skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure the ranking algorithm includes points / time. In my experience a story that gets 3+ votes in the first 60 minutes will appear on the front page with a short half life that extends as it gets more votes.
iOS won't let an app keep a socket open very long once it's out of the foreground. (In generally backgrounding on iOS is unreliable. It's a double-edged sword: it keeps rogue or badly written apps from burning down your battery.) People who do a lot of SSHing generally use something like screen on a remote host.

(Actually, using something like Blink and mosh seems like a better idea. See some of the comments below.)
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

There ya go. You sucker can keep downvoting facts as you wish, reality won’t care.
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How would you anonymise an IPv4 address? Hashing isn't enough, because that would be easy to brute force. And you can't create a table mapping IPs to anonymized-IPs, because then you are still storing them.
Can the average lawyer get rich off this?

Can lawyer A (who is not affiliated with the EU government) sue Company B on behalf of the users and get a payday?

For reference, I read a thread where a guy in my town sues businesses for violating the ADA and the settlement is like loser must fix steps and pay plaintiff some compensation. Maybe its this story or maybe its another guy: http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-landlord-wins-case-agains... , actually I think its this guy
http://www.startribune.com/doctor-lawyer-wheelchair-user-it-...
This is kind of my thinking too. I would think that you could just boil down the requirements for what the system needs to do and just build that rather than bothering to wade through the COBOL and translating it. I would also think the resulting code would be far smaller than the legacy COBOL, probably by an order of magnitude or more.
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Here is how you can state it without ambiguity:

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Do they actually see a card number? Anyway, I have a couple and I have a habit of losing/breaking those as well. I'm just really bad at holding on to cards it seems
You don't have to be outsmart the bear, just outsmart the guy next to you.

Bearcoin anyone?
You can do non-targetted ads without explicit consent as far as I understand. You only need it for the extra personal information use. Sure it's a bit worse for the publishers. (But I'm happy with that)
IMO "side-effect free" is always a statement constrained by the operating level of abstraction. Logging is not an effect at the level of the application, but rather some subset of it's context (system, db).

I love that term and am going to use it as much as possible
"These discussions are not very useful, because they are based anecdotal evidence."

This is true of practically every comment on this site!
I'm not seeing how this is an issue with the browser as much as the server handling the request. Safari provides a feature that shows thumbnails of frequently visited sites; these thumbnails are loaded with a header specifying its for a preview. It's on the server to understand that a GET request _by definition_ should not have side effects (like toggling the open/closed state of a door), and optionally to perform special handling when seeing the preview header.
Heh, I'd say that it's even worse than "misunderstanding".

Besides honest misunderstanding, there's so much FUD being spread by people on HN who are afraid that their greedy data manipulation plan for a startup has been completely foiled...

So much FUD that you definitely feel sometimes that the comments are straight out of http://n-gate.com/

Caricaturizing (a bit):

"HN1: The GDPR takes away our freedom to make tons of money from your private data! Dirty EU commies and their superstate imposing their law worldwide!

HN2: The law doesn't apply worldwide and it protects my privacy. Just block users which are geographically in the EU. Also, read the law, it's only 60 page and more readable than most RFCs.

HN2: Nah, I'm good, I'll just rely on internet FUD as my main source of info. Dirty EU commie bureaucrats!"

PS: Obviously not all comments are misguided, but good God, there's soooooo many which miss the mark by a mile...
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It's possible to be idempotent without being side-effect free. If you PUT some record, for example, then that operation _will_ have side effects (modifying the record). If you then PUT that same data again, the result will be the same (it's idempotent).
I think that B is going to be very difficult, if not impossible, for Uber/Lyft to overcome. The act of driving is the core business operation for ride-sharing companies; it’s the fundamental means by which they create value. I can’t see a good argument for how that could possibly fall outside of their “normal variety”.
So apple removes a part that costs less then a cent and gets you to purchase $180 headphones? I don't mean to be snarky, by having to swap adapters and no option from Apple to charge and use headphones at the same time irritates me. My iPhone 7 might force me back to android after really liking my iPhone 6.
It is a problem to have x million lines of COBOL that no one can support, or even wants to learn to support for less than 200k.
I guess the key is just to look for anything from 1923.
And given that it was in an old dusty bottle packed away deep, it may have concentrated over time due to evaporation.
> because lazy web developers did not implement it right

No, because the legislators fundamentally misunderstood cookies. Almost any website needs to have some basic tracking of users for fraud detection, bot detection, and yes, basic analytics.

Instead of writing out a thoughtful approach, we get a mandatory nag screen right up there with "This product is known to cause cancer in the state of California" on anything sold ever. Users ignore them because the information isn't useful - infinite noise, no signal.

This is the opposite of the CAN SPAM law which did have thoughtful requirements - allowing exceptions for account related emails, requiring one-click unsubscribe but also giving systems a period to obey that to handle mail already in transit.

GDPR has so far been grossly in the cookie nag screen category, except instead of a tiny bar on visiting a page I get a multi-select based dialog of doom. The answer most companies are going to take is simply not market services to folks in the EU, and those that do will implement annoying nag screens.

More rules blindly applied rarely solves problems.
AT&T was offering symmetric 100mb for $40 and gigabit for $80 in my Indianapolis suburb.<br>I understand it still has a cap of 1TB if I'm not mistaken. I guess they waive it if you use Uverse TV or directTV.
In most countries, extradition requires that you’re being charged with a crime in another country with something for which you could also be charged in your current country, and which carries a one year prison sentence. If you’re not breaking the law in America, you have nothing to worry about. (This is at least the case for the UK-US treaty - I’ve not verified for other treaties, but I’d highly doubt the US would agree to a treaty with anyone which requires them to extradite anyone for something that isn’t a crime in the US.)

Of course, if you ignore the EU repeatedly, you’re going to be stuck if you ever want to expand to the EU, or have any assets there ever. That’s about all they can do.
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Several ways, including congestion taxes and more public transportation options, like it's been pointed out.

But, also, a 50% increase in housing supply means higher density of population, with higher buildings instead of single family homes and therefore more comercial space in large populated areas, meaning more jobs will be at walking/biking/short-bus-ride distance.
In the UK contractors tend to get hired as temporary stop gaps at a much higher rate than perms (like double).

Either to cover a need for a project that won't last long term or to fill the demand for more fingers on keyboards right now.

Is that not how the US uses them? Then again UK programmers seem to earn much less than US programmers. Outside London it's like £50k for a senior dev ($70k?).
CVE-2018-7185 protocol engine in ntp bef. 4.2.8p11 allows a remote attackers DoS
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Because big dense cities like NY are affordable?
For those cases there is an adapter included. About that last part - it's kinda what I think actually. In most cases you can rent a car if you really need _a car_, or choose other options otherwise.
I got just the thing for you:

https://gist.github.com/hraban/10c7f72ba6ec55247f2d

Every time you write some code you need to remember removing before commit, surround it with a comment containing "NOCOMMIT". With this script as a pre-commit hook, git will echo an error message and fail.

E.g.:

print("debug: ", myval)

becomes:

print("debug: ", myval) # NOCOMMIT

I end up relying on this every day I program. Can't go back.
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Who is Will?
I think Richard & team have planned to develop & test the entire ecosystem with the 8 companies first then MIT license it or something. Also, Jian Yang...
I see the author's viewpoint, but I'm not sure I agree. When I touch the page of a book, I'm interacting with the book, not the text; the exception is if I'm using some kind of writing instrument (pencil, highlighter, etc).

The current model allows you to mostly interact with the Kindle as you would a book - a light touch anywhere on the visual field (i.e. the page) flips in that direction. However, you can also leverage the added functionality that the Kindle provides, which is indeed the text interaction.

However, I mainly use this for looking up unfamiliar words, rather than for highlighting. I agree that the current system is unsuitable for highly-interactive reading, such as by jotting notes in the margins, highlighting passages, circling words, and so on. On the other hand, I suspect that this type of highly-engaged reading is the exception, not the rule, and that for most of the Kindle's audience, they would no more "interact" with the text of their book than they would if it were printed.

If the primary argument is on the "surprising-ness" of the UI, that could be handled in the same way that Nook did when they first switched to a touchscreen, by overlaying regions on the screen to teach users where to tap. Then, once they were familiar with the behavior, they could turn it off. This is not ideal, as it reduces the legibility of the text, which I'm sure is why this is probably not the default.

Anyway, an engaging read nonetheless, and I'm certainly ready to be proven wrong by a new interaction model that works better. This could definitely be a case of "I want a faster horse" behavior on my part.
Except every single website just has a banner anyways because it's easier to cover your back then get legal involved every time you tweak something. So it has no meaning at all, in any way, except it's very confusing to some users.
And:

> Your company is service provider based outside the EU. It provides services to customers outside the EU. Its clients can use its services when they travel to other countries, including within the EU. Provided your company doesn't specifically target its services at individuals in the EU, it is not subject to the rules of the GDPR.

(emphasis mine)
WhatsApp cofounder Jan Koum is leaving Facebook after clashing over data privacy
The thing about most old COBOL is that there is very little shared code. There are things called "copybooks" which are snippets that get copied into your program at compile time, but they are not "shared" code. So you have much less chance of affecting anything else when you change a COBOL program. Most are written to perform a single transaction or generate a single report or screen, and are entirely self-contained.
They could potentially argue that their core business is creating a marketplace where riders can find drivers and not the driving itself. That would classify the office workers as employees and the drivers as contractors.
DSA-4185-1 openjdk-8 security updates
Unless you actually maintain full payment account numbers, PCI compliance pretty much boils down to "I pinky-swear I'm not doing anything wrong" and the rules have virtually no teeth.
> What would happen if you make the circle in the code bigger?

More precision?
I was using freeNX, x2go is better. Nomachine is a paid product, it's head and shoulders better then VNC. You didn't experience that?
The newer (non OSS) version supports UDP streams for media. It's free to use, but I've not tested it since it limits the number of users and I can stream ok with X2go.
I just thought this would be an argument why "textual" fingerprints like

SHA256:s6N0OwlTDKjDez98kZRwUGZbTYaQUArv+EYC6sigFwA ben@eshwil

are superior to the "visualized" fingerprints: They are harder to imitate by an attacker.

However, I realized this argument is invalid: If you -- as a human -- compare two fingerprints by just looking at parts of the texts/image, you haven't done a full verification and thus are vulnerable. Therefore, in principle, the kind of key authentification how it is done in modern smartphone messengers (making a photo of a visual key (encoded in a QR code or similar) where the smartphone then verifies every single bit) is the right way to go when it comes to fingerprint verification. Humans are too impatient and too inaccurate for this job.
The average computer user has difficulty searching their email or scheduling a meeting. You expect them to complete a nag screen about how their personal information is going to be used, with sliders for opt-in versus opt-out, every time they visit a new website?

Like the cookie nag, users are going to blindly click through until the confusing nag screen goes away and then be upset that it wasted their time.
Nanoscope: Method-Tracing Tool for Android
Unsolicited advice: try taking 300mg of magnesium a few hours before bed. My RLS used to be rampant, and since I started supplementing Mg I haven’t had a single instance of it.

I use magnesium glycinate chelate because I’m a sucker for fancy vitamin sales pitches, but I’m sure other formulations work just as well.
Doesn't that penalise long articles (assuming people would vote after reading)?
And it's not just HN. I've listened to at least three podcasts by now where "well-known figures" offer advice that is just plain wrong.

US readers: EU law is different from US law in that it is generally approachable and readable. While in the US it is difficult to even know which laws apply to you without the help of an experienced lawyer (because of case/precedent law), in the EU this is much easier. So don't be afraid to reach for the sources.
They get that you use site X (and y,z, and q too) , when you use those sites, and where you were when you logged in from(i.e. your IP, browser info, etc).

For one site, not a huge issue maybe, unless it's ilovemesome<insert something disgusting here>.com

But add this up across many, many sites, and they suddenly get loads and loads more information to sell ads to you with.
Publishing used to be a really heavy-weight process, because printing and selling access carried a great deal of expense and ceremony. Trying to keep your book out of the local library to enhance sales revenue was a no-no.

Interesting how the landscape and conversation has shifted. Sadly, it doesn't appear possible to even have a definition of publishing that both maintains the right of the public to access information, and allows for individual privacy.

Options like disabling crawling are insufficient, essentially web servers have to read author's minds to divine their intent in order to not screw up. Don't crawl certain kinds of content and you might be accused of discrimination, providing services to one group and not others.

Ownership is a weird thing.
>What is the iOS Kindle interaction model? The iOS Kindle model is the “hidden spaces” model. That is, all active interface elements are invisible. This “hidden spaces” model of interaction is supremely user antagonistic. [0]

>There are no affordances to the taps. No edges to the active areas. Nothing to hint at what might happen. This creates what I call a “brittle” interface — where one wrong tap sends you careening in an unknown direction, without knowing why or how you got there.

When I'm using an e-book reader app, I want the entire screen to be taken up with the text of the book I am reading. I quite like having tap zones to turn the pages and access a menu when I need it. I'd rather a tap than a swipe, actually. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding the quote above, I don't find this to be antagonistic in any way at all.
One interesting thing to look up is the places you can still get a major felony for small amounts less than the amount you're legally allowed to carry in some state.
Mechanisms of enforcement is another discussion but the regulation clearly asserts the scope of data protection as global; it's applicable to all foreign companies processing data of EU residents, whether the companies are based in the EU or not.
I don't think that's possible. Do you have a source to back that up? (Also, they don't automatically result in a charge.)

"Abmahnungen" are cease and desist letters by the way.
No, but a lot more affordable than SF.
Not going to feed you.
1. https://xkcd.com/605/
Hard drives are dropping in price. That doesn't mean they will ever be zero.

1a. Youtube has other expenses besides hard drives. Bandwith. Server infrastructure. Employee salaries. To name a few.

2. It's not censorship. It's editorial judgement. Are you saying websites should be forced to host opinions they don't agree with? There is no "fairness doctrine" for sites like youtube.
“Something is broken in the UK intellectual sphere” by Nassim Taleb
> that was and is a big factor for me and other people who suffer from gender-dysphoria.

Yeah... never once heard anyone say that "car insurance" was why they got their gender changed on government paperwork. The whole things looks very suspect and found this thread on r/asktransgender talking about this which rather than trying to summarize I'll let you enjoy and read for yourself https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/8g0ai9/chea...
I recall a documentary I watched a while ago, and had almost forgotten, about an African tribe in which the presenter plays a 100 year old old voice recording of the natives' ancestors made by an earlier explorer . You could see the astonishment and joy in their faces when they heard the voices and names of tribe members they had heard about but never even seen. (If anyone else has seen the documentary please remind me of its title)

We tend to place great emphasis on pictures and video, but audio recordings I believe, capture the past like none other. There is a connection here that is unique.

Great work by the creators of IRENE.
Much praise also to Bell and his team, and all the other uncredited contributors to the development of the telephone.

I'm sure to start making audio recordings to store up for future generations.
Can't wait for the pile of lawsuits to appear over this one
Should the "employee" also have a say in this?
Coaching CEOs to Craft the Story, Rather Than Building It for Them
My mother switched to an iPhone about a year ago - mainly so that she could 'text' with my son who has an iPod.

Overall, that being her first 'smart phone' (she used to have a blackberry), she's made quite the transition, seamlessly. She doesn't have any problems and was even able to get CarPlay working with just a short phone call walking her through the first plug-in process.

We FaceTime, she's been using emoji's, group messages just fine (she used to not realize if she was sending a group response/personal, etc), sharing pictures (live photos), etc. My point is, she's not very 'technical' - but the iPhone seemed to ease her into 'tech' smoothy. Now that's not saying an Android couldn't also have done the same - just one anecdotal point where the iPhone was successful in a technology-based transition.
Sorry but you are totally naive if you think a 50% increase is possible in that time frame. You just can’t, or don’t want to do the math. What you are suggesting amounts to jail cells with no infrastructure.
> for a well-above Indian average salary

In other words, you think it's okay to exploit people?

If you're writing software for a global corporation on a global marketplace (The internet), why would it be acceptable to be paid based on regional politics, which is what local economies are reflective of.? Especially considering the politics of third world nations is manipulated and controlled by the governments of first world nations for profitable gains.

No, the only acceptable answer is to pay all developers equally regardless of region, based only on their capability, and perhaps their investment of time and effort into their own improvement.

The Pre-Internet Planet Earth and all the little tricks that our ancestors injected to make it easier to take advantage of less fortunate people needs to end. Their guilt isn't yours until you decide to ignore your morality so you can make a few easier bucks. You cannot be a willing and informed participant in this systemic evil and pretend that it's anything but.
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Can a full Moon really affect your sleep?
Well if in the UK I can get 3x my FTE rate as contractor its definitely in my interest.

Also some type of lawyers are self employed if it's ok for a Barrister why not me.

The problem is when you get mcjob companies who abuse minimum wage staff - its well paid individual contractors that get hit.
Related website: http://publicdomainreview.org/ review works that are entering the public domain since 2011. There are some pretty interesting stuff.

Disclaimer: I work for the Open Knowledge International, which used to fund the Public Domain Review.
We really need to stop assuming that people are going to make heavy freeway use, and permit more scalable transit.

Run BART the short way between SF and SJ, build many clusters of high density along heavy transit routes. Let the current freeway dependent population continue to use them, but build housing so that people can get to jobs without using single-occupancy passenger cars.
I want to build this payment system for the US so badly. I think all the major players are distracted by losing money on P2P transfers.
Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_in_literature#New_books and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_in_music#Published_popula... both have good lists. I’m excited as this will open up a bunch more literature (and to a lesser extent new sources of cover art) for the Standard Ebooks project I contribute to.
What a May Day gift!
the IEEE is turning into an advertisement network?

I just hope the next floating point format does not do:

2E3 CocaCola + 3E4 BigMac =3.2E4 McMenu