skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It cares about the location where you're targeting your goods or services, the location where the data processor or controller is established, or the location where the data is processed. Not anyone's citizenship. Much reporting has been sloppy about this, but the more precise info is consistent.
You are absolutely right re: robustness (and that code falls back to the iterative method), but IIRC the Newton scheme was at least one order of magnitude slower than the formula. It was also slightly less accurate simply because it did more floating point operations.

I have not yet figured out how to make the 3D formula work so we always do the iterative method in 3D.

A nice trick: we approximate the (bi/tri)linear map as affine (usually quite accurate) to get a good initial guess.
That's a solid 50 hours of engineering and QA. At a $75/hr contracting rate, that is $3,750 (50 * $75/hr).

And that's just the engineering work. The website owner cannot know whether or not the engineering work and website meets the requirements of GDPR by himself. He does not have the ability to interpret the GDPR policies. The website owner would need to consult with a compliance lawyer or expert to assess the website for compliance. I would guess it would take a lawyer 10 hours at minimum (assuming the lawyer is a GDPR expert and already knows GDPR in and out) to assess a website for GDPR compliance, billed at a low $250/hr is $2500.
Having data on someone doesn’t constitute any kind of damage. So I don’t understand how I benefit from this at all.

You understand, you just disagree and you seem intent on moving the goalposts as needed to make your “GDPR = bad” point.
Teachers should be valued better than many of them are. They are professionals and the majority of them are working in very dysfunctional systems, being held to account for outcomes many of them lack the agency and or resources to improve.

Frankly, I support the strikes.

Having raised my kids, I saw plenty of no win scenarios. People being micromanaged, yet accountable for outcomes, lacking agency. It's not good.

We can, should, need to do better, and the people trying to do the hard, human work anyway deserve compensation in line with the painful nature of the work.

Most of that pain having zero to do with educatorsthemselves, and everything to do with basically everyone else thinking they can do better.

I expect downvotes. That is OK.
Dig into the finance compliance fight instead, this is the wrong hill to die on.
Oh also:

https://forums.dyalog.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=210

I just set my keyboard so win-key+whatever spits out apl.
I understand that Germany may impose criminal penalties for certain violations of the GDPR, maybe other countries too. In that case yes, you could get arrested changing planes in Frankfurt, and spend time in German prison. The probability of that of course seems very low.

An EU government could try to convince your own government to enforce their fine / injunction / extradition / whatever. I don't think the USA has any treaty or other law that would compel them to. I'd guess that Trump's administration would treat the request as something between a joke and an attack on American sovereignty, so I doubt that's a major risk here. Other countries may vary.

The easiest path for the EU to enforce is probably through your customers and vendors, probably starting with payment processors--like, require everyone who processes payments in the EU to transact only with people who transact only with GDPR-compliant companies. My personal guess is that everyone with a business model that depends on breaking the GDPR will move offshore, and the EU will play the same game of merchant account whack-a-mole that the USA does for online poker and such. I'd guess that the effort to enforce offshore will be big enough that only the most egregious violators will be worth the attention.
Equifax is why them having my data is "bad".

Regulation allowing me to delete that is good.
To be very fair, a large proportion of the population doesn't intuitively understand the difference. Most people think you go to orbit by going "up".

Just because SpaceX is doing something much harder than what Blue Origin is doing, that doesn't make it easy or trivial. Even getting a rocket that size to space is incredibly difficult, and not that many nations have done it. The fact that they're doing it, with a (soon to be) crewed capsule, which lands vertically... that's mind blowing.

The fact that SpaceX has a ton of success doesn't raise the table stakes. Basically, no one else (except SpaceX) is doing what Blue Origin is doing, nor have they done it in history. That is tremendous. I am very, very happy for Blue Origin, even though I'm rooting harder for SpaceX. Respect all around.
Ask HN: Is HN GDPR compliant?
After reading this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306 I thought about the small sites I like to visit. Things that started out like hobby projects such as Lobsters and HNews. I wonder, is HNews GDPR compliant? It doesn't really seem to be. Some topics mentioned in articles about GDPR:

- Ability to export data
- Ability to delete your account
- Disclose tracking (the voting ring detection must do some sort of tracking)
I did it for a few years and found it really fulfilling from a meaning perpective (doing cancer modeling). I was especially fortunate that my Principal Investigator was (and remains!) a first rate human being, which sadly wasn’t that common in my research center.

I eventually left only because life events required income beyond which research could pay. Honestly, I long for the ability to return and not have to do the awful corporate stuff I do now.
It does 1 and 2 well, and 3 can be built using it
Not biggest players, but your competitors to make your life a hell. I already have competitors that are butthurt and spread shit about me since their clients come to me and they lose business.

That's what I'm afraid of, not getting randomly picked by the regulators.
This is why regulation favors incumbents. The rules don’t help any individual company, so they won’t self-regulate, but the cost becomes a barrier to competition and innovation.
Both polestars are 'new', in the sense that precession brings different stars closer to the pole axis over time.

Sigma Octantis (mag 5.47, ra 21h09m dec −88°57′) is the best South Pole star within (optimistic) naked-eye range. As you can see, it is just over 1° off axis (c.f. Polaris, which is marginally better at c. 3/4° out).
If the interviewers aren't generous in offering corrections to small issues when you're at the whiteboard, you don't want to work for them. Whiteboard exercises are there to see how you think through a problem, not how much algo shit you crammed ahead of time.
Ah, got it.

Well, another argument in favor of not overloading TLDs for internal domains, then, and just buying an additional domain if you really want to have separate internal and external domains.
> there is clearly a need for data privacy and protection laws

Is there? What if people just accepted responsibility for carelessly handing out information to third parties? Certainly there is much more individuals can do to protect themselves before the government steps in and slaughters small business like the EU did.

> but in most people's minds should not have been legal

Do people think a company selling user data to another company should be illegal? Or are most people more concerned with the relation said company has with Russia, and their potential involvement in influencing the US election? I think it's the latter. And certainly there should be laws about data transactions involving the state's democratic security.
There is a missunderstanding on your part. The law is not what’s written but what the courts make out of it. Lawyers may have the experience to foretell that.

On the other hand I bet you have a better life with your belief until - if ever- you learn the difference the hard way.

Take the simple question: can you look at personal data on your monitor? What about Van Eck phreaking? Basically you are broadcasting the data. Do you need to protect against that?

Tell me what GDPR says about that.
> Anyone here take those things and do you need them to survive?

I don't, though I've known people who do (not in SV, FWIW); mostly those are taken for quality of life reasons, not immediate survival needs (though obviously quality of life does have potential survival impacts.)
I don't get the hand wringing. If you have an image sharing service you will have to contend with child pornography. If you have any content sharing service you have to deal with copyright infringement. You need a lawyer to create a company. If you do open source you will often put a license file in your github repo.

Tech has already and will continue to interact with laws/lawyers. At some point open source libraries will appear to streamline compliance. For now it sucks but ya gotta muddle through or call it a day.
Agreed. GDPR simply made me aware of that once again. I still feel the trolls should have minimal amount of attack vectors to small businesses, though.
The regulation is about capturing data of EU citizens, regardless of what IP they reach you from -- so this won't keep you safe.
The amount of ad hominem in this thread is hilarious.
TBH most food & construction safety laws are way more small business friendly than the GDPR. Food safety has a well defined relatively easy to follow rule set and food inspectors come in and give you a food safety rating, which you can work on and improve. It won't destroy a small mom & pop restaurant with a $million fine.

For construction, you build your building to 'code', an inspector comes in and stamps the building and then your done. If your not code compliant, then you can correct without much penalty at all, not get a $million penalty and you don't have to go to court or get lawyers. Making your own shack in your backyard isn't an arduous process as far as code compliance goes.

Since most software is constantly modified and edited, I don't think the construction model really works. More the food safety one or a data fiduciary one.
If I own a small business, what about I just sell online without collecting any data at all? Credit-card and Paypal etc are third-party APIs that I do not have a copy for my own, shipping can be out-sourced to USPS/UPS/Fedex and I don't keep any of them either. Am I now safe for GDPR? It's like a grocery store, you buy stuff and leave the door, I have nothing on record other than you paid me via credit card or nameless cash before you walk out of the door.

Don't know how to do RMA though, maybe for each purchase my site and the buyer both should have a receipt that just records the transaction but nothing else private, still not sure how to implement that though.

It's so unhelpful for small business owners.
> Everybody is mad that airlines are temporarily making profits during the lag between fuel prices dropping from peaks and ticket prices catching up.

I knew nothing about this. My irritation towards the airline industry is entirely based on poor quality / service, which seems (to me) to be the result of my having no meaningful options as a consumer.
It's a lead generation tool - same space as Clearbit, just further down market.
Learning Clojure was, IMO, the best thing I could have done to improve my development skills.

It helps you realize that programming is simply about data, and how you manipulate it.

Design patterns, OOP, conventions, etc are all just secondary tools that sometimes help you do that.
It sounds like someone who knows what they want and who like to get their hands dirty in a job market where they habe that choice.

Not all developers are irresponsible, and not all ops people are impossible to work with. But both certainly exist.
Audio Worklet https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/audio-work... is way, way cooler than these demos imply, as it actually gives you a high-priority digital signal processing thread separate from the UI thread. And because it can benefit from WebAssembly, it's only a matter of time before the power of native audio applications is ported to the browser.

This thread https://forum.juce.com/t/juce-plugins-in-webassembly/25255 , particularly the demo here https://webaudiomodules.org/demos/wasm/dexed.html (try using the ZXCV row on your keyboard) are incredibly promising, as they're straightforward ports of real synthesizers.

Other comments have mentioned that this is coming to Firefox as well; core contributors on the media team have been discussing how it's a priority as recently as two days ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1062849

Really exciting times for the web audio space!
For example I've found the app sometimes freezes when scrolling a page. It's only temporary but it's long enough to be annoying.
52% of Americans invest in stocks.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/what-percent-of-americans-o...

That doesn't necessarily mean 48% cannot invest in stocks - they just may be unwilling to. I know many middle class people who invest in other things besides stocks, like bonds and real estate, as well as the proverbial mattress.

> strapped with significant debt

Buying a house with a mortgage is leveraging an investment debt. In fact, leveraging an investment IS taking on debt.
> outsource due diligence to the Chinese government

That is easily one of the more absurd statements I've seen this month.

> Well meaning regulation like this written by people who have never created anything pratical in their lives

And websites whose customers advertising agencies, and whose product is people, create something? Attempting to track and then monetize everything everyone does online is _creating_ something now?
So they have a risk of having to defend themselves in front of a regulator instead of in civil court.

The risk remains.
Encrypt data with per-user key. Drop key.
I'm not sure what GDPR is protecting me against that wasn't already covered by PCI-DSS and existing cybersecurity standards. Not being financially defrauded is the only thing i care about. For everything else is easy to avoid sharing personally identifiable data if it's really a concern.
How far out will humanity explore?
It doesn't matter what you do, since you can still get a GDPR inspection / lawsuit that ends up with you non-guilty and losing a lot of money and time.
Wow, if you're able to "return funds" and start over, why not? I suspect that's not the usual situation.

Returning funds means you might be able to tap the same pool again. Continuing on risks that rare situation.

Sounds like you could pull back, re-assess, and take a second run. How many get that chance?
I would have to think more through the article to have an opinion about it overall, but I do agree with getting rid of pensions, paying them more now and contributing to a defined contribution plan. Pensions make it too easy for today's politicians to make promises using bad math that hurt the taxpayers years down the road.
Have you actually looked at GDPR? It's virtually infeasible for any small company to adhere to, based on the decades worth of software that we've built the world's economy around. Logs, databases, backup systems, analytics, metrics, sign in systems, e-commerce systems, fundamental algorithms were all built without any concept of users being able to legally claw back their data. Actually implementing this stuff in the real world is a fucking nightmare. It means rebuilding your entire stack if you actually intend to comply with the laws to their fullest extent. And even then, someone can hire a lawyer and sue you, which then burdens you as you struggle to prove your compliance, wasting valuable time and resources for someone who didn't have the forethought to decide ahead of time if they wanted you to have access to their data or not.
Maybe the default for businesses, but not countries.
Canada.com -> Not government owned
USA.com -> not government owned
Germany.com -> not government owned

Just some quick ones I checked, but you get the gist.
Only if you want to argue that the 2000 stock market crash was due to Microsoft's short term thinking.

(and Microsoft's profits continued to rise during the 2000's, their P/E dropped, not their profits)
Who are "they"? Google? Mozilla? Microsoft? Apple? The 100s of CAs? And, are they all working together? And there hasn't been a single whistleblower to expose this?

What do you mean "listen"? CAs can invalidate certs at will, but, they have no mechanism to listen on communications (unless you give them your private key, but, then anyone you give your private key to can eavesdrop).

The CA system has lots of issues. It would be a pretty big conspiracy if there were thousands of people that knew of something better and said nothing. But, there is absolutely no proof that anyone has any idea how to do better than the CA system. Do you know of such a system or have any evidence that someone else does? Google, despite their flaws w.r.t. privacy, has done quite a bit of work to improve the CA situation - Certificate Transparency, for example.
>food safety rating, which you can work on and improve

But the GDPR works like this too? The $20 million fine is not automatically applied. Here's a flow chart which details the process of a GDPR breach: https://40uu5c99f3a2ja7s7miveqgqu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp...

from https://www.i-scoop.eu/gdpr/gdpr-fines-guidelines-applicatio...

If you breach the rules, a simple reprimand without a fine is possible too.
Facilitating anything online is in GPDR scope, regardless of whether data monetization or advertising is involved.
It's harmful exactly because it's ridiculously complex. And because it forces a Map/Dict to conform to an Array/List protocol, making it actually worse than both (it loses the O(1) or O(N) access time of the array/list, plus adds a bunch of complexity)
I find adding my task to my Google Calendar works like crazy. It is a mind trick that keeps me accountable.

Also, I am big on the "5-minute rule". I promise to do at least 5 minutes of a task. Again, this works like crazy.
How much are you going to sell if you can't market your goods or services properly?
> China also has many regulations. Instead if trying to extend their jurisdiction to foreign sites, they simply block them. I thought about this and I actually prefer the Chinese non-expansionist model: I would rather outsource due diligence to the Chinese government

Hell of a way to defend the most absurd and overreaching displays of censorship we see on the modern web.
Great point, reminded me of the stress hormones that their animal brains release into the meat I mindlessly consume. I think I'm gonna be vegetarian for a while...
Challenge: Next person that downvotes me, also leave a comment explaining why.
This website is full of people doing "productive" things like building the next wave of surveillance tech (social media and adtech) or gambling (blockchains and mobile gaming) complaining about the the pay of teachers. I hope they can see the irony.
Yep, I was diagnosed with Type 1 in my early 30s. Only good thing about it is that it’ll probably kill me sooner rather than later so I don’t have to live with it as long.
> in EU you can't just declare bankruptcy and run free afterwards.

Incorporate in the US?
That was my thought as well. I have to switch to Chrome every once in a blue moon to make things work on my Android phone, but 99% of the time, Firefox works just as well.
Logging doesn't help you when you business has to shut down because someone took over you account and deleted everything.

Separation of access is important and _required_. Developers don't need access to prod, admins maintaining the infrastructure don't need access to the directory, IDM doesn't need access to either QA or prod.

Developers do need full access in an environment to properly test - but that environment should be basically hermetically sealed from the rest of the companies infrastructure. So even if they do screw up the whole business won't be affected.
Would like ability to pipe cow-say into it (or any random set of strings) on which it will then just add the colour effect.
That's not what it says. See Article 3 [1], and the accompanying recitals.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
what... the fuuuu
The overall trend is companies that invest for the long term are richly rewarded, and the S&P 500 shows an upward trend.

I do know a couple companies that "danced to Wall Street's tune", or what they imagined it was, and screwed the long term position for quarterly profits. WS investors were not fooled, and their stocks tanked.

Do you really think that sophisticated investors who study the companies they invest in are so stupid as to reward companies for doing this?
it's always a bummer to see pseudo intellectual libertarian garbage on HN. I'll just point out this line, starting off the third paragraph:

> Wages are not determined by years of schooling but by the supply and demand for skills.

Teachers are public sector employees. There is no market, so this is just untrue (yes yes private schools but this article is about public school teachers). Wages for teachers are determined by politicians that are elected by voters.

This is stupid fucking article trying to justify teachers not even being paid middle class wages and it shouldn't be on the front page.
Sort of. Looks like it archives to each service serially, doesn't retrieve the resulting snapshot URL, and doesn't do any caching, retries, etc. If one service goes down, starts responding slowly, or blocks your requests, it'll break. This is like the first version of my own implementation; it took a lot more work from there to make it robust.
Oh, let me plug Peter Boodberg's startlingly bizzare version, which begins "Lodehead lodehead-brooking : no forwonted lodehead"... It's such an alien approach to translation, you can see his logic, but the end product looks like something from a Markov chain.

https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/142657117089/philological-n...
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2718364?s
The new law that got signed into law a few weeks ago, FOSTA/SESTA, web sites that allow users to post public messages can be likely taken away. It's a pretty bad time to be a web site owner.
Couldn't he keep operating until he gets caught, then lose the case, go bankrupt (the company, not himself), and shutdown at that point instead of now?
no, phone numbers "take you" to index lookup in the SS7 system, which might direct a call to a DID hosted by a voip operator, a DID connected to an ESS5 switch serving POTS/analog dialtone customers, a DID connected to a fractional DS3 and somebody's legacy PBX, or to a mobile phone network and an IMEI.

by no means does a phone number mean that it must always go to a mobile phone network.
Sure, if you want to pay lawyer fees and court costs in case that you lose.
Seems mostly like "How can we make a content-marketing article for Spinnaker?"
Blockchain on git as a service
Red black is used for all sorts of things. (See red-black tree, roulette, a checkers board, etc). This deployment style has been labeled red-black elsewhere also.
Sentence similarity were my explorations with WMD too, reached a setup in Keras with a siamese configuration, Wasserstein + KL loss (have a known vocabulary and feeding both word vector sequences as well as their LDA distributions as input). Post training cosine distance between encodings of such sequences look pretty decent - with one issue I've spotted though: WMD really seems to like about the same number of valid tokens in both sentences which is not how real world looks like - eager to see results of EM distance between image feature vectors, cheers.
Additionally, worth pointing out that public teachers outnumber private teachers like 9 or 10 to 1.
Everyone describes their experience in the light most favorable to them. That's different from inventing a past job entirely. If you get caught in the latter, then many (most?) companies will reject or fire you.

If you can't get a full-time job, do some contract work. Worst case, go on Upwork or whatever. If you charge low enough, then someone will take the bait. You can then describe that work in whatever misleadingly favorable terms you prefer.