopper yesterday. She was very excited about her progress, showing off the puzzles that she had solved and the code she had written. She hates schoolwork, but she really loved the app. I think it's a fantastic way to approach that often daunting initial learning curve.
this is kind of scary and sad when powerful technology is being misused ...probably it is better to live in China ??? ..the government openly monitoring its citizen instead of spying on them
When Ethereum implements Proof of Stake it will be quite green. In my opinion this will be the death knell for wasteful PoW like bitcoin.
Elm was designed to be transpiled into javascript just like CoffeScript so let's put it aside for a moment.
WASM is work in progress so I'm sure that if people care enough they can find solutions for such specific issues(i.e. seems that VM languages have their own set of issues). There is a GC proposal so managed languages will benefit a lot(i.e. smaller runtime).

JS is a high level language. I don't see many people compiling to managed languages outside of the browser. Wonder why is that? Few target JVM...but I don't see many(if any) compiling to Java, C#, Ruby or Lua or PHP. I've never seen anyone compiling JavaScript either unless they had to run it in a browser. This should tell you how good JS is when it has to compete on merit as compiler target.
I'm much less concerned with Palantir being used internally by corporations to detect information leaks (although in practice this also means it will be used to quash whistleblowers), since that's at least a viable use for their technology. And it's good that Palantir is pivoting towards less invasive applications of their technology such as supply chain tracking.

But the article touches on the biggest issue with Palantir, which is that they seem to be completely fine with allowing law enforcement agencies to use their software for parallel construction, which is in my opinion a pretty egregious violation of the 4th amendment. Although it may be constitutional for police departments to purchase data from e.g. Facebook or some data broker, even local police departments are known to employ dragnet-style surveillance through things like Stingray devices. Of course we have a number of three-letter agencies, also Palantir customers, who don't even need to pretend that they're following the 4th amendment.

Since Palantir is essentially enabling the construction of all the tools required for a complete surveillance state, and actively using their tools for that purpose for financial gain, I think that makes them one of the least ethical companies in tech. I certainly wouldn't be able to live with myself if I knew I was writing software with the explicit purpose of being able to track down rebels in Yemen, catch illegal immigrants, and violate the constitutional rights of millions of Americans.
Culture flows from the top. Peter Thiel apparently views women's suffrage and poor people as "tough for libertarians [like him]". Can we talk about, well, how problematic it is that a company that has information on just about everyone (and all the power this yields) is lead by someone like this?

> As Thiel’s wealth has grown, he’s gotten more strident. In a 2009 essay for the Cato Institute, he railed against taxes, ­government, women, poor people, and society’s acquiescence to the inevitability of death. (Thiel doesn’t accept death as inexorable.) He wrote that he’d reached some radical conclusions: “Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” The 1920s was the last time one could feel “genuinely optimistic” about American democracy, he said; since then, “the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”
Why not create a category 'redundant'?
Law? These are people who have access to your data, how am I, a stranger, any different from any other stranger who have access to your data? Would it be OK if I indirectly obtained your password and use it to access your data or something?

Mind you, I was speaking in general about people who claim they don't care about their privacy, or about these companies collecting their personal data, or having a history of their private messages, etc.

How can you not care about them saving your conversations in plain text, but then suddenly care about it when I ask you to show it to me? The only difference seems to be that I'm actively, personally, directly asking you for it, but ultimately it would be the same outcome.
> IMO automation, genetic engineering, implants and replacement of natural body parts by artificial body parts will start social, economic and medical revolutions within the next decade.

That's not an opinion, it's a belief.

In any case, we're both talking about people cutting their lifestyles which is the correct thing to do. It is an extreme error to simply hope for technology to save us. Most people, especially those that decided to breed, have their heads in the sand and are implicitly hoping technology will make their children's lives OK.
Why show climate anomalies and not temperatures?
That's what sanctions are for. But I highly doubt the EU will ever sanction the US as they are so dependant on them.
It’s clickbait. It doesn’t state it or give a citation for it anywhere in the actual article.
High standards making money. That may be the reason Bezos is the world's richest person.
And they sell GPDR compliance solutions: https://www.palantir.com/solutions/gdpr/

Oh, the irony!
If you’re interested in customizing a web-based (rich) text-editor, I can’t recommend enough the underlying library, SlateJS (http://slatejs.org).

I’ve been relying extensively on it for a quite big project, it’s been a pleasure to use. Especially if you need to change the editor’s content programmatically.
I realise this, but it stinks of artificial controversy. I get that a lot of people are unhappy that Trump was elected, but there are so many articles trying to spin Cambridge Analytica as some kind of shady political Illuminati instead of a me-too political digital consultancy, suggesting that Facebook collecting private data is a new shocking revelation, or now that we should be shocked that a big data processing government/enterprise contractor is processing big data for the government and enterprises. Alongside all the "democracy is broken" articles we're seeing, it seems to be all focused on harming the legitimacy of the election and implicating shady power players in the outcome, a play that would seem more at home on Alex Jones' show than splayed across every mainstream media outlet.
On paper it can’t.
In practice since the EU expects EU entities to essentially mandate GDPR compliance form their non-EU partners in order to be complaint it’s is pretty simple at least for ecommerce.

PayPal could tell you you must comply to accept payments form the EU and likely in the same manner they handle everything which means no guidance, benchmarks or clear directions and it would be up to you to figure it out.

By PayPal I don’t mean just PayPal but any other payment processor or service provider which you are dependent on.
I've found Piazza's Fine Foods Inc and PhysioTouch Inc. Not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this answer though.
> Why does the media…

Here’s a handy formula next time you ask yourself a similar question:

Why does the media X?

— Because people watch / listen to / read X.

Why do people read about companies collecting data? Because it sounds scary, and it blames someone who is not them. Fear + scapegoat + victimisation of people = read read read read.

Don’t think of it any more complex than this or you will drown in irrelevant details. They don’t matter, and they never will. Read some 19th century news papers to see this effect take hold with comical clarity.
Explain about the SMB Join in Hive
What's the difference between a normal software engineer and a "forward-deployed" software engineer, though? It sounds to me like that's just their military-flavored version of "rockstar developer" or "code ninja".
This happened to me.
No balance bike or stabilisers or gyroscopic wheel hubs? They just got on a bike and rode without falling off or hitting anything?

I'd say that's incredibly rare.
Here's an amazing video of what happens in the cockpit during an engine failure in a commercial airliner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEf35NtlBLg
You can find some here: https://hashbase.io/
Oh wait, sorry. I misread "per hour" as "per day". The original figure seems okay then.
Ask HN: How to break into product development?
I'm a developer who has knack for product development. I'm enjoy working off of vague, incomplete, confusing requirements but still produces useful software (I consider myself a decent/average dev, nothing special in coding department). I also thoroughly enjoy talking to even the most difficult users and extracting useful info out of them.

Given this situation, is there a way I can break into product development? Has anyone done it here, if so, how? To be clear, I am not interested in sales, team management etc. I'm only interested in talking to people about their problems and coming up with software solutions wherever possible.
Huh? https://www.kensho.com/careers says they are located in Harvard Square, NYC, DC, and LA.
I'm no expert, but one major distinction I can see is that libclang would be used in (editor) process, and a clangd server would operate outside the editor process and communicate over a protocol with the editor.
Another lesson that might be learned from overseas "democracy promotion" is that nothing turns a democracy into a failed state quicker than ethnically-fragmented voting.

This is why the US is so messed up. It's also why democracy falls short of its promise in general. People don't care about policy on a large scale. People care about their tribe. Tribes are regional. Red and Blue states have remained largely the same for decades, if not centuries [1].

Ultimately, democracy is a very low resolution census.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-see...
Can you expand on exactly how Palantir is used for parellel construction?
A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene
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When bikes are ridden on the pavement, it's usually because road design and/or car drivers are making the road too dangerous for them. If you think about it, the pavement is not somewhere the average cyclist wants to be any more than a pedestrian wants them there. Even without people filling them, pavements are irregular, uneven and cluttered spaces, optimised for slow-moving bipeds who can stop, start and turn on a dime. If there's a safe roadway available, cyclists will use it.
How is it even snarky? There are workers peeing in bottles, probably right now, as a direct result of Bezos' obsession with optimizing productivity metrics at all costs.
I'm very interested to see statistics on "% of people from the US who were accepted" vs. "% of people from other countries who were accepted", divided by country. YC's general statement "29% of the companies were from outside the US" is not equal to my question. I feel the bias somewhere here. Non-native speakers have much harder times because of different basic things like the language barrier, but something tells me that the US-based people are in priority.
Our system creates transparency and predictability“ Eiland Glover beyondblocks
There is an article from 2010 titled "Emacs is dead" that is being reposted on HN from time to time. The author args that the greatness of Emacs is to rely on external, editor agnostic tools where text act as an universal interface/medium but that the practice is fading out, and thus the dead of Emacs. Now, ten years later, Apple announces this. Emacs, the undead?

https://tkf.github.io/2013/06/04/Emacs-is-dead.html
I find it distracting when I have to edit a source file and have to keep glancing back and forth between that and a preview pane. As long as it doesn't get in the way, I can see the advantage in live editing. It feels like dropping down to the raw source is something you only should have to do occasionally.
Thiel's genuine commitment to freedom is questionable. Also, he's a misogynist and jerk.
Ask HN: When coding, what are examples of things that you want to remember later
When you are focused and coding, what are some things that crop up in your head which, at that instant, you feel "I want to remember this for later" I don't just mean in terms of todos for later, but also I remember this now, but I won't if I look at it 3 weeks from now. For example, it could be decision that you made while coding, where you took one approach instead of others. Why you took that approach and not others is something in your head at that moment but takes time to remember in the future.
yeah, good point. It makes sense how such clearly irrational articles could come about through those incentives.
This is indeed a problem for Wasm/JS integration. The JS WeakRef proposal[1] will address it for many use cases, and the WebAssembly GC proposal[2], combined with JS Typed Objects[3] will address many others. Even before those features will be available, I'd expect the community to iterate on patterns to make APIs nicer.

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs
[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/master/2018/pre...
[3] https://github.com/tschneidereit/typed-objects-explainer
"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

So it seems like Thiel's been a fascist for quite a while. And he's working on surveillance technology with law enforcement agencies... You're absolutely right that Thiel is probably the worst person, for society, to be running a business like this.I can't believe YCombinator partnered with him after he said things like this, and managed an entire two years with him until they dumped him over Trump.

Look, I'm not saying that libertarianism is fascism. But what kind of libertarianism is non-democratic? It would either be authoritarian capitalism (fascism), or anarcho-capitalism.
95% of the world's population lives with polluted air
That's correct. They aren't really designing them. Also, making a chip that's as competitive as an NVIDIA card isn't something that you can just make easily. See AMD and Intel.
Cloud9 IDE Gets Some Love from Werner Vogels at AWS Summit
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/25r6pw/a_demo_...

They mentioned incremental compilation in the first few seconds of the video. Didn’t watch the rest of the video yet.

I’ve always wished for incremental compilation. Imagine incremental compilation that was so fine grained it would recompile only the functions you changed. Of course this makes full-program optimization impossible but I think most of us don’t compile at the highest optimization levels during development anyway because doing so slows down builds without any benefit for development builds. For production builds we use the highest optimization levels of course.

Additionally I would like to have hot patching. I know some people have this, personally I’ve never had that.

If anyone knows about any systems for hot patching Rust code please let me know :)
For me, the 5ghz is really important. I work on products that only use the 5ghz (because of interference and crowding @ 2.4 ghz). Also, I am not en expert, but the chipset now used on the RPi will have an easier path to FCC approval?

"This has allowed us to certify the entire board as a radio module under FCC rules, which in turn will significantly reduce the cost of conformance testing Raspberry Pi-based products."

I think the Rpi is one of the few SBCs that have 5ghz support on the board.
Awesome! thanks for the reading material :D

1) The problem supply can be tackled in many many ways.

2) The verification problem is exactly why I stated NP as a problem class where the verification process is often relatively simple and straight forward. Obviously if that isn't the case then perhaps the problem isn't that well suited for this kind of environment.

3) The bandwidth issue is not something that I had considered. Makes absolute sense when you put it that way.
Their job is national security... within the confines of the constitution. I don't get how an entity egregiously violating the supreme law of the land can ever be dismissed with an "I don't care" by anyone who claims to care about the rule of law.
This link leads to page with the first challenge: "Your help is needed once again to solve an urgent matter. Our digital forensics division is trying to track the source of a phishing attack on one of our government officials..."
As the yearned-for fake privacy walls go up, the only entities that will still have the ability to abuse privacy, will be politically connected corporations and governments.

Germany supposedly has some of the best privacy laws in the world. Their government freely abuses their people with domestic espionage. They'll continue to work with technology businesses to that end as it fits their purposes.

There's a lot of outrage about Facebook. Meanwhile, absolutely nothing has changed, or is going to change, about the NSA spying. Nothing got fixed. More or less the Snowden revelations were entirely meaningless in terms of changing the status quo. The NSA is spying on EU and US citizens just as they were five years ago, just as they will be five years from now. Where's the outrage today about the NSA? Almost everyone gave up, that's why Facebook is the new target, the people couldn't do anything about the government spying.

GDPR creates the haves and have nots when it comes to access to abuse privacy. That's all it will change. If you have the political access (which Palantir does and will), you're going to get the security keys to abuse privacy (the alternative is for EU governments to entirely shut down all domestic espionage, that will never happen).
> There are typically laws dictating when, where, and for how long. Whether the laws are respected or enforced are a different matter.

It's not a "different matter". What affects people's lives is the law as it's experienced and enforced, not what's written in the statute book.
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Oracle enforces JavaScript trademark against iOS App developer
Its because there's too much regulation. The free market would never allow this to happen.