skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parachutes hinder re-usability. You can't deploy a chute, land, then expect to take off again quickly without manual refurbishment. SpaceX's ultimate goal is zero refurb re-usability.

A parachute would also be next to worthless for landing a fully-loaded BFR on Mars.

SpaceX takes the iterative approach and is designing their vehicle for Mars landings now to get practice, at the expense of being able to carry a bit less to high-energy orbits (which they've largely negated with Falcon Heavy and Falcon 9 upgrades) here on Earth.
I think it is impossible to ever reach consensus on what is the right balance between freedom and regulation, especially because regulation is not decided upon with that goal in mind. Whatever gets votes or whoever has the most lobbying power will decide what is regulated.

With regard to class mobility, can we say at what level it gets too extreme or conversely at what level it is just perfect? A country such as Albania has a lower Gini coefficient than the US but is much, much poorer, but as such has less income inequality. I don’t believe that social mobility is much better there (I happen to have a good friend that lives in Tirana).
And it should be france.fr not france.com
The library developers can provide that information without enforcing it. For example, in Python any method starting with an underscore is considered private and liable to be changed or removed, but the language doesn't treat them in a special way.

Enforcement mechanisms don't have anything to do with passing information, but with removing liability (not necessarily legal - might only be social) from the original developers. They're effectively an EULA.
Why?

Article 2c (excemptions):
"by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity"
It's 3am in the states, and I'm at the computer. I slept for five hours, from 9 until 2. I was woken up by timer that was accidentally set to turn a TV on.

After lying in bed relaxing for an hour or so, I got up. Started working.

This happens quite a bit, and it used to bug me a lot. I finally made my peace with it, not because of any Zen moment (Sorry DrPhish), but because there was nothing else to do. It is what it is.

So I stopped complaining, I stopped worrying about it, I stopped trying to figure out if I was getting the right sleep or not. Instead I sleep when I'm tired. If I wake up and can't go back to sleep? I work. Eventually my body will catch up with whatever it wants to do. I work for myself. If I want to sleep, I sleep. This is one of the benefits of being self-employed.

On the plus side, you can get a lot of stuff done in the middle of the night. I do my best creative work when I'm up in these dark-of-the-night hours. It's quiet, it's peaceful, and I have time to think about and consider things instead of feeling like I'm on a treadmill.

I really enjoyed this article. It's interesting that I arrived at the same place without realizing what I was doing. I'm going to save it to share with my friends next time I hear them complaining. :)
Very cool.
As long as you are getting traction and burn is met, avoid raising. :)
No, but a lot of the restrictions (including the ban of incandescent bulbs) apply in Switzerland too: http://www.w-f.ch/wfch/de/eh/fachinfos/normen_und_verordnung...
Have you ever used git and supplied a username and email as your author? That's PII in a distributed service that cannot be revoked.
Secruirity as formal requirements analysis is often awful anyway. Often just a checkbox exercise.

It won't having good engineers who understand secrurity. Who emdedd it in everything they do.

Yes it is agile. This is what exactly what it means by collaboration in the agile manifesto.

Hackathons have been brilliantly successful for companies exploring new solutions for problems. Why do you think they are so popular?
Of course, caution is always warranted when dealing with HF. However, I don't see any reason why it can't be safely used at home. In fact HF is found in lots of commonly used household cleaning products like rust and stain removers.

Plenty of people are using Goof Off Rust remover and are not dropping dead later in the day.
Yes, I think you are missing somewthing. You can't be sued for GDPR.

You get reported to an authority that will handle the process. The Americans think you can just sue people all the time. It not what it is like in Europe. The point of this legislation is to help users, not to penalise businesses.

I mean how many companies were prosecuted for the cookie law?
You just described a (shitty and likely to fail) invasion.
Prostitution does not have to be exploitation.
since

* the fine has been cancelled and the council has apologised

* this is such a rare occurrence to be worth news reports

I'm going to say it validates the point.
The fact that they are using your site means you are doing business with them.
> the EU outlawed environmentally shitty lightbuilbs

when did that happen?
Exactly this. Companies shutting down make it look like a bully GDPR made them do it but then HN commenters indicate that these companies primary business was selling customer data:

> Streetlend made its money by selling your privacy data to advertisers through Amazon.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955709
I'm baffled by the fact that people think you can be sued for non compliance. You get reported to a government authority that will address the issue.

The point to protect users, not to prosecute companies for operating. However, GDPR would be enforced if you just ignored it.

It really isnt such a big deal.
Yeah, anybody I’ve met with experience is pretty confident in that.

The people I’ve met who aren’t fall into three categories:

1. People who don’t know much about the rules and have concocted a distorted version of them

2. People who are running a business that relies on misuse of personal data and who will be directly affected

3. People who have some ideological or politicical viewpoint which generally opposes regulation.

I have encountered no situation where someone has been able to demonstrate to me a convincing case where GDPR compliance is onerous, or indeed more work than any best practices they should have already been following.
Ask HN: Are you pretending to work today?
In many places Tuesday the 1st of May (tomorrow) is a public holiday. If you are on holiday tomorrow, are you "working from home", "using flexitime", or otherwise finding a spurious reason to take a holiday TODAY (since it is squeezed in between a weekend snd a holiday)? Is this a widespread practice? Is it actually acknowledged where you are or is it something that people just sort of do, without actually admitting, or drawing attention to it? Is it more common to do this if you are in management?

EDIT: for the record, I am actually working (apart from messing around on HN obviously)
I believe that the article is right about how the labels we create for ourselves start to define us, to many of us the real question is how to stop caring, or being afraid, or being anxious though.

You can tell someone to stop fretting about something - but probably a good psychologist is a better way to hear these pieces of advice, not to mention how we are bombarded by advertisments and beliefs in our everyday life that go against the message of "don't fret".
The tree isn't trivial. For example, +/x is over(plus,x), not plus(over(x)). And our example certainly isn't transpose(take(x(index(each(x))))), so what is it?
Which will make their business even more solid as it will make it harder for new entrants.
> websites render desktop versions or "basic" versions where I would get a more functional version on chrome

Sounds like user-agent sniffing, considered pretty bad practice.

I use Firefox Android daily and it's consistently more useful than Chrome;

* Firefox Sync lets me send tabs between all my devices

* I can run a scriptblocker, which has saved me from atleast two Script Injection attacks

* I can set DDG as search engine

* I can open tabs in the background which is useful when people post links with commentary or multiple links
> While joining the Privacy Shield is voluntary, once an eligible organization makes the public commitment to comply with the Framework’s requirements, the commitment will become enforceable under U.S. law.

https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Join-Privacy...

So how does that affect companies that don't elect to join Privacy Shield?

Agreed that AdSense will probably start indirectly enforcing the GDPR at some point. Someone will probably make a lot of money picking up the traffic they lose, in exchange for never changing planes in Frankfurt again...
Is there a decent free software Android keyboard which supports sliding? It's the last thing keeping me from going full Google and Microsoft free Android. Right now I use Swiftkey and firewall to keep it from accesing the network.
After two burnouts nowadays if insomnia sets in I just turn the alarm off, accept that it is one of those nights and relax. If that won't work due to racy thoughts I just get up and do something. The next day is immediately cleared from appointments, duties, plans and exercise. Good sleep is priority 1 over work, exercise and even food. I'd rather be unemployed than being a walking zombie ever again.
I have started meditation with one of the aims being to improve my sleep. I still have problems sleeping, but it helps a lot when you are able to let thoughts go without ruminating on them.
The "TIA-1A Hardware Manual" [1] states: "This circuit contains a nine bit shift counter which may be controlled by the output code from a four bit audio control register (AUDC), and is clocked by the frequency select circuit. The control register can be loaded by the micro- processor at any time, and selects different shift counter feedback taps and count lengths to produce a variety of noise and tone qualities."

[1] https://www.atariarchives.org/dev/tia/

There is an "about 30KHz" base frequency, so "div 15" suggests a 2KHz waveform; "4 bit poly" and "5 bit poly" are probably two of the "feedback taps", "and" a logical multiplication of these signals. But this is just my interpretation.

[Edit] For technical details see: https://alienbill.com/2600/cookbook/music/stolberg.txt
That is only possible because of outsourcing. If you only employ the highest paid earners and use contractors for all support staff, you artificially inflate your median salary. I'd bet that FB has much lower salaries if you count anyone working full time for Facebook.
I'm sure when the rest of the tech world wakes up this will be flagged which might be ironic as it might show that that happened due to a lack of empathy - the two responses that the featured article recommends - and instead represent a denial or an opposition to discussion. (I'm being flppant here - most flag killing happens because the discussion turns into a flame war, which I can see happening here too!) but...

Empathy is pretending to feel what its like as another person. It's not the same thing as sympathy. It is possible empathise with an angry hateful person as much as with a happy loving person. For me, it's a good tool to use to help understand what the other person wants, and how they are behaving.

How many times do you read something which says "I don't understand why they would do this thing / act this way / vote for that / like this thing"? How many times is that person you? Those statements are true statements about the giver - that person literally doesn't understand the other person. But the question they ask is not actually asking for understanding - they are telling you that their target is The Other - that it is impossible to understand. And they haven't tried empathy. Sometimes that person might be disgusted even thinking about using empathy on the other that they disagree with.
The technique I came up with is based on re-balancing. You do a calculation of what prices you'd need to make a trade at to re-balance your portfolio. My calculator spits out a high and low price to make limit orders at, and if either of those trades happen, you're re-balanced. You can cancel the other trade, and calculate 2 more prices.

Which ever way the market moves you're better off. It's kind of the opposite of HFT.
Show HN: The Shanti Fund is investing $200 per project in startups
Overview of Blockchain jobs
IP addresses are only PII if you are able to actually use them identify an individual.

> The CJEU decided that a dynamic IP address will be personal data in the hands of a website operator if:

there is another party (such as an ISP) that can link the dynamic IP address to the identity of an individual; and
the website operator has a "legal means" of obtaining access to the information held by the ISP in order to identify the individual. [1]

So once the account info is deleted, that link is broken. This another piece of DP legislation that has been subject to a great deal of FUD since most of the headlines just went with ‘court confirms IP address are PII’ and omitted ‘in some cases’. TBH, this was already pretty explicitly obvious from the legislation defining Personally Identifiable Information (hint: clue’s in the name).

[1] https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
Except that approach ignores the nature of risk. The impact of getting a drug wrong is catastrophic, the impact of disclosing some PII is far less. This impact also decreases proportional to the size of the organisation, unlike the regulatory burden.

To compare PII to medicine is trying to invoke an emotional reaction, not a reasoned one. I don’t think this regulation is well designed at all, I don’t even think it’s going to achieve half of what it’s trying to do. But it will achieve increases compliance costs to pretty much every company, costs that will put startups at a serious disadvantage to established companies. Europe thinks they’ll have some protection by claiming every company in the world must comply, but only time will tell how that will work out for them.
Making “Push on Green” a Reality (2014) [pdf]
Er... is that meant to be funny? That website is asking for my email without saying what it's used for :) Also, I can't refuse to provide it and still get access to the functionality.
According to the letter of the law - the only thing that matters - this is exactly what could happen and would be perfectly legal. Are you arguing that fining her would be illegal under GDPR if she failed to disclose it? You’re wrong if you are.
Because that was exactly the argument banks used before 2008. Not that salaries in Finance are low now but a lot of the excesses have been cut back following the crisis. Banks also made a ton of money pre-2008 but that didn't come out of nowhere.

So far, there has been no industry that just continued making high margins over decades without any cut backs. I doubt tech will be the first one.
They probably just put extra weight (fuel) in the grasshopper for easier testing. The F9 on the other hand is basically an empty soda can with engines at the bottom and small fins at the top when it’s landing so even when firing just a single engine at minimum power it will generate too much thrust to hover.
Would be great if someone made a check list of things, since legal documents are barely readable for normal humans
For people on the "hipster" train of SPA/JWT etc, I found OpenID Connect (not the original OpenID) incredibly useful. With a simple JS library [1] you can ask your users to log in with Google, Microsoft, etc, and you can then validate the JWT tokens issued on the server-side.

[1]: https://adodson.com/hello.js/
I had been recommended agomelatine (in the form of Valdoxan) for my anxiety, but it's primarily a sleep regulator. I'm not a doctor, don't know much about medicine, but maybe it's relevant, dunno.
Hi. Shanti here from The Shanti Fund.

I'll just leave this here for more visibility.

I've always been passionate about startups and working with founders. Wanting to get involved but not having "Angel VC" type of money has been my issue lately, so, I decided to start The Shanti Fund.

I know $200 isn't much (to you and I). But it IS to some people. They may be down on their luck, or they may just live in a part of the world where $200 goes a long way.

I know some might criticize my efforts here, so I'm 100% open to feedback. Please tell mw how I can improve The Shanti Fund. Thanks.
> Now, I'm forced to spend my hobby time adding a bunch of new features on a site that already loses money?

What new features do you think you need to implement to comply with GDPR?
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Some of his blog also discusses his technical work, so it can be debated whether it is or is not "purely personal or household".

Either way, it's vaguely worded enough that for someone who doesn't want to deal with compliance and laws and doesn't want to pay a lawyer just to know if they can keep writing a blog, the path of least resistance is just to delete everything.
The site can still move to a different jurisdiction and mirrors would still work. As evidenced by various takedown attempts against Sci-Hib.
DPO turns almost always into always in the EU because you got more than 10 people that work in HR or Work with Customers.
Light Therapy Alarm Clock or Sound Machine Alarm Clock – What Kind Are You?
I'm not clear on how to revoke PII from distributed systems, like git, when mischievous peers can copy data or ignore changes as they wish. Likewise for any other distributed information storage.

So... Blackhole .eu and move on with my life?
My team has been using an all-in-one CRM named Agile CRM which has the capabilities of most of these essential tools given below.

As a growing business, we needed all the help for running our business smoothly. Here is an exhaustive list of all the best tools we needed:

1. For scheduling appointments- A calendar app like Google Calendar
2. For lead generation - A lead prospector tool like Agile CRM to generate leads through social media.
3. For project management - Trello
4. For cloud-based mobile communication - RingCentral
5. For email marketing - Mailchimp
6. For building landing pages - Unbounce
7. For social listening, scheduling - Hootsuite
8. For help desk support - Clickdesk
9. For SEO - Ahref, Moz
10. For competitor research - SEMRush
11. For automatically checking your grammar even while sending your emails - Grammarly
12. Google Analytics to observe website traffic.
13. For building websites - wiz
Interestingly, Agile CRM covers most of the above necessary (the first 8 out of the 13 given) features on a single platform. So, when we came across this CRM, we thought we would start using this free tool to manage our customer relationships as well.

And instead of using 8 different tools It is the only comprehensive, end-to-end CRM that delivers sales, marketing and support automation to help small and medium businesses manage all parts of the customer journey, from a single platform, in order to drive sustainable, scalable growth.
The mind is a bitch.
All frequencies are derived from an "about 30KHz"* base frequencies, which is divided the number of times given by the value in the 5-bit frequency register. (30KHz, 15KHz, ..., 30KHz/32) This "scale" is defined by hardware in the TIA Television Interface Chip (an Atari custom chip designed by Jay Miner), which is where all the "magic" of the VCS happens.

Edit:
*) There is a 31,440 Hz clock frequency used to produce NTSC signals and 31,200 Hz for PAL consoles. This is probably also what is described as "about 30 KHz" in the manual.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly...
If anything good gets out this thread I'll compile a checklist and pass it around.
I don't think it's unique to the incel worldview. In fact, it strikes me as rather logical that if crippling loneliness is the defining cause of suffering in your life, you'd turn to something that finds the solution in something similarly isolating/insular.

I've seen quite a few very lonely people turn to obscure cults, obscure philosophies, weird health communities, or smaller, sectarian movements within a bigger religious community. And from personal knowledge of some of these people, the underlying dynamic was always a kind of resentment towards and rejection of 'everyone else'.

One example that I found particularly painful to experience was a guy I met a few years ago. We got along well, but he had the extremely grating tendency to describe everyone as stupid ('sheeple'), unintelligent, inferior, etc. He was really taken with what I suppose you could call 'scientism' and gravitated towards the aspects of it that were mainly about belittling others. For example, he was a huge fan of some videos where Richard Dawkins would read semi-illiterate letters people had written to him, many of them religious obviously. All his colleagues were stupid too.

Over time I discovered that he'd had a shitty childhood (terrible family, school bullying), and this had just kind of continued on until his thirties. In the years he'd lived in our city he'd not made a single longer-term friend, and had never really had anything resembling a relationship. It seemed rather obvious that hating/rejecting the world because it never included him was more a defense-mechanism than anything.

What really hurt to see though, was that he was actually a pretty nice guy, he'd just never learned how to 'do' inter-human relationships! He was smart, funny, creative, sorta-caring and far from an 'inherent' asshole. He just truly never learned how friendship works. He never learned how to have a 'normal' conversation. And considering how much work and experience it takes to do social life right, it depressed me to think that he might never 'catch up'.

As an aside, I suspect this guy was on the autism spectrum. I think we often overlook how much effort, anxiety, and experience it takes for some people to even just pull off 'weirdo, but okay' socially.
This is either a really funny joke or the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. I really can’t tell which, but I’m hoping for joke.
Yes. Starting a business is already a huge mental effort, I've done it once when I was 19 and never since, even though it's pretty much expected of me (programmer after 40). Adding "you might have to pay 20 million euros" to the list of risks is... indescribable.
Kind of worthless to point out unless he's doing this on a regular basis. That slideshow certainly doesn't mention it.

I absolutely binge at McDonalds too, and more impressively than Trump, but I go a handful of times per year. That's the whole treat.

You couldn't use my receipt to pinpoint my physical health.
I’m beating a dead horse talking to you, but you really should look outside of your own opinion and do some research on the issue one of those days. There is a reason that so many people have issues with this law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
If you watch the first stage telemetry as it comes back down on the livestream (they don't always show you it, sadly) you can see that actually a huge proportion of the velocity is lost through atmospheric drag. I was shocked the first time I saw it.

Obviously the terminal velocity of the stage is still pretty fast but compared to the speed it starts at it's much smaller.
PCI-DSS is essentially about credit/debit card data. GDPR is about personal information is general, such that you need to let your users know what you are collecting, what you will do with it, and how long you will hold it.
In Japan the handicapped have access to physical sexual release through tax payer funded services that help with their emotional well being.

https://coed.com/2013/06/01/japanese-medical-hand-jobs-for-d...

Not saying incel folks are in need of this but it’s obviously beyond time we legalize sexual services as a profession.
The article claims 10% is a sweet spot for Google.
Maybe ICANN would involve themselves at some point? https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en
I take gabapentin for nerve damage (I have a spinal condition) and amytryptline because it helps with spasms.

I've slept better since I've been taking the amytrypline though it wasn't taken for insomnia (which I've had since I was 17).