skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CryptoKitties seems to work because all the game logic is on the blockchain. But for a more involved game this is not feasible. Whenever you have to interface with the outside world you have a trust issue there: You need to somehow trust the correctness of the data put on the blockchain in the first place. This is the same problem where smart contracts break down when they concern stuff outside of the blockchain.

E.g., if I wanted to, say, give out blockchain-diamonds to Minecraft players when they mine diamond ore in Minecraft, I need to somehow be able to trust that when a server reports "player X mined a diamond on my server", that this is actually correct. Whenever you you have an interface to the outside world you get these kind of trust issues. And then you might as well go with a centralized or federated solution, since the trust issues are the same but a federated system is much more efficient.

Same for the indies: To make the economy worth anything, it can't be trustless in the sense of blockchain. Indie company A must somehow be sure that indie company B (or anyone else) isn't giving out rewards for cheap. At this point you might as well build a federated system built on public/private-key cryptography and save yourself the overhead of a blockchain.

As for the tournament prize: I don't see what the blockchain accomplishes over an email/piece of paper/whatever saying "Player X won tournament Y" that is PGP signed by the organizer of the tournament. It is even more resilient than the blockchain (the receiver can keep and show it as long as he wants), you can send it to whomever you care to, and you can copy it as often as you like.
You're right, there was never a business behind this. It's free software.

Why should the creator of free software spend their own money to support users in a region that imposes extra regulations?
>the "reputable" ICO-backed companies will mostly (perhaps entirely) turn out to be no better.

It seems ironic that such trust/reputation has become a central point, in light of blockchain's nature as a decentralized trust-less system.
The Gig Economy
I think spiralgen can also do FPGA(or could do if needed), i.e. automatically generate highly optimized numerical code.

http://www.spiralgen.com/
After reading that article I want to use PGP just so I never run the risk of interacting with people like Moxie.
Worked great for me on iOS 11.3.1 in Safari. There’s a two-pane markdown editor along with a feature checklist. The cool thing appears to be that the “app” is being git-clone’d right in your browser’s service worker, which is quite cool if it really is bootstrapping out of a Github repo or something.
If all your software comes from the App Store and is properly sandboxed, it's possible for this to approach the security of iOS. Of course, many people will install unsandboxed software, making this extremely difficult to actually achieve, but it's at least possible.
No, it is different. Photon drives are like a reactionless drive in that you are not expelling matter, but photon drives are emitting mass/energy in one direction and moving in the other and conserve momentum.

Reactionless drives just produce force, pushing off "nothing." They violate conservation of momentum and break physics as we know it pretty conclusively.
The Rand article says the most lives can be saved if Autopilot was rolled out after it was 10% better than humans. However, we won’t have statistical confidence until billions of miles are driven. If we think this problem can be solved, we have to take a risk and go for it.
What I am getting out of this is that even though it was mostly fake, it still managed to do what it was supposed to which was change the smartphone landscape and turn it on its head.

So probably the calls were faked, but so what? It is a glimpse into the future, it shows what this tech can do maybe not now but a couple of years in the future.

Is it dishonest? Yes, but then again Google is not the first company to put vaporware out. Microsoft did it first and that did not stop them to become a leader in the industry.
This. All of this.

I’m a big believer in productive meetings. I’ve canceled a ton of meetings when I knew we didn’t need them, and eventually canceled or modified the scheduled meeting if that happens enough.
What do you imagine that fixed cost to be? Delete your logs and don't, you know, make an entire business out of misrepresenting your revenue model and you're most of the way there.

Any business that is shut down by GDPR is, to me, a good business to shut down.
I have noticed that some Chinatown restaurants don't tend to identify themselves when I call in. I think part of it is a language / cultural barrier. It's a lot different calling a chain where they have huge manuals on how to interact with customers vs an immigrant family run business. Is that not the case for your Chinese restaurants?

However, more likely I think they edited out the initial introduction to give the businesses privacy. They also probably told the businesses beforehand that there was a chance they would be calling in the future with bots to get around California 2 party laws on recording (or maybe they got approval afterwards although I'm not sure that's legal).
What is the process like?
> If the News Feed team is trying to show me what I actually want to see, and not what they think will get the most interaction, ad clicks or time out of me, they are doing a terrible job.

The News Feed believed that interaction reveals a preference for seeing something. Even though they added more icons so that you weren't thumbs-upping your friends personal tragedies to indicate that they matter to you, interactions all mean “like” in the sense of “I like Facebook relaying this content to me”.
If the company owns a public domain name, it has an entire subtree of names that it controls and can use, employing split horizon DNS service, for the office LAN.
Companies on higher floors of buildings are more productive
Maybe they bought a Google Home? :)
Actually DPAs are national. So there is one for each state, not a "central" one for the whole EU.
If the researcher had done that -- queried every cellphone and published it -- I fully expect they'd receive the same treatment from law enforcement that weev and Aaron Swartz got, if not worse
It's not just targeted ads. We see a new data breaches every week that leaks customer data and is used in identity theft that causes actual, quantifiable damages to users. The entire internet, and increasingly physical goods in our homes, has become the equivalent of a ghetto where every single person has to have bars on their doors and look over their shoulders constantly to avoid having shit stolen from them or their privacy violated.

The GDPR didn't arise out of some feeling that companies we're making too much money. It arose out of the fact that the industry refused to self regulate. They were given years to do this and the standard operating procedure for security around data right now is to lol because who cares if you have a breach, that's a problem for the people you harvested data from, not you.

The bad side effects from this data harvesting are called negative externalities. A similar set of negative externalities is pollution.

Do you think it's immoral for regulations to make certain business model that rely on dumping poison into the water or air unprofitable, just because those companies could have made some money if only they could do what they liked regardless of the harm to others?
From my POV, he definitely positioned himself as someone that doesn't give a damn about user privacy
Bull Shit Jobs: A Theory
Unlike your examples, GDPR bans neither messenger apps nor Monal in particular.
Electromagnetic tethers work in space... well, in Earth orbit anyway. So do solar sails. Neither carry propellant and neither are reactionless drives, so it's not a great test.
You're not allowed to "degrade the service" or allow access contingent on consent to targeted ads/tracking, so the practice isn't going to be sustainable for websites when only a tiny percentage of users give consent, seeing how they get to use the site one way or the other - have their cake and eat it too.
My favorite social network is the one I have on Goodreads. I love to see what my friends (who are readers) are reading. I also have found a bunch of people whose book tastes are similar to mine. Everyone is interested in the same goal: finding and reading good books.

When someone overshares, or gets soapboxy, or just spammy, I just unfriend. I did this with my sister! That's something I'd never do on Facebook.
> The bulk of available tuition assistance comes from financial aid, which usually isn't offered to families at or above roughly upper middle.

Is that true, though? A few months ago, I was reading a few articles about more competitive (highly-ranked) universities directing significant portion of their own aid dollars to wealthier students in order to lure them in.

Now, much of these schools' motivation for doing so is that those aid dollars spread more thinly among more (wealthy) students means more revenue than focusing those dollars on "need based" (poor) students, especially if the poor students don't stay the whole 4 years because they can't afford even the subsidized tuition. That may not mean much for your ultimate calculation, since it could be as little as 10% discount, but it's still something.

There is likely also merit-based money out there, which may be what the parent comment was referring to, but I have no idea if that's anything but trivial in amount.
The title doesn't match the research. The title suggests you can 'grow stronger without lifting weights' while the research suggests more that you can 'under circumstances of immobility, you can prevent some strength loss from the condition of immobility by thinking about lifting weights'.

The other point is that neural factors have long been well-understood as a part of the process of gaining strength (also transfer effects of unilateral work for the unbroken side for injured athletes is well studied), and neural improvements coming quickly has always been a disappointment for our young bros seeking swoledom - "my bench press is now 70kg rather than 45kg and I'm still no bigger"? (patience, broham).

The problem is that neural factors are pretty easy to train up in a big way (when you are no longer weirdly 'shaking' as you lift, you've gotten most of that) and then the hard work starts. It's nice that you can get this from thinking about lifting, but it's serious beginner gains we're talking about, and illustrating this article with a super-buff guy who has clearly put in some hypertrophy is a bit sensational.
SimilarWeb has no fool-proof way of tracking app usage, nor even app downloads (don't trust anyone that says they can, unless they're Apple or Google).

What they can track is the number of ratings - nothing else, but there's very little correlation between that and app usage.
Hello, not a lawyer, but mine said you're wrong.

You might be thinking of this pseudonymization stuff. My advice is not to play with it. Just delete your logs after a month unless you have a demonstrable and immediate security need for them.
did that $250 include an audit to verify that you are actually in compliance?
Thank you for making a coherent argument. You are missing one point I think: if not for those regulations those companies would love to do business. They are forbidden from doing business, this guy sees the law and runs off without even trying to become compliant. That's a different thing. There is no way that Kinder could be compliant with US law in such a way that they would not be exposed to what - to EU sensibilities - amount to exorbitant damage claims.

Similar arguments apply to the other examples you use, I see your point and there are valid reasons to not enter a certain market because of the legal climate there but the point I am trying to make is that the OP has not raise any valid point at all other than 'I don't want to comply'. And that's fine by me but then don't bother dressing it up in a bunch of made up requirements.
>too good to be true

I am not sure that regularly thinking about exercises is easier than actually doing these exercises.
I think I would do this for my friends, even without Facebook. The problem is when I have to spend emotional labor tending to people I haven't seen since high school.
In all the newbie lifting programs (Starting Strength, StrongLifts etc) you'll see that untrained individuals can achieve almost linear growth for the first couple of months. Their size are definitely not growing linearly though. Most of the gains is from what they call "Motor Unit Recruitment" where your brain learns how to activate muscles you already have to complete increasingly heavier lifts.

In that sense the experiment here makes sense. You're just making sure you still remember how to fully utilize the muscles even if they are in cast. I doubt there's any difference in terms of muscle atrophy (and of course don't believe just thinking about it can lead to hypertrophy).
It was a typo. Not decimal. But whatever.
>The actual number of miles driven with the Autopilot active is closer to 300 million miles at this point.
I think the EM drive would've made for a dark future. How long would it be before maniacs were accelerating asteroids into the planet?

The EM drive seemed to be simpler and cheaper than a nuclear weapon. Anybody who could lift a few into space could attach to different rocks in the solar system and accelerate them to insane speeds. A weapon easier to acquire and more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
Maybe flaky means flaky. Unreliable. Changes his mind a few times per day. Doesn't keep promises. Can't be trusted.
Ok. So what does one average person need to do in order to purchase?
I have, just not in this comment. See elsewhere in this thread, it's hard to miss.
If the researcher did that they would have gotten prosecuted by the FBI. Probably a better solution was to track every major journalist, tip them that you know their location and then give them scoop so you would have major press coverage for a few days in all papers.
Why does criticizing an impossible assumption put the onus on me to identify economies that do not make that assumption or to envision what such a state of things might look like? Is it not sufficient to refrain from obvious error?
You have a very narrow view about what backups are used for. Which is fine for your business, but for many others, the backups are important business records. What if an employee is stealing from the company, and does it for longer than the time that your business keeps backups? You might say "oh but I keep logs", in which case you have the same problem with keeping the logs that you think you dodged by not keeping the backups.
> What do you imagine that fixed cost to be?

Compliance. It doesn't matter if you delete your logs, if you had them in the first place you're subject to compliance.

Like the example in the article. Not sure why people are still thinking this doesn't happen, this is exactly what is happening in the article.
It's very unlikely the EU as a whole will tolerate spurious GDPR lawsuits. They're quite aware that this has made many companies nervous.
I don't agree with that at all. In the 2000s I frequently could find new and useful websites for learning on every Google search. Now I have to wade through hundreds of sites that only host clickbait or repackage other sites content so they can deliver ads that end up containing malware. The internet has given me a commodity in the form of constant good data that is unequivocally an improvement, but the signal to noise ratio on the web has gotten worse every year
Why are dev boards that much more expensive in general? I can't believe that it costs 10x as much to "just" put the chip on a pcie board.
@Dang: Please ban this user for making this sexist remark
There is a big cost to regulating the internet and we know that. If the internet was regulated in the 90s we 'd still be watching Teletext.
He's not in the EU.
Taking care of teeth is important, but I feel we are misinformed in a number of ways.

If you spend time reading the literature, you may reach the conclusion the pros of getting fluoride don't outweigh the potential damage done to other organs. Same goes for professional dental cleaning, it erodes enamel quickly, but advantages are not very clear to me.

I think keeping the oral microbiome healthy is a much more fundamental step towards true dental health. You want a healthy balance of bacteria, yeast and phages. And you want them to be generating healthy metabolites. That's why I emphasize a good toothbrush plus a good technique, pocket irrigation, calcium salts, and probiotics. And a good diet.
Sure, they're driving demand for essentially free movie tickets. I imagine it's not that hard to do, and not necessarily the kind of demand the theaters are interested in. And theaters already offer discounts at off hours to drive demand. Why would they offer it to MoviePass instead of directly to consumers?
Is your policy based on good scientific evidence?
I cut my news consumption down significantly since the election. I don’t feel any less informed checking in once a week, but I get a lot less anxiety. My life is complicated enough.

Facebook was a big part of that, so it’s gone too. I’m simply more deliberate about what I spend my attention on, and Facebook is junk food.
While I agree that Electon offers a massive amount of footguns, neither Javascript nor Electon was the issue in this case.
The issue was using innerHTML (or rather $.html()) with strings concatenated together from user input. Something you should never do. Could as well just call eval() directly on it, or pass the input to gcc, compile it and run the resulting binary.

The Signal devs thought $.html() does some kind of escaping:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/commit/9d41b8616... (this commit made something that was easy to exploit into something that was even easier to exploit).

To be honest, I'd lay more blame on the authors of the DOM spec making innerHTML a setter than on Electron, and jQuery exposing this misfeature even more with $.html(), teaching an army of web developers to do the wrong thing. We've all seen numerous (XSS) vulnerabilities in all kinds of websites, browser extensions, Electron apps, etc resulting from this API, tho in Electron apps it gets particularly devastating as often you'd get code execution not just in a sandboxed website but full code execution under the current user credentials in the system.
How to learn Rust and some resources to learn Rust
Like the title.Could you guy tell me how and which documents to learn Rust well since i see it is very interesting language.
Clock Clipart Template Archive (Goo.gl)
Real man make your panties wet, not your eyes
Would any data collection on the "internet" actually be illegal as long as it didn't qualify as illegal data collection?

That's the whole point of the law is to say it's illegal, the same way laws made stalking people illegal
There was kind of. When they turn the EMDrive on its side the thrust doesn't come from the cone anymore it comes from an angle meaning that the angle at which the EMDrive/cone is placed has no relevance to the thrust's vector.

Imagine turning a rocket from horizontal to vertical and finding it still goes up, despite the exhaust from the engine going sideways.
Indeed, this did not drop out of the sky. It has been in the works for years.

I run a business that follows EU DP best practices (and so was mostly GDPR compliant already) and the first I heard of it was mid 2017. My country's data protection agency made no attempt at raising awareness despite having my email address on file :-D It's only been frequently hitting non-EU industry news and places like HN since late 2017 so I can appreciate how non-EU folks might feel blindsided by it.
Wave-off means that you can abort the missile strike post-launch if you realise you haven't identified your target correctly.
Indeed. And the prohibition on raw milk does not ban cheese. Many cheeses from France are still available, because they do not involve raw milk. The EU has passed a law, perhaps it is a worthwhile law. This is one of the consequences. The ban on raw milk in cheese making exists thanks to (presumably) the best intentions, and the end result is that there are many cheeses I would like to buy, that I cannot. An American (unlike me) who supports such a ban rejoices in the fact that we are protected from these dangerous french cheeses. Perhaps you rejoice that you are protected from the dangerous GDPR non-compliant Monal.
I think they've mentioned before that they're not interested in entering this space.
That red bead experiment is an interesting illustration, thanks for sharing.
Of course, 70 now is like 50 back in the day. My kid's grammy is 76 and she still takes care of business.
You are not alone; this was my sentiment exactly. #DeleteFacebook wasn't responsible for me deleting my account, but it made me pause and examine my experience. And I realized checking it several times a day felt more like a chore and I hadn't had a pleasant interaction with anyone in quite a while.
That's not exactly a new insight, Richelieu beat you to that one a couple of centuries ago.

But that's just trying to stretch what we are discussing here: that it is possible to comply with the law in principle. That some overzealous prosecutor with a grudge could nail you might happen - in Russia, maybe even the USA. But frankly where I live I have not yet seen a case like that. We probably have them but not frequently enough to make the news and in general the legal system here works quite well.
What's a desktop and what does it mean to share it?

My applications share an X11 display, and if I'm not mistaken, they are pretty well isolated from each other. (Are you referring to MicroSoft Windows[TM] by any chance? Yeah, that's different.)
Hey Justin! Big fan of your work.

We have just raised an angel round, and we have money to go on for another 8-10 months. We are considering raising a larger seed round in the Fall.

What we do is b2b (digitizing real estate assets, leveraging the blockchain - we sell it to real estate companies, not to homeowners directly), we will have a hard time coming up with the right cap for the seed round.

Any suggestion? Care to chat about it?
Bovril could easily comply. They would simply have to open a manufacturing facility that did not use UK beef. The French cheese makers could sort of comply, by pasteurizing their milk. Kinder, I admit, has a more difficult problem, and has, in fact attempted to comply, by creating a completely different product with the same name.
You can run Photoshop in Wine. Maybe it won't be the latest CC version, but it should get the job done.

As someone who jumped to Linux 5 years ago, I would never consider running Windows again. Paying for a license to get my data harvested regardless and see ads on my lock screen, no thanks. Instead I donate that money to a handful of Linux organizations, distros, and devs to support an ecosystem I love being a part of.
> the other allows them to mostly passively receive milk delivered via gravity.

That's not how bottles work. You have to actively suck onto the nipple in order to get milk, and you can only get a small quantity per suck. Sure, you can get it in edgewise and bite down so it opens up and the milk runs, but that's not how babies drink.

Source: I used to drink from a bottle well into my teens, because I found it a convenient delivery device for chocolate milk in bed.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17060619 .
It's left intentionally vague, but at some point they do refuel the drive. It's meant to be an improbably efficient fusion drive.

The alien forces demonstrably have a reactionless capability though (see: Eros) that utterly outmatches the Epstein drive.
Considering that most online businesses are (effectively) a form of international trade, I wonder whether GDPR fines could be seen as a form of customs fine (which definitely is something that foreign companies can be forced to pay, as you've said).