skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. You just don't have enough integrity to roll with your actual look. I wouldn't be so quick to blame that on anything but yourself.

In fact, it's in your best interest to be as honest as you can upfront so a woman's first impression of you isn't "hmm, he looked better in his photos :/"
I left facebook around a month ago. It hasn't made a difference in my life. Although it was a non-trivial amount of work to purge it from all my apps and websites. App sales are the same - a few ppl commented that they were happy i'd removed fb. My social life is exactly the same as it was before - now I can easily just concern myself with what is happening in my tiny part of the world.
So take a major financial insititue you probably have an account with - 300,000 employees each of whom has at least one PC age ranged upto a decade. Including servers and routers they probably have as many machines as AWS, but in several thousand "data centres" some of which get unplugged by the cleaners vacuum.

The management headaches for this kind of distributed computing is off the scale, and banning Linux and locking down senior devs workstations is just table stakes. Everyone is heading to a thin client running citrix to a data centre for pretty much this reason
Except we know there are trillions of stars out there. So 9,000 seems small.
> And Russia can't really do anything of that scale.

I think they already have, though, and that is my point. I think Russia has done something far more damaging to the internet (and by extension our society) than anything you listed above. Everything you listed above are technical issues that any major player could overcome.

Russia has created false realities on the internet, something far more dangerous than rerouting or shutting down technical services.
https://github.com/genuinetools/img
Most developers working on HPC systems don't have root access.
I've worked in the same market as you, I think, from the hints in your comments.

I've run or had a hand in running conferences and trade shows, as well as having built software and systems to keep the show on the road, from registration systems, management systems, surveying and apps. And I know the business side of startups too.

Perhaps you want to have a chat. HN has my email.

Without knowing anything, I'd speculate that if you aren't finding traction, then it's related to the structure of the conference/exhibition market which is a tough space to crack.
That's [old, outdated] source available. Not non-proprietary software. If you're going to rant, you might want to at least be accurate?
I don't see anyone claiming that the plaintiff has a registered trademark. He does, however, mention that the defendant specifically disavowed ownership on a trademark of the word "France."

In other words, this case does not hinge on trademark. My point is that cases that do hinge on trademark tend to work out in favor of the trademark owner.

This case feels like a kind of imminent domain.
I keep a copy handy at all times. I don’t think it contains the indisputable truth of all life/everything/stuff like that - but invaluable wisdom and perspective. Reading it can help me achieve mindfulness similar to meditation.
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My guess: in trying to do GDPR compliance they basically did their first real code change in years. They found that everything was an undocumented web of dependencies and that even starting to understand the problem was months or years of operating profit. At that point they decided to shitcan the whole thing.
A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of bibliotherapy for alcohol problems
Takes a while to get it going but it does seem very good once it's set up. I had trouble trying to find any guidance on ways of running DB migrations during pipelines, so I'd be very curious as to how other people solve that (as I'm tempted to try it out again).
Instead go and make a 'best effort' and spend a few productive weeks on getting rid of the most obvious differences between where you are today and where the law says you should be and you will be doing better than most and will be able to sleep just fine because just like with running away from hungry lions you only have to run faster than the competition.

In our case, the best decision was to block EU traffic and ban EU users from the forums we operate. GDPR compliance for forums specifically is essentially impossible, because almost all forums allow users to embed external images. The owners of the servers on which those images reside could start deploying tracking cookies that the forum doesn't know about at any moment, and therefore there will likely be exactly 0 GDPR compliant forums, except perhaps text-only forums. That issue alone was enough to get us to block EU users, but that doesn't begin to address any of the other fine points of the law.

You also seem to be uner the impression that the law will not be abused by revenue hungry governments to reach into the pockets of foreign corporations. Call me cynical, but if that doesn't happen, it would be the first time in history. The spirit of GDPR is great. The implementation is the exact opposite of great.
If you get a chance, you might want to take a look at 5e; mechanically it's still streamlined, but lots of people who didn't like 3e/4e seem to like it.
Company policy
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>That said, I'm sure that defense contractors are very careful about where they source components.

Not as careful as you might expect. "Fake" IC components were found in a military 737 [1]. Trusted ICs are a hot topic and the big players in the defense industry are working towards solutions. It's an interesting topic if you have time to read their academic papers.

[1] https://military.com/defensetech/2011/11/08/counterfeit-part...
Exactly. Having the experience of solving difficult algorithmic puzzles under time pressure makes parts of software engineering (writing working code, debugging) easier, so you can focus on the hard parts. Algorithmically, almost anything written in the real world is trivial in comparison.
Yeah hopefully you're right.

One of the ones I'm looking at is taking registrations while in closed beta. I think it is to generate a userbase who can all begin to access it at the same time when invites are sent - to hopefully gain a large amount of popularity quickly.
The cost of GDPR compliance depends in large part on what personally identifiable information a company collects, from whom it is collected, and what they do with it.

For a company like Google or Facebook, which collects a broad variety of PII from users all over the Internet and shares extracts of that data with advertisers, compliance is a big deal.

For a company like Wikispaces, which is unlikely to collect much (if any) PII, compliance is relatively straightforward.
I thought the UK was no longer a part of the EU?
>You just don't have enough integrity to roll with your actual look.

Everyone I know touches up their dating pics somehow. Let's not even get into how your statement relates to makeup, I'm talking about actual modifications to the picture through filters or even straight-up photoshop.
They're patenting it, you see.
Just to be clear, sprint supports selective BYOD. I recently migrated to sprint via the 1 year free deal at http://sprint.com/1yearfree - which supports a dozen or more phones.
Any reason y basic is the only high level pl? Tradition and compatibility with old software? Thanks btw!
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you somewhere; but this is basically what I do for a living, so I don't think I'm wrong. I have carefully re-read my comments above, and would urge you to do the same.

Again: Can you write the quadratic formula in the way that you think is better (in pseudocode, or a language of your choice), and give examples of inputs where it performs better than floating point? If you don't do this and I'm wrong, then you're missing the opportunity to teach me (and all the people I'm misleading with my comments) something. If I'm right, then you're missing the opportunity to learn something yourself.
I love this sort of thing. Yes, as remarked by probably everyone here over the age of 40, we have had loads of terminal shiny stuff for decades. However, here we see the tradition continue at least one or two human generations later and in a modern programming language.

It's funny that despite the fact that GUIs with mice, menus and things have been around for a bloody long time: you can't beat a terminal prompt for many tasks. Mind you my terminals these days looks rather better than the twinax connected beasts of yesteryear that I looked after. I don't remember transparency options on those.

Have a look at https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt for more eye-candy for your prompt - it does look rather good and I've been using it on one machine for at least a year with no snags. However that project may be needing an active developer judging by the last commit and Issues.
> therefore we'll share that with frontline developers." Ha, puhleez.

Like I said "if they had to".

You still have to make a compelling case.

Surely you have seen teams with 3 solution architects when they don't even really require 1?

Or teams with contractors who have been in the same team on contract 5+ years?

The problem is most senior devs don't even collect the information they need to make a compelling case.

Like if I asked you how much more productive are you than a new (3-6months) senior dev on your project? Would you be able to show me?

I'm ~14x more productive on my current project than a newly hired senior dev and can give you the jira queries to prove it.
This is bullshit. The last thing we need is more consolidation in the telecom market.
if you look at Tinder nightmares you will see lots of examples of regular guys saying these things.
Most of the links 404 as well.
>I imagine they could care less about maintaining a wiki platform

And yet they spent money to buy it just a few short years ago. Seems odd doesn't it? I have been on the Wikispaces site within the last year, and there were no obvious attempts to get me to sign up for any other site, so this was not a grab at users. Now they're closing less than a month before GDPR takes effect (after 13 years of operation), citing the high cost of keeping up with modern standards. While they didn't specifically mention GDPR, I'd say the likelihood that it had no impact is roughly 0.

They wouldn't be the first company to pull out of EU over GDPR, nor would they be the last. Here's one example: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selli... . According to that blog post, even Microsoft shutdown a specific service due to GDPR compliance issues.
Long term return on invested capital has been declining since the 1960s.

Periodic exceptions appear, almost always in winner-take-all network spaces over this period (energy companies being a possiblee exception), frequently showing a rapid rise and more precipitous fall. AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, among them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/01/25/shift-i...
Irrelevance of GDPR
European regulators have no jurisdiction over US companies. As long as your web host is based in the US and understands they could be help criminally liable for complying with unlawful demands from international regulators, you should be good. Any attorneys here want to comment?
>The owners of the servers on which those images reside could start deploying tracking cookies that the forum doesn't know about at any moment.

So... proxy the images and strip the cookies?
Reminds me of the Big Dipper eye test. If you can spot the double star in Ursa Major constellation you’re supposed to have 20/20 vision. The two stars are Mizar (magnitude +2) and Alcor (magnitude +4). In urban environments this is a good combined test ;-)

On a personal note (which I hope many will relate), I’ll never forget the very first time I looked up at the night sky after getting my first pair of glasses. The sheer number of extra stars I could see combined with the clarity, made me fall in love with stargazing :-)
Yes, I'm wondering how would that work in Norway without the petrodollar economy behind it.

(For clarification, I'm all in for universal free healthcare, but comparisons need to be fair, and comparing the US to the nordics, is not fair)
And if your teams algo and data structure knowledge isn't at the level where you know about these solutions or their applicability?

I have a checklist of possible interview topics and I think I might an esoteric data structure part to it (knowledge not code) and some implementation choice questions - given this situation and data, with these queries what would your data structures look like.

Maybe also a few quotations on the last paper they've read in CS or related topic.
Maybe they would care if it were deutchland.de.
Why did it have to shut down?
It's absolutely unachievable once they factor in their willpower and discipline.
ADHD = Breadth First Search

ADHD + meds = Depth First Search

One is not inherently better or worse than the other.

I also do not think that it is healthy nor meaningful to ask questions like how do people with ADHD deal with XYZ, where XYZ is something that has little to do with maintaining concentration on a particular task.

People with ADHD build lasting habits in much the same way as everyone else.
> Lack of sleep changes how insulin operates in your body and how quickly your cells absorb sugar. After a week of short sleep nights (say, five or six hours), your doctor could diagnose you with pre-diabetes, Walker says.

My father intentionally tried to sleep as little as possible in his 20s, 30s, and into his 40s - sleeping four hours a night was common - in order to get more done - and he ended up with diabetes.

Chronic and extreme lack of sleep was his only risk factor.

Don't screw around. Get your sleep.
Tentatively scheduled for a May 2019 departure, but still sticking to EU rules until end of 2020. 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.
> It's still hands-down the best OS out there if you just want a stable, usable computer that respects you, and I still feel really grateful for it every time I boot up my computer to get actual work done.

Anecdotal, but I just recently installed Ubuntu 17.10 on one of my drives because I got tired of windows' shenanigans (was in a forced-update, boot-failure, version-reset loop) and wanted to get work done. I'm no noob to linux (have used it on and off as my main OS for the last 6 years), so I definitely didn't expect it to be a cakewalk, but after installing and 5 minutes of installing software all user input just stopped working completely. It happens about 10 minutes in every boot now. I'm sure there's a fix, but God damn it that's not something I should have to fix (or even think about). Linux on the desktop (much less laptop) has a very, very long way to go. Complexity and options are not always virtuous.
That's also an absurdity I never understood in the US Medical school system.
Why not do like other countries, and allow 18 years old to directly chose Medical School after high school?
They are still in the process of leaving and until they do they are subject to EU regulations.
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By that definition too much water would also be pollution.

You can not define pollution by quantity, that completely erases the meaning of the word.
So what? I'm not talking about women and make-up. But I'd say the same about a man wearing foundation to round out his blemishes.

The truth is you're really doctoring your images to satisfy your weak ego. And the sooner you acknowledge that, the healthier.

Trying to rope in other people with "but others do it" only demonstrates even weaker integrity. Though I guarantee you're overestimating the number of touch ups using something like Face App. Not really the same as some 80s VHS Instagram filter or whatever.
Unable and/or unwilling to assess compliance/risk, this leads to the owner wanting to shut down.
I have been pretty happy with the level of security keybase offers. For example, this HN account got hijacked, and I immediately got a notification from keybase.

As you said, nothing's perfect, but it's quite secure esp. compared to many alternatives, and I'd have a hard time thinking of one that offers a similar level of convenience to go with it.
there is an emacs mode
Wow, thank you! Very glad we can help.

If you don't mind me asking; are there things you like to do with Webtask that you think we could improve with StdLib? You mention a strength of ours is creating public-facing services, but the majority of customer use cases are actually private (internal) APIs. Is there anything we can do to make this more clear? (Edit: I mean more clear as to the ability to do both.)
Is there a specific reason old public works projects used to be a lot more elaborate aesthetically versus the "lowest bidder" approach they take today?
Using only open-source software on Android
Scroll down, it answers the question.
I admit to being baffled as to why they shut down. If a user of the service has given permission for their location to be shared on the 'nearby' map, then they still comply with all the legislation because they have tacit permission from the user that their location will be shared with others.

If the user then decides NOT to share their location or want their data deleted entirely, then the as long as the site stops sharing their location or removes their data completely (within 30 days), then they are still GDPR compliant, AFAIK.

EDIT: Sounds to me like a side project started getting a little unwieldy or had too much technical debt for the developer to manage, and he decided to shut it down using GDPR as a vague justification?
Doesn't really mean much if the barrels of oil are being replaced by tonnes of coal..

Eg No analysis if any solar power is being used
If there's nothing there that can't wait, then there's nothing there that's urgent, so why does the "important" stuff need to bubble to the surface?
It's not ok to comment like this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As far as I understand, to make this site GDPR compliant you would have to:

1. Get consent when someone creates an account, saying what you do with the data including how you make automatic decision (e.g. which amazon pages you recommend).

2. Allow people to unconsent/delete accounts

3. Have a page that allows a user to download their data.

4. Have a way for them to fix mistakes in that information

That doesn't seem that burdensome. In fact some flavor of that is pretty much what you get with standard a standard create account/view account/change account/delete account workflow.
Ever worked in government? You won't get (full) admin access there, either.

I thought it was good practice to have strong separation between Dev and Production, and I'm pretty sure you're meant to create AWS keys+accounts with less-than-root access for day-to-day work.
One interpretation of GDPR is that it applies to EU citizens globally, irrelevant of where the company or its data is hosted.
> more thick rocket

This is almost entirely driven by the fuel used - liquid methane is about 6.5 times more dense than liquid hydrogen.
I find nothing righteous about a system designed for a select few to profit from maintaining the illusion our money is safe and secure in a vault somewhere. That illusion has already cost people their life savings without any attacks or user error required. But the difference is they are deemed "too big to fail", so when they screw up, they get bailed out while everyone else loses it all.

More egregious is economists insistence that the continuous debasement of our currency combined with skyrocketing consumer debt and stagnant wages due to automation will not end badly. These are the same economists that couldn't possibly predict what would happen when bankers and creditors were allowed to produce billions in worthless financial derivatives and sell them as triple-A investments.
Moon.
GDPR might be a small factor, but that space has changed a lot over the past 13 years. Google giving schools free access to G-Suite, (including sites) pretty much killed usage of wikispaces in schools that took up Google. Other online collaborative tools and LMSs have no doubt eaten other parts of their education market. And facebook has probably eaten a lot of their community lunch.
Going to sleep. Peace.
Not really a "victim"
It's because someone screwed up big time and when journalists started calling their lawyers told them to shut up.
This is an American (USA) organisation. What on earth has GDPR (an EU thing) got to do with them?

I note that the do not mention GDPR anywhere on the homepage. This reads to me like "our business model is no longer viable" or "income is less than expenditure".

* Over the last twelve months we have been carrying out a complete technical review of the infrastructure and software we use to serve Wikispaces users. As part of the review, it has become apparent that the required investment to bring the infrastructure and code in line with modern standards is very substantial.
The interesting property of FRAM is that it behaves in same way as core. Random access and non-volatile (and without significant write/erase wear). End result is that for applications that will fit into practically sized FRAM array you essentially do not have to thing about restoring the state after power loss, because the state simply is there as it was on core-based minicomputers (one thing that I find funny is that MSP430FRxxx in fact is PDP-11 on single chip with slightly different instruction encoding).
I had an earlier comment sketching a case where cellular carriers could mention cable industry competition as a merger reason, but there's some interesting tweets from someone at a DC org (Washington Center for Equitable Growth) referencing HHI as a fair reason for this to be blocked: https://twitter.com/Michael_Kades/status/990674900770844672

"First, merger is presumptively illegal under the 2010 Merger Guidelines. Based on data from Statista, HHIs will go from 2825 (already a highly concentrated market) to 3258. The 400+ increase more than double what triggers presumptive illegality."
I was about to get some namecoins and register my .bit domain name but I decided to dig a bit more before going all in.

Correct me if I'm wrong (seriously, please do) but it seems to me that namecoin being (technically) a fork of bitcoin, shares most of bitcoin's problems, in particular regarding mining and exchange.

Here was my doubt: suppose that I get namecoins and obtain .bit domain name, how do i keep it registered? Do i have to mine? Do i have to renew by "spending" namecoins? Can i get namecoins on exchanges? (spoiler to last question: yes).

Here is how it might just fail: given that namecoins has mostly the same cryptographic properties of bitcoin, if namecoin was to become widely adopted then everybody would start mining and selling namecoins, making namecoin price skyrocket at the point where 1) mining namecoins to keep your domains would become super expensive 2) people would burn "real" money on gpu mining and asic miners, accumulating large amounts of coins and keeping them hostage (that is, hoping to sell them for a lot of "real" money).
All of those are US only, making .com the next best thing in this case I guess?
They're not saying that though. They make a hand wavy statement about "modern standards" and try to imply that it's not their fault.

If they had just said "the business is no longer profitable" I wouldn't have a complaint.
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