skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's ridiculous. Has anyone in this thread actually ever run a recruiting operation?

I have. There's no way we will be deleting interview notes the moment a candidate is rejected. For one, we have to be able to prove later that we didn't reject based on grounds of discrimination (other regulations). But you also need the ability to review what your interviewers are doing to ensure consistency and quality of assessment. We also go back and re-read interview notes if someone doesn't make it through probation or gets fired, to see if we could have picked up on the issue earlier.

But hey GDPR defenders, here's a question to ponder. I have argued above that I legitimately need interview notes for the operation of my business. If you disagree, what makes you so sure your interpretation is correct and not mine? Don't you think it'd be good if we could resolve this disagreement in some clear way, like if the law itself spelled it out?
I only hear Laurel no matter where on the scale I am. Even with 100% yanny, I still just hear a very distorted Laurel.
Google analytics has an option to anonymize the IP and remove unique user id from the data collection.
Behold the invention of the printer! You can turn PDFs into paper in the comfort of your own home!
How Big Data and Digital Signage Can Work Together
Everything You Need to Know About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Wedding
I got into digital rights when Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested in the US for writing a PDF reader sold from Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd.
You got addicted to Tylenol? Could you be more specific? Do you just mean that it stopped working for you? Because if you mean you truly developed a compulsive desire to take APAP, you must be the first person in the world ever to have done so.
It's such a niche feature. And only useful if you use mutative OO style.
Also it gets a bit too much into the magic territory for me, this is hard to debug and reason about, even harder than getter/setters.
I just wanted to register my appreciation for this post, it's a breath of fresh air.
And that includes the GDPR
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Obama DACA Recipient Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Up School
Why is this an ES6 feature? Isn't ES6 set and implemented? Wouldn't this be part of a future spec (ES2018, ES2019, or whatever)?
Ask HN: What are the tips/tools/hacks helps you most to become more productive?
No google music on the graph, is it just not reported in terms of subscribers or is it significantly less than even pandora?
Dmitry Sklyarov and Kim Dot Com would like a word
How People End Up with Boring Jobs
Shprofile: Manage several shell profiles and switch between them, but not only
Five top comments in and you're the first to ask the this question. Given how exotic this piece of silicon is I'd love to know too. This is the Intel webpage I found[0]. From there there's a link to an Altera page[1]. This is the marketing blurb that Anandtech got some of there info from[2].

A number of obvious interesting applications jump out at me: crypto acceleration for mining, machine learning acceleration, JIT acceleration for interpreted languages… How doable is all this? Would you have to roll your own code or are there libraries?

Wrt interpreted languages, I use Ruby fairly often and now that there's MRuby[3] I wonder if Ruby could be made run blazingly fast on something like this Xeon+FPGA thing?

Oh to have a spare $€£￥ to get me one of these.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/accelerators...

[1] https://www.altera.com/solutions/acceleration-hub/accelerati...

[2] https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-processors-fpga-better...

[3] https://github.com/mruby/mruby
OTOH

- Scope outside of Europe – e.g. if a completely foreign entity that offers a Spanish or French translation of its service could potentially be covered by GDPR, even if they're not marketing to EU markets specifically. Too bad for Quebec I guess. Or what if you fly to speak at a conference in Europe – is that "marketing" to residents of EU? Depends on your slides? Or not? Who knows.

- Consent – does X fall under "legitimate interest"? Is it essential to providing the service? These are not easy to definitively answer for any non-trivial application. And it's not like you can just err on the side of caution – you are not allowed to ask for more consent than you need IIRC. And if the regulator (one of them) disagrees with you after you've spent a few years building a business relying on a certain interpretation, tough luck I guess, try again?

- How to deal with backups that contain personal information
IIRC in The Tin Men by Michael Frayn (1965) the computer used the number dead divided by the distance away to determine newsworthiness. Using some of the observations here I am sure we could improve on that.

It is gut wrenchingly sad that every death is not treated equaly ... though much in the same way, every life.
This is no hysteria.
Depending on where your company is located the sueing risk is really high. E.g. in countries like Germany there is a whole industry which lives from sueing companies and people and I can imagine that GDPR will open a whole new sueing market there.
In other countries like Austria you get first warned and then sued on big GDPR violations which is a much better solution.

So it all depends.
Hah, no. I guess you haven't dealt much with regulators in the past.

Regulators can never be held to anything they say. When you ask questions, if they answer at all, it always comes with a disclaimer that it's merely "guidance" and not binding. If they later change their mind, it's always a "clarification" and not a change.

The sort of people who think vague regulations are a good idea are the sort of people who think regulators are staffed by people who are inherently good, so they're usually written to give regulators maximum power and minimum accountability. GDPR is a case in point. If you read the EU's documents on the matter closely, and I have, then you find that the EU refuses to even respond to questions at all. That's delegated to national regulators, but the EU is clear that those regulators don't have the power to issue binding declarations, only guidance. In other words, you can ask a regulator or a lawyer. Their opinion has no more or less weight than my own posts do. The only time binding decisions are made is during enforcement actions.
Show HN: A program to email log files using Go
Ubuntu has a specific kernel for AWS, and partners with AWS to optimise the kernel for AWS environments. Part of that is fixing issues exactly like this. That issue was fixed as per the bug that you linked.

Some more information from the original announcement:
https://blog.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/ubuntu-on-aws-gets-seriou...

(Disclaimer: I work at Canonical/Ubuntu, if that matters)
Well, the controls in question here are WPF and WinForms hosts for UWP controls, so if you can host WPF then you can use the UWP host control to host UWP content. Yeah, its a bit roundabouts, but I think it is the only supported way right now.
The answer to #1 is almost certainly undefined behavior since the standard says "the function main shall not be used within a program." - Just because it compiles and runs doesn't mean its valid.
Thanks for your answers!

> This leads me to believe that the computations in Cannoli are faster than CPython.

Right, the speed difference due to output buffering seems annoying. I wonder if you can change the stdout buffering mode to be more similar to Python's (if Python's stdout is not line buffered, I don't recall).

Also, you might want to try to run the same benchmarks PyPy uses: http://speed.pypy.org/

These are still micro-ish benchmarks, but not quite as micro as some of yours.

> However, there is still a lot of work to do to create a more performant version of Cannoli.

I saw in another post that you are going off to industry to do something else, but if you will continue development and evaluation of Cannoli and want to discuss further, feel free to drop me a line at the email address in the paper linked above.
I will be interested to see if the same companies do actually stop emailing me and delete my information after I ignore their request to opt in!
In practice you don't need SMS for this.

Back in the day they would use lower level routing commands (eg SRI lookup) to find the VLR and then cell towers codes of the phone. Most of the time after a few pings you can get 2 or more cells, enough for a decent approximate location. There are DBs that match codes to lat/long. This works even if the number your tracing isn't on your network, but you need to have access to "a" network to do it. Lots of guys like SMS aggregators and small MVNOs have access to this.

If you have access to the network where the user is you can use either dedicated location systems if they have them or use the VLR method above for a rough location. If you wanted to get very fancy you could log into a system closer to the towers and check the reports on cell tower power that your phone periodically sends to triangulate better. Or even match them off coverage maps.

Under both systems above your phone is never party to comms (unlike actual SMS) so its impossible to know someone is tracing you..

This was 2G / early 3G systems. Loc tracking was more difficult with WCDMA, esp triangulation. Maybe thats changed. Or it hasn't because governments find it easier to check leaky app level APIs :P
There is a factor that is never mentioned.

The actual "fleet" of Tesla (and of others experimenting in the autonomous vehicle field) is made exclusively of decently new and perfectly or nearly prefectly maintained vehicles.

Besides and before any other consideration, the way a modern, newish and well maintaind car handles (steers, brakes, etc., particularly in an emergency situation) is hardly comparable with the way the "average" car can do, think of unbalanced brakes, worn down tyres, etc., but also about the undeniable truth that your - say - 1998 pickup won't ever be as stable as a sports car.

Since there is no real data about the comparison term (all the other vehicles) status and capabilities (of both the car and the drivers), each and every comparison tends to be on favour of the Tesla for reasons that have nothing connected to the actual automation.

Even an "internal" comparison (Tesla's on autopilot vs. Tesla's on manual driving) wouldn't be IMHO much representative as drivers of Tesla are I believe - if not an elite - a definite group of people, not too young, not too old, possibly with an interest or passion about cars, while "the rest" will comprise just licensed drivers (possibly with little experience and with a tendency to risk too much), elderly people (possibly with slower reaction times).
> As soon as you do business abroad you will have to comply with the laws of those countries.

But are you doing business abroad, just because you're on the internet?

Is it not the customer who is coming to you to to do their business abroad, while you do your business in the country you live in?
Ditto about Excedrin––I'm like the Johnny Appleseed of Excedrin in Europe. Most migraine sufferers here seem unaware of the treatment options, and often are unaware even that their headaches are migraines. Just suffering alone in silence. Being American, I'll happily discuss my health problems with strangers. I disagree with your doctor about Excedrin rebound headaches--most sufferers (in my experience) don't have migraines very often, and would notice the rebound pattern. Many if not most are drinking coffee anyway. Me, I have an espresso a day, but supposedly espresso (generally arabica) contains less caffeine than drip coffee (often robusta). I attribute its positive effects to phytochemicals other than caffeine.

About sugar, I tend to agree. My mornings greatly improved after I cut out "part of a healthy breakfast" orange juice.
There's certainly no need to panic. The article doesn't address that apart from mindless hysteria there are some very real issues with GDPR. It doesn't have to of course because as the title suggests it's more about dispelling panic than about giving concrete advice.

However, many real-life problems seemingly haven't even been considered by legislative bodies. In GDPR support forums questions like these have been routinely asked in recent months and there isn't always a clear, dependable answer:

- How will I be able to operate my small company website in the future in a legally compliant manner? Some companies even consider shutting down their websites completely and - of all things - only using a Facebook page in the future. Hence, ironically we might very will see GDPR actually benefitting companies like Facebook at the detriment of small companies that consequently won't have complete ownership of their content anymore.

- How exactly does a privacy policy have to be worded so I don't get sued on day 1?

- In which way will I still be able to store address data for contacting my existing customers?

- Will I still be able to use anti-spam and security plugins for my website? These tools might store users' IP addresses, which in some jurisdictions are considered personal data.

- Can I still load resources like Google Fonts from CDNs or do I now have to host those myself?
If 10% of the members of my website request a GDPR, then my website will no longer exist. The processing time for that would be a decade.
Um, the FPGA chip on that board retails for $10K according to findchips.com so ... (of course, anyone really ordering these class of chips is going to order them directly from Intel or Xilinx--but that doesn't mean the FPGA will be cheap)

Intel isn't making a lot of money on those boards if they aren't actually taking a loss.

1) A PCI-e board is non-trivial. It requires some engineer to sit down and do some serious signal integrity work.

2) A board with a fine-pitch BGA is non-trivial. These boards generally have via-in-pad and blind vias on the top two layers. The boards are also generally 8-12 layers.

3) The support circuitry on those boards in non-trivial. There's high-speed, fine pitch connectors that are probably in the $100 each range, themselves.

4) Really, you're paying for customer support. You will hit bugs. You will have to communicate with Intel. You probably won't order enough volume to make it worthwhile for Intel.
Yes, but the obligations are very different.

(simplified)

* You need to have a data processing agreement with the Saas company X.

* You need to tell candidates in your privacy information that you send data to X

* You need to make sure X is properly implementing the data processing agreement
(currently not clear how you do this except using e.g. PwC to review X)

If you have the data, you need to tell the candidate what you do to protect it, backup it, restrict access to it etc.

(also if e.g. the talentpool feature is provided by LinkedIn based on LinkedIn data you're not responsible under the GDPR, only if you sent data to X or X collects data on your behalf e.g. in a web form)
Adderall
I can selectively hear either if I want to. It's like one of those optical illusions
Property Rental Management Software
Maximum possible fine for repeated worst possible violation after ignoring previous attempts at regulation and not making changes after previous smaller fines.

It's not a minimum.
So all code is a huge problem? Makes sense to me.
I think it's reasonable to speculate that the air force is already carrying out live tests. The reason for this is that NASA went through a substantial amount of effort to trial and test the EM drive to their greatest ability, and it came out on top with everything they could throw at it. And it's just been a black out since then. That was about 1.5 years ago.

In the interim the air force has sent up the classified X-37 [1]. They've stated it's mission purpose is "risk reduction, experimentation, and operational concept development for reusable space vehicle technologies, in support of long-term developmental space objectives". That's certainly a horoscope style description, but at the same time it does seem to fit quite well for live testing of propellantless drives, even if not as a primary mission.

Furthermore, if the EM-drive did work, it would have a beyond revolutionary impact on everything and so it would not be surprising that it would end up getting classified after passing the initial slew of tests thrown at it.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
> the prohibition on raw milk does not ban cheese.

It bans "raw-milk cheese", which is a distinct kind of product, not one way of many to make a particular product ("cheese"). If you ban raw milk, you ban certain types of product entirely, and there is no workaround.

It would be like saying a prohibition on planes does not ban automobiles, and after all, both are a kind of vehicle. True, but not really relevant.

Back to the GDPR case, it's closer to a producer of pasteurized-milk-cheese saying they are going to get out of the cheese business altogether because of the ban on raw-milk-cheese, and labeling their cheese as such and documenting however briefly that the cheese is made out of pasteurized milk is just too much effort, and they are afraid of being sued by people claiming it is raw-milk-cheese.

Whatever.
> if in 10 years a new Commission arrives and changes their mind they can retroactively decide that things previously allowed were actually illegal

A new commission can always change their mind and propose new laws that get voted in, as can any government. There is few things an elected body can't do, and even when there is safeguards then those can be removed given enough effort.

And this is not exclusive to them. Common law and to a degree Civil law are changeable in this way where a court can retroactively decide that things previously allowed were actually illegal by providing a mere "clarification".

In eu this mean several layers that can modify what a law actually mean. The government, the national courts, the EU parliament, and the EU court. In the US you got federal law, state law, city law?, and courts all the way to the supreme court, each which can in 10 years make a decision that retroactively decide that things previously allowed were actually illegal. It seems like a risk that is inherently part of the legal system everywhere.
Example:
How do you ask user for a permission to log access logs (which contain IP address) in the server, so that you can detect spam, ddos and other attacks? How do you store that consent information and what do you do if user doesn't consent?
What do you do if user connecting from given IP address wants you to send him data you have collected about him. If people share IP addresses how do you know which log data is about which person?
When an entire department of researchers wants a publication on paper, as well as people in other departments who need to occasionally draw on this field’s research, it makes sense for a single paper copy to be produced and held in a library where everyone can readily consult it without having to incur their own printing costs.
I can also rep Mullvad, they also allow people to pay in Bitcoin or even mail them money (with your account number attached) and they'll add time to your account.
I've been using them for a few years now and never had any issues.
It's not black and white, precedent exists in civil law systems as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#Civil_law_systems
well, you certainly can get some work done on a train once you figured out your commute in a way that will get you a seat. Grande, that is not an option for anyone.

On the other hand, what would the world look if we all used autonomous cars? Seems like we would end up with the same, or worse, traffic jams. If people were willing to share their cars, they would be a bit less. But remember any means of public transport uses less space than cars. http://humantransit.org/2012/09/the-photo-that-explains-almo...
Fret Zealot teaches you how to play bass like if it was Guitar Hero
Energy jobs reports say solar dominates coal, but wind is the real winner
>Every company and every project or hobby ever has to be compliant with the law.

wrong.

if everyone always followed the laws, earth would still be considered flat (at least until more recently).
> It's like it's become digg.com curated by your non-techie acquaintances, with a bonus ORDER BY RANDOM() thrown in for good measure.

I don't think I've read a more accurate description of anything in a long time... Thanks for putting my feelings on Facebook into words!
If you stop doing business because of GDPR who the fuck cares? Stop crying and lose business. There are competitors willing to fill the gap (if such ever existed)
What really annoys me about GDPR is that, given all the confusion surrounding the law, a lot of GDPR professionals are popping up everywhere.

There are a lot of people making money by providing GDPR-compliant-solutions. To avoid this, all that had to be done was to write a clear text with everything everyone had to do to be compliant, instead of pilling up some big and dubious words that no one really knows what they mean.

Concerning the law itself, it's a lot of fireworks. Give it a few months and no one will care about it again.
> What's odd is my eyesight has improved to the point where I don't need as strong as a glasses prescription.

This comment's tone, the commenter's new-ness, and extraneous details unrelated to the original thread like this anecdote above all reek of a lead generation effort for an existing business.

We're all generally pro- on this, so this comment just comes off a bit shilly for me :/
How Fintech Is Changing the Way We Do Things?
made a version of this as an email paywall at www.veropost.com integrating with Bitcoin
My friend has used this extensively for all kinds of interesting things.

I interviewed him about his work combining mturk & AI to help Trump / Clinton supporters better understand each other.

https://huffpost.com/us/entry/us_581a4825e4b0f1c7d77c9555

With regard to pay, it seems reasonable to adopt a standard where the average per hour rate is disclosed in the research papers. This alone may provide social pressure for academics to adopt payment inline with local norms.

Also this brings up some questions for me. Is it unethical for a researcher in a locale with low wages to post on mturk looking for work at comparable rates? Should posters be posting rates comparable to their own countries minimum wage laws? Is there another standard? Could requiring some researchers (from richer countries) to increase their rates result in resesrchers from other countries being priced out or having their research deprioritized by Turks?
No they can't "hack" the system - they can try do a double-spend, but it would be very expensive. The cost is proportional to chain length.

What's the cost of creating a parallel chain in "Oroborus" as a function of chain length?
Slash doesn't need to be encoded. Only 5 characters that have special meaning have to be encoded (&, <, >, " and ').
They're jobs that need doing. Someone's going to end up with them.
Sam Harris and the Myth of Perfectly Rational Thought
They will understand and give you a warning before doing anything and let you change your malpractice before any reaction. That's how it works.
The law says that the fines should be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive". That gives companies ample room to challenge a fine that is way out of proportion to the damages caused to their users.
> I have argued above that I legitimately need interview notes for the operation of my business.

I agree that you do legitimately need interview notes, but I don't understand why this conflicts with GDPR. In other words, why am I not allowed to see my interview notes?
GDPR: Don't sell/leak/publish customer data you're fine :)
I'm pretty sure Signal doesn't send all your data through GCM.

Edit: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/217524107