skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In big Chinese cities it costs you the equivalent of many thousands of dollars to get a licence plate. Without that city plate you cannot drive in the city during rush hour, you have to have a city plate.

Typically electric cars and plug in hybrids are exempt from the scheme. This means that if you live in Shenzen and want to get around then you can see if you win the lottery of licence plates and are allowed to pay $10K to join the club, or you just get an electric car.

The electric cars are better than the old fashioned cars with better ride quality due to the battery weight, better turning circles due to no huge motor between the front wheels, spritely acceleration off the line (if not at highway speeds), plus silence when waiting at the lights. This is a civilised experience and people don't go back to noisy motors with 'stick shift' involvement in driving. Much like how people did not go back to the horse when the car came along. A cheap basic car is better than a horse with fluffy cushions.

China are leading the way on this electric car revolution, they are doing great with their domestic market and when the rest of the world goes electric the Chinese brands will have quite an advantage.

In Europe a lot of fanfare was made about Jaguar and their electric SUV, which is not out yet. It will be contract manufactured by Magna in Graz Austria, not made in Jaguar's own factory in Birmingham.

The Nissan Leaf (new version) is a car well suited to Western markets and built by Nissan/Renault rather than outsourced. A very nice product, as is the BMW i3, but it seems that the Chinese really have a better product for the market - affordable!

Tesla have shown that car interiors do not have to be 'luxury leather' with a massive console thing, dashboard resembling a radiogram from the 1950's, silly carpets everywhere topped out with chintzy bling trim.

The budget Chinese cars have none of the 'luxury trim' with hard plastics everywhere. However the experience is actually civilised, no noise, no rattles, lots of interior space. So owners are quite willing to forget the fluffier aspects of old fashioned cars.

There is no range anxiety either, if you are going to drive all day to get somewhere you just get a plane instead and get your day back.
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> less of a threat to its neighbors

Doesn't China have a exceedingly good record here? Quick googling suggest it has had no major (and certainly no unilateral) military conflicts in the last 30 years. Military build up seems reasonable given the situation in Korea, Pakistan and India, the growing isolation of Russia, and America's continued military "adventures." It's claims in the south china sea do seem out of character, but we live in a world where might is right.
The ratings is mostly based on sensor readings in the dummys, so while it looked reasonable, the dummys tell a different story. And that is reflected in the ratings.
Ah, and so you are arguing that peoples success and failure is decided by other people? Who exactly are these other people? America went from a completely undeveloped and isolated backwoods to the most powerful nation in the world in just a couple of centuries because of these people? How about China? 60 years ago people were literally starving to death by the tens of millions in China and today they are one of the most powerful and rapidly growing nations in the world. Japan was obliterated in a war yet in a period of some 40 years reshaped itself into what was at one time the technological leader of the world. Is it because of those people again?
Context: https://supchina.com/2018/04/23/beida-student-to-school-stop...

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There's also some risk to your boss -if he's given you permission in writing to release the code under an open source license, but he did not have the internal authority to do that - it's not impossible that'd risk him getting fired (instead of or as well as you).
Latest? L-band early warning has been around for ages. The problem is the range and angle accuracy is not enough to guide an interceptor for fundamental physical reasons: the angular resolution is proportional to frequency and antenna size, and the range resolution is proportional to bandwidth.
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Huh, they're using Github pages. I thought if you set up a redirect - a C dns response - to whatever.github.io, that would soothe the ssl complaints in the browser.

Looking at the dns records, it looks like they didn't do this, and instead set up an A record.

I realized Github probably documents this, and found: https://help.github.com/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-...

My suggestion would likely work for a www subdomain, but not for the apex domain.
Except for the fact, that you can easily adjust to your taxation as gorw, but that doesn't really apply to designing your software product. The advantage of the GDPR applying to everyone is that in the future startups have to think about privacy first, rather than second. That's a good thing in my book.
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That's more or less the story these days. Thiago Macieira (the maintainer for Qt Core) keeps stats on contributors.

https://www.macieira.org/blog/qt-stats/
If you are not quoting your mixed-case identifiers, then they are not mixed-case. They are being implicitly converted to either lowercase or uppercase depending on your database, and your capitalization is lost. It normally doesn't matter, until you are introspecting your database schema, at which point your code generation generates a Organizationrole protobuf message instead of an OrganizationRole, or your ORM fails to find OrganizationRole because PostgreSQL stored it as organizationrole.
We do that now with spread-spectrum and chirps - you correlate the signal sent with the return signal and you can pick out reflections below the noise threshold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_compression

I'm guessing that this might be more effective at very small returns, where the reflection is so small that it suffers from shot noise - the fact that the energy comes in discrete packets makes it hard to correlate. This is another way to verify that the photons received are the same ones sent out (and not background noise)
Question for people knowledgeable on the topic: are there many examples of planned efforts like this actually working, where some group is able to attract top talent in some industry and keep it for the long term? The article mentions CERN; are there others?

I would guess that most concentrations of talent are an unpredictable side-effect of some environmental factor.
Unless you were raped, tou did invite that individual into your body, so it’s technically not an intruder.
The American president made violent threats to a woman he had an affair with. He suggested people beat up protesters at his rallies. He frequently attacks the free press, judicial system, law enforcement and minority religious and ethnic groups.

And that's just the president. What about US incarceration rates, use of the death penalty and racial bias in law enforcement? Or the frequent, devastating use of military force on populations all over the planet.

I'm not equivocating, just stating some facts that may offer perspective on your suggestion that we diminish the living standards of 1.3 billion people because their government is terrible in different ways than our own.
While, to some extent, I agree that we should move back to RSS, shouldn't we think of RSS readers? While most of us in tech could figure it out, the mass of people find it tough to use an RSS Reader.

Maybe in the future, RSS readers could take another form altogether. But solutions out there aren't as easy to use.
The solution is delivered on AWS marketplace.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B074XCVNQT?qid=1503668...
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Software big 5 have much better pay and much better work-life balance than accounting big 5.
>If I currently rent my apartment for ~400€/mo, why wouldn't I increase the rent to 600 or 800€/mo if the people were getting extra 1000€/mo from the government?

Because you don't get to put the prices on it, its a market.

> Obviously the people might move out to somewhere more remote where the prices where lower, but now they would have to pay for the journey to work place and get whole new social circle and all other things that are involved with moving - expect you are moving to a smaller city/town or at least to worse neighborhood.

Think of which kind of recipient is willing to leave a city because of a monthly stiped of 1k. Its not people with median wages. To be able to make a judgement on how it would affect rent prices you wuold have to model how many people leave the cities and how many people go to them. If basic income is fixed, its probably going to punish being in the city (higher taxes) and prize living outside (the money gotten with a lower tax rate will be worth more).

I never quite got why people think basic income would produce an inflation that would erode it: what kind of model or idea explains that? Its not taxation, its not inflation, its not supply-demand. Im honestly asking.
Same in China. Though I do not believe this is something "already happening". Female infanticide is nothing new in China and India, it started centuries ago, and was worse in old times.
Our big problem in Europe is not basic research, it's systems research. We have a European platform for Big Data and AI - Hops. It's open-source. It has nice properties, but it is harder to bootstrap an ecosystem outside the valley:

(1) HDFS compatible FS with distributed metadata

(2) GPU support in HopsYARN

(3) UI to develop Keras/TensorFlow apps in jupyter, deploy on tensorflow serving. Spark support, too.

However, getting it 'out there' is still a challenge from Europe. Here is a talk on the platform at CERN last week:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/716743/

More talks here:

http://www.logicalclocks.com/eventscustom/
Seems everyone is recommending their preferred feed reader here so I'll mention the one I use as well.

Feedbro is a Firefox extension that lets me subscribe to and read feeds. Multiple layouts/formats.

I use it to subscribe to blogs, github repos etc.

I still miss a feature from the Googlr Desktop Search sidebar where it would autosubscribe/unsubscribe to rss feeds as you browsed around the web. I think it looked at what sites I visited, tried a few entries in the feed and continued/canceled based on if I read them or not.
+ Aaron Swartz
"When you enter someone else’s place of business, you have no expectation of privacy."

So you'd have no problem with a restaurant owner bugging all their tables and listening in on their customers' conversations?
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> 16000 teleportation edges [...] doesn't include physical travel edges between the vertices
Quantum radar will expose quantum stealth of quantum aircraft.

I'm getting quantum sick.
I don't even think CERN, Higgs boson included, is worth the man hours or cash invested...

HBP doesn't seem worth it. ITER is a huge failure that is scheduled to receive billions more euros for more than 25 more years. I don't know... Europe seems to fall victim to these sort of things very readily.
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There was a vision - it was Henry Markham's vision for simulating a cortical column. However, it was a bad idea, and it all blew up, due to a bad problem to focus on.

https://www.nature.com/news/human-brain-project-votes-for-le...
It's a very blinkered view. There's plenty of RSS feeds with text based adverts at the bottom of each article, and as most RSS reader apps show the article content in HTML, normal image based ads can work as well. So it's totally do-able to include advertising in RSS. A layperson wouldn't know how to strip the advert out either.
Can Android application only be programmed in Java?
The BRAIN initiative came after the Human Brain Project so it would be more accurate to call the BRAIN initiative America's attempt to compete with the European HBP.
The GDPR has special exemptions for legal compliance such as data retention and lawful intercept.
> As a founder, the cruel business logic very much favors removing support/refusing to onboard European users.

Do it, that's fine. I'd prefer to know if you can't be trusted with my data.

People whined about HTTPS, it was often an afterthought. Now you wouldn't dream of submitting stuff via HTTP. GDPR will be the same, just on a business level instead of a technical one.

> What if a user enters in PII in a field that you thought should have no PII in it?

> What happens if you delete the user and restore from a 5 day old backup?

> What if they enter PII in table entries owned by other users through that other users account?

A lot of these are a red herrings, put in there to muddy the debate. Mistakes happen, the GDPR "punishments" acknowledge that. On the other hand, many companies already treat free-form user entered text as sensitive information. Everybody who's been neglecting privacy will have a bad time adopting this. Technical debt or over-complicated systems will also make it harder, but that is also to be expected.

> How do you ensure your third party API partners are in compliance?

If I had to guess, for many companies outside the EU, this is going to be the biggest issue.
Except this does nothing to really stop the savage victimization of users by Facebook or Google. If anything it solidifes their dominance.

The abuses are happening from these big companies, not the thousands of tiny startups that live and die within months that have a few hundred thousand users.
He answers this to some extent here:

> Relationship between Jenkins and Jenkins X
Jenkins is the core CI/CD engine within Jenkins X. So Jenkins X is built on the massive shoulders of Jenkins and its awesome community.

> We are proposing Jenkins X as a sub project within the Jenkins foundation as Jenkins X has a different focus: automating CI/CD for the cloud using Jenkins plus other open source tools like Kubernetes, Helm, Git, Nexus/Artifactory etc.

> Over time we are hoping Jenkins X can help drive some changes in Jenkins itself to become more cloud native, which will benefit the wider Jenkins community in addition to Jenkins X.
That is not how feeling works and author talks about feelings. Breaking feelings down is exercise in rationalization usually. Feeling is effectively chemical reaction in your brain after all.

Why would you expect writer to feel the same feelings then you?

People are influenced by culture around them, that is just how we are wired and that is what allowed us to build civilizations. The one "should not be influenced by culture" is not fully achievable goal. The the extend it is achievable, you start by realizing how it is influencing you, by thinking about it and that is what article is doing.
I used to work for an automotive company. The EU pollution standards were always the strictest. So we made multiple versions of our vehicles, with the cleanest ones for the European market. Even though it only saved us a few cents per vehicle, we used worse parts for non EU markets.

Guess where the air is purest?
And obviously, you block the service in the EU. Most users are not technically proficient, and a simple DNS block is enough.
One problem with backups is that you don’t want them to be always online (store them offline and off site for disaster recovery). Backups can also be helpful in case of bugs that delete your whole database so that you can recover the data after the bug is fixed. Imagine the follow query `delete from users where id = 372936 or status = inactive`. Unfortunately, due to a bug, all users have been marked as inactive. Now you destroyed the whole database. No problem you think, just restore it from a backup. Due to the new law, this script ran also on your backup. Congratulations, you have now lost all your users. Hence, you never want to “change” backups. You only ever want to restore from them.

The easiest way to comply with it would be have a list with all user deletion requests stored somewhere else and every time you restore from a backup, you also apply this list from the backup. But have you really deleted users if you keep backups?
You have many things a microprocessor needs to do, even an 8-bit one from 45 or so years ago.

You need opcodes to shift left and right, rotate left and right (possibly with and without carry), add, subtract, and, or, exclusive or. Perhaps other arithmetic and logical operations.

You need opcodes to move values to/from memory, to/from other registers such as index registers. You don't just have opcodes that specify absolute memory locations, you need more opcodes to specify that you want to use an index register instead.

You need opcodes to jump conditionally. You need opcodes to call and return from subroutines. You need opcodes to enable and disable interrupts. You need opcodes to push and pop registers from the stack.

Etc etc etc.

You can't easily encode all those opcodes into a single byte and still set aside bits from that one byte to specify one of a number of accumulators. Hence why the Intel 8080 had a single accumulator. Because all math happened with the accumulator, you didn't need any bits in the opcode to specify that. It was implied.

Having said that, there was one commercially available microprocessor, the Motorola 6800, that had two general purpose accumulators.[1] It still had many single-byte opcodes. But it also gave some stuff up. It only had a single index register. The competitor MOS Technology 6502 had a single accumulator[2], but that left opcode room and die area for two index registers.

The Woz chose the more flexible (and far cheaper) 6502 for the Apple I and Apple II. And the rest, as they say, is history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_6800
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502
Sure, but it's better if I don't have to trust Apple but let's say Mozilla IMHO.
Daring Fireball has experimented with this over the years.

Currently it uses a sponsor system.
Maybe that's a chance for European internet startups? Entry barriers for foreign startups give European companies a headstart, while successful, more mature foreign companies will comply with EU standards to get access to the market. Sure, Europe loses access to products of early stage startups, but maybe that's a good trade-off? (Disclaimer: I have no hard opinion on this matter, just a thought).
...I sure hope you meant 9Mbps, otherwise I and I assume many others here would be very jealous of a home 9Gbps connection and more jealous that you didn't think it was enough for some pretty light internetting :)
If they want to comply all those 1000's of companies will have to get you to reaffirm your consent under the new GDPR rules. Didn't you notice already a lot of the services/sits you use asking you to re-agree ('We've updated our privacy policy etc.')
This seems like a terrible feature of Postgres and Oracle (which apparently works the same but oppositely). All other database engines I've used have retained the case of unquoted identifiers.

I haven't used Postgres enough to notice this, it's almost a deal breaker.

I might be tempted to mandate that all identifiers be quoted than deal with half the possible characters for names. Although more likely all code-generation would happen on the application side with DB migrations so the database wouldn't the source of truth for identifier names, anyway.
Hmm.. might work if it's not a one-person shop with no company name, etc.
Thanks for the reply! I see.
Most on HN do not appreciate the complexity of this -- perhaps more will after they are asked to implement it (or after they've implemented it and then found their implementation was wholly unsatisfactory after an unlucky legal investigation into the company). Dealing with backups is a significant expense, but dealing with data on a person that they themselves did not put on the platform is a much larger can of worms which makes it effectively impossible.

There is really no perfect way to do it, and it speaks to how unreasonable 'the right to be forgotten' actually is. When did people ever have a right to be forgotten? No one can force me to forget embarrassing things I've witnessed others do, and vice versa. The same goes for my local copies of photos, videos, diary entries, etc. of such events. Can't make me destroy those love letters you sent. You can't instigate a county-wide manhunt to destroy copies of every local newspaper that covered you in some way you want to forget. You cannot delete most of your public records in real estate, justice, business, etc. You cannot start fresh on your credit history whenever you want.

Sure, there is more easily accessible data on the average person with the Internet now, but the majority of the types of data already existed in the pre-Internet-era, perhaps with the exception of ad profiles. Consider all of the political scandals (particularly ones that happened long before they were unearthed) in the pre-Internet era.

So, what about when companies have data breaches and expose your data? I think they should absolutely be held liable. But it should be their choice to choose to be liable and determine how much they would need to forget to avoid liability. Furthermore, all of the active users are still compromised with GPDR -- only the people who opted to be forgotten benefit. So instead, there needs to be a framework for addressing data breaches and poor security, rather than deleting every trace of a specific type of data profile that a user and/or associated users posted on your platform.
Those other methods involve you having your device at hand or getting it out of your pocket, unlocking it, etc.

The Echo isn't at its full potential, but the basics can be useful and you can see where it's going. Once they handle a broader variety of things, they will be a no-brainer for every household that isn't nervous about privacy issues. (i.e., almost everyone)

I use it to set cooking timers without stopping what I'm doing or needing a hand free. My kids use it to play music. e.g., my three year old can play a particular album without knowing how to spell it and without having to nag me to do it. They also love asking it questions like "how many teeth does a horse have?" or "how much does an elephant weigh?"
In China, man pays for everything in a relationship...... and wives manage family account..
I am glad that the EU won't exempt small businesses from GDPR compliance. Here's why ...

Everybody in the business knows that big companies become targets.

Therefore for startups it's a land grab, aka break as many social rules as you can before getting big enough to get noticed.

Just to give an example — Google's AdX platform has been anonymizing IPs given to participating advertisers at least since 2013 when I interacted with them. They also tightly controlled what kind of content and JavaScript you could serve on participating websites. For example we were not allowed to set our own cookies and even loading ad content dynamically (via JS) was a problem. The smaller ad exchanges, like MoPub and below? They didn't give a fuck.

The most immoral companies around are the startups. The difference being that they don't have the resources or the reach of big companies. But that's no excuse.

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On progressive taxation, that's simply a tax on productivity, plain and simple. The majority being made of people that earn minimal to medium wage and of socially assisted folks, it's simply a way to increase taxes without pissing off the electorate. And it's choking the middle class and the small businesses.

And that's because the big companies and the big earners have good lawyers and accountants that can come up with legal tax evasion schemes. The EU can't wait to fine the likes of Google and Facebook, as they've been evading a lot of taxes ;-)