skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in Seattle for seven years, and what I observed there was that people there are shy (not snobby or cliquish, as the "Seattle Freeze" stereotype implies), which means you need to approach them because they will never approach you. When I put energy into introducing myself to people, I always got good results and I made a lot of friends that way. In contexts where a conversation started before names were exchanged (like hanging out with the smokers outside), I noticed that people seemed relieved once I introduced myself. I've shared this with friends, some who have tried it with similar good results.

Another interesting dynamic in Seattle is that people seem to assume all the people they know already know each other, which means nobody tries to introduce people. I have an old friend up there who used to insist I already knew people I hadn't met, which was frustrating. The result of this tendency is a social network with a highly connected center and a lot of poorly connected leaves. This structure really revealed itself when my social network was struck by a tragedy where several people were victims of a shooting -- there was a group of people who all had direct connections to at least one victim, and another group who didn't know any of the victims personally but a majority of their friends had. I was in the latter group and I found it very strange.

It was a huge contrast when I moved to the Bay Area, where people assumed everyone was a transplant and went out of their way to do introductions. I was at a party once where I was reintroduced to the same person four times -- someone who I had already met years earlier.
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That's when they passed the bill I think, but as the article says:

> [...] is to stop serving users in Europe ahead of a new data protection enforcement regime incoming under GDPR, which applies from May 25.
Thanks, I forgot to mention sankin-kotai. It was also set up as a way to prevent the daimyos from amassing enough money to build up an army - they were supposed to spend lavishly along the entire route between their residences and Edo.
I think the GP is assuming that there will be services that don’t close to the EU; nor become 100% GDPR compliant for every user; but rather become GDPR-compliant for EU users while continuing to sell the data of non-EU users.
> Or they are not actually doing anything shady, but the revenue coming in from the EU is not sufficient to justify the increased costs and liabilities.

Refusing to protect your users from your own predatory use of their personal data because the ROI isn't there is still shady.
Samsung drives also rely on DRAM which isn't Powerloss safe.
I don't think they have to enforce that very strictly. If the user incorrectly answers "No" to being a resident of EU, I doubt the company could be sued for violating the rights of "dishonest" EU users.

As a matter of fact I wonder how a company without physical presence in the EU could ever be fined for any violations. And even if they can be fined on paper, I doubt many non-EU countries will cooperate collecting the fines.
There is some deep history here that has been barely reported on at all by any journalist, anywhere. It happened in many industries, in many political groups.

Rumsfeld et al started this bigtime in the 80s, selling and giving tech and IP to several asian countries for diplomatic favors. We were not consulted as to why at the time, just forced to make ourselves highly available for several Chinese government partners that were very interested in some of our advances, particularly in networking and manufacturing.

This song and dance apparently accelerated in the G W years, but by then all half our company had shut down and I had abandoned tech for the second time.
Pretending managerial shit is delicious won't make _corporate culture_ any more palatable.

Blah.
exec is a reserved keyword in Python. The _ is there because the code wouldn't "compile" otherwise.
Haha! Yes, that reaction happens a lot - a friend tried to discourage me from doing it actually for that reason, but I told him I'd just rename it if it became burdensome. So far it has only been a little bit burdensome.

Bank account was actually incredibly easy, that is the one I expected to be difficult, too. I had no problems at all, I made an account with the usual process. Should note I'm using one of those new-fangled 'challenger banks' so they're probably quite tech savvy/their systems aren't 50 years old, that probably helped.

The worst one has been the domain name, oddly. I wanted to get the .ltd.uk domain name (only available to registered companies in the UK) to basically complete/highlight the joke. But, I have been waiting for over a year or something now for it to actually be registered, it keeps being rejected by the registrar (there is a weird validation process to make sure you're a real company, etc). I could have sped it up by trying with a better registrar who are more aggressive at getting things done, probably, I had a few offers from smaller registrars - but I just went for the .co.uk in the end instead.
it's not about what "computers can't do", it's about what "biology can't do". Or more, appropriately, "what you could maybe push biology's round peg into a square hole and force it to do but we should probably stop and think about whether it's worth the effort".
Can you give an example of what you refer to?

In my impression, most of the redundancy in the C world comes from the header/code seperation, i.e. all the signatures are repeated. Another level of redundancy was added by C++ templates where one quickly needs to write lengthy expressions, but the newer C++ standards resolved much of that thanks to the "auto a = b" type keyword or the "use X = Y" definitions.

Note that "CPY" addresses none of these issues.
Nope, GDPR was adopted in 2016. It just hasn't been enforced for the last two years in order to give companies time to transition.
Sensor Tower: Mobile game spending hit $48.3B in 2017
Score one for GDPR. Between this and the umpteen services forced to purge my address unless I "resubscribe" (when of course I never subscribed in the first place), it has already achieved concrete results. If only the EU could also fix the mess with cookies and VAT, we could say we're finally entering an era of decent lawmaking over the digital space.
I guess it could help answer the "should I give this website any information?" question, unless you're advocating never giving any information to any website.
This is very true. It would be elegant if "CPY" compiled to these newer C++ features (or boost).
`exec` is a python built-in (in py3, it was a keyword in py2). Variables that would clash names with keywords / built-is are conventionally followed by an _, so `exec_` is expected.

I agree on your first example.
So to say it "came into force" before its being enforced is at best a poor choice of words.
I think I qualify as a legitimate historian in this situation (I actually did buy a plane ticket to Rome last year and spent a week looking through physical texts at the Vatican archives). I'm thrilled by any efforts to digitize and OCR this texts and so is everyone else I know who does archival work. So I don't really know where the tone of dismissal/cynicism I'm picking up in your posts is coming from.

As anyone who does archival work will tell you, one of the biggest problems is the "too much to know" issue: it's basically physically impossible to look at every relevant page of every relevant text when you only have at most a few months to a year to do your field work. So aside from the convenience aspect of being able to double check your work without flying back to Rome (or wherever), OCR also offers a qualitatively different style of research that lets you trawl for words or phrases across a very large corpus. That's super valuable for doing intellectual or cultural history, or biography.
So, everyone seems to be celebrating the blow stricken against this seemingly unscrupulous company. Fair enough.

But doesn't anybody else think this has at least some worrying optics of censorship?

Are we going to end up with another great firewall around Europe? And are you sure that only companies which enjoy a consensus as evil will be clawing the outside?

Won't the internet interpret this as damage and route around it?
Nirv's recommendation below is spot on, but here's a ready-made version as well: https://github.com/ejrv/linuxconfigs/blob/master/etc/ssh/ssh...

It's basically a clone of Mozilla's, except enforcing only the very strictest encryption. You can just lift the first 16 lines out of that and merge them into your sshd_config if you don't want to change your existing sshd_config too much.
https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/dataprotection....

Hasn't received royal assent yet?
The Python standard library itself also breaks the PEP8 naming convention in all the ways PyQt does so their decision really makes sense. If Python itself were consistent the trade-off would be different...

I find PyQt to be Pythonic in all the ways that count, e.g. replacing `self.setFoo(bar)` with `self.foo = bar`, decorators for signals/slots, etc.
> if its for business reasons

How could a company use it for anything else?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16991980

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992481

I was responding to the objection that even if we were building unlimited new housing, the new stuff would be unaffordable to those on the bottom. And one solution to that is to pay them more relative to those on the top.

I think it's obvious to people who don't own or live in rent controlled places that we need more housing overall. I was just responding to the fair objection that more housing, by itself, isn't enough to house people who are massively underpaid.
Parent was taking about PEP8, which is purely syntactic. I would argue that has very little to do with structure and behaviour. It's completely superficial.
LITTLE BOBBY TABLES you say?
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11244754
I always keep multiple bobby table contacts in multiple variations in my address book in case it gets leaked somehow.
It's not the "fastest SSD" on all metrics. My laptop's NVMe SSD, a Samsung PM981, benchmarks at 2100 MB/s sequential reads, whereas the Optane 905P measures only 1669 MB/s in Tom's Hardware bench.
I’m no GDPR expert, but wouldn’t it apply to data of European citizens even if they’re not the customer? Since unroll.me slurps up email, don’t they still have to comply with all the rules for data because presumably some of that email data originates from the EU?
Bloomberg claim 256% debt:gdp ratio, but it's hard to collaberate. China doesn't appear on Business Insiders list from 2015 [0], which has Japan at 250%ish. Trading economics [1] has China at 48% government debt:gdp

Household debt isn't that bad either, however the grauniad has the answer -- corporate debt is sky-high [2]. It also mentions that by this measure (Corporate + household + government debt), the U.S. is 331%. It's an interesting article, albeit from 2 years ago

[0] http://uk.businessinsider.com/wef-countries-with-highest-lev...

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/china/government-debt-to-gdp

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/16/chinas-debt...
This was the same question I had. According to the recent Federal Data, California had a GDP $2.747 trillion[0]. In 2016, Los Angeles' GDP was a little over 1 trillion by itself[1].

A quick search revealed this too[2] (because I was curious about the impact "Hollywood" has on the economy):

> According to a recent report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, motion picture and sound recording jobs accounted for just 2.4 percent of the private sector labor force in the city of L.A. in 2015.

(Note: I couldn't quickly find total Hollywood revenue, plus there's the "creative accounting" issue[3] too)

It's certainly a rabbit hole of data analysis.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/california-economy-ranks-5th-...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183822/gdp-of-the-los-an...

[2] http://www.laweekly.com/news/how-much-does-hollywood-contrib...

[3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hollywood+creative+accounting&ia=w...
Have you used one in a desktop? Can you feel the difference in speed between Optane and NAND they way you can feel the difference between a SSD and a HDD?
You should offer a hosted version. This would make it more sustainable.
The treadmill was invented as a prison rehabilitation device
Do you have external investment? Do you have any users?

How close is your friend?

Get a lawyer, and ask about the steps to get a friendly written agreement. At the beginning of a startup the standard agreement is a 4 years vesting with a 1 year cliff. If the initial split is 50%-50%, with the 4 year vesting your friends gets 3%, but with the 1 year cliff your friend gets 0%. I don't know how this work when you don't have anything in written and you want to split your ways now. Get a lawyer!

One of the popular lawyers here is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas , but I don't know if he does this type of work.
I don't understand this Dairy reference. where can I learn mo?
Yes, but tbh even PySide was originally "officially supported" by Qt, when Nokia owned it; and then it was dropped. So the question is whether it will continue to be supported.

The owners of PyQt (Riverbank) depend on that product to survive; whereas Qt has bigger fish to fry most of the time. The incentives are very different.
Social networks, but also automated manufacturing and cheap shipping around the world.
GDPR isn't a directive. It came into force in 2016 in all of the EU member states.
Im not sure this is true. Looking at the graph, the 970 outperforms the optane for sequential reads whereas the optane outperforms in the 4k random read/write range. So, it would seem that cases which are more sequential than random which include watching/streaming video/assets would run faster on the 970. So video game enthusiasts would still prefer the 970. If you're running a database, that 4k random read rate would seem to boost performance by quite a margin. Or am I missing something?
If that's going to be the sort of business that the GDPR makes unprofitable and unworkable then I'm very proud to be a European citizen.

This is the sort of business that GDPR makes unprofitable and unworkable - but unfortunately it's not the only sort. Normal, everyday services - sites that you might use and enjoy - will also have to close to EU traffic simply to avoid the liability.

At my company, we do nothing nefarious with user data. We have a combined total of a few million visitors per month across a handful of sites. After consultation with experts, we had to make the decision to either spend high six/low seven figures to hopefully comply and buy special liability insurance that would help pay any fines (this law is subject to unique interpretations in 28 distinct countries, so nobody can actually know what "full" compliance is), or simply block EU traffic. We chose the latter, and many thousands of other sites that have no intention of doing anything nefarious with your data will as well.
I react allergically to a lot of things, yet doctors only ever identified one thing that I was officially allergic to in their opinion. Just removing stuff from my life that I react badly to has done wonders.

Not intended as argumentative. More like food for thought.

Best of luck in finding answers that work for you.
The Japanese nearly invaded Korea again in 1873, funnily enough, for the same reason. Saigo Takamori saw it as an opportunity for the thousands of newly-unseated samurai to find honourable work (or death). When the government failed to take Toyotomi's lesson and refused, he revolted instead and found an end for the samurai at Shiroyama.
There was at least one that landed on the front page this week.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306
I don't understand what you're asking. Python is completely unlike scheme.

The type situation irks me because I do ocaml for a living, so I rely on the type system a lot. Scheme reminds me of a more seductive flavor of FP, though sometimes it's cumbersome to ensure that a data structure isn't being subtly changed somewhere.
I appreciate you're trying to help with this list, but as somebody who suffers from depression, I can't really imagine anything more harmful.

If you're suffering from depression, you're likely in partial denial. Going to a doctor represents a big change, and a big acknowledgement. Techniques like 'getting sunlight' and 'doing exercise' are infinitely more attractive - and infinitely more likely to degrade into new ways of beating yourself up and blaming yourself for your medical condition.

Some people can deal with depression with meditation, self-care, and better routine. Many, however, cannot. Folk remedies are like mirages for this second group - and they put people in a circle of denial, incomplete action, and self-blame, where they try to solve their illness with ultimately ineffective remedies, then blame themselves for the ineffectiveness of the treatment.

Pills, doctors, and psychiatrists are scary. As long as a depressed person believes there's a more normal option, that's what they'll go for. So this whole smorgsaboard of things that might help somebody somehow are really just a bunch of chimeras that keep people living in hell.

I know this because I've done this. I went through a period of simply trying everything anybody recommended, no matter how ridiculous. Predictably, nothing worked. Drugs work. Therapy works. Asking a doctor what they recommend works. Random studies you read on the internet by people who may or may not have had the same kind of depression you have, with p-values of like, 0.1, do not work, and do not help.
As someone who also rejected a company because their drinking culture seemed like a big part of their identity (and I don't drink), it depends. In this case, I could sense it was big enough of a contrast to who I am that it wasn't the type of space I wanted to work. There's enough fish in sea to find a better fit.
There is an inherent conflict with that kind of business model.
If your product were simple enough, that would reduce your opportunities for consulting.

So to rope in consulting offers, you'd be inclined to add complexity and config options to generate more avenues for consulting.
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It hasn't been enforced because the law itself says it shall apply from the 25th of may 2018 (art.99 par. 2).

So no, the GDPR is not in force yet.
My wifi name is a drop_table NETWORKS injection. Never heard of it affecting anything though.
"There’s some number at which Amazon might think, “We are now sufficiently good at predicting what you want to buy. Why are we waiting for you to shop at all? We’ll just ship it.”

This is one of the most politically, economically, and psychologically tone deaf things I've read this year.
But you knew what I meant.

In hindsight I should've clarified that my opinion originates from a layman. I am not a doctor or psychiatrist or anything of the sort.

Thanks for the correction!
A random cool thing using Haxe I ran into recently: http://armory3d.org/ "Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration"
>Trump won because he was the only one who really ran on the collapse of the interior as an issue.

I feel that while this is why Trump won, Bernie ran on a similar platform. However, Bernie didn't end up becoming the nominee, and we all know what happened next.
>Since he took office, however, Trump has paid minimal attention to boosting US manufacturing. Instead, he’s favored counterproductive protectionism and ignored currency manipulation, preferring the punitive over the constructive.

If those are counterproductive methods to boosting manufacturing, what would productive methods look like?
Are there any initiatives out there that offer training/guidance in designing systems where even if someone's credentials are compromised, it doesn't really matter. When there are systems out there that still store passwords in an insecure manner and don't require a second form of authentication, then all the training in the world about password hygiene and recognizing phishing attempts won't fix the actual problem.
So they don’t think privacy matters?
there isn't anything wrong with using dram for buffering, as long as flushes are respected. is that the case with samsung?
> Qt (the foundation) does not officially support PyQt.

But the project owners (Riverbank) support PyQt just fine, and arguably much better than Qt ever supported PySide in any previous incarnation.
Yes, several times a week. She is a parathyroid surgeon.
This was fantastic. I watched this last night and wanted to come back and thank you for sharing.
How the Black Point Message Crashes Android Apps [video]
The ongoing bailout list of the financial system
I think you need to read your quote again. A productive approach would focus on currency manipulation instead of protectionism.
> collects an email address as part of the registration [..] they may well be shut out of the EU now

Why would that be?

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding and/or uncertainty about the scope of the GDPR. The fact itself that you know, for a fact, there is no malicious intent, means that the GPDR will have little to no bearing on you.

If you're having a simple free e-mail raffle of goodies for a list of players that signed up for that, there's nothing that prevents you from doing that. What would change is that if someone asks you what you have on them, you have to mail back "we have your email address in a list of email addresses", and you have to really delete it if they request it.

These are things any decent company would normally comply with regardless. It's only problematic if you would be harvesting data for non-transparent purposes, but that's not something that could reasonable be included with "zero malicious intent".
There's the stories of people named Null that make various systems crash or reject them, probably because they coerce to strings before checking for a "null" value.
Not sure if you're trying to reference something with suggestion of DB ?
That's great! I hope more companies like these follow their footsteps.
I am not an expert myself. But how should the EU enforce anything against a company that doesn't do business with EU citizens? They can't restrict any market access and they have no jurisdiction outside the EU.
You doubt that they keyboards lacked arrow keys? Just look at an ASR-33 (teletype) keyboard or ADM3A. The latter had arrows printed on the hjkl keys but there was no special way to generate “arrow” key presses — those terminals sent 7-bit ASCII characters directly. Look at what # and @ do in cooked mode — THAT goes back to Multics.

The teletype was a printing terminal and the ADM3A was a “glass teletype” — essentially a printing terminal too.

It’s possinle to write a lot of good code this way
Why AlphaGo Zero Is Not a Sign of Imminent Human-Level AI
> “It is worrisome that they are eating the seed corn...If we lose all our faculty, it will be hard to keep preparing the next generation of researchers.”

It is interesting to note that in our free-market(ish) society, preparing the next generation of researchers is not as valued as working at a BigCo or a Unicorn. If AI professors are in high demand relative to the supple, basic economics dictate that their prices should spike up. Then why aren't these professors getting paid a lot more to continue teaching?
Oh right, I see what you mean now. Yeah, pure technically the law came in to force in 2016.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:...

> This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

"This Regulation" referring to the General Data Protection Regulation. The date on the journal is 4 May 2016, so GDPR entered into force on 20 May 2016.
Kickstarter and 3D printers?
I noticed an almost complete lack of 3D printers on Kickstarter.

Something going on?

End of an era or not yet?