skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Continued again...)

I'm still on 5 mg of Adderall and have not noticed any bad side-effects, with the exception that I wake up a couple of times at night, and as long as I don't open my eyes when I'm aware that I just woke up, I promptly go back to sleep. I take 3 to 5 days "off" once every other week, like my Doc advised me to, in order to prevent my tolerance from increasing, and needing more mgs / day.

I do have a couple of friends, in their early 20s, who were diagnosed with ADHD recently, and are on higher doses. They both work for startups in SF, 1 at BitFlyer and another at some SaaS startup in the Workshop Cafe building. They both say that they need it to "get in the zone" and get the gruntwork in startup world done.

I am not aware of widespread use of stimulants like Modafinil or Adderall or Ritalin in the startup world here in SF. But like others have stated, it's somewhat of a tabboo to speak about usage, because, in 1 sense, it "exposes" you and your collegues will never look at you the same way as they'll think you are "cheating" using a "performance enhancer" drug, which in some ways, are what Modafinil , Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants are.
This is not practically doable.

- There is no objective test the police can administer to determine that you're legally over the sleep deprivation limit.

- Unlike drinking, bad sleep is not (always) a choice people make. Many people don't even know they don't sleep well, and people's estimate of how many hours they sleep per night are often astonishingly wrong.
Sure, but that doesn't stop you from seeking the pleasure still. Ever been to a casino? In the worst case we call this behavior addiction.
Not in my country, and I have no intention of hosting this outside these borders which could get me in legal hot water.
> Why does the court even have the option to completely destroy a startup like that?

Supposing 100% of the startup's revenue comes from GDPR violations and they've been doing so for, say, 5 years, then the fine should really be 500% of annual revenue. Or even multiply that by 2 or 3 for punitive purposes. It may or may not destroy the startup, depending on how well funded they are. They could be breaching privacy for reasons other than revenue.
"charge low enough"

For a while I had the idea that I would only charge the rate that I actually required to cover my modest expenses.

I got no offers for any kind of work. Not perm, not contract.

Now that I charge obscene hourly rates I'm getting lots of work.

If you don't charge enough for contract coding potential clients will assume that you are so inexperienced that you are completely unaware of what other contractors are charging.

Use http://salary.com to guide your bid. If you _do_ choose to pursue contract programming, add one-half of your IRS 1040 Schedule SE Self Employment Tax to salary.com's salary then convert it to hourly rates.

But you will also want to pay for your own vacations, medical insurance and the like. Do some research on what kind of benefits your kind of coder receives than add at least that much to salary.com's salary and one-half of your self-employment tax.

(The self employment tax is equal to the sum of the employer and employee contributes to FICA - the social security tax.)

Also take into account the cost of providing your own software and equipment, your advertising and other legitimate business expenses.

All this has the result that contractors appear to be far better paid than are perm employees. If you only charge what I advise above then your take-home pay will be no more than that of the perms.
Not remotely recently, but my friends and I played a lot of NetHack back in the 90s. I Ascended once or twice with no cheating (and with low-to-no use of Elbereth), and had a couple of good runs that could plausibly have worked out but didn't due to either bad fortune or (in one memorable case) very poor life choices involving a Ring of Conflict.

IIRC, we didn't even really read up on anything spoilery until we were getting down to the castle occasionally. Learning to survive the early-game was a journey both fun and frustrating.
Enterprises , especially the big ones would typically have already made significant investments regarding authentication systems and processes. From that perspective,it is not fair to ask them to conform to any service specific authentication models/ processes.
I use it on a Jelly Pro. A $125, 2.something inch phone running a MediaTek 6737 at all of like 1.3GHz with some barely passable GPU.

Scrolls fine. I mean, I'm sure if I went and pulled out a high framerate camera and checked it's running at a mere like 15FPS or something completely unusable, but it's never been bad enough to catch my attention.

And on a really low end phone being able to install uBlock Origin certainly means that Firefox solves a lot more issues than it might potentially create.
With $220k you basically cannot have any full time employees and would need to pay yourself little or nothing (in USA or equivalent).
IP addresses are PII. Your Apache logs with default configuration already are in violation of GDPR if they log visitor's IP addresses.
Yeah it’s tough!

Meditation is a great tool to help deal with the sense that life is meaningless. Good luck - I hope you find your way :)
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I've read it. It's a wonderfully written document on basic human rights and inter-government interaction. As regulation I can code to, it's a goddamn clusterfuck. It's like someone tried to invent TCP/IP but in the middle there's a paragraph that says something like "appropriate networking stuff happens here and data is reliably moved around!".
I don't think you've read the legislation.

Your example "my employer will have to delete records of firing me!" is exactly how the GDPR works.

There are exceptions -e .g. if the firing is now leading to a court case, but they are less than you think.

In an ironic twist, after deleting the data subject's personal information, you must be left with nothing that identifies them, so you don't even know that they have requested this in the past - only that someone exercised their right to erasure (not who).
From the description Streetlend didn’t violate the GDPR in concept though. Addresses are public record, available in public databases, and there is nothing stopping you from doing lending eBay. All it needed to do was clear it’s records every 6 months and let people delete their accounts.

Except this isn’t really true. Streetlend made its money by selling your privacy data to advertisers through Amazon. So when you put up a power drill for lend, people would see power drills for sale at local shops, based on their online presence harvested through stuff like their Facebook account.

The really ironic thing about that this is that streetlab imagined itself “ethical” when it’s entire business model was selling your data...

The GDPR isn’t really that hostile to small business and it doesn’t require an understanding of law. You can hire a data protection officer at a legal firm for almost nothing, and as long as you follow their advice on how to pass audits, you’re really not in trouble.

That being said, the GDPR is really hostile toward startups trying to make money the same way Facebook and Google does. You need to have a massive legal department to do that, and Streetlend obviously did not. But is that really so terrible?

It may call for a new business model for the internet, and that may seem impossible right now. But do you remember when the EU outlawed environmentally shitty lightbuilbs and everyone said we were going dark because it was impossible to do anything else? Today 95% of lightbuilbs are LEDs because of that.

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

*Probably not, going by history.
The work load here isn’t proportional to revenue, it’s proportional to services provided by the organizers - which is extraordinarily minimum. The revenue simply drops in via website that is active only few days a year. I absolutely disagree that any person involved for Burning Man should be full time employee of any kind. I would also not expect any sort of “executives” let alone paid folks for Burning Man when the entire premise of event rests on volunteering. Do you think no one with great qualifications in the world is willing to be volunteer to make a website for Burning Man or be a treasurer for the event?
Exactly.

Try starting an airline with free checked baggage, free meal and more legroom. If your ticket price reflects the added cost you'd be bankrupt in a few months.
Interestingly enough, this study seems to go on the oposite direction as this one from 2002:

- http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/health/sleepstudy.h...

>"individuals who now average 6.5 hours of sleep a night, can be reassured that this is a safe amount of sleep. From a health standpoint, there is no reason to sleep longer."
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Has anyone else noticed a small 'click' when scrubbing to a section of that video where data is being transferred. I'm assuming that's not co-incidental?
Free simple service to debug HTTP Requests (mock endpoint)
Definitely agree that our way of thinking of sleep plays a critical role in how we sleep, i.e. "To fall asleep naturally, as opposed to just crashing into sleep when our wings melt, or knocking ourselves out with alcohol or drugs, we must be willing to do two things. We need to lose our mind – to surrender our waking sense of self. And we need to invoke sleep" from this article entitled "Falling for sleep:
When wakefulness is seen as the main event, no wonder so many have trouble sleeping. Can we rekindle the joy of slumber?" on Aeon (https://aeon.co/essays/the-cure-for-insomnia-is-to-fall-in-l...).
Also question how would they know who owns the company? I don't think US Gov would easily give out info on US company to foreign country or Union for such no-crime related abuse.
Square is acquiring website builder Weebly for $365M
whats messed up is that they now have the website redirected towards france.fr
Why numbering should start at zero? – By Dijkstra [pdf]
I understand that the compactness is a feature, and I don’t have any gripes with the symbolic notation personally, I just think a more verbose notation might avoid turning people off too early. By starting from familiar territory, you can get people accustomed to a new style of thinking before switching to a more compact syntax. Lots of new programming languages borrow syntax from familiar mainstream languages in order to reduce friction for beginners and experts alike.

Heck, as long as we’re on the subject, I’d take a symbolic notation that used small icons or emoji as a sort of middle ground—at least then they might be more mnemonic. For instance, there’s nothing about ↑ that suggests “take” to me, or ⍉ “transpose”, but I’d have a good guess at what these icons mean, and they could remain legible at fairly small sizes:

├───┤
┌─┬─┬─┬─┬─┬─┐
│A│A│B│B│B│B│
└─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┘

┌─┬─┬─┐ ┌─┬─┐
│A│A│A│ │A│B│
├─┼─┼─┤ ├─┼─┤
│B│B│B│ │A│B│
└─┴─┴─┘ ├─┼─┤
│A│B│
└─┴─┘

(Where A and B are different colours/shades—shade characters don’t appear to work on HN.)
I'd shut it down. It sounds like you do not believe it is working. And tech B2B tradeshows is not a very good business anyway. Founders get to work on literally ==any== problem or business they want to. There's little reason to work on a bad product.
I don't know how the legal system works in the US (I'm starting to think not very well), but that's not how it works. The process in the UK is something along the lines of the court will assess means to pay, then a fine will be levied. I wouldn't expect any business to go bust as a result. They might go bust from the bad press causing a mass exodus of customers, they might get to look extremely stupid, they might find themselves tight for the forthcoming year.

> Where are you getting this ludicrous assumption that the law won't apply the maximum fine

They have never yet applied the maximum in 20 years of the current DPA, why presume they're itching to start next month? This makes no sense to me.

Under the DPA 1998 the largest fine was issued in 2016, to a multi million pound company. £400k, so still only 80% of the maximum. Look to precedent across the entire EU.
funny how in the top stories in HN at the moment there is another article about the dangers of not getting enough sleep.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954079

though maybe don't read it if you want to try this one.
What is email marketing?
Is there any human who can read binary code 01011010010110101101
without take psychedelic??

steve jobs, bill gates, elon mask, john lennon ,thom yorke , genious everybody took lsd, everybodys junkie.

lsd make human robotize that push our technolody towards future
I mean, that's a valid strategy. As long as you're ok with potentially being the first company to get absolutely smoked by it.
You don't necessarily need a screenshot, a copy of the webpage the user saw would IMO be sufficient.

You need to be able to show the user agreed and what they agreed to exactly. A screenshot might do that but might also not be sufficient (if there is more text elsewhere on the signup process related to privacy)
That's a common misconception of how dopamine works.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2017...
Its a big deal. Sleep deprived people make mistakes and cause more accidents than normal. There is a minimum need to sleep and the body will try to take a nap, microsleep or just give up(blackout)...and some people consider it okay.
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I remember reading somewhere that if you're driving after being awake for over 24 hours it's the equivalent of driving with a 0.08 BAC (the legal limit in many countries).

I've done long haul driving while sleep deprived before, and I can believe it (not that I've driven while drunk to compare). I've done 9 hours of driving on 1 hour of sleep, fuelling myself with energy drinks and blasting the air conditioning on cold to keep me awake. In retrospect, not the best judgement, but I had my reasons at the time.
I can shutdown my site at any given moment, citing attack from Mars. And? I think that GDPR was just an excuse, if this would be a booming bussiness, he wouldn't have problem adjusting to GDPR.
Yeah the author actually came out with a physical book that he published with springer. It’s linked here [1]. I believe it’s the same book just with extra materials.

[1]: https://cses.fi/book.html
Pivot to a new idea or try to shop your team around for a small acquisition so you can pay your investors back. Even if you guys don't have a valuable product per say, you might have a valuable team.
I’m sorry, I have a great deal of difficulty believing this.

there are essentially no situations in which GDPR compliance should be particularly onerous. The principles are pretty simple, and while it will take some time until there is clarity on edge cases, most actions required should be straigtforward.

I’d be fascinated to know what product you build that is so inextricably tied to user data that it will cost “millions” to comply.
I find it hilarious that so many think 'its ok to force 70page read for every developer because look what Facebook did'. But at the same time if anyone read the EULA of Facebook when you signed up, then you would have known precisely the risks of sharing your data with Facebook. They hid absolutely nothing from view. Chew on that for a bit.
While not “automatically applied,” what part of what you linked to says they won’t use their discretion to assess the maximum penalty in most situations? What stops them?
Typically the law in this country has been to impose relatively small fines for malicious communications, and even these are sometimes dropped on appeal, as with the Twitter Joke Trial. The WaPo has it wrong in this instance - Britain isn't Thailand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial?wprov=sfl...
My mum always taught me this, and I've always found it works.

Simply lying/relaxing in bed for an hour or two can leave you feeling surprisingly refreshed.
What a frigging boondoggle that thing is. I'm disgusted that we've spent so much money fiddle-frigging around on it. At best it's a technological dead end - manned aircraft in the roles envisioned for it will seem increasingly silly in the coming years.
But 20 million is possible right? Even for a small offence? Where in the actual text of the law does it say that they will never impose the maximum fine for a trivial or minor offence?

It actually doesn’t say that. This law has the effect of small business essentially needing a 20 million insurance policy to protect against the possible whims of an overzealous regulator? It’s either insure yourself for 20 million or risk losing your entire business over potentially a trivial matter.

When people in the UK have been jailed 8 months over traffic cameras or prosecuted and jailed for speech, I wouldn’t give a European government the benefit of any doubt. Willingly inviting an unelected regulator, accountable to nothing but the letter of a badly written law created by another unelected government body — that’s just foolish.
Webserver logs are totally fine since you need them for information security (ie, finding out who has been spamming your webserver with requests), just use the default NGINX settings, in most distros that means deleting old logs automatically.
>"To give security"

Missing an /s? The expected value of my Fidelity account is >$0, which is more than I can say for Social Security or public pensions in almost any state.
Basically because their peak usage hours don’t overlap as much as US-East and US-West.
Easy: T-Mobile will probably take Sprint's customers, transition them to GSM/LTE phones, and then throw away Sprint's network. I figure that takes about 2 years to make happen. Why should this have any effect on the new entity's investment on its (T-Mobile's) network?
That’s the weirdest thing. What do the law mean with a “screenshot of the form”
GDPR isn’t concerned about intent at all — which is why it is a well-meaning, but horribly written law.
This is untrue from my experience of interacting and be part of several non-profits. Most of these non-profits have actual executives from well known companies in similar positions contributing their time to be unpaid volunteer. Great non-profits I know have largely unpaid executive staff. When I see non-profits with significantly paid executive staff, my heart sinks and I would rather stay away from them. More often than not these are pseudo non-profits exploiting holes in the tax laws and essentially getting tax free revenues to pay themselves.

Fun fact: several racial supremists, left as well as right extremists personalities don’t actually have full time jobs. They are typically head of some “non-profit” created specifically for them where rich people can donate money and they get this money as salary to “run” the non-profit.
> And finally the UK will probably always adhere to the GDPR, member of EU or not, otherwise it will be at a massive disadvantage for tech companies dealing with Europe.

I really don't see how this is the case. A small website will be going after product market fit, then they can scale and do compliance. Not adhering to GDPR means your websites can always become compliant later.

To put it another way, Facebook and Google started in the US. Any founder in the EU might consider moving to the US first, getting product market fit before worrying about GDPR compliance, then get compliance once you know your product is good and you aren't just throwing that work away.
I think you're starting to get the point of the GDPR, yes.
you can

A) increase the price, without knowing your product, you have market fit, it could be because of the pricing, or it could be because of the product.

B) Offer 3mo/6mo/full year bundle w/ light discount, this way you can increase cash flow up front to use to get to your next growth target.
A point of fact though — PCI isn’t a law, it’s a voluntary standard.
By "shady business model", I mean something like "business model dependent on breaking the GDPR". Facebook seems almost surely still profitable while complying, just not quite so spectacularly so. Many e.g. data brokers probably aren't. Their choice then becomes to disappear or go offshore. I think many will choose the latter. American extraterritorial enforcement of its financial laws is the most successful example of such enforcement that I know, and it's still easy to fund an online poker account.

I'd agree that the GDPR is designed for large companies, and will genuinely improve their behavior. I think its effects will be similar e.g. to American cities with very strong and complex tenant protections--we create a class of large, politically-connected operators with the resources to comply, and a class of shady operators one step ahead of the law. There's little in between--if you lack the resources to be absolutely certain you comply, and the punishments for large and small noncompliance are both catastrophic, then you might as well go all the way. (Yes, I expect the regulators to mostly exercise reasonable discretion. No, I don't want the discretion of a mid-level bureaucrat to be the only thing between me and financial ruin.) That part doesn't seem positive to me.

Aside: I wonder how many people promoting heavy-handed enforcement of data protection laws without regard for the second-order consequences have argued against heavy-handed enforcement of drug laws without regard for the second-order consequences...
I don't know how the US Postal Service works, but I still can receive and send sensitive personal information through the US Mail without any real concern that it will fall into the wrong hands. For a variety of reasons, digital communications have never felt as secure. I think a lot of that is
due to the lack of legal consequences in the digital realm relative to those in the physical realm (i.e. snail mail.)
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Encrypting all user data doesn’t get you out of the gdpr if you hold the key to decrypt the data.
You don't look quite midlife and going travelling a year seems quite a sensible thing to do. Americans seem to regard a year off as more of a crisis than the rest of the world where it's kind of normal.
All he said was that he hadn't known them to. If they were and didn't tell him, that explains that.
Gawker?
Lack of foresight is not a virtue, it is a bug.
Is it truly a WORM store that cannot delete any data ever never? If so, you'll need to encrypt the data in a way that allows you to make records inaccessible.

If the WORM store rotates out old data (webserver logs, tape backups with retention and rotation, etc.) then you simply inform the user of that and that's it.
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>because one employee suing you or your rent increasing will also cause you to collapse.

Yes, these are well-known causes of company collapse, so well-known that we have entire industries mitigating the risk (multi-year leases at fixed rate, shell corporations renting (see: wework), and temporary contractor/agency staffing). We don't have that for GDPR yet.
Nerds operate on technicalities, many laws operate on best effort and in-faith. It is extremely easy to to be in compliance with GDPR

1. Try
2. Do it
3. Keep Doing it
So we are just supposed to hope that they will be nice to us when inevitable violations occur under one of the 28 unique interpretations that this law will be subject to?
Australia couldn't be more eager to spend tens of billions on this white elephant.

But of course anything the U.S. says is good for Australia just has to be, right?

We'd have been better off spending billions buying anti ship missiles.
Indeed. If the job was implementing algorithms on bare metal then bring it on! That job sounds like a lot of fun!

But those kinds of questions make zero sense and have zero value if the job is actually implementing CRUD apps in a high level language. You might as well quiz candidates on their assembly language skills too, for a Python job...

So there is obviously an ulterior motive.