skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've posted a question in Fitbit's forum asking them for confirmation that this will be opt-in. Google Health has managed to hoover up people's data without their consent before, and I picked a Fitbit specifically because of how much control I had over my data and what it would and wouldn't track.
GDPR is classic regulatory hassling which will protect incumbents and ward off newcomers to decrease competition, it's overly broad, and unusually hostile to entrepreneurs, startups, small business, side projects, personal projects, consultants, etc. It's almost as if it was designed to be this way, as regulation often appears created to protect large incumbents and raise barriers to entry.

At first it was a joking response, but I know of a few businesses and people who after looking into it, quickly learned it was far easier and significantly cheaper to simply block EU users, or prevent EU signups or data inputs, or place them into a 'read only' type mode, rather than attempt to deal with the hassle.
That depends on your perspective. From a job creations perspective it's wonderful, people are willing to open their wallets for labor-intensive products and services.

While labor automation can be a boon for some and indirectly increase efficiencies, encouraging consumption of labor-intensive products and services directly incentivizes jobs creation. If this can be done in a safe manner (ie: appropriate workplace health codes and adequate protection against dangerous environmental externalities like pollution) then by all means it can be a good thing.

Regardless of your opinions on shifting manufacturing to China, it has lifted tens/hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and transformed the country into a consumer-based economy (from a largely agrarian society). While it has devastated/destroyed local habitats and caused other ugliness, it cannot be disputed that encouraging usage of labor on a massive scale has done a lot of good for the people of China.
I don't trust a shitcoin generator that doesn't know the proper nomenclature for the shitcoins it's generating.
It's hard to imagine a productive forking discussion taking place on Caddy's forums directly. Certainly not in that announcement.

At any rate having read this article I didn't see anything saying that "the whole project was garbage".

The video (which Matt Holt removed) is also actually worth watching IMO, although I can see why he doesn't want it posted on the forum given its tone.
Josh Mitteldorf's nascent project using the Horvath Clock might be of interest to some people here.

https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2018/04/08/the-mother...
https://xhamster.com/photos/gallery/9730803/187386636
What is the half-life based on? Spontaneous decomposition? Or does it depend on external factors such as exposure to sun light (certain wavelengths)? If it depends on such factors half-life is variable depending on those conditions.
Seems the OP lacks objectivity, especially with the religious reference. With that said, I agree that telemetry should not be on by default, but prompted.
I'm aware of one gambling company which looks up customer addresses on Google Street View to see in what kind of place they live. If you look wealthy they will send the big guns after you.
Which of "this data" do you see as relevant under GDPR?
not sure what message I should take from the Mormon.org profile...

- Matt is young
- Matt is religious

Either of those are enough for me to think more seriously about Matt's ability to make judgements about software.

(haha, HN you guys are jerks sometimes. I don't know how somebody's evident youth or apparent willingness to believe scientific impossibilities wouldn't warrant questions about their judgement, but y'all sure don't like it if I talk about how totally dumb young religious people can often be)
If lead was an effective pesticide or herbicide, it would be considered natural and organic. cf copper sulfate.
Publishers rebuke Google's interpretation of EU privacy law
This is already done in some cases, cocoa is one example.

Some decades ago a disease started spreading amongst cocoa crops, and no solution was known. It still menaces crops today.

Turns out cocoa is less sensible to disease if you grow it inside the forest vs as monoculture, but because of the shade and density the production is smaller.
Not arguing that, but we're talking about Roundup, which we know is a health hazard and used everywhere.

As a layperson, if the FDA hasn't been testing for this, it makes you wonder what they have been testing for.. or rather, it almost makes one feel like they haven't been testing food samples at all for 50+ years.. which even with an underfunded agency, would be shocking.
See https://www.foundationdb.org for information on FDB but in short it is a distributed database that is auto-scaling, auto-healing, auto-sharding and ACID. You do need a minimum of 3 nodes to get those properties. When you connect to a volume it is protected by a lock that ensures only a single client.
It looks like a simple html table, I think LibreOffice might be able to parse that. Else, it should be relatively trivial to change the output to e.g. csv which can be imported.

As for an alternative, and I don't know the options here, but maybe a plugin could be made that pulls the data into Calc itself.
I find the more interesting story to be the "Software developers really don't want to believe that their profession pays as much as it does" message that's playing out in the comments here and the similar Facebook story today.

It's something I notice every time salary comes up here.

Story: "Yet Another Datapoint showing that the current market rate for developers is $300,000/year and higher."

Hacker News: "No It Isn't!"

You can almost see the fingers stuck in ears reading the top comments on these stories. In my mind, the thing to do when somebody tells you how you can make twice what you did 5 years ago in this profession isn't to call that guy a liar. A better reaction would be to talk about actionable ways to go get one o' those salaries.
If you have a project that doesn't allow users to enter any kind of information but simply displays ads (via Adsense), is that in scope for GDPR or is a proper Privacy Policy enough?
Totally! Forks can be great.

Saying "Caddy was supposed to be great" or "This is no longer just a conversation on privacy; this is a hostage situation" is not right. Caddy is great, but Neflabs doesn't agree with the direction it's taking. The solution is not describing the free software's developer as a hostage taker.

The solution, as you said, is forking.
Can confirm how awesome regional burns can be. I've never been to the "big burn", mainly because the expense and distance would make it very difficult for me to attend and actually participate in any meaningful way.

I live on the east coast of the US (can't imagine how much harder this would be for someone who doesn't even live on the same continent) and while I could probably budget the money and time to attend, it would be prohibitively expensive to bring much in the way of a camp.

But I've attended probably 10 or so burns of varying sizes on the east coast and I truly love doing so. It's still an undertaking but I've been able to collaborate with friends (as well as make lots of new ones) to run theme camps. It's an awesome outlet for our creative and armchair engineering efforts and with so many people from different backgrounds, there's so much to learn and be inspired by.

Just seeing some of the great ideas people come up with has helped me to become more confident in trying out ideas that otherwise would have never gone past the brainstorm phase. It may sound a bit rude, but when I see the art projects and interactive games and installations or just fun things to do, I think "these are just other regular chumps like me...so why the hell can't I do something cool for once??"

I think of it sort of like playing an instrument or singing. At some point, there can be validation and motivation to be found in performing in front of an audience. It gets you to practice and refine. It makes you feel good to share with folks who appreciate your efforts. And at burns, I can chat with people who think our interactive lights are awesome or are thrilled that we brought our karaoke gear out into the woods, or are eternally grateful that we are frying up wings and fries for anyone in need of a hot snack at 1am.

Then you multiply this by hundreds of people who also create spaces to dance, lounge, eat, chat, interact, play, or gape in amazement at what you can build when you get a bunch of nerds and hippies and engineers and chefs and artists and musicians (and just random people who didn't even know they had a talent) into the same space.

It's like summer camp for grownups. It's tons of work and tons of fun and I can't think of much else I've done that begins to touch the positive takeaway I bring home after each one (even if it's just learning my limitations).
Apart from all the other things people are mentioning, I'd add that the development of Rust happens in the open. That means that a lot of very interesting debates are there on GitHub for everyone to read. For example, here's where arielb1 discovered that the original scoped threads design was unsound: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24292 (which sparked a large debate about whether mem::forget should be allowed in safe code: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1066).
T-Mobile has been evaluating and deploying that technology since early 2006, I would be surprised if Google developed this technology themselves.

I was part of an early Beta for T-Mobile using Nokia flip phones that would work over a regular WiFi router. Part of the testing involved originating calls on WiFi and then transitioning to Cellular and vice versa.
the way da_chicken wrote it, it sounded like a one-time thing
Looks like it gets an html page from https://iextrading.com/apps/stocks/#/<stock> then scrapes it. Not really an API. Edit: ok, I'm wrong.
Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
> If it's anything like the cookie consent,

It won’t. It will just replace the common “no one reads but clicks”
TOS. And the user can change her mind anytime she wants.

> The amount of "no clue what this is" among non technical people I know is 100%.

If you can’t explain a non engineer or scientist how personal is
collected and used it’s probably not a bad idea to outlaw this
practice.

> But the EU pats itself on the back cause they're tackling privacy issues. It's a joke.

It’s certainly not enough but a step in the right direction.
Gamify book publishing?
I do 'indie book publishing' for fun. I enjoy the editing, layout, talking to the authors and helping indie authors get more recognition. Is there any way I can gamify this process to increase productivity for myself, provide more motivation and enjoyment for the authors and make the process of reading the stories even more entertaining and rewarding for end users/readers?

The books I have published so far are listed on moonbooks.net and I'm mainly interested in improving the horror anthologies. I have started including author biographies and links to their books, social network accounts and so on but if I can increase their visibility even more I'd love to.

Brandon
>Both GCC and Clang are very slow compared to, say, the Go standard compiler.

Well, the Go standard compiler doesn't do much.
I don't have any solid sources backing what I'm saying right now, but based on what I've read and what I know about sales and marketing, the difference between opt-in and opt-out is huge (much bigger than the 3 letter difference :) ).

With opt-in you only reach something like 10% of your users, if you're like, while opt-out is the exact opposite, you reach 80-90%.

This creates massive financial incentives to be sneaky and push opt-out.

And every time this happens for products where there's decent competition, the people doing this lose a chunk of their users...
You need REM to feel great.
A Guide to GDPR for 501(c) Organizations
You own that photo, not me. You get to control how it’s used unless government regulates otherwise (based on US law, the EU might be different).
Anyone know if this would likely be true in Europe as well? Or are there vastly different pesticide policies here?
>No lions most certainly can't acquire new skills in any meaningful way besides trough evolution.

C. Elegans can learn new behaviors. I'm inclined to think that animals with 0 capacity for learning don't exist.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HYG65ra8Ii4/maxresdefault.jpg
> The GDPR requires users to be able to say no

Even better, it requires the use to say “yes”.
There's a difference between announcing a fork with "we disagree with the following upstream decisions and thus are making this fork that will remove them" and broadcasting widely something along the lines of "I hate this, it's totally unacceptable, it's done, could someone fork it for us?" though, smearing all kind of barely related things into it.
Kind of like Marc Andreessen's "The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do"
"Is it free?
This website is free. But you have to pay a small amount of ether as a transaction fee for deploying your cryptocurrency contract."

Shut up and take my money... to the moon!
Just as you can be wildly off in your estimate of how much you slept during a night you can be wildly off in your estimation of your own alertness and mental state. You can be wrong about how you feel, for much the same reason placebos work or people are suggestible; we don’t actually have a privileged window into our own minds, we’re observers too.
There are court documents linked to by Microsoft, but perhaps unsurprisingly after reading them, generally not by the pro Lundgren blogs.

To be honest, whilst I wouldn't necessarily trust his partner trying to save his own skin, I'm even less convinced by someone that mentions a sale price of $3 for a Windows 7 and $4 for XP (odd pricing, but maybe reflects how convincing the counterfeit disks were or even how usable the software is without a license key...) in their defence in court, then tells the media he intended to give them away at $0.25 cost price.

Sometimes you have to look past the fact one party is a recycling entrepreneur and the other party is Microsoft...
NetChain: Scale-Free Sub-RTT Coordination [pdf]
CSS Grid 12 Column Layout
I think the only way to win is to make sure the first one is perfectly friendly, or to make sure we are integrated with the first one. I don't give us great odds on either front.
Here is one of them:
https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0...

Intel graciously paid for trees to brighten up the street and has a nice street sign saying so. (It doesn’t say why they did.)

This one is not directly related to silicon production, but the QA that came after.
I think the OP should make a crapcoin and sell it in order to be able to spend it on creating more crapcoins!
And nissan.com

In this case, big business hasn't won yet: http://www.digest.com/Big_Story.php
gccgo
Oh snaaap.
Uhh have you read the glyphosate warning label?

http://www.roundup.ca/_uploads/documents/28486_Ultra2_All%20...

PRECAUTIONS
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.
HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED.
HARMFUL IF INHALED.
This idea is obviously stupid but it really does expose the missing consistent, friendly front end experience for dApps. I have no idea what contract this is pointing to and what happens when I submit the transaction. MetaMask tells me some info but very little really. I don't know which buttons are going to trigger a MetaMask prompt and start an on chain transaction and which point to a centralized backend etc.

Compare that to the web where I know underlined text takes me somewhere else, hover over will give me the URL, there are standard browser components for input fields, buttons etc.

I'm really hoping there's a drop in framework for this which reaches mass adoption soon.
The WSJ article doesn't seem right. Here are a list of the top paying companies by median income:

Chimera Investment

TESARO

Exelixis

Splunk

Equity Commonwealth

Agios Pharmaceuticals

Incyte Corp

Neurocrine Biosciences Inc

The highest paying software company appears to be Splunk with 256k. There seems to be a lot of biotech companies that pay a lot.
It's concerning to me that people are drawing parallels to Cambridge Analytica over this. It shows the deep, deep misunderstanding among not just lay people, but people who should really know better, about what Cambridge Analytica and Facebook actually did.
No citation is needed when a simple internet search reveals plenty of references, and that the issue is not HF specifically - volatile organics are an important issue.
HTTPretty 0.9 with Python3 support and more docs
canada.com is not owned by the government, its owned by postmedia the parent of rogers
Yeah, could be. Though if you provide a hiring company with a GitHub profile demonstrating your dominance, and then you are expected to waste another 6 hours on trivial algorithmic questions you probably did 100 times in the past 10 years, you'd probably just pass on that "opportunity". Those algorithmic questions were anyway originally meant to find the "best of the best", now they are used for entry-level positions. It's like asking an accomplished lawyer about what happened in 1758 and what was the effect on common law.
Regardless of whether you can actually affect an outcome, believing you can affect the outcome is crucial. Maybe you're just "lucky" to have that belief, but of course you can choose to believe something or not, can't you?

What's the point of this article? Give up and accept whatever comes your way? That any influence you could possibly exert on the world is just pure chance? What a load of crap.
You're going to gatekeep fitness to me, after seemingly demonstrating less fitness confidence? I'm three years from 30, it's already hitting me. It doesn't really change the basic calculus of calories in, calories out.
It's amazing there isn't more disruption here:

- Everyone has to eat, but it takes a good amount of time to prep, cook, set a table, eat, clear the take and wash dishes

- There seems to be broad awareness of what makes a healthy diet, yet lots of difficulty adhering to one

- People have different tastes and given the choice will rarely choose the same food as those eating with them

Eating out satisfies the variety problem, but not always the time or health one.

A meal in a box somewhat helps the time problem (little prep) and maybe the health one, but not the variety.

There is no 10x solution yet, but it's not hard to think of one like meals in Star Trek that are custom and ready at the press of a button.
Probably because you'll never come near these kind of offers outside a few cities in the world - no matter how good you are.

Most of developers in the world aren't allowed to move to SV or Seattle and get those salaries.
You will still be far more OK then if you stared at a computer or something.
Always have to laugh a little at self-aggrandizing nonsense.

Without physical hardware, there would be nothing on which “code” could be built.

Atoms came first. Bits followed. History, people.
On the JVM, the most solid contender is Scala. It's "better" than Java in a number of ways. Personally, I'm a bit turned off by the very intrusive role of the type system. You may find a bit less tool support than for Java (no surprise) and some of the clever functional-style code you write may run slower than less elegant corresponding Java code. Still, there are a lot of adapters, some big names, and they get stuff done. Scala being "harder" also allegedly attracts smarter developers.

Another statically typed language, non-JVM, with decent momentum is Go. It's like C with a slew of sorely needed improvements. Very straightforward and there's often a single, obvious way to get something done. As a result I find I'm very productive in it. Performance is topnotch too. Tooling is quite good. I'm not sure it replaces Java as an "Enterprise" language for large-team projects though.

Kotlin is another "better Java" language on the JVM. Pleasant enough to work with, but not as large an adopting community. Tooling is good if you like IntelliJ.

C# is Microsoft's challenge to Java. Has borrowed some good ideas from Java and extended them, interfaces well with Windows (obviously). Tooling is good if you like Visual everything and Microsoft.

Now may be a good time to switch to a language that more fully embraces functional programming. F# and OCaml are possibilities, Erlang has a great rep for stability, and Haskell is said to be very powerful but with a daunting learning curve.

I'm experimenting with all of these and have the damndest time making up my mind. There's kind of an embarrassment of choice.
Copyright violation is not a criminal action unless done in an organised, for profit fashion as piracy. The fundamental piece of evidence the prosecution needed for that was the trumped up and bogus damages value Microsoft supplied.

Hence, the title and article are correct.
did anyone actually believe it wasn't a fake site?
This is great. I love the simple, succinct interface — I wish real financial companies like my trading account and my bank had even half this much sense when it comes to pragmatic design.

A few notes from taking a look at the code:

* I've very much started doing the same thing in my projects of just using modern JavaScript constructs like fetch and arrow functions without a transpiler. IE is never going to support any of them, but I've accepted that. Caniuse.com ranks most of them at 85%+ supported.

* It's neat to see that the IEX API supports batch requests (as opposed to having to pull one stock at a time) in its API which makes it possible to implement the project efficiently and in a way that doesn't have to store state.

* Nice work building it to support large users as well. A lot of installations probably won't have more than 100 stocks, but it'll break up requests into multiple batches of <= 100 if they do.
Continuations by example: Exceptions, generators, threads, and coroutines
I appreciate the clarification. (and agree) There are many cases of lack-of-attribution or no respect for open-source licensing.
Given that a huge percentage of social media behavior is manufactured, staged, and almost always aimed at social signaling, it's only a matter of time before this moves beyond parody and into reality.
Especially since there were (and are) vastly more available books than available shelf space. Online is the only way to get some books.
Is there a GDPR checklist of technical things to do to prevent this from happening to cash-strapped endeavours?
did anyone actually think this wasn't fake?
New AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper product listings leak out
Not to be a Monsanto shill, but:

> [forces patent compliance] even in situations where it is clear Monsanto crops contaminated someone else's field

Can you provide any example of this? The only cases I'm aware of are the likes of Bowman. The supreme court finding in that case makes it pretty clear Monsanto was in the right: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-796_c07d.pdf

> we now have RR weeds, and that is a one way process

No, it is not. This is the same nonsense as people touting antibiotics resistance as a dead-end street. It costs energy for these organisms to maintain resistance. Once you remove the antibiotic, or glyphosate, from the environment, the biologically ideal thing to do is to lose resistance, redirecting that energy to other things that actually serve a purpose.

> I don't need to know the exact mechanism

If you are going to be implying glyphosate causes autism, for some "extra fun" as you say, then you should perhaps reconsider this. Pointing out they've both followed the curve of modern industrial chemistry expansion and implying that correlation to be causative is irresponsible.