skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FAQ is referencing the legal concepts in the law's text. For example "sensitive data":

"(...) including for the processing of special categories of personal data (‘sensitive data’)", special categories are mentioned on Article 9. "(...) personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation"

Do you store or transfer or process any of that data on a large scale? Is it personally identifiable? "Processing" is defined on Article 4.

I believe the original legal text, though not the easiest to read, gives you a fairly clear idea on where your organization or project should stand with respect to GDPR.

(1) What data do you process?
(2) How is it connected to your economic activity?
(3) How do users consent this use of the data?
(4) Is your data "sensitive data"?

If you're some random guy online doing large scale processing of "sensitive data" you better hire a law firm with GDPR expertise to understand and comply with the law, I mean, that's the whole point.
The neatest part of this article was the fact that these trains used to operate by sail. It's a strange image to imagine but it makes a lot of sense for an incredibly windy area with rails.

My uncle is actually a tiny train enthusiast. He bought really old schematics for a full-size steam powered locomotive and scaled them down, machining every little piece from blocks of metal.

He has been working on it for 20+ years; he originally planned for his grandchildren to get to play with it but they're all adults now. Maybe it will be ready in time for his great grandchildren.
> In software, in my opinion, fewer problems are well understood at the moment, and so we tend to avoid waterfall.

Or if the problem is that well-understood, there's an off-the-shelf solution so good nobody seriously thinks about re-implementing it.

> However, if someone wanted me to set up a webserver to serve static files that don't change? I'm 99% sure I could set up nginx on a virtual machine "fully waterfall" and have no problems.

Exactly. That's barely software development. That's using fully-commoditized components in well-understood fashions to achieve a well-understood goal.

You could script that. I'm sure some places have.
And it's good that it wasn't allowed. Otherwise we'd just have medium sized companies worrying about GDPR while large companies spawn one-man shell companies that "specialise in data processing".
Rank of the college matters in my opinion. It's unfortunate but it does create opportunities. High-ranked public universities are often really great, but usually comparable in total cost to private ones (with savings for being in-state in some cases).

But yes if you only gain admission to the long tail of private colleges, then you would almost certainly be wiser to go to a low-cost public school.

I wouldn't want my kids to consider community college unless they had to. By definition, I'd like them to have the same academic opportunities I had, if possible.
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A lot of that is due to massive increases in our capabilities in astronomy. The '90s saw the advent of proper space telescopes, a whole slew of new giant ground based telescopes, and instrumentation that had gotten better by leaps and bounds. That was followed by new kinds of instruments becoming more common (infrared and x-ray telescopes, dedicated planet hunting telescopes) along with a rolling wave of new discoveries in astronomy, cosmology, and astrophysics (measuring the age of the universe precisely, detecting the acceleration of the universe, nailing down the energy and matter composition of the universe, detecting exoplanets, detecting colliding black holes and then neutron stars, etc.)

Today the field is in a state where technology and expertise is at a mature enough level to where certain capabilities are increasing rapidly year over year which has meant that new questions and new fields of study keep piling up even as old questions get answered. This is definitely an exciting time to be alive if you care about this sort of stuff. When I was a kid the error margins on the age of the Universe were laughably large, now they are a fraction of a percent.
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ICO is just the UK regulator. How about the regulators of the other 28 EU states?
> As in "not using the blockchain" otherwise known as "not using bitcoin".

You don't understand Bitcoin

> Cause last I checked the days of individuals being able to profitably mine bitcoin at home are long gone.

You don't understand Bitcoin https://powercompare.co.uk/bitcoin-electricity-cost/

> What if that hardware wallet gets lost or stolen? What if they forget the key?

You don't understand Bitcoin or the concept of backups
Many people (regardless of gender) no longer know how to do any of these things. I've learned a lot about moisture management, mold growth, roof functioning, etc over some years of homeownership, a lot of it from my husband who learned it from his grandfather. Many of my peers have no idea about any of it.

The tasks you mention are amazingly important. However, many people today feel "male-coded" tasks encompass the following alone: take out trash, mow lawn, take car for oil change or car wash, set up TV. That set of tasks is not complex.
How do we know the answer is no? Maybe Google’s software can do what they say but they didn’t demo that.

Thay supposedly made a call (won’t release proof) to a restaurant (that they won’t name) and talked to a receptionist (who didn’t mention the restaurant name) that didn’t ask what time the reservation was for. And you couldn’t hear the restaurant in the background.

The demo is really suspicious. They deserve to be called on it. For all we know that was a recording of a fake training/test call with a Google employee.

If they manipulated the audio in some way (cut out an intro, filtered out noise, etc) they just have to say so.

Google deserves this kind of scrutiny. They’re a MASSIVE company, they should be able to handle these kind of questions about new products.

Especially those that are supposed to be released in the next few months.
Just because you either lucked out, or didn't have the testing to find what actually broke, doesn't make waterfall a good model.

The most well defined piece of software I know of, sel4, had a full machine checkable formal proof up front, and they still ran into issues during implementation that required them to go back and modify the spec.
To avoid this sort of information leak, they'd have to build out their own cell infrastructure. This would be prohibitively expensive, even for a company with as much money as Apple.

Operating as a MVNO wouldn't help; the parent carrier can still collect data from their customers.
They just killed the try page entirely. It's now a redirect to the home page. Hopefully they don’t try to bring that page back up without fixing all the bugs...
Come visit Huntsville, AL, sometime. It's the home of U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command. The airport is full of posters and displays for various defense contractors.
The difference is the flu virus keeps mutating while with phages you have a large collection and choose the ones that work on the infection the patient has.

The big problem with the flu vaccine is the lead times are so long (6 months) that the vaccine producers need to guess what strains will be circulating 6 months ahead. Since they lack a crystal ball they often get it wrong. The only real advance with the cellular vaccines is for people allergic to egg.

I am not that hopeful that a universal flu vaccine will get funded.
To each their own!
Which historical details? The fact that the US was extremely racist but the immigrants managed to integrate by focusing on work and adapting instead of spiting and complaining about the host country?
It's in the text of the legislation. Chapter 7 sets out the requirements for the European Data Protection Board to ensure consistent application of the regulations across all member states.

Article 83 states that any penalties must be proportionate to the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement, the intentional or negligent character of the infringement, action taken to prevent or mitigate an infringement and the degree of cooperation with the supervisory authority.

https://gdpr-info.eu/
Welcome to government work. As long as the acronyms are right, the expansions can change daily.
> Commitments go both ways: don’t back out from investors — or feel guilty if investors back out from your seed round — after the following 4 steps have been completed

This sentence does not make sense to me as written. Based on the first clause, I assume it's supposed to mean that neither party can back out. But I just don't see this meaning in the two clauses that follow. Is the first clause ("don't back out from investors") telling investors what to do, or telling the founders what to do?
That's kind of aggressive. I was not / am not either directly or indirectly involved with this work.
What is probably a good thing?

And what exactly are you projecting will happen in this scenario?

Are you asserting that the addition of professional policing has meant less projecting of racial violence by the state?
Not only is that vague, it's not the same thing. Polling stakeholders isn't embedding or involving.
I'm sure the person you're replying to is also talking in the 'rightful' sense. While the data collected technically belongs to you, it can still be a privacy violation. This is extremely important on the web where it's very easy to share that data, make it public or accidentally leak it.
Babies drink milk. Your source mentions "chewing harder foods" but not babies.

Some people don't even have wisdom teeth, so that seems like a mutation that had been spreading, not caused by chewing softer foods.
The oddest thing to me about this story was the impression that, if he'd just marked up his travel packages a lot (which it sounds like he was doing anyway) and not in addition failed to deliver, he could actually have made even more money (because it would have lasted longer). But then, perhaps it would have been a lot more work.

I also had the impression that Radcliff, the "friend", might have been the same guy using a third name.
Even without passing loops you could do it by simply swapping trains when you meet.
Landsat is 30m.

There is also Sentinel2 (which is 10m) that can be used commercially.

Obviously DigitalGlobe (and recently Planet) do better with <1m resolution but it seems to be more expensive and (sub)licensing might be non-trivial (at least they are vague in pricing details).
Each day on my walk to work, I pass by a couple houses for sale. They are on .25 acre lots, less than a mile from the beach, and likely to sell for about $250,000 each.

That is, uh, about 10% of the San Francisco cost or 20% of the general Bay Area cost. Salaries are more like 50%, and of course that also means a lower income tax bracket. Other stuff is cheaper too, like food and gasoline. Last I checked, the price of gasoline was about 50% of what you have to pay.

The finances work out fine. I have 11 kids.

At age 35, probably 2/3 of the childbearing years are gone. (could be all gone, could have another dozen years) You'd better hurry.
Thanks for the write up!

All I can say is wow.

I was going to poke around that site yesterday after I saw the article, because looking at their website it really looked like there had to be some vulnerabilities. What you tried is exactly the kind of thing I would have looked at first.

Yep, there’s no way you’re the first to find this. Honestly I’m at a loss for words how absurd this is. We just need to assume this was actively exploited for who knows how long.
That may explain why a lot of people stay put once they have achieved a certain level.
The demo was not amazing. Take the the original Eliza/Doctor program. Take the "Hello, this is Lenny!" program/recordings. Mix those with some basic speech recognition...

The software might be good, better than what other teams would have produced, but I can't really tell that from a couple of carefully selected (and edited) recordings.
I took it. I'm 41 and all my teeth are fine. I have one filling, for a cavity that my dentist claimed was caused by a sealant that didn't fall off when it should have.
> Nigerians are primarily Muslims.

More like 50%/50%

> What about Indians? Who are usually either Hindu or Muslim?

Most are Hindu or Sikh
> The law doesn't make something right.

I absolutely agree. If you feel a law is wrong, it is your absolute right to say so and demand change. This is the basis of all law and civilisation. The consensus of what is right-or-wrong is what makes a society.

Go for it.
Hm, guess the down votes are for the useless remark in brackets at the end, which I already hesitated before hitting "reply"; was genuinely trying to recall. (And probably for the chiding of the post author in the first paragraph.)

Live and learn.
> Someone shouldn't have a right to come into my house and tear up a piece of paper in my drawer if I happened to write something about them on it

They don't have that right. GDPR only applies to business. If you mean you wrote it in your house for some business reason then yeah they have the right to know you've done so and why and the right to ask you to remove it if you don't need to have that information.

In no situation do they have the right to come into your house. That's a touch too far into the absurd.
Altera/Intel has had OpenCL support for years now
Luckily there is (slow) progress on making good open source tools[1]. The Xilinx 7-series FPGAs were recently reverse-engineered too[2].

[1] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/03/17/playing-with-picorv32-...

[2] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray
A lot of it appears to be going to chronic, late, and end-stage medical care.

And it's not the aides providing 24/7 coverage, who are getting rich. (Having been dealing increasingly with this, recently with some friends. Most of the aides are immigrants who are making relatively low hourly wages. The bills, however, can (well) exceed the full household expenses for a staunchly middle-class family of four. And many eventual estates have to pay those until they're more or less broke, when the government picks up.)

I need to reduce my commenting. This here is anecdote. And I'm pretty steamed about what I've been watching happen in the U.S., for the past 3+ decades.
I suspect it's going to be a bit like IR35 in the UK. Menacing on first glance, but so broad in it's definition that any court is going to struggle to draw the hard conclusions for anything that isn't what the law was explicitly created to prevent.
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I'll never understand why the software development community as a whole seems to have such an NIH attitude to software project management. Meaning, why aren't our people studying what works in other industries and figuring out how to apply it to our industry?

Is it some conceit that software development is somehow truly unique compared to the problems and concerns faced by other industries? That's dumbfounding to me if so.

Our industry is barely 70 years old and hardly anybody seems interested in stealing the best ideas and practices from other industries that in some cases have been around for thousands of years.
Is "large scale" defined?
Many stone age people definitely lived in constant stress 24/7. A rival tribe could raid your village at any moment and kill/rape/enslave you.
Only from the one pod. In all these multirotor deals, there will be other pods to make a net zero torque: not necessarily all the same pod to cancel itself out.
> In fairness many Catholics don't accept Protestants as Christians either.

If any Catholic actually thinks this, they must be deeply ignorant of Catholic theology. According to the Catholic Church, anyone baptised using water and with a Trinitarian formula is Christian. Most Protestant denominations baptise people in this way, so most baptised Protestants are Christians according to traditional Catholic theology.

(And this is not something new introduced with Vatican II either, it historically dates back to the Donatist schism in 4th century North Africa.)
They were considered white. (Italians and Greeks weren't though)
Use private-public key cryptography and just sign the video.
It is Planet X not Planet IX and they want our women! Get your tropes right. :-)

Does anyone know off hand the limit for reflected light from the Sun in terms of detection? Assuming a rockie planet is 'cold' and has a diameter 'd', at what distance is its magnitude so low that it is only detectable by star occlusion rather than reflected sunlight.
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You have a very extreme definition of waterfall. Waterfall doesn't mean that the spec is absolutely immutable. You will always find things to change in any effort of some complexity.
Is this legal in the US anymore? What you're describing in practice isn't so dissimilar from a high-deductible catastrophic insurance plan. I bought one for myself out of college, and it was--at the time--both affordable and helpful. I haven't seen anything like it in practice in years. I'd heard that the ACA effectively phased them out.
I'll try to blog about it this weekend! It is sort of like the BeyondCorp model (see the paper https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-... if you haven't read it) but taken to a bit more of an extreme - instead of having servers on a trusted network and clients, either on the office network or elsewhere, have some proxies before hitting internal services, everything is on an untrusted network.

This was the traditional model of the internet, from before NATs and VPNs were invented. This was the model under which Kerberos was developed - remote processes should only talk to each other over secured connections after authenticating each other, because their transport is the public internet, and there's no distinction between human-to-server and server-to-server in this regard. It was the model under which SSH (trust-on-first-use with no authorities), the HTTPS PKI (fully-qualified hostnames only), etc. were designed.
Never heard of Monal. We won‘t miss it.
It was almost usable in Windows 10, but the latest update broke cut and paste for me.
"users don't get to put a leash on webmasters, it just allows the users to retain some degree of control over what the webmasters are allowed to do"

I'll let that excerpt speak for itself.

And yes, I'm arguing it's anyone's moral right to profit off information voluntarily entered into their website unless a specific agreement was made on the website to the contrary.
We're sorry, but something went wrong.
If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
We get paid bank, there are very few of us, and the older you get and the more horror stories you've seen the more you're worth (unlike software). Gray in your beard is a feature, not a flaw.

You're responsible for time critical and/or DSP things that are critical system architecture, and will never be outsourced (it's key IP, you'd be stupid to outsource that).

Don't let anyone know, we have a good thing going on.
Man I got here once the link had already changed and your write up is concise and tells all of the necessary information versus the Krebs article which is way too long and really doesn't say much useful. Thanks!
False. If you do any sort of logging of network traffic - think server logs - or even backup your database and a single person comes asking for all their data to be removed from all your backups sitting in cold storage, you're in for a world of hurt.

The mere act of pulling all my database backups from glacier at once would cost enough to force me to just shut down my personal projects.
Oh, well, if he admitted it, then he must have been a real marshall.
> Most are Hindu or Sikh

Oh right, Pakistan is where the Muslims come from. Apologies, its sometimes hard to remember everything about the world.

But yeah, neither of those are Christian. Both are IIRC Polythistic religions, about as different from Christianity as possible. Muslims for example believe in Abraham and the existence of Jesus. Their story is... very different but Allah is clearly the God of Abraham / Yahweh.

So if anything, Muslims are "closer" to the mainstream religion of the USA than Hindu's or Sikhs
Intel recently released their own High Level Synthesis compiler for Quartus; like HLx, it's free and you can use it now on whatever device you want. You still have to do the interconnection to the CPU, if you have one.

Unlike Xilinx, though, Intel (very very recently) just started offering their OpenCL-for-FPGA SDK for free, and it works on most of their device families, including Arria/Xeon and Cyclone/ARM. I always found it disappointing that the OpenCL SDKs were normally licensed, since they're more-or-less a logical extension of HLS support. So that's nice of Intel.

They don't have any equivalent to Xilinx SDSoC though, but for datacenter targets they're shipping a different set of SDKs anyway (called "OPAE"), so maybe in the future they'll build something on top of the OPAE and OpenCL support (e.g. single-source model, like Sycl)
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I fail to see how adding another onerous regulation makes the EU founder more likely to succeed where the US founder decided to give up.
Point of order, the ICU is one of many potential regulators & likely not an important one given brexit.

What hav the Danish & Belgian regulators been doing lately?
Just start talking about what you've done, don't let the education become a sticking point. Especially when you're starting out, people ask about education because they don't know what else to ask about. Make sure your resume lists actual points of interest, and IMO, leave "education" off if you don't have something impressive to put in there. A lot of interviewers essentially just read your resume back to you and ask you to expand.
From a marketing perspective, you should absolutely have some sort of landing page that explains what I just clicked on before telling me to "wait" because the "application" is loading.
From Article 37 GDPR:

(1) The controller and the processor shall designate a data protection officer in any case where:
...
(c) the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing on a large scale of special categories of data pursuant to Article 9 or ....

Article 9 describes personal data as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, ...

I would say that messages send via IM are personal data like described in Article 9. I also would check the "large scale" checkbox. So in my interpretation he will need a DPO.
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A more correct thing to say would maybe be they have less dental crowding than humans who are living in the modern world. There are many other oral maladies beyond dental crowding that people without access to modern dental care just have to live with.
Some good, fairly recent data from Pew [1] and in this [2] NY Times article. From what I gather from this, border crossings are going down, but illegal visa overstays are going up.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/27/5-facts-abou...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/06/us/politics/u...
No biggy, as long as we never get a US President like that.
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Not as much if you compare urban to urban parts and rural to rural ones. Frisian island folk and the inhabitants of remote Alpine valleys have more in common with each other than both do with Hamburg or Stuttgart.
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