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Ahh yes MS Defending themselves with "We love Recyclers along as they give us $25 for every computer they recycle... if not we will put you in prison"

Not much of a defense if you ask me
Who cares? As always, correlation!=causation. The causal effect of alcohol is notoriously the topic of fierce debate for decades now, diet is known confounded by things like healthy user bias, and exercise actually has been the subject of randomized experiments and the effect on mortality is less than the naive correlation. These results are already known to be wrong when interpreted the way they want them to, and beating a dead horse won't extend its lifespan.
That seems like an arbitrary stratification. By the time AI is sophisticated enough to have significant ripple-effects throughout the economy, the "highly paid engineer" is going to be a tiny fraction of the labor force, akin to the hedge fund manager of today. Also, why do I need to hire a team of engineers when I can just spin up a few AWS AI instances.
Who Gets to Speak Publicly About Sex?
Don’t eat processed food.
123.000 people according to the article
When the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane and Politics Clash
> that we're not going to be a target while some of the ambiguities get worked out in courts.

I posited this to our counsel when discussing what to do about GDPR. He cautioned that he’s seen investigations start due to a nosey bureaucrat.

I don’t know if your product is public facing, but if it is, all it takes is a single sufficiently powerful government employee to get curious about your business and start asking questions.

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, having to engage counsel to respond to the government could get pricey.
In the original text, it's all puns. Characters with multiple meanings are used in short statements that (intentionally) don't disambiguate the meaning.
I paid my .tk ~60€ for 9 years. Renewed until 2024.
There's a lot that can be unpacked here -- several accurate observations, but in my opinion the author stretches the metaphor too wide to accommodate a narrative, then offers an underwhelming conclusion in turn.

They simply mean recipes, instructions, laws; anything that communicates instructions of desired behavior. Even they acknowledge that there's a wide spread of optionality, from good-faith advice to laws backed by the treat of state violence, but at this point the metaphor ceases to be useful. Humans have always been telling other humans what to do, but civilization is built from the combined survivors of thousands of years of experimentation, adaptation, governance, and passing down good advice. Saying it's built on 'code' is no more revealing than saying it's built on actions, or the shoulders of ancestors, or imitation, especially when you expand definition of code to encompass any sort of prescriptive (or descriptive!) record about behavior.
Also their marginal cost of delivery approaches zero. High fixed costs in creating the software and almost negligible marginal costs. The return on capital can be astronomical.

Online services have “real consequences.” But not of the type as goods in the physical world. PCI and HIPAA have tried to mitigate against some of the most egregious crossovers of failed software. GDPR scares me. Not in the “I don’t like the consequences” but in the “I don’t know what this does and how screwed I might be.” I’m very happy to be on the other side of the pond where I can safely observe the fallout. Feels like buying a first generation Apple device: I’ll wait a few years and let the early adopters go through the pain for me...
This does happen in current union jobs.

There is a reason for outsourcing, and its not just cost.
> Rectal
administration has caused acute colitis with perforation.

disturbing that we know this
'道[2]' did not have the meaning of 'say; tell' until the Song
dynasty, which was ~1000 years ago.

Therefore, it is questionable, whether the second '道' really means 'say; tell' in the text before 2000 years.
Wikipedia says so. I don't know for sure.
That should be a fairly deep rooted memory. If you're having difficulty recalling, that is concerning. I respectfully urge you to consult with a neurologist or at least your GP.
Just going from nothing aka sticks, mud, and ore to copper is probably a book on it's own.
Building a Real-Life Pokemon Pokedex with Python, Deep Learning and Raspberry Pi
Anxiety is an actual mental health issue that heavily influences sleep patterns. It also influences eating habits (emotional eating is a well-understood maladaptive coping mechanism) so the same argument can actually (in some, but not all, cases) apply to weight gain, yes.

Climate change? Air pollution? If you don't see how these are completely different problems that are completely unrelated to your mental well-being, I don't know what to say...
Yeah, hopefully people will take this as a wake-up call and start sleeping properly. Being obsessive about your health probably won't do much good, but I think you could ask any aging multimillionaire about whether it's worth more to take reasonable care of yourself or to work a little bit harder. Unless you are on the steets, money just isn't worth that much compared to good health. And you don't really need to kill yourself to make it to an UMC income in most circumstances if your IQ is around the hackernews average (my opinion)
That's fair: it is (at least, it was last time I checked) clearly stated that free domains are merely "lended" and you have no sort of right on that domain.

OTOH, you have full rights on domains you buy.
What's interesting is that I've had to meet many of those already for California's COPPA and previous privacy laws, so I'm quite confused at why people are acting like this is all brand new and never existed before...

As an aside that checklist is misleading. Some of the requirements they list expressly don't apply to small businesses, for example you don't need a DPO unless you're over 250 employees.
GDPR takes away the right to trade your data in exchange for services.
From the looks of it, Sprint will be bankrupt in a few years anyway, and then we'll still end up with 3 providers, but likely Verizon and AT&T (in addition to T-Mobile) will buy up parts of its carcass. I'd rather T-Mo gets it all, now, rather than have all three companies fight over the scraps, later.
This line of thought might be a "natural inception[0]" from Tesla using the very same auto plant[1] where Toyota taught GM some of their trade secrets. After hearing this and knowing both are American automakers, many humans would continue the comparison, and some would find similar events somewhere in GM's long history. Because of the length of GM's history, it's probable that you'll find a similar event - somewhat reminiscent of "Bible codes" showing encoded prophecy, except long works such as Moby Dick accidentally have the same encodings. [2]

Though it would be "symmetrical" if Toyota formed a similar partnership with Tesla for a similar purpose.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ (Inception (2010))

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI

[2] http://www.awitness.org/essays/bibcode.html
Yes, I've been bitten by this and there is no way to switch it off in settings.
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Indeed it is. We engaged our legal counsel (top 5 global firm in the tech space) to help us understand its impact on us. Even the firm’s “expert” on GDPR still had unanswered questions saying that many nuances will have to be fought out in the courts. That’s not an acceptable risk to my small business.
He was sentenced for software piracy or thereabouts, but he literally can't do that because windows

He can violate the copyright of the recovery software present in the CD.
If anyone deserves it, it's Moon for meeting with Kim and getting these negotiations going the right way. I am astonished how cooperative the two Koreas are now. It all started with the Olympics and has only grown more positive.

Trump being granted a Nobel prize would be like the RSPCA awarding an Animal Welfare prize to a slaughterhouse.
>organize to make the world a better place

I'm terrified of labor organization specifically because of vague and ill-defined goals. Without a well defined purpose, the goal of an organization turns to self-perpetuation, and can do so at the expense of members.

Of the reasons to organize, the most convincing to me is an ethical opposition to abusing the time, privacy, and mental state of users who have no practical option but to trust the tools we build.

Get a critical mass to build and commit to specific and articulate goals. On screen and upfront. Then, and only then, will I entertain the idea of a union to implement it.
Under GDPR's definition and recitals, IP addresses are most definitely personal data.
The correspondence is pretty damning.
Don't worry, whenever parenting advice comes up on HN I'm often as surprised as you are now.
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You meant the Articles of Confederation period - he mistook your use of Confederacy for the civil war period, most Americans will.
I was just thinking about this. Ideally, the median and mean salaries should account for added value but not vary so much as to make inequality unbearable. Having CEOs paid 100 or 200 or even 1000 times more than other employees is bad for everyone in the long run. It leads to so much inequality that people end up tearing each other appart, looking for culprits (immigrants, strangers, neighbouring countries, etc). Having a CEO paid more than others is fine as long as everyone can benefit from the added value, not just a few.
Neural Networks Without the Math
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

The actual law is here and it applies when you offer services or goods to people in the EU or if you monitor their behavior in the EU.

The recitals are a pretty good commentary to clear up the law, the same recitals will be used by regulatory bodies and judges later on, as a guideline.
The substance of the defense is mostly that his own correspondence shows it was a for-profit enterprise intended to deceive.
This was specifically about git. However, it does appear that you need to at least provide a user identifier for git. I can understand why that would be useful in a distributed system. It could be opaque identifier, but you're points taken in this case.
> Laws like GDPR are written in such away that make them open to "legal trolls"

Except with GDPR all you could do is report them to the member states governing body. So no trolling.

> Very Specific and not open to interpenetration

Except this makes them inflexible and leads to them having to be constantly redrafted. So no use to the world of the HN.

> Have options for "settlement" as this rewards the guilty, and harms the innocent

GDPR is between you and the regulator, they already do this work and the whole aim of the process is to stop you doing bad things. A fine is a late step in the process for organisations who wont listen.

> Have more public resources for people with limited resources. Law firms and Large corporations use Legal Expenses has a weapon in Civil Courts over smaller companies due to the high costs and generally no public resources for Civil access

Is off topic when it comes to GDPR, see my previous answers

> All Civil Cases must have to show Actual Damages not Theoretical Damages

Again off topic with GDPR, but in the UK that is how damages works already, isn't it?
Sex and shame: what incels and jihadists have in common
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Look, I'm not saying that this is right or not, but this article does a horrible job of arguing its point, and it's completely lacking any understanding of the law.

"Furthermore: People weren’t buying software, let alone “counterfeit software.” The discs in question are at best “unauthorized” copies of software provided for free by Microsoft, not really a term that carries a lot of legal or even rhetorical weight."

I can even... just... What does that even mean? What does 'buying the software' mean vs 'buying the licence'? This author clearly has no idea about copyright law at all, and has constructed a complete alternative narrative in his head, which he is then using to attack a straw man.

A 'licence' is a contract between two parties, in which one party (usually) agrees to pay a certain amount of money (the 'licence fee') and where the other party then lets the one paying the fee make a copy of some work to use it. A copyright holder, and he/she alone, has the right to make copies or authorize others to make copies of a work. So 'unauthorized copies' are the very definition of copyright infringement. What does the author mean 'not really a term that carries a lot of legal weight'? This whole artificial 'Microsoft makes it available for free online and you're not really buying that, you're buying the licence' is complete jibber jabber - sure you can download it, but the terms put very clear restrictions on who can download it, why and what can be done with it after.

And yes there's all sorts of confounding factors - how much did the guy charge, and this is a criminal case and not a civil one, and there is the Dell branding thing, and there is intent, on and on. But my point is: this author shouldn't write about things he clearly has absolutely no clue about.
I take it as adding emphasis to their statements. As a way to convey intensity. I probably would have never noticed it if you hadn't pointed it out. Maybe it's a new mannerism, like vocal fry.
Thank you. I've struggled to explain this concept to my friends and acquaintances -- your wording makes the point very clear.
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Perhaps you don't understand. He deliberately set out to deceive people into thinking they were buying genuine MS-produced discs when they were not.
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Are there any studies done that looks at the relative amount of bugs in C code compared to Rust? Making the claim that Rust is better for those applications isn't convincing to me until I can see the statistics that backs it up.
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Show HN: B2B sales alerts to target right companies at right time
> Is unsourced rumor that literally more than one out of 5 Soviet citizen died in the war really worth to mention?

Are you aware of their reluctancy to show true numbers? In 1946 they've declared the number of losses as 7 millions. 15 years later - 20 millions. 40 years later - 27 millions.

Now, 70 years later, they're talking about 40 millions.
What is the fastest Python interpreter?
All hail bootcamp then..
If you want this analysis you should plan for it. Mozilla does this for example. Any kind of profiling or monitoring goes through several layers to ensure the minimum amount of data necessary is collected.

If you want shipping analytics you'll have to decide that ahead of time. That way you reduce the risk for your customer in case you don't want to do this and if you do want it you still make an effort to reduce the data necessary.

You should keep in mind that the basic premise of the GDPR is that the shipping address isn't yours to begin with. It's personal data of your customer and ultimately belongs to them.

If they don't allow you to use it for analytics, tough luck.
This article seems to suggest it's mandatory for public companies:

>As Congress chips away at bank regulations established by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, another part of the measure is exposing the extreme income inequality between bosses and their workers.

>The law requires publicly traded companies to calculate the ratio of their chief executive officer’s compensation to the median pay of the companies’ employees. After a series of delays, firms are finally disclosing their pay ratios in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. [0]

[0] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ceo-pay-disclosure_us_5...
I think the most puzzling part of the article for me was that the article says they've only been doing testing for this for two years now.

I'm sure I'm missing some critical piece of information, but this seems like something that agencies should have started testing for decades ago.
> Data about me is my data

I'm sorry, but it's not. Full stop.

> If I share a photo, it’s still my photo, I still own the copyright to it, and as an American I’ve used the DMCA to revoke access to photos when tech companies wouldn’t remove my photo when asked politely.

I didn't say you don't own the photo, I said you don't have control over it. Those are two very different things.

> The rest of my data is no different.

Exactly, you have no control over it.

> I own my data and the data about me, not them.

No, you don't _own_ your data.

> GDPR gives users the controls and governance over their data that should have always existed

No, on all accounts. There is no reason at all that you need to delete accounts or force anyone to delete any information about you. That's all just silly.

> but that tech companies gaslighted users into believing doesn’t exist

That's also silly. If you don't control something, you don't control it. Full stop. I don't understand why you don't understand that.
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When I visited our friends/family in Toronto, I was walking through the community and noticed how the lawns had weeds everywhere. I was very intrigued. Don't they have laws, HOA etc. I talked about this to my friend and he said weed killers are prohibited for home use, only golf courses are allowed etc. That was an awesome news for me. I really wish weed killers are abandoned everywhere. Let nature grow, if you don't like it then just mow.
I don't see what this will actually change. If the SNB is the sole provider of money, whether electronic or currency, they will inevitably become the sole provider of loans, with the banks serving as brokers for those loans. Net zero game.
AMD is gearing up for 7-nanometer CPUs and graphics cards
> learn to sleep in your target bed.

Children aren't NPCs in a video game, tho.

Edit: Apparently they are. My mistake.
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Anatomy%20of%20a%20Program%20i...

(or click "past" under the title, also helpful to check when you submit a link)
Civilization is built on communication.
Since when is Viterbi dead?
As someone living/working outside of the US, I'm not sure if this post is a joke. Is a median of $200k actually low?
> Why not just
> Data about me is my data, and if the government gives me the right to control it, I have that right.

So if I investigate you, take your picture, etc. have I stolen from you?
Right... but for actual insomniacs this advice blows. Get diagnosed one way or the other and avoid self diagnosis.
I lived in northern NJ for a couple of years. You need to get out of that place; it's a terrible place for software engineers. The cost of living is ridiculous but the pay for engineers is mediocre at best. Move to Silicon Valley: the cost of living is only slightly more, but the pay is far higher, and the weather's a lot better too. And $35/hr 1099 is ridiculously low in that area, those are poverty wages.

Anyway, you make it sound like you can't get a job there without a recruiter. There's still plenty of companies hiring directly, I even interviewed at a few when I was there such as Alcatel at Bell Labs and some wifi company in Manhattan. My current gig is with a large company (in the DC area) that hired me directly. Stop wasting time with recruiters and just look for companies that do their own recruiting; there's no shortage out there that I've seen. I've had 8 jobs now that were not contracts and not through recruiters: 3 large corporations, 3 small companies, 1 mid-size, and one a state university research division. Am I apparently special that I'm able to find these jobs?
Same thing is also true in C++, the stdlib also uses "unsafe" pointers inside, but you can use unique, shared etc.

> You really need to lay your code in away that will satisfy the checkers.

There are some patterns that are common but problematic but are being addressed by non-lexical lifetimes. Other than that it's almost "program in C++, then fix errors".
Fair enough :) The Articles of Confederation obviously resulted in a (smaller) Confederacy in the 18th century, but as a Canadian I’m less familiar with the popular parlance that would be taught in American schools.
Is there a link between morality and adherence to process? For example, if you know something is wrong but you do it anyway, are you going to then generally avoid process because you have an internal conflict?
> If you want this analysis you should plan for it.

Yes, I should be omniscient. Thanks for clearing that up.

> Any kind of profiling or monitoring goes through several layers to ensure the minimum amount of data necessary is collected.

Yes, because they need to collect it. It's not about looking at what they have.

> If you want shipping analytics you'll have to decide that ahead of time.

Again, I'm not omniscient. I can't figure out what my company will be doing in a year, and waiting another year to collect the data I already have could see me hemorrhaging money.

> You should keep in mind that the basic premise of the GDPR is that the shipping address isn't yours to begin with. It's personal data of your customer and ultimately belongs to them.

Which is an absolutely silly notion. It is the company's data, not the users.

> If they don't allow you to use it for analytics, tough luck.

Which is silly. It's the company's data; they should be able to use it to improve their business.
FB rolling out dislike button
That only moves the point of failure from one userspace process to another. The FUSE handler can hang just like the core dump pipe helper.
> Can we just flat out assume the GDPR won't indeed be abused to scare away smaller players though?

The language of the GDPR makes frequent references to the scope of the processing activity and to its frequency. The law purposefully applies less to smaller controllers. The authorities have made their job harder for going after smaller controllers.

Moreover, the GDPR is done in the scope of the EU, which is not very litigious. Bigger players are unable to bring legal claims against smaller players in any way. The only way for them to game this system would be to fraudulently lodge complaints at the data protection authorities who would have to not notice what is going on and actually bring action against the smaller players.
hmmmmm. I may have drunk too much corporate kool-aid over the recent years. You have many valid points.
My prediction: response bias will drive only the bottom of the talent curve towards these postings.

This reinforces a bubble in which it's OK for candidates to decide what qualifies them for a job and shame companies over sour grapes.
>Shooting a terminally ill dog is not sufficient justification either

Those charges were dropped, as there is no West Virginia law outlawing shooting for euthanasia.

http://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/va-beach-man-who...
How is it counted if you see one dot that's really a far away galaxy with a billion stars all shining to make that one dot?
Maybe they're collapsing because they didn't get enough sleep.
Weedkiller, pesticides, fossil fuel emissions, food additives, preservatives, industrial run off and on and on. Does anyone look at all this at scale? With all the crap we're pumping into the air, water, and our food, I really wonder.
In APL and J at least, all operators have the same precedence, and always associate to the right, so there's never any ambiguity.