skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about physical adaptations. It's the numbers game. Fathers can spread their genes with little effort, so biologically and reproductively they are "incentivized" to generate multiple offspring and devote less time raising them. Mothers (at least for mammals) have a lot of skin in the game for each offspring (9 months worth for humans). Have you ever been pregnant? You don't want to go through that any more times than you have to.

In summary, men are more likely than women to be reproductively successful with a low effort child rearing strategy. Is it the best strategy overall in modern society? I don't think so, but you can see how we'd evolve that way.
Those dumb emails I am getting are not a problem, for me at least. Infact it’s a good opportunity to remove myself from some communications which are no longer relevant.

The biggest problem was the previous directive, which meant all EU websites display an intrusive message about cookies which needs a click to dismiss. That is the most dumb thing I encounter. And continue to encounter on a daily basis.
It doesn't say that there must be means for you to access your data, though.

And, you'll likely have to sign a waiver granting the manufacturer access to your data or they won't sell you the car.
Introducing Libmaps.nus.edu.sg: Historical Maps of Singapore
Not accurate. We had our baby at home and his DNA was never collected.
Interestingly enough, I've never heard of %G or the ISO Week. I thought I was familiar with the ups and downs of strftime but I've mostly used it through Python and the Python reference helpfully neglects to mention %G or any tricksy parameters that you may get confused by.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html
The Yogi masters were right – breathing exercises can sharpen your mind
The GDPR is certainly to blame for all of those dumb emails you're getting.

"in the UK the Information Commissioner has made it clear it won't be heavy-handed with fines"

Unless the information commissioner is immortal and is appointed for life there are no guarantees that this will always be the case. Companies read the law and see that they can be fined up to €20 million or 4% of their annual revenue (whichever is greater) and act accordingly. The GDPR is especially pernicious as its scope reaches beyond the boundaries of the European Union. If you're an American company and a single European citizen uses your services you are bound by the GDPR's regulations.

Some people claim that the court system in the EU is more judicious than the United States. For those people I want to ask "Why should I trust the opinion of the people who are going to sue me if I am found to be noncompliant". If you think the people covering their butts are being irrational, read the law again.

https://gdpr-info.eu/
As it happens I just received an email from Kickstarter informing me about their policy changes due to GDPR, the mail does not contain an not opt-out or unsubscribe link !
That is required by GDPR, or at lease good practice right ?
I guess the parent comment has been edited, because this comment seems to come out of the blue in relation to what the current parent comment says.

My personal opinion is that if you’re going to make statements like this you should back them up.

As a counter example, being a police officer would I imagine not be considered the safest of jobs. But 30% of police officers in the UK are women, and the number is steadily rising:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-workforce-...
I'm really pissed off about this. It was a really good show, based on a good series of books. It's very rare to see hard sci-fi in television, much less one appealing to a wide audience. Also the VFX team deserves a shout out here, as they managed to keep almost all visual effects physically accurate, including sneaking in scientific details at points you wouldn't ordinarily notice (like things heating up far behind invisible drive plume, sparks moving correctly on a spinning station or inside a maneuvering ship, etc.).

From what I hear, the last hope is for Amazon to pick it up. Netflix apparently is not interested. If this show gets cancelled, this will be a huge blow to both sci-fi on TV, and efforts to keep people interested in realistic space exploration.
Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll
Those emails are awesome and any company sending looks better in my book.

That said I never accept their plead, I absolutely never ever sign up to any kinds of email marketing so the ONLY reason they even attempt this is because they were doing shady business earlier.

I bet that we will see lots of complaints where companies cry of losing their audience. Well first off it was an illegal channel anyway and second noone read your mail anyway.

GDPR is one of few things that honestly gives me hope for the future of internet. It has the potential to embed a consciousness of how data is managed, both in companies and users.
I couldn't help but take that as a challenge..

> While the jaguar often employs the deep throat-bite and suffocation technique typical among Panthera, it sometimes uses a killing method unique amongst cats: it pierces directly through the temporal bones of the skull between the ears of prey (especially the capybara) with its canine teeth, piercing the brain

So maybe, maybe not.
Inline type annotations are possible in Python since 3.5, you don't have to put them into your comments any more. E.g.:

def myfunc(foo: str, bar: int) -> Tuple[str]:
# ...
Two days after that (i.e. last night), it turned out that sets are being scheduled for deconstruction. So it is really an existential threat at this point (if they tear down the sets, it'll add a big up-front cost for any party that would like to pick the show up in the future).
It doesn't seem to be working that way. I only receive informational emails that do not require any action and will not result in deletion of any data.
Just ask them. I had this world thrust uppon me, as I offered to help with night time, so now I live in SE Asia.

It's not all roses, internet connectivity and being available is a must. Travel is incredibly stressful as you need to be always online, so that means always having batteries, cables multiple phones, tools and travel SIM cards. You cannot leave anything to chance.

Get ready to be cut out of the office politick, which is great, but also means I didn't know our SVP walked out as he was signed onto the online collaboration tool for another 3 months after he stormed out. And it didn't help that he would ignore me from time to time.

Devops has more opertunity just because of the following the sun model.

So yeah, be flexible, add value and just ask, create the crissis and the solution. If only people were fully awake and always available and knew the infastructure@3am....
> Cheese is cheap, there's no need to use fresh expensive mozzarella when you're blasting it in the oven anyway

If you want a crappy pizza, then yes, you can cut on quality. A good mozzarella can make the difference.

Of course you need also the other ingredients to be of good quality (and prepared in the right way): if the bread feels and tastes like cardboard there is no point in spending money on mozzarella.
>if he had already taken steps to prevent it from happening, I’m betting he would’ve mentioned them specifically.

It said the studies have to be approved by a review board and that the researchers have to agree to destroy or return the samples when they're done.

I don't think we should cynically assume "he knows the answer is yes." He may be hedging simply because he knows it relies on the word of the researchers.

But biomedical researchers have been sensitized to issues of research ethics much longer than internet/data science practitioners. There can be significant penalties for procedural violations and in my experience people do not tend to play fast and loose with the rules.
Have you tried Fossil ?
Book crew is better, I agree. But Avasarala IMO carries the show by herself. The casting is perfect here, and I'll miss her the most.
What difference does it make if a human, dog or robot tries to book a table at a restaurant? As long as it speaks in English it doesn't matter. It's the same outcome.
Which means that it's not on Netflix UK until about 6 months later, by which time fans of hard sci-fi have either lost interest, or found other ways to watch it which are counted in nobody's revenue stream. It sucks but it's true.
I understand a lot of the changes cause pain in the academic community. There's a lot that could be better. But I really don't agree with the reproducibility issues. Python 2 doesn't "disappear". It's still available. D.Beazley did an experiment of compiling old python versions recently and went back all the way to the pre-1.0, pre-vcs versions. They still compile (with minimal changes) and still run. Old packages are still available (you should keep copies of specific versions anyway if you want reproducibility). It's not trivial, but it's not rocket surgery either.

The article also seems to think other languages are somehow immune:

> Today’s Java implementations will run the very first Java code from 1995 without changes,

Even though Java release notes document incompatible changes: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8-compatibilit...
That's why I prefer watching short serials like Band of Brothers or just straight series like Columbo or Star Trek.

Nowadays everyone wants to grab your full attention so they produce serials. When you're finally hooked on the story thanks to the neverending thread mill of cliff hangers and further unresolved mysteries they drop the show and leave you hanging. Because numbers ain't right, they show the audience the middle finger. The audience is upset, but not enough to recognize a vicious cycle that hurt them previously many times.

That's one of the reasons I don't intend to watch the new Star Trek serial. Or will watch a serial after it is naturally finished.
And Github Desktop, to name another major Electron project.
I'd rephrase it as: GPDR is to thank for those emails.

And also an indication that GPDR might be working.
> Autonomous driving systems become an ethical imperative if the systems cause fewer accidents than human drivers.

This makes a certain kind of sense if viewed totally in a vacuum, apart from any other considerations. But life is not all about the car. Is human choice unimportant? What about freedom to travel where I want and when I want? Is curtailment of those and other freedoms to be sacrificed based on statistics? Whose statistics? How will these statistics be gathered? Who will interpret them? Through what lens?

This sounds like the kind of reasoning that made it illegal in many jurisdictions to let your kids play outside on their own.
And Skype, VS Code, etc...
It seems mostly like SyFy not getting much money, since they profited off life viewers, while most people stream the show.
Even wireless headphones don't solve this problem. You still need to buy a seperate aptX low latency dongle. Obviously you can't expect every cheapass bluetooth headphone to come with aptX LL but on a $1000+ laptop or $800+ phone? Adding an aptX LL transceiver is the bare minimum you should do if you care even the tiniest bit about pushing wireless. Regular bluetooth is terrible. It's a tradeoff between convenience and quality, not an obvious incremental upgrade that you should always choose. It's strange that even in 2018 wireless still isn't better or equal than wired in every situation yet it's being forced down our throats through removal of universally compatible ports.
Timezone abbreviations (like PDT) are neither human- nor machine-readable. Avoid them.
I don't think this is quite true. Companies which are privately owned, or run by their founders tend to have long term interests. People get tied up in the idea of their 'legacy', or move beyond the ideals of mere profit and want to affect change in the world and build a world more to their liking.

It's things like that which motivated Henry Ford to pay his workers are more fair wage than his competitors.

Google's founders still control either the majority or a large plurality of the voting stock, so they can have the company align with long-term profit motives, and sustainable existence.
Yes, The Good Place came out weekly on Netflix too.
I wonder how widespread the issue might actually be, given the description at the end:

"
can allow for remote code execution provided that the application is using a vulnerable version of Electron (version < 1.7.13, < 1.8.4, or < 2.0.0-beta.3) , and hasn't manually opted into one of the following:

* Declared webviewTag: false in its webPreferences.

* Enabled the nativeWindowOption option in its webPreferences.

* Intercepting new-window events and overriding event.newGuest without using the supplied options tag.
"
50% because it is a good hard-scifi show with a lot of fans here.

50% because the distribution licensing for this show places it in a vortex at the center of traditional cable, Netflix, and Amazon. Making it an interesting case to read tea leaves and discuss the future of programming between those platforms.
Bloke, surely?
my point was, that if you use git-subrepo instead, then you get exactly that.
News is not fungible though, so even if there many good free news article, and there are, it has little relevance here. Besides, there's a great deal of good to be said for paywalls in my option, as I find most of what's funded exclusively by ads is pure trash.
A Surprising Bullying Battleground: Senior Centers
This is only if you have non-essential cookies, ie you are tracking users.
I don't understand this article. It's entire argument is there was already a law in the UK preventing unsolicited emails, but nobody was following it. Now that the GDPR has huge fines, there is a lot more liability. Seems its exactly the GDPR to blame...
> If you're an American company and a single European citizen uses your services you are bound by the GDPR's regulations.

That isn’t really true. If you have no legal presence, no employees, no offices, etc in Europe, enforcement actions cannot be taken against you.

The law may say you’re in scope, but that’s only relevant within areas where EU laws have any weight.
Pretty good if you like to watch movies with friends.
The biggest problem is that websites keep claiming to give me cookies, but never actually do. cookie monster sadface
Well, in my opinion, the users actually are always in control. Don't buy shady and addictive stuff. Or throw away, sell whatever you've got. But, let's face it, that's not a productive solution Google would suggest, right? Making good and lasting tech is really expensive, there is no denying that. But I'd rather have that, instead of shady and addictive consumer products. The tech industry always fails to deliver neutral products. Every Internet enabled gadget has some shady twist and the respective companies don't give a damn if something fails to live up to expectations of consumer neutrality.
> When was the last time the currency of a solvent country fell more than 10% within a day?

15 January 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_franc#End_of_capping the EUR and USD fell more than 20% against the CHF, in a single day.
It was consistent AFAIR, though it dropped at least once during that book. For those who haven't read (spoiler), the "spaceship speed limit" refers to a particular region of artificial space, where there was an alien object whose defense mechanisms involved capturing everything moving faster than a set limit relative to it. That limit was adjusted by the object based on perceived danger, and if you happened to cross it, you'd be slowed down without any regard to what sudden high deceleration does to you.

Personally, I liked the protomolecule stuff, and my biggest complain was that there's so little of it in the books. 90% of the writing involves bog-standard real physics, and the protomolecule trickery only shows up occasionally.
The automated trucks and cash registers his post refers to cannot be "thousands of miles away in China" and serve their intended purpose.
No, because they believe that they're obliged to inform you. It isn't marketing.
Approaches to software reuse
I speak Russian and listened to the demos. IMO this AI is trained to be shockingly offensive (especially 2nd call). I feel compassion for the girl answering, she is scared AF. Voice, intonation, and attitude sound like from a debt collector.

P.S. Congrats to the team! This is amazing, just make it more friendly! ;)
What about accidental releases in the public network? We know it's just a matter of time before someone makes a mistake.
Show HN: Golang Client and Library for NewsAPI.org
Xilinx Virtex 7 FPGA bitstream has been reverse engineered
That's sad to hear hope it's just a false rumour
> The dotcom crash of 2001 wiped out 99% of SoftBank’s market value.

> But one investment—$20m sunk into Alibaba—is regarded as one of the best in history. The Chinese internet titan went public in 2014 in the world’s biggest IPO. SoftBank’s 28% stake in the firm is now worth $140bn.

Frankly that's luck. No doubt he is smart and has smart people working for him but that's pure luck.
All but one gone and that tiny $20 mil investment saves it all.
S2 has more "wow, awesome" than S1, and then the few S3 episodes that aired so far beat the crap out of S2. VFX work got better and better as the show progressed.
Replacement legislation was intended to come into force alongside GDPR; it's now expected in 2019
I'd add ReasonML to the Facebook list - one of the most promising general purpose languages out there, IMO.
Maybe we need different words for all these different meanings of happiness.

In addition to these 3 definitions of happiness in the article, here another one: miserable happiness. Examples: startups, babies, gym. You feel exhausted, miserable and helpless while feeling a different kind of, a more meaningful, happiness inside.
I've found there are situations where primitives are fine and wrapping doesn't add much value, e.g., (using F#)

let calcCorrelation (symbol1:string) (symbol2:string) = ...

Here, calling the function with misordered arguments won't change the result, so the wrapping\unwrapping friction doesn't have much ROI.

but here, where 'beta' is the slope of a least-squares fitted line:

let calcBeta (stockSym:string) (indexSym:string) = ...

that's a mistake waiting to happen, because if you accidentally flip the arguments when you call the function you get a different number. Better to have:

type StockSymbol = StockSymbol of string
type IndexSymbol = IndexSymbol of string
let calcBeta (IndexSymbol index) (StockSymbol stock) = ...

then call the function like this:

let beta = calcBeta (IndexSymbol "SPX") (StockSymbol "AMZN")

Of course you could still make a mistake:

let beta = calcBeta (IndexSymbol "AMZN") (StockSymbol "SPX")

but that would stick out like a sore thumb.
Assuming this is US-based because of the domain name, $750/month is not a business, its a salary. And a fine salary at that. But lets be clear about what it is - the challenges here are growing it beyond a salary.
Ha, nice crap ;)

I've been using Parcel for a couple of weeks now (Vue) and there are definitely some rough edges to it - but overall it's been far less cumbersome than Webpack. There are a couple sticky bugs with PostCSS imports, and the fact that you seemingly cannot do inline background-images currently (parser doesn't seem to be able to pick them out for the repathing) is a bit of a killer. But it seems like the team has some good velocity so hopeful things get worked out.
Both nationalism nor patriotism barely make sense any more. Time are changing. When Orwell wrote this piece he was influenced by the war, extreme situations like wars or famines always cloud your judgements.

I recommend reading the seemingly unrelated The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell. It describes the skills that would be necessary to rebuild civilisation after a hypothetical global cataclysm. Why is it relevant? If you read it, you will realize that all of civilization is fundamentally based on global markets and the global shipping of crude oil and other resources. Without these, nearly all technologies of daily life would break down in a very short time frame, including agriculture and medicine. The connections and dependences between countries are massive and completely unavoidable at our current level of technological development. In the long run, all countries have to work together or modern society will fail. (It may also fail because the resources dwindle extremely fast, viewed at an evolutionary time scale. Expanding mankind into space is unavoidable, or at least robot mining will be needed.)

Add to this the fact that we can communicate in real-time with the whole world and get news about distant events and politics within minutes, and patriotism starts to appear in a completely different light - as a silly appeal to traditions with no substance. Bear in mind that nations are entirely artificial entities and territorial conflicts have become (almost) impossible due to the global trade dependences.

This doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with mild forms of patriotism, of course, just that there are no particular advantages to it in the long run.

In a nutshell, we live in an essentially transnational society and this cannot change unless you're willing to give up almost all of modern technology.
ah,thanks for the clarification !
It's also that they had insufficient recording of how consent was given (which GDPR was stricter on).

So lots of firms, including some I've worked with, have huge mailing lists with addresses from multiple sources and are _pretty sure_ they got consent in all of those cases, but have no way of showing that if asked.
Beyond a quiet place to work (which I have) and decent management (which I have) I'm really not fussed about perks.

My boss insists I don't work over time (and if I need to do anything on a weekend I get the time back in lieu).

So while yeah they are basic perks I'll take no perks if I can have the above every day of the week.

For me as a programmer, 9-5 Mon to Friday every week, week in/week out is perfect - Work/Life balance is the best I've ever had since I moved to working as a programmer full time.
> so long as what you build works.

You mean, ships on time.
PR&D?
Its too late to edit, but I already solved this problem by simply running it on my windows computer. The nice part about javascript huh?

Anyway, I really wish I had a better understanding of how I could modify files to fix path issues. This is a common problem.
> If you're an American company and a single European citizen uses your services you are bound by the GDPR's regulations.

This is false. I blogged about this topic a while ago: https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2018-04-17-should-no...

The criterium for whether a non-EU company needs to comply to GDPR is: does the company intent to seriously service EU citizen? This is determined based on multiple factors, such as the website's language (do they have e.g. German translations?), providing pricing in euros, testimonials from EU customers, or having a contract with a parcel company with the specific intention of delivering to EU customers. The mere fact that the website can be used by an EU citizen is not enough to have it fall under the GDPR.

Source: the book "Handbook GDPR, Compliance in practice" (page 11) by Arnoud Engelfriet & co, a Dutch IT lawyer. https://ictrecht.nl/boeken/handboek-avg-compliance-in-de-pra...