skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no doubt that Trump is the temporary protest vote, but nationalism is on the rise everywhere. Before WWII America was perfectly fine minding its own business, and it might be dangerous to plan for their internationalism to recover post Trump.
Wouldn't all the heroin harden the junkie to the effects of heroin? ;)
I use it as my main browser on a phone that was mid-range when it was released 2 1/2 years ago, and I've been pretty happy with it.
As I a small kid, I remember my grandmother gave me her ZX Spectrum, and my father helped set it up with a tape recorder so we I could make copies of games, and one of his friends gave me a book of programs you could write, and my neighbour's teenage son introduced me to some of the 'good' games (I was too young to be a discerning gamer), and other kids my age would come round to play it. That's a lot of inter-generational fun from this little computer. Sometimes also we just used it as a prop in make-believe adventures.
"One could use the same kind of saying-nothing responses to all kinds of posts or papers."

You misunderstand.

If you know the name of the concept you can search for more information.

If you read the section on "But a coroutine is also like a variable" you'll see the author is struggling with how to represent coroutines. Closure conversion deals with representation.
Cherow ecma parser 1.4 landed
Cherow v. 1.4 is a total rewrite and offers:

-20kb smaller code size than acorn minified and 60 kb smaller than Esprima

- twice as fast as both acorn and Esprima except for JSX parsing. Here is Cherow 3x faster than Acorn.

- full support for Stage 3 proposals

- jsx through option

- Modular

And more...

Why another parser? Simply because existing parsers have many issues with them:

- Acorn is the most commonly used tool out there because of its support for recent ES standards, but it's slow and it often is too permissive in what it accepts. It's also not optimized for handheld devices.

- Esprima is a little faster than Acorn, but it's almost never updated, and their test suite has too many invalid tests. It also doesn't support recent ES standards.

- Babylon is highly coupled to Babel, and is comparatively very slow and buggy, and failing to correctly handle even stable ECMAScript standard features.

None of these parsers would fare any chance against the official Test262 suite, and most fail a substantial number of them.

Cherow v. 1.4 is not perfect, but address most of this issues. Still there are room for improvements.

1 main dev and 2 other devs behind Cherow sharing same nick.

All issues will be solved within 1 hour from the moment we get notified.

You don't have to wait couple of days or 3 years before your issue is fixed.

URL: https://github.com/cherow/cherow
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This has been discussed so many times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661323

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834240
Here in the US you mostly see fluorescent energy saving bulbs, even though incandescent bulbs are widely available in the pharmacies and in the supermarkets. And that is because they are cheaper to operate: the market decided that, rather than a regulator.

>Startups will find a way to make money that isn’t selling your data.

It's hard to argue with statements like that. What if they don't? There are plenty of startups providing extremely valuable or fun services (like flightradar24 for example) that are supported by ads. After GM, Ford and Chrystler there were basically no successful auto startups in the US for 70 years.
This regulation makes life for startups disproportionately harder than for Google and FB that already have an army of EU lawyers on payroll.
>Sue you for what?

For having an unfair competitive advantage over competitors who properly follow the law. This is a well-known tactic to get rid of competitors or just companies you don’t like.
I love this article. It makes so much sense, applies to other areas and bucks the current trend or micro managing yourself.

Imagine what telling someone who suffers from anxiety that they suffer from anxienty does!
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If IPs aren’t personal because more than one person can have them, how is the name John Smith a piece of personal information? Anyone can have that name and a lot of people do have that name.
I've found that if I get up and write down my thoughts, afterwards I'll be able to sleep. I just write whatever I'm thinking at the moment. Sometimes I end up with some very interesting insights by doing this. After an hour or so, I feel a change in my mental state where I become more significantly more relaxed and less stressed. When I go back to bed I sleep like a baby.
Yes, I have read it, although I am not a lawyer. Have you? Because the exceptions include "necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are collected or otherwise processed", and avoiding re-hire of a bad employee seems pretty related to the purpose of identifying employees in the first place. If you have professional legal advice to the contrary I would definitely be interested in knowing more.
It depends on a lot of things. Do you need the money? What will you do with it, and how the will the value of your share of the pie compare with/without investment.
> The GDPR is made to protect people from scrupleless companies and practices.

This ignores the vast amount of legislation that creates an enormous legal burden for small companies.

> Not all companies are good citizen (Cambridge Analytics comes to mind), and as a european I say "Good riddance".

Not all companies in violation of GDPR are bad or negligent.

> For normal companies doing normal things with their data, the effort is mostly documentation and good-willed "try to abide the rules".

> If you followed the spirit of the pre-GDPR rules, you would almost certainly be compliant without much work even for the GDPR - at least here in Denmark.

Until someone sues you and you have to prove that.

> But if you business is exploiting data, you collected with questionable methods - then yes, you are going to have a problem...

Quite often, data can be both in the "public interest" (not the definition legally defined by GDPR, just that there's no reasonable expectation of privacy by the data creator) and "expoiting" -- such as data derived from pseudonymous sources but could be argued as PII, even though practically speaking, it isn't really.

> I would also like to see the graveyard site, mostly because I would then have something to point to when showing that the GDPR works as intented...

Most of the sites I've seen that are dead-by-GDPR are small businesses that weren't doing anything any reasonable person would be against, but a single takedown request could be over-burdening for them to respond to as it may have merits by the letter of the law.
It's perfectly fine on my Moto X Play.
This pleasantly reminds me of faders for chat programs like AIM :)
> This has been possible in functional and "expression" languages since forever, and it's considered a very good practice.

Really? Can you show an example?
Do you prosecute your friend and aqaintances for uploading pictures of you to Instagram/fb etc? Block all tracking script/pixels on the Web? Avoid using the phone in order to not generate meta-data?

I'm not sure how it's "easy to avoid sharing identifiable data"?
yes, but here in the southern hemisphere, there is no recognised "pole star" - mag 5.47 isn't at all bright enough to be counted

Instead we navigate by using the southern cross to find the south celestial pole
How does a culture have different sleep needs?
Wouldn't it be better for most small businesses if EU required a kind of "GDPR certification" that comes with its own audits? That might contain potential predatory law suits?

On the practical front,how would a product like google docs that offers collaborative editing deal with "forget me"? If I edited someone else's document, would Google (or whoever) be obliged to contact the co-authors to request that edits be removed? ... or should they do that automatically? What's expected to happen to the version history of these documents?
> We're getting the to point of exoplanet discovery where you can find a star with your eyes, know which one it is, and check to see how many planets orbit it.

Fomalhaut is a great example. Occasionally I'll take people out for sky tours, and when Fomalhaut is visible I mention to them that not only is that star extraordinarily close (25 ly), but that it has planets that we've actually imaged in photographs!
Yes. sadly, I think this is spot on. I started noticing this trend with PEP 498 (Php like string interpolation). One can only hope it won't ever become so bad...
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It just means that to get the same pleasure you need more dopamine.
>In 2010, he penned a tribute to Amazon’s engineers ... The tone was just right, neither disingenuously geeky nor overtly tongue-in-cheek.

I'd love to see a similarly graceful and well-penned tribute from Bezos to the workers who routinely collapse from exhaustion in his fulfilment warehouses (1), before they are swiftly replaced by another Oompa Loompa who will scrape just above minimum wage if they make their hourly dispatch target.

(1) https://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-warehouse-like-pri...
This was the second example I've seen today of a smaller website deciding it is easier to shut down parts of their website, rather than attempt compliance with GDPR. (The other was StreetLend, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306 )

In this case, it affects me directly as a regular reader of Alastair's blog. I got notifications of new posts via his email list, but he is deleting the MailChimp mailing list because GDPR requires him to delete everyone anyway and re-opt-in under new GDPR consent (even though the list was already double/confirmed opt-in).

He's also deleting the entire Wordpress blog comment history, because it is easier to delete everything than to individually contact all the commenters and ask them to provide new explicit GDPR consent for previously posted comments.
Southwest has two out of three though. Just no free meal.
That seems backwards; with a data agreement between you and the saas - the saas takes on much of the liability for the day to day (eg: making sure data is actually deleted - from backups as well).
Ok, let's assume your aircraft succeeded to gain air superiority, now you need to do actual bombing of enemy territory with air defense. What now? F-35 has some edge by being stealthy. It can track and target moving targets, it can do CAS. Will your fragile aircraft survive in such conditions?
Until they have that pig and hut that doesn't leak. Look at the typical poor in the US just a matter of decades ago. No indoor plumbing, no electricity, certainly no air conditioning, etc, etc. Flour and feed sacks would even come with patterns and designs on them. The reason is that people were regularly fashioning clothes out of those sacks and the companies saw it as a selling point. Many of these things we really can't even imagine today.

But of course people are not suddenly content. When the standard of living changes people take it for granted and then seek more. It's not a bad thing. This never-ending desire for more is undoubtedly a big part of the evolutionary drive that's brought us to where we are, but it also means people will never be content. Describe the life of the poor today to people from not all that long ago and it would seem like we live in a utopia - air conditioning, electric toys, color television, cars, regular access to food, indoor plumbing? But of course we see things quite differently! And I expect in a few hundred years we'd see the lives of the poor of that time as something like utopia, but they too will undoubtedly see things quite differently! Man's nature is a great and awful thing!
People that say this have not actually read the law, talked to “experts” about how to comply, or attempted to comply themselves. I have, and you’re just flat wrong.
I just had this insight yesterday! And now there is a thread on this.

I have been trying meditation/mindulness for a while. So, I have been trying to meditate before sleeping, relaxing my muscles. And sometimes it worked, sometimes it dint.

Yesterday I had an epiphany that I might be grasping for relaxation while trying to follow my mindful and muscle relaxation exercises. So, all I did was forget about muscle relaxation and just laid there, falling asleep in 5 minutes.
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Reading the synopsis, it seems his thesis is that free markets require a government to provide a legal framework for property rights and justice. That is correct.

When people cannot own property, and/or there is no enforcement of property rights and contractual obligations, there's little to no economic progress.
https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...

Not saying anything else so I don't spoil it.
Submarines usually don't have good radar, so they can't lock on difficult air targets.
Awesome. For those considering exploring some of these steps in their own garage -- the chemistry is dangerous, perhaps HF in particular, as it doesn't hurt, it just kills you a few hours later.

Can you do this in a garage? Absolutely, but learn everything you need to know from an ensemble of safety-minded mentors before you strike out on your own.

It's not just about safety for you, proper disposal of these chemicals is essential for the many generations to come. Sometimes it is inexpensive, sometimes it is costly. You need to know how before you start, or it costs a lot more.

(Also, you can get someone else to pay for the hardware, the infrastructure, the material, the resists, the reagents, the safety training, and the waste disposal if you work/volunteer at a university's photolithography facility. They'll probably pay you, too.)
Here's a story for you.

I'm a hobby developer. I once made a tool mostly for myself, but decided to put it online. A couple thousand people use it, and it runs at a loss but I keep it up mostly because it's useful to some people out there. My tiny website isn't hurting anyone or breaking the internet the way Facebook or Google may be. To claim that having to spend my hobby time implementing a bunch of extra features is just "complying with the law" is bullshit, I'm sorry. In terms of scale, it's basically as if I forced you to do full safety test on a toy car you made for your kid, just because GM cars had safety issues.

And I'm not special. There are plenty of other small devs like me with thousands of small niche web tools out there, most of which are ran purely as a hobby, out of our own pocket. I may not make a blog post and get it to the top of HN, but devs like us have 0 incentive to keep our sites online.

HN loves to complain about things like AMP killing the web, but to me this is orders of magnitude worse.
Ya, but good luck traveling to europe ever again.
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where's the vertical scrollbar? :<
Of course they are underpaid.

The math is pretty simple. There is a teacher shortage such that states like OK, UT, and AZ have passed laws that let schools hire teachers without formal training.

I don't think anyone believes that the teachers have been able to restrict the supply of new teachers (eg, in the way that doctors have been able to restrict the supply of new doctors in the US).

Thus, the overall compensation must be too low.

"Compensation" is not just salary but also insurance and retirement benefits, as well as more nebulous concepts like "respect".
I don't think it was exactly the same engine, and Grasshopper didn't have 9 engines, it had one. The engines are a surprisingly large mass fraction of a dry first stage.
If they invest in European compnies and have European LPs then they certainly do.
if your business isn’t viable without respecting some basic privacy rules, you should not be in business - big or small.

> What if people just accepted responsibility for carelessly handing out information to third parties?

Without being legally compelled to, few companies have been forthcoming about providing users with information about what they are disclosing and when. Consent is being given, but not informed consent.
Wake up 4 hours after sleeping. If I tell myself to just stay in bed, I fall asleep again and get a full rest. So, there's some truth to it.
Some friends and I joked about something similar as a service - We would run secure Android VMs to spoof GPS coordinates & camera inputs, which would allow you to checkin & submit content to social media apps - all to achieve unprecedented levels of humble bragging.
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SpaceX totally 'flies' the first stage, but as a cylinder with gridfins it can't shed that much velocity due to aerodynamics.
I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I would like to share some experience. If you're applying for a job at the right level, you've been upfront about your experience throughout the process and your Github is impressive, your resume should only be a formality, unless it has some massive red flags.

Have you ever had a brutal editor (preferably someone you barely know) read over your resume and give you some feedback? You might be surprised by the results!
I've been thinking a lot about the merits of the (highest income / median income) ratio in creating a society that is a little more resistant to eventual inequality. Rather than setting absolute tax brackets, what if we define tax brackets by this ratio? That way, it will be in the interest of the highest income earners to raise the median income.
>Psychiatrist

>Claims LSD, "fries" the serotonin production network in the brains and destroys neurons permanently.

>Prescribes speed

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.”
― Philip K. Dick
HN is the content marketing platform for YC which makes a lot of money.
All we need to do is put a bell on the cat!

Several thousand armed people acting in concert without detection?

The Australian military would also still exist even if such a thing could be done.

Not to mention that then landing ships in Sydney and Melbourne would not be allowed by the US.

The Australian populace wouldn't just take it either.
The same is true for the features we're talking about, though. The relationship between the library developers and its users is a social problem, not a programming problem. There's nothing technical that prevents you from changing a non-sealed/virtual/etc API, it's just that you don't want to have people who didn't read or ignored the documentation complaining that their code broke.
Good to hear from good ol' Gasse! whenever he is mentioned I can't help but remember this quote of his:

"We must always give our users pure sex. It's like a rendezvous in the back seat of an automobile with a beautiful girl. One's experience with the personal computer should be better than the greatest orgasm you could have."
A couple moments though:

Google and Facebooks manoeuvring to adapt to the GDPR give a clear road map of the legal requirements. Bluntly, they're not that bad, and they're better for a new startup who can adapt to them from the ground up than an established venture who has to find new ways to make money.

The reporting requirements of the GDPR can be large, but for most companies most of the time you're dealing with a relatively unchallenging piece of legislation. Most of the requirements are just to be able to explain what happens with user data and handle sporadic deletion requests. Loosely connected, separately stored, IDs are the solution to this (pseudonymization). It's a different style of development, but far from tricky. That's systems development, not legal.

This is a legitimate threat to startups reselling user data and overly friendly web-tracking solutions, yeah. To them I say "boo-hoo". For the rest of us? IT regulation with legal teeth is a promising indicator for IT companies. There are more of "them" than there are of "us", and if our legal issues are getting play that means our salesmen will also get play.
> a community strengthening, environmentally positive, socially worthwhile website like Streetlend

If Streetlend were even remotely as you described, they would have easily made enough money to defend itself against the government - all in glorious free market fashion. All hail supply side Jesus! Oh wait, it's tiny operation making a pittance in revenue. Whoopsie!

Thankfully, this is the 21st century and Western society has long ago decided that it'd rather have "the government" destroy individuals with a system of courts to appeal to rather than let anyone do whatever they wanted. Thanks Obama.
I don’t know why you are downvoted since your comment is a well formed addition to the discussion.

I upvoted you and I am seeing this on HN more often now. That people would use downvote as a signal of disagreement.
For a website that proclaims the importance of getting the word out, I didn’t see any description of what this “sovereign money” proposal actually is. What is being proposed and why?
What on earth are you doing that could cause a problem?

If what you're doing could cause a problem I'm pretty sure I'd rather you didn't without the ability to deal with it.
.. bows head, humbly.
Absolutely. But at the same time I think most people have a fundamentally incorrect view of society. If we just break those classes into rich/middle/poor we have in a very short period of time (1979 to 2014) gone from:

- rich: 13% -> 31.2%

- middle: 38.8% -> 32%

- poor: 48.2% -> 36.9%

There has been a major migration of people upwards in society. The poor are becoming middle class and the middle class are becoming rich. I think most people instead think society is remaining stagnant with all the wealth going to the same people, even more incorrectly that society is becoming more poor except for a small handful of people.

We are doing some things seriously right. You would never imagine this from how things like inequality are normally framed. Like mentioned I certainly didn't. I found this study looking to confirm my bias that society was actually deteriorating (or at best stagnating) socioeconomically. The problem is that is utterly and absolutely wrong!
Are you sure? The initial post was about .dev being HSTS-preloaded, but the comment I was replying to was an answer to the suggestion that they could use self-signed certificates after importing them to the trust store.
@matthewmacleod GDPR in spirit is good for users as it tries to ensure that companies are following good practices wrt user data and users have control over data. But implementing it completely is not easy for small projects and startups.