skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is this inheritance demand for subclasses to be signed by a key, and what language enables that?
since the 800 prefix has been exhausted, there is a pretty healthy secondary resale market in selling 800 numbers that have some recognizable combination of alphnumeric digits.

"as seen on TV" type ads selling kitchen gadgets and such will pay a fairly large amount of money for a "good" 800 DID.
This is a biased article from authors with an agenda.

> Andrew G. Biggs is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

FYI, the American Enterprise Institute is a conservative think tank known for attempting to bribe scientists to critique Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Yup, those are the ones I'm talking about. And they aren't rare. They show up in Gmail quite a bit.
I tried modafinil and it wasn’t very helpful.
The website that this is from is backed by the Manhattan Institute, which is a conservative think-tank that has been seeking to destroy pension funds for years.

https://nypost.com/2013/06/11/hedgies-cut-ties-with-think-ta...

Also, it's absurd to say that teachers in states like Oklahoma aren't underpaid when they have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/educators-acros...
A handy service that checks if a visitor is from an EU IP would be handy.
(Brendan)

Bill Joy at Sun was a JS supporter. As with pmarca, me, and others at Netscape, Bill saw the value of an analogue to fill in the `??? : Java :: VisualBasic : VisualC++` comparison.
I get what you’re saying, but I’m not sure it’s fair to compare PII management to the medical industry. Personally I think the new regulations are rather ham fisted, with so many edge cases that it looks more like a denial of reality than an attempt to regulate it.

I also think it’s going to be pretty harmful to startups, and that we’ll see more businesses just trying to avoid Europe at all costs. Regulation like this can either be easy to comply with, or they can be effective, you can’t really have both at the same time. Even then it just boils down to the old tension between security and compliance. I work with a lot of PCI orgs, all of them have AoCs, very few of them are actually what I would view as compliant. They all managed to satisfy the box checkers, but the DSS doesn’t do much to protect the consumers in most situations. The reality is that the DSS is just a mechanism of shifting accountability around, which is what I see the GDPR as. A bunch of politicians using poorly written regulations to shift accountability on to the market.
We may never truly know the appropriate salary for any employee, given the large amount of market interference that public/government schooling brings with it.

I'm not arguing for fully private schooling (though there are some interesting arguments for it), but pointing out that in any government controlled/dominated industry, the salary of any given employee may or many not have any correlation to their competency. Yes, this happens too in the private sector (dead-weight/overpaid employees exist in every industry), but we have engineered (politicized) our education system seemingly intentionally to produce these very outcomes.

Due to the ultimate intractability of the question, I am reminded of a recent funny quote: "if we want to believe something, it will accrete a protective layer of positive studies whether it’s true or not." [1]

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/04/adult-neurogenesis-a-po...
> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in. It is trying to be futureproof by leaving measures defined in terms of 'current state of technology', 'reasonable security considering the risk' and other such ambiguous terms.

1 page or 1,000 pages, most people are not in a position to accurately interpret it and understand what does or does not comply.
Show HN: L2Lisp in Java: An experimental Lisp with lazy evaluation
> And websites whose customers advertising agencies, and whose product is people, create something? Attempting to track and then monetize everything everyone does online is _creating_ something now.

This is snarky, and intentionally simplifies things down to a dumb level. Here's a list of things that "create something" while relying on an advertisement model for revenue:
- Gmail
- Facebook
- YouTube
- StackOverflow
- Reddit (to some extent)
- Yahoo
- Miniclip
- Neopets

I can find a hundred other examples that are ad-revenue supported by create immense value.

It's a difficult balance to strike, and while not perfect, this model has allowed us access to so many good services that would otherwise not exist. Saying that none of them "create something" is just wrong.
Because "big" numbers like 7M are scary I think a little perspective is warranted. The great lakes contain 380 quadrillion gallons of water which means even if they did not return a single drop it would take 54 billion years(or ~10x the age of the earth it's self) to drain the basin. This is of course ignoring the whole fact that the water they don't return does not just disappear it increases the humidity of the air and causes increased rainfall somewhere. Also I find the idea that humans should only use fresh water for drinking and public utilities laughable. Water is and has been an integral part of making damn near everything for millennia.
Okay, fair enough. We are though, headed into an era of overloaded terms. Which drives confusion and unnecessary arguments. Language is funny and fickle.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience

News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Developers often are a soft target, esp. in small/medium companies, but in my experience it's more of necessity by imposed expectations from management, than people actually wanting to have "root" everywhere. But I and many others dislikes getting yelled at by management, and no one has yet to accept any reasonable security precautions as a reason for delayed delivery without promptly ordering that precaution to be summarily removed, at least not in any of the companies I worked or consulted at the last couple pf decades.

If management understands that security costs time in feature development, fine. But with the role software development has these days in companies, if security and ops doesn't succeed in getting management on board, please don't hold the developers hostage! Work with them and try to find the least bad ways of working quickly enough. Many of them will support calls for better security practices as long as it doesn't imply more sleepless nights because goals haven't been changed, only the speed of which work can be done.

For any substantial deployment, I really don't want to have any access as a developer, but often I have to have root access to tons of machines simply to have any chance at actually doing my work.
China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale
According to this it is up to €20m:
https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/

And you prefer China's policy of censorship over the EU's policies of protecting consumer's privacy. Well that's interesting.
I agree that T-Mobile is having an outsized, positive effect on the market. I just was disappointed to find they weren't gaining on the big 2 as fast as I thought they were, and are instead continuing to lose ground.

This makes me wonder if those advantages of scale aren't greater than I thought, and maybe the merger would be beneficial.

But as a great admirer of what T-Mobile has done, and a since-voicestream customer, I'd hate to lose their scrappy underdog nature.
I took the same course! I remember that we had been taught to calculate the voltages and currents for all points in an electrical network as vector algebra operations. Then, for one of our assignments we were expected to just learn APL on our own to write a program to do these calculations. As I recall, it wasn't too difficult using APL.

I believe that we were given or used some sort of IBM manual to learn APL. I just searched my library and found APL/360 An Interactive Approach by Gilman and Rose, 1970[1]. However, APL was most definitely not the focus of the course so I think this was a book I bought a couple of years later in grad school for myself.

We wrote the programs on a fancy version of a teletype machine, made by IBM, called the IBM/360 APL Terminal System. See the photos of the paper based terminal in [2].

[1] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/apl/Books/Gillm...

[2] http://thenostalgicgeek.blogspot.com/2013/09/resurrecting-ap...
"It is harder for small and new companies to comply and crowds them out"

Show us some proof the GDPR is harder for small and new businesses to comply.
it's ok, you have a 5k rank on HN!

but... I think it just got normalized. It was like online dating, a lot of people wouldn't admit / kept it quite guarded that they met their partner online. Now it's almost odd if you didn't.
I hate to say anything political, but President Trump and John Legere are enemies:

https://mashable.com/2015/11/16/trump-legere-twitter-fight/
Lots of people feel like if you could pul off 4 hrs sleep a night you should. Donald Trump has been touting his ability to do it for decades.
blink what the hell did I just read? He is pretending to be a father for eight years? And this is ongoing? o_O
It is not a $million fine:
https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/fines-and-penalties/

And in food or construction if you willfully break the law then that can be criminal and you will face severe fines and/or jail. It's all about your intent.
In districts where teachers get pensions, they don't get social security.[1]

This fact is never discussed by conservative groups so that they can intentionally pretend like teachers are getting overly generous pension benefits. This is a significant misrepresentation through omission undermining the entire credibility of their argument.

[1] https://www.teacherpensions.org/blog/why-aren%E2%80%99t-all-...
Airbus electric passenger drone makes first flight at Pendleton UAS range
Many people have said: build something you need. It seems like all my ideas have already been done.

For me at least this has been accurate (building something I needed). Tesults, https://www.tesults.com, is an automated test results data storage/reporting web application. As a developer I had to implement a custom solution to do this for three different teams across two companies (employers) over a three year period. After the third time I noticed the pattern. I also noticed how we used it everyday, throughout the day in our dev team so it seemed like a fairly good problem to tackle in a general way, not least of all I thought that whatever was created could be used at my next job.

When you say your ideas have already been done are you sure they have been done exactly in the way you're thinking of, or done as well/polished as you would like? With the problem Tesults solves there are open-source and paid software alternatives out there that provides the building blocks to do something similar. Alternatively you could build something yourself like I previously did. Some people would definitely choose one of those two options. However at my job none of these options were great due to missing features we needed and maintenance concerns. As an employee this is was not the main part of my job so it was quite annoying not having something available to just handle this, I didn't want to manage the web app or database and my employer didn't want me to either really. So yes others did have the same general idea but they had not executed as well as I would have liked. It wasn't a slam dunk though, after the initial release it took over a year to get the first couple of paying customers (had several dozens of free ones) but that was because earlier iterations lacked polish and were missing key features (such as logs, screen capture, file uploads). Also I didn't have someone helping with service or marketing before.

I really think execution matters above all else and continuing to iterate is important. Tesults needs continuous work, it's updated every day, usually multiple times and there are years of work in the pipeline to make sure it remains the best way to report results data. If it wasn't for my seeing the problem in the wild as an employee I would never have done it, the idea would never have occurred to me sitting at home, I needed to have worked in the domain and I needed to be a domain expert. I think if you are a younger person you can perhaps think of cool stuff for you and your friends (b2c) but I'm an older person now with thoughts dominated by business issues and around being more productive. That and diapers (not my own).
How is Moxie's Signal affected by GDPR?
I havent read the papers but only few online summaries, but each mentions very strongly that GDPR directive are not limited to you running business or webste in EU zine. You need to implement GDPR if someone in Australia is using European IP. You also should assume that signup IS EUROPEAN if you havent given them the chance to say otherwise on your registration form. For example European citizen can visit your US based website when he/she visits USA, sign up then go home. Since she/he is EU citizen, you need full complience on your end. Or face €20 mil fine (I assume your startup is not making more than that off of 4% revenue)
more info: https://www.fastcompany.com/40518081/inside-airbuss-mad-dash...
These comments are just ridiculous.

If your business is on such shaky ground that straightforward changes required by GPDR are going to cause your business to collapse then you have bigger problems. Because one employee suing you or your rent increasing will also cause you to collapse.
I would say work with a recruiter. That's how I got my first programming job, with only two semesters of CS education but a lot of time invested in teaching myself how to program. Recruiters should have a good idea for what their clients are looking for, and how flexible they are WRT unorthodox educational backgrounds, no professional experience, etc. They won't waste your time with clients with which you wouldn't stand a chance. (Not that they care about your time, necessarily. They wouldn't want to alienate their client by sending someone who is in their not-a-chance-in-hell bracket.)

Also, if you're trying to work for a big tech name or some hip startup, go for the enterprise IT shop instead. A bank, insurance company, hospital system, grocery store chain, etc. Because working in those places is considered unsexy, and they know it, they have to be more flexible than the places that are flooded with resumes from hotshot coders. Again, that's how I got my foot in the door. Work there for a year or two, do well, learn as much as you possibly can, and you'll be firmly established on the career ladder.
Honestly I would much rather read it as:

5
|> Plus (20)
|> Equals? (25)

Why? Because when you aggressively use infix notation, there is operation order precedence ambiguity which is not there in polish (functional) notation. The pipeline idiom creates a "main line of computation" which really covers about 80% of use cases. I'd rather not have to remember so many things (I am getting old) and some notations are far clearer than others.
great to know I can have my life crisis here in NZ :)
It will make them more money from less competition.
The Great Chip Shakeup
Yes, education doesn't the best students. But there's a reason for that. It's hard work, and it doesn't pay well. It's traditionally been a women's job, after all. So why would top students want to become teachers?

But of course, this is a downward spiral. Leading to a poorly educated nation. And teachers who can't earn living wages. Sound familiar?

Edit: I don't agree with the article, but is flagging it appropriate? Isn't the discussion useful?
> In the early 2000s, when researchers started to look at specific behaviours, such as books read per week or hours spent reading or using a computer, none seemed to be a major contributor to myopia risk.

is no one reading the article?
Well, that's yet another legal black hole I don't want to fall into, but yours is still an excellent point.
> FB had to go and be evil and now the EU is overreaching demanding everyone spend their time bubble wrapping everything

What you call overeaching other's call protecting the interests of consumers.
You're not likely to get taken to court though, are you? You would expect to receive a cease and desist letter or a DMCA takedown first, right?

If you weren't making any money off it, and it wasn't your intention to make money, and you had no monetisation avenues active, and you only made a handful of infringing media, during a brief period, what's the worst that could happen?
In Australia, your phone has zero to do with your number; the SIM card is what “holds” it (not really. And that’s an oversimplification but oh well). And there are no area codes for mobiles.
T-Mobile does not appear to be struggling. Their coverage is supposed to match Verizon now. It was better than Verizon at my house the last I checked. Oddly, I live in one of the few places where Verizon’s coverage is terrible compared to the other 3 carriers. :/
While the analysis is interesting, the resulting "translation" is useless nonsense.
Did singing count? Improvisation (on an instrument)?

Or did it have to be more formal, e.g. sight-reading; aiming at a specific performance.

Found her page, but there's a lot of material there.http://www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu/projects/music/index....
Which is a good thing.

If you care about consumer's rights over companies's profits that is.
He’s a specimen of good mental and physical health too!
Regarding the guidance for Australian businesses and GDPR [1], if there are a few users based in the EU, would their whole website need to comply?

[1] https://www.oaic.gov.au/media-and-speeches/news/general-data...
If we're just talking about salary, then teachers make almost exactly the median for their education level in my state (Arizona).

To be clear: I think teachers should probably make more, but I don't know enough about it to make a strong opinion. I just wanted to look at data.

According to [1], teachers in Tempe, AZ (a suburb of Phoenix where I live), teachers make $51,841/year of income.

First, we have to convert this to a monthly income (teachers work 9 months per year, not 12[2]).

51841/9 = 5760. $5,760/mo.

(If I'm being honest, I was surprised the wage was this high. That seems like a pretty good wage, actually!)

Converted to a 12-month salary (which is generally what is meant by "salary")

12 * 5760 = $69,120

According to [3], the median income for a bachelor's degree holder in the state of Arizona is $62,697.

Again, I'm not saying that teachers shouldn't ask for more money. They have really important jobs. I just find the idea of teachers being underpaid to be inaccurate.

Just for fun (I know a lot of you live in the bay) according to [4] this would be like living in Oakland making $110k, or living in SF making $140k. In LA this would be about $109k.

In IA (Des Moines), it's about exactly the same. $66k.

[1]:https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2015/03/1...

[2]:While some teachers certainly do things like summer school, off-season training, etc. as far as I can tell, the salary figures are for the 9 required months per year.

[3]:https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Location=Phoenix-AZ/Sal...

[4]:http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/
Is the 20M EUR maximum reduced by law, or just by regulatory discretion? The USA is currently demonstrating (with DACA, marijuana enforcement, etc.) the fragility of the latter.
Well, we now know a lot more about the health effects of lack of sleep than we did in like, the 1970s, which is when he started. And, I imagine if you're otherwise very healthy and "acclimate" to the short sleep schedule, you don't really notice the signals that you're running on a deficit.

I think people also thought that there were wider ranges of acceptable sleep, depending on the person, and it's turning out that's not true.

All of this "no, really, literally everyone needs eight hours of sleep every single night of their life no exceptions or it will actually kill you dead" has only come to light in the past two decades.
Probably not. I really have mixed emotions about GDPR being a SaaS founder. It seems overstepping and heavy handed that the EU can enact laws that affect American's and American companies. The EU can do what it wants, but generally I am against regulation as it promotes bureaucracy, stifles innovation, and creates fluff and burden's especially on small companies such Chief Data Protection Officer and Chief Data Officer.
French town Vittel suffering water shortage Nestle accused of overusing resource
Bill Gates Adorably Tries to Guess Prices of Everyday Grocery Items
Maybe someone is testing a hypothesis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We measured less than 3% slowdown within a typical well-behaved circuit simulation.

That's pretty amazing. CPU pipelining at work, or was the profile just dominated by other things?
Thanks again!

> You should be able to sell your shares to a private buyer.

Is there a particular "terminology" to this ability I should ensure I confirm with the company?

> you should also ask how you will be evaluated

Great point and on my list.

> The biggest question you should answer is where the $9 came from.

It is indeed the number from the latest founding round 2 years ago so I assume it to be high.

> you could try ask the company about what liquidation preferences

Assuming this relates to preferred stocks and if they have been issues to investors? On my list of questions.

> Depending on how much research you want to do, you could try and do some research on how much a private investor would pay for shares

Any idea how you would go about it?

Thanks again for your great input. Much appreciated.
How about storing data for spam or DDoS mitigation? You need that data for those filters. But it's in the scope of GDPR. Do you give the spammers that data under SAR requirements, so they can improve? Or do you keep lawyers to justify denials of each request (some of them bogus?) We have done a lot of due diligence on GDRP and we don't "track or monetize" everything. Have you?
I’ve been in this situation before, I was sued for copyright infringement for something I shared on my blog by someone who had obviously gone through lawyers until she found someone to take her case.

She alleged I colluded with and stole manuscripts from her publisher (I published my content before she did). I knew I was in the right, and had proof to back it up. Then I found out it would cost tens of thousands to take the case to court and then if I won, I could claim the lawsuit was frivolous and sue for legal fees.

People can use the legal system to rope you into an expensive game that you don’t want to play. Even if you win, that victory might come at a huge cost financially and emotionally. Irrational and vindictive people can hire lawyers too.
Sympathy for the Incel
APL and C were my first languages, but I can't read most of those, it's been too long.

Merrill Lynch's mortgage operation was an IBM APL2 shop with a few dozen programmers, along with people doing non-mortgage stuff.

http://www.thocp.net/software/languages/apl.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL...

I remember that people who came from the other dialects, Sharp and STSC, had different ways of doing e.g. nested arrays and calling out to the OS which made their code hard to read.
He's not bad for 71. If he read more and did more than just watch cable news, he'd be pretty sharp imo. My point was it was/is a holy grail of sorts. Not many could 'pull it off,' but if you manage to...
It’s should be noted this is from 2016.
Overloading Terms has been a problem in this field for decades.