skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having just lead the GDPR effort at my company, I disagree. It's absolutely a burden. It slows down sales and makes customer relationships more difficult and expensive. Any custom integration we do needs to have a custom data processing agreement put into place and reviewed by a lawyer. I now find myself paying lots of new fees to various places: the ITA, DPA, the Swiss data authority, and organizations like ISSA. It forced us to get a more expensive insurance policy.

On top of that, the technical controls were actually expensive to implement. The issue is not that consent is hard to revoke or that data is hard to delete. It's that everything needs to be auditable. Under a strict reading, you need to have an audit trail of every processing activity. Anytime a user profile is edited for any reason, even just an automated removal of whitespace, is supposed to be auditable and made notifiable to the user. Anytime you refresh a user's Instagram stats, you need to have an audit of that. Most companies don't go this far, but it's a huge risk to do anything less because we don't know what fines are going to look like in practice yet.

Plus the fact that we just spent $15k in legal fees going over our new privacy policy, data protection policy, updated MSA, updated order form, new user agreement, etc, I can say with confidence that it is indeed expensive and burdensome.
See this older discussion on statically linking guile [0], one should be able to bake your source into a C program that statically links Guile 2.2 to create a self contained executable. If that is too cumbersome, I would use a container.

[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guile/2013-03/msg0000...
There's also this post (from 39 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16784074
I honestly do not think that is the case. Using a sample size of one(me) I can tell you that while I'm very agreeable and sometimes too nice to people around me, when it comes to my opinion about things or digging for the truth, I will push and dig and (sometimes recklessly) support unpopular opinions, even if in the minority. I surely can't be that unusual.
See also, the book "Outliers".

The example from that book that stood out to me is that most professionAL hockey players have their birthday in the first 3 months of the year. It's suggested that's because when tryouts happen, those children in their age group are the oldest, and therefore most skilled at the time of selection for grooming (well, focused training for their team).

In short, yeah talent is good, but often skill is the result of some luck factor amplifying your talent.
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How does this differ from something like TensorFlow? "Nengo is used to implement networks for deep learning, vision.." is this true? Does this system even support things like automatic symbolic differentiation? This seems more like a neuro science research tool than a practical framework for building neural networks.
Nah, you’re right

The entire purpose of DevOps IMO was to close the gap between sysadmins and devs through code. Devs doing everything, including infrastructure, was and is the entire plan! Public cloud made this super duper easy.

The problem is devs don’t want to manage core infrastructure (VPCs, networking, modules for deploying lambdas and database clusters and container orchestration clusters, etc) and somebody has to do that stuff

Ideally, those would just be features like any other software team, as it’s all API calls at the end of the day. But lots of companies have issues with structuring their platform teams like software teams because its “not software” even though it is

This problem is more deeply entrenched at large companies with hundreds of millions of dollars of compute that they own that is owned by an old school IT function that can’t fathom the idea of either giving it up or making it accessible like cloud and would rather pay VMware tons for tools that make teams even slower than have their sysadmins become developers

Then there’s the whole protectionist “You’re taking my job” and “devs can’t possibly know this much about $infra” that isn’t dying off anytime soon

It’s complicated
We're a small business and it cost us about $50k to become compliant, if you add up the legal fees and hours spent on technology. We are also forced to get a more expensive insurance policy.
Absolutely, send your current customers an e-mail explaining... Just not convinced a public blog post is good business for them moving forward.
That time is now [0].

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/sar/doc/trunk/README.md
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I've only experienced that ego-death through meditation (twice while I was in high school.) Just wanted to mention that it can be achieved without psychedelics. The easier to describe experience consisted of 'me' as a tiny speck of dust floating in a featureless, dimensionless void. As I tried to grasp a frame of reference I snapped back to my normal reality. I did not meditate much after that, mostly because I felt I had accomplished something.
Claiming to be redeemable isn't claiming to be backed by the US government. (USD is backed by the US government, but “redeemable FOR USD” isn't “USD”.)
How much do you typically move in 30 minutes?
Is it related to feeling your grandfather's presence, when he was about to die. I have heard 2 of my friends saying they experienced this.
i remember hearing somewhere that UNICEF determined that contribution rates were maximal if they showed a poor little boy in a starving nation, or a poor little girl, similarly. But if they showed the boy and girl together the contribution rates went down significantly. A conjecture was the more numbers of people in despair there is, the less empowered you feel to help.
Well, what did GP say? It was a post entirely devoted to tracking-related modern marketing techniques. This post was a comment on a link entirely about defeating tracking-related modern marketing techniques. I'm not saying you're being intentionally disingenuous, just that my initial understanding of their post was apparently quite different from yours.

Maybe that's worth reflecting on? To me, it seemed pretty straightforward that they were referring to marketing as it was being referred to in the post, comments, and link that we're ostensibly discussing.
Step 1. Balance. (Like a lot of other people have said here)

And I mean Balance on all dimensions of how you are as a person. Mental and Physical being the primary ones. There are other dimensions but that's outside the scope of this context.

Once this is set (and its a lot of work, mind you) then it doesn't matter if you do software engineering or skiing or X.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think if you are accused of being a monopoly, suddenly increasing your prices is a bad legal strategy because it proves you have pricing power, which is the classic sign of a Sherman-style monopoly that regulators like to break up.
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The site runs on Netlify. I love it!

Easy to setup, add https and offers deploying from the command line right away.
Good question. Or maybe in the direction of Professor Xavier's machine that (IIRC) taps him into zillions of people's experiences in parallel, but also with bar graphs? Feel everything and then zoom in to the specific?

A pretty effective approach is something like ICIJ has done https://projects.icij.org/fatalextraction/
We're working on generating those efficiently from collected data, but you still need an author of sorts.
Ultimately that's still in the slide deck realm, though.

A possibly less familiar solution is what's called Executive Briefing Centers that can get pretty Minority Report-like: a wall of screens with an interactive display (mouse/keyboard/script driven). Those presentations are curated and composed (think $100k slide decks or maybe a 1-off immersive video game) to get deep into understanding how a customer segment would experience a new product in a new store (is what I've seen).

Folks like IDEO have done some experiments with 3D cameras and VR.
When I've tried it, I found the non-eye-contact disturbing ("And you can't smell the shit," as a friend put it). It's one thing to not speak the language. Quite another to not know what the ritual you're observing means to the participants (the VR scene I'm thinking of dropped you into a "sacred African dance around a fire").

An important distinction here is about reporting vs interacting.
We say interaction is paramount. But it doesn't really scale--numbers do. That's kindof the point of the article: both have their place.
The goal isn't to traumatize _more_ people, it's to communicate--effect a sharing of worlds--with the hope of breaking cycles of trauma and violence. Like some counseling techniques, maybe numeric abstraction provides a necessary distance from the immediacy of experience that allows us to get a handle on things and make change.

Insight Share and the participatory video folks are pushing the limits with current tech. There you get into enabling folks to solve their own problems, no need to convince donors.

There's an empowering irony in using iPhones or Occuli to interview tantalum/coltan/tin miners. But I bet if we asked them, they'd have some pretty sweet ideas for where/how to direct the talent and resources being used to develop the devices to help them...

Thanks for the question!
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almost like the person who thought up time keeping, thought about how it would be most useful.
Dear Amazon: fulfillment is what made you a household name. If you didn't get it from the manufacturer and put it in your warehouse, I don't want it. Stop feeding grey-market middlemen and con artists.
It's not the privacy part of the law that's hard for companies. Most companies do not abuse your data.

The GDPR is very expensive. Every data processing activity needs to be auditable, every customer relationship needs a data processing agreement (and each new custom one needs to be reviewed by legal), we now pay fees to all sorts of data protection authorities. On top of that, it forced us into a new, more expensive insurance policy.
Tesla made a broken ankle newsworthy. So there is one data point.
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Also doing a 1 click purchase purchases it for $0.01 + $9.80 shipping, but the $9.80 shipping never shows up on the product page, during the purchase, or on the purchase completed page. You only see the $9.81 if you navigate to your purchase history and see it there.
Eh, I'd call them culturally close. I always read it as "the most common systems programming languages", since that's how the phrasing is usually used.
I’ve been in awe of just how poorly a partner Twitter has been toward its developers ever since it first turned on them many years ago with the api token limiting. Consider that twitter’s blue bird mascot (that became their icon), most of their core features (dm’s @‘s etc...), and even the term “tweet” were all first hit upon and spread around by third party developers and an enthusiastic community of technorati using their clients. The debt the Twitter brand and feature set owes the developer community is larger than any other company I can think of... yet they continue to serve them up shit sandwiches, one after another. They have no shame.
You seem to be quite familiar with Qualcomm, but do you know if there's anything similar in Mediatek SoCs? They do have assisted GPS ("A-GPS"/"EPO") but from the info I can find (including leaked very thorough datasheets and programming manuals), it does nothing more than downloading already-public ephemeris data from an FTP server periodically. I've also inspected the firmware, and there doesn't appear to be any traces of the TrustZone/Trustonic stuff that you mention is present for Qualcomm; AFAICS the only thing running on the main CPU cores is Android itself, the modem runs its own baseband firmware, and the GPS/WiFi/BT/FM combo chip (which is a physically separate part, accessed over a serial interface with no direct DMA capabilities) runs a third firmware. Any "secure boot" features in MTK SoCs are (fortunately?) not very secure, so it's all quite easy to inspect.

There's some bits of interesting info here:

https://github.com/cyrozap/mediatek-lte-baseband-re

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2018/04/14/lowlevel/
But why is there no static fallback for when some script doesn't work? BetterReddit allows me to use both methods concurrently on the old design, why is the new design limited to a method that doesn't work for me?
it's "curious" that there isn't a standard metric time. We are all happy with our Imperial clocks, i guess.
Pretty much. Update the image or do the update in a container based off of the old image and package that
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It would be better if they did, yes.
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Actually, not true by the defnition of inalienable right: something of which you may be deprived, but no other person may gain.

It is possible to take from you real or chattel property, funds, papers, etc., and give them to another. Your life (though no longer your organs and tissues), your liberty, your happiness, not so.

Those are inalienable in that they cannot exist seperate frome you.
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This experience was just induced by drugs though. A chemical that changes how receptors work in your brain.

Its up to you to make it significant or just accept it was a few hours of your head not working how it normally does.
Do you mean something like this? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-1-click-use-simple-...

The solid black border around the image?
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Really? an acre is quite small. i find it hard to believe that a team of oxen can't do much more.
The NYT has an excellent interactive demo that lets you listen between both "yanny" and "laurel". There is a slider of how much "yanny" and how much "laurel" you want to hear. I was not able to hear the other word until I played around with this demo.

Interestingly, after playing with the demo long enough, I could hear both words spoken at the same time.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/16/upshot/audio-...
Thank you!

The strikethrough means the feature has been implemented and I'm working on the next one.
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Many large open source platforms address this particular issue with paid support plans. You might find that the company you ended up doing work for would be happy to have paid their way.

I also find some of the best improvement suggestions come from people using the software in heavy real world use, which tends to be businesses. They have very real pragmatic needs.
It has definitely not been disabled! Could you tell me what browser and OS you are using?
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I also mention measuring days with regard to the start we are orbiting (Sun and solar days) compared to the distant stars (sidereal days), so no misunderstanding here. Once again it is about having Sun at more or less its highest point in the sky at noon. With sidereal time it would constantly shift and if you had sun highest at noon today, if would be highest at midnight half year from now.
It's quite surprising that in 2018, February still has 28 days. You'd think we'd bump it to 30, and pull two other 31's in a day.
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There are several ways to implement E911-like service, and at least one of them doesn't require GPS. Your phone can usually be seen by multiple cell sites, so it's just a matter of accurate timing.
There are a lot of 3rd party shipping scams on Amazon now. In fact there are a lot of counterfeit items on Amazon now. I think I've posted this before, but if I am ordering a name brand item, I will not buy it from Amazon anymore. I'll only order things that won't really matter if they aren't the real name brand now.

Even if it is fulfilled by Amazon, even that doesn't guarantee it's not counterfeit. I can order a pallets of counterfeit items from Alibaba and ship them off to Amazon to fulfill (for a fee) so that I can qualify as a Prime shipper.

I used to sell a lot of (legit) things on Amazon (a $250K/yr revenue pace) but Amazon raised their seller fees which choked my already low margin business; and honestly since that I feel like the amount of scams and counterfeits has skyrocketed because now Amazon has trimmed people's margins so much with their high fees.

Now I hear from some others I know that sell on Amazon about how they will buy from Alibaba, negotiate a bulk rate and then sell it on Amazon. Generally they are almost all fake, but the seller doesn't care, or pleads ignorance. Then there's the shipping scams, which I feel are fairly new, but no less worrying if you're a customer. It's also a bit infuriating if you were/are a seller and people are getting away with this when you're trying to be honest.
The natgeo cover image is a fantastic play on the old iceberg composite: https://twitter.com/vaughnwallace/status/996751709321027584?...
> Locale should be picked up from the surrounding system; it's just that unfortunately the surrounding system is usually not configured correctly.

And around and around we go
Once the books are all burned, there will be no more book-burnings.
The term "big business" preceded "big government", and has been far more prevalent.

Big government arose as a response to and check on big business.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=big+business%2...
I suspect the reason that it’s done indoors is that, most places with a high enough density of humans for this practice to be available, the outside is a dangerous place for a tripping patient. Someone driving by blasting a rap album out their window could send a trip in some bad directions.
Yeah, the author of the article makes some absolute statements that might have been believed a few years ago, but which no longer hold any scientific validity.

Which makes me question the whole thing, to be honest.
listsource.com is one. Real estate investors are certainly a big consumer of these services but probably not the only ones.
Yeah, and it sounds like they were taking very large doses, to the point of having visual hallucinations, which isn't really necessary
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I enjoy doing this stuff but it's tough to find others with similar interests since I moved to the boondocks many years ago although it's super easy to find people looking for financial engineering jobs.
Not every one of the half dozen "MoviePasses" in a given market category can come out on top to dominate (by definition, one -- at most two -- can) but every one is funded/priced like it will. This thing will come crashing down, it's just a matter of time.
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You might also find https://physicstravelguide.com/ useful. It's an expository wiki that sorts physics and related math explanations/books etc. by the required level of sophistication.

This means, especially as a beginner when you are stuck you can easily find an explanation that you can understand.

I would recommend that you start with physics and only learn math on a "just-in-time learning" basis. Mathematics is infinitely large and it's too easy to get lost. Physics, in comparison, is relatively constrained. When you learn the basics of modern physics you will automatically get a good understanding of lots of important math topics plus you will always automatically know why they are important.
Good to see more accessibility tools built-in to this developer edition. Hopefully it'll have some positive effects downstream on sites developed in the future.
The point is that "just doing your job" when your job is web advertising does not warrant a (psychologically) violent response while "just doing your job' when your job is the Holocaust does warrant a violent response.
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Code in the project looks really well done. It just needs semicolons ;) I don't get the whole no semicolon movement, especially when you probably have to work with C/C++/C#/Java at some point and it means retraining your brain. Also semicolons help visually distinguish commands from control. 2 spaces I can definitely get behind!
I experienced the same thing. Here is my chat transcript:

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Me: I placed a 1­Click order and was charged more than the advertised price.

Prashant: Hi, I’m Prashant, I’ll be glad to help you from here

Prashant: May I've the last four digits of the order ID?

Me: 5844 For the Scalpmaster Shampoo Brush

Prashant: I see the item is being sold and shipped by a third party seller HEHENE who is charging

Me: The listing said “$0.01 & FREE Shipping” but I was charged $9.81

Prashant: $9.80 as shipping and handling.

Me: But the listing says “FREE Shipping” specifically

Prashant: Let me quickly check this for you.

Prashant: In this case, what best we can do is to refund the shipping and charges once the item is delivered.

Me: Ok, because I feel like this is false advertising. I clicked the “buy with one click” button expecting to be charged exactly what was shown (“$0.01 & FREE Shipping) but I was not.

Me: So you’re saying I should file a complaint once it shows up?

Prashant: I certainly understand your concern.

Prashant: You just need to contact us here and we will refund the shipping charges.

Me: Haven’t I just contacted you?

Prashant: We can refund the amount once the item is delivered.
This only applies, if you treat privacy as limiting information collected. If you take the view that privacy is a peocess integrity issue instead (all data is effectively personal, the goal is to make sure access to it is transparent and restricted) him asking for such law makes much more sense
The West is over obsessed with over loading their senses.

These kind of descriptions of "experience" you can also see in New York hipster yelp reviews of the 'most amazing' sushi joint or the latest game of thrones episode or whatever bullshit.
Seems like the security issue is easy to fix? Only installing binaries you trust and comparing them against a hash is basic computer admin 101; it's not specific to Docker. Just make sure you trust whoever made the docker image, and that they give you a hash to compare it against.
Student from the lab that originally developed Nengo here.

You're correct in the assumption that Nengo is ‒ among others ‒ a neuroscience research tool; primarily, because it allows you to build networks of spiking neurons. Apart from neuroscience you can also do things like mapping pre-trained deep neural networks onto spiking neurons. These networks can then be executed on neuromorphic hardware.

However, you can also run your simulations with "regular" rate-based neurons. In this case, the interface that Nengo provides is significantly more low-level than that of TensorFlow. Still, the main difference to TensorFlow is that Nengo networks are dynamic, i.e. the network is not described in terms of discrete time steps, but as a fully dynamical system (though a numerical simulator will discretise time at some point). In conjunction with neuromorphic hardware this allows things like real-time motor control with (sub-)millisecond resolution.
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I also live in a purple district (in a very blue state), and while my Republican Congressman has made it clear he's against Net Neutrality, he voted against the repeal of the Internet privacy regulations, so he can't be counted out entirely.

However, I'm still not all too sure whether Net Neutrality is worth promising support to existing Republicans. There are so many other issues on the table this election cycle and they next Congress is likely to be as, or more, supportive on this.