skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are hearing a lot of different advice about what GDPR compliance means, and until that is settled (or proven so unsettled as to be unknowable), you lack a key factor in your business decision. My advice is to consult an attorney who you trust to be knowledgable about GDPR compliance and find out what exactly you need to do to become compliant, or to determine what the options are and what level of comfort you have with them. Then you can make the call whether you want to spend the required effort.

The upside here is that this investment also opens the possibility of giving your co-founder the confidence that they need to stay with the project, should the answer be that the compliance work is small / simple.
I was thinking about this kind of DIY short term effort to have an example of torrent functionality. Not collaborative development of a torrent library for 10 years.
Would be handy if it included a utility to generate the (un)marshaling functions, so that can just be done as a build step.

So far we’ve used https://github.com/mailru/easyjson for that, but the code generation step is unbelievably slow - multiple minutes for about 100 structs.
The poor planning and sprawl in the U.S. will be our downfall, it's totally awful and tragic, and commuting to a library is just a tiny symptom. If you want to understand and engage with this topic, I suggest https://www.strongtowns.org especially the core "growth ponzi scheme" series as a start.
> In 1988, Bill Clinton signed the Higher Education Amendments

What? Clinton was a governor then. And, looking up the referenced act, it was signed into law in 1992, before Clinton took office.

Doesn't substantially change your comment but that detail threw me.
Thanks, I updated the wording to call out that we developed it. We dual license the software so there's a commercial option similar to MySQL, just get in touch. The open source project is mostly a way to support research/education.
Well, you could always try creating your own HN frontend[1]

I made one myself for about an hour or two.
http://morphical.ml:4000/s/17111778

[1]https://github.com/HackerNews/API
> Saying make a contribution to people not in the latter group is a bit rude. A better response would be to thank them for their feedback and mention contributors are welcome from those that are willing.

I think that it's better to be clear about it. I'd find it rude if someone said "thanks for your feedback" without intending to seriously evaluate or address it. If submitting pull requests is the best way to get work done in a project, its maintainers should be clear about it.
A slightly different angle...

I would abandon your project too. Messaging is the new Social Media, which is to say the market is already flooded and nobody needs another one. In addition to that matrix.org is going to kill it.

I was taught the best approach to programming is to find problems and solve them. Messaging hasn't been a problem since 2000 or earlier.
Although it's been said that they will continue supporting licenses through their website, they have made this feature _extremely_ difficult to find ever since introducing subscriptions. I've been a loyal user of 1Password for a long time, and I think it's great software. I use it on both my Macs, as well as on my iOS devices.

However, hiding the non-subscription feature is silly. I do not wish to add yet another subscription (especially something so crucial as my what manages my passwords; I need [edit] it to work, no questions asked), and I would be more than happy to purchase a new license for 1Password 7.
Fair point -- the Marx remark is a little unfair.
> I had already taken out eight substantial loans totaling over $67,000, whose repayment I hadn't even begun to contemplate.

That's exactly the problem, not contemplating the consequences of our actions. I do believe in second chances and forgiveness, but also in thinking ahead and realizing that actions are not just for the moment but a permanent part of a life-long story.

I've seen so many people in low/middle income brackets with upper class cars/houses/spending habits. It's not because they earned these things but because they got a loan and want the reward before they've earned it.

It's hard to do when many people around you are getting these same things, but I do take solace in having little debt versus going to the best college or owning the newest car.
In fact, you can pay customers of your competitors $100 to ask them to request erasure of data from their competitor. Have fun!
22 school shootings in 20 weeks
I suspect the most interesting side effect of Amazon’s move to buy Whole foods is the potential impact to transportation.

Quote from the Washington Post[0]:

“while Winn-Dixie and Harvey’s are far from mom-and-pops, a number of those stores slated for closure are in areas where it’s a 15- or 20-minute drive to the next-closest grocery store.”

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/22/the-a...

Edit: typo
But the push to the cloud versions gives me headache. I don’t want to sync using their cloud - I actually sync using a WiFi server.

But it has nice benefits as well, they have a Chrome/Firefox extension (1Password X) that goes with their cloud that works on Linux. Understandably, it would be harder for them to offer this on top of Dropbox or Wifi sync.
I have a family subscription of 1PW. I can easily share some password with my wife and our daughter is getting used to using a password manager before she's 10.

I totally empathize with those who refuse to use cloud/subscription services as, let's face it, there are a lot of bad actors doing crappy things with our data.

But for me 1Password seems like a small, honest company providing great quality service and software. I'm a happy customer.
Even his staunchest defenders would be forced to admit his campaigns against military aggression are selective and more influenced by a continuation of Cold War "anti-imperialist" realpolitik than actual pacifism. He's been outspokenly supportive of Russian involvement in Syria, and he was the member of the anti-war campaign over Iraq that achieved notoriety by calling for Arab armies to join the Iraqi "martyrs" in fighting Western forces rather than the more mainstream position of advocating a cessation of hostilities altogether...
Second is generous. “Last, if ever” seems to be more accurate, generally.
Disposable paper hot-air balloon for lift, retractable antenna? Or perhaps better yet: disposable paper kite?
I went to a much better school than my older sister. It also cost roughly 4x as much. When I graduated college, my income was just shy of 3x compared to that of my sister. I paid off my student loans before I turned 30, she is still paying hers at 35. Was it the quality of our schooling that impacted our return on investment? No. It was our choice in profession. She went into teaching, I went into finance.

The college I attended churned out graduates headed to both careers, both costing the same. Had my sister gone to the quality of school that I attended, she would never have been able to pay her loans. She probably would be more qualified to teach the next generation, but an education major at Ivy League College would still be a "dubious program".

I realize that isn't what you're intending to say. However, college pricing is generally (thought to be) correlated with quality of education, not with return on investment of that education. The result of targeting the "dubious program" ends up simply devaluing low-pay jobs.
I like that Google's search results are personalized and pull relevant info from my use of their other services. DDG doesn't have that.
Could you be a bit more specific about your criticism of the article. I found it interesting. I don't really see how it is anti-FB. It seems to describe the current situation by anecdotes instead of statistics/scientific analysis. I can understand some not liking that style (especially considering information per time), but it seems highly effective at describing issues to most people (probably the thing you call media narrative control). I've got no problem with that.

But your "There is nothing substantive here" is worrying me, since it probably means you'd like more that a somewhat mundane description of the situation without judgment. Did you expect a strong position, probably in favor of US free speech values? It to be a hit piece for or against NetzDG? Strong policy recommendations with big impacts? I don't want that! I like our current society and want marginal fixes for its countless little flaws. But responding to the current hot issue (lets say school shootings) with extremist positions (arm everyone vs take all guns away) seems highly unproductive in improving our lives.
The interest rates in the Swedish student loan system are extremely low even within the context of Sweden's low interest rates - I'm paying back my student loan as slowly as possible since the interest on my savings account is actually higher than the interest on the loan!
SADD.io: Disposable Tor-Enabled Virtual Machines
Amazon is so convenient and has such good customer service that they've made me care less about pricing.

On the other hand, they've made me care more about counterfeit goods. I've received a few this year already. What's scary is that on some health items - like vitamins - if you're ordering for the first time, how would you even know what the real thing is supposed to look like?

I now try to order items directly from the manufacturer or authorized distributor whenever possible, simply to avoid counterfeit risk. Kohl's for clothing and LifeExtension for vitamins. Ironically I have more faith in these retailers because their traditional single-source supply chains are less efficient than Amazon's crowd-sourced/FBA model. Less efficient and therefore more trustworthy. Maybe this is one of the few ways David can beat Goliath.

There also seems to be broader opportunities in this area around supply chain integrity that's transparent to and verifiable by end consumers.
Twitter for Academics 101
It’s more a socio-economic thing than racist I think. It’s disproportionately affects you the lower on the wealth heiarchy you are.
Coinbase released the statement from Visa on it's blog. If that statement was false why hasn't Visa denied it?
I have great respect for Mozilla, and as an EU citizen I find it odd that a meeting that is taking place on behalf of the public is held for closed doors. However, I can't help thinking that this partition for openness lacks openness itself: The site contains very little information about to whom and how the signatures will be presented to drive this change. Also about the number of signatures collected, which is otherwise commonplace to have a counter for.

... Or am I missing something entirely?
It looks like this has a Marshal and Unmarshal function just like it's core library counterpart. So I'd guess you might be able to use this as a drop in replacement. However I'm yet to prove that theory.
Last I read, memberships were like half their profit or something. It's certainly not like CostCo makes no more profit if people buy twice as much. Setting prices to that level would be insane.

CostCo doesn't do weird pricing scheming, but they have higher-profit items and getting people in the stores with memberships does get people to buy more stuff there, even stuff people might have not bought at all otherwise.

Don't get me wrong, CostCo does a better ethical and consumer-respecting business than most, but they DO profit on sales, it's just slim enough profit that they couldn't get by well without the member fees.
I think it is likely that they want to hide this option, as they have hidden the standalone version. I think their long-term plan is to have everyone on their subscription with data stored in the 1Password cloud.

This reduces support and development load (no need to support local/Dropbox/Wifi sync with all its edge cases) and guarantees montly/yearly payments.
It seems like he's thinking of where the technology has the potential to go, and you're limiting yourself to thinking about how it performs today.
Using python based segmentation recipes with topological data analysis
Yes, that's exactly what I was saying.
What else do you want from the guy? this has nothing to do with illumination, at this point it's just an exercising in public humiliation.

There is more than a hint of antisemitism to the blood thirst directed at him and to this repeating ritual.
Stupid question: what does this do that iCloud Keychain doesn’t do?
I went to a wedding in Williamsport, PA last summer and ended up at a Wegman's. Amazing grocery store. Would love to see one here in NH.
Show HN: pdd – tiny date, time diff utility with timers
Stopped reading at "Variable interest rate" and "may have been explained to me at the time (I truly don't remember), but I know I didn't fully grasp what that meant". Uhhhh yea well, you not grasping "what it meant" and not doing your due diligence is what got you into this mess, jackass.
I would follow other prominent players in the space. When I delete my tweets, are those retweets and replies also deleted? When I delete my FB or Whatsapp account, are my messages deleted from recipients accounts?

As a lean startup, I wouldn't pay my own lawyer to figure out what hundreds of well paid lawyers have already decided.

You could write tech support for these companies and ask exactly how their GDPR compliance works. I'm sure they'll be happy if not legally obligated to tell you.
You can sue for anything. It may be dismissed for legal reasons, but that sets precedent. It may be settled without setting a legal precedent. In either case, there are material and immaterial costs involved.
Teaching a love of books and learning to children isn't about disseminating information.

There are also many poor folks who don't have the money for the technology you do. The library provides information services to everyone, regardless of social class or ability to pay. What if you were poor and looking for a job and had no computer or phone? To many, the library is a lifeline.

http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2010/april2010/poo...

The library is a safe place to go after school. In my town, the library hosts an after-school snack program sponsored by the local food bank. http://mchenrycountyliving.com/event/school-snack-program/

I know that for most of us on Hacker News, we swim in technology and information, but for many others in society, the library is their entry to that world.
Uh, what? How are users relevant to the question of whether the tech is progressing? Humans at a game with such a high branching factor is a fantastic achievement.
Hell, I don't even respect tomorrow-me, much less have any good advice to give decades-ago me.

So not limited to deathbed sentiments. Any melancholic thoughts about the past are pretty useless.
Ask HN: Why aren't you using a public cloud?
I'm curious to learn reasons why your company is not use a public cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.?
I actually think the curriculum works directly against this. I know my homework assignments tended to be much more unmaintainable than even a one-off python script that I would hack together. It might be interesting to design a class where, instead of weekly homework, students are required to continually maintain/modify the same source over a semester. Weekly projects that will never be touched again actively discourage writing maintainable code, and I don't think that is a good lesson to be teaching.
Sounds like they should be headhunting rather than advertising generally with unwritten, very specific requirements.
I was speaking about the possibility of slashing librarian numbers only in their role as customer-facing reference staff who help people look up information. Of course there will remain a place for some human librarians behind the scenes.

That said, Helsinki libraries have already automated a great deal. You can easily borrow items or reserve spaces without ever having to talk to a human being.
The Chief Product Officer vs. The Chief Technology Officer
One of the surprising things to me is that most people do not actually pay the sticker price, many colleges have needs based financial aid that brings it down, before even talking about things like Pell grants.

From reading the headlines it's easy to think that graduating with 100k in debt is normal, but the average is "only" 37k. And the median is lower still (media loan payments at ages 20-30 are $203 vs average $351[1]).

Which basically says to me that the issue with student loans isn't so much how expensive college is in general, it's that we have a segment of the population, like the author falling into a trap where they graduate with far more debt than they should.

You're pretty spot on about your comments on state support though, FiveThirtyEight had a good piece on how tuition costs at public universities have largely been due to a decrease in government funding: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...

Coming from Australia it's also a bit odd that so many students move to go to university. Most of the people I knew at university were still living with their parents. Partly this is just the concentration of the population in a few major cities, but I think it's also the general trend of building universities close to population centers, and maybe less strong differentiation between university profile sin different regions.

[1]https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/
Yanxuan, the “knock-off” marketplace: the luxury emperor is wearing no clothes
At least we don't have to spend lots of time worrying about different economic and political systems since the only choices are capitalism or Venezuela. /s

Seriously, the idea that capitalism = choice is bullshit, as is the idea full stores is a capitalist quality or that the problems with Venezuela are all caused by being non-capitalist (implied that Venezuela is the inevitable outcome of any non-capitalist approach).
This comment is rather amusing -- probably unwittingly so -- when juxtaposed with (your) preceding post. In one, you ask us to empathize with the feelings of one group of people, those who are flustered by seeing (horrible) extremist propaganda. In the very next, not only are those finely-tuned emotional antennae manifestly off, but... well, suggesting a rather large cohort of people are mentally disabled? This from the person that wishes to portray themselves as the adult who needs "take their megaphones", which I understand as code for "let's have any comments they make on FB or other social networks erased". A little childish, perhaps?

What do I make of these two comments? How I read them is as follows: you're so utterly sure of your position -- because you're likely inclined to believe it, and because you've been bombarded with messages confirming it ("the others are stupid") -- that you're quite literally failing to engage your brain. Instead, you're making lazy, emotive arguments.

So thanks for proving my point: the claims that one should consider so-and-so's feelings, the supposed humanism. That's just BS, isn't it?
I just switched over as a long time standalone user, and I completely agree. The 1Password Families subscription provides a tremendous amount of value and the product just keeps getting better.
Bitwarden is $10 per year (if you use the premium features such as 2FA). You can also self-host.
Where does this get off on saying torch didn't have traction until pytorch? Are you high?

Twitter? NYU? Facebook?

Python is a bad technology. Modern python like what's in the article is all about figuring out how to make python code that makes C do all the work, and its pathetic to then take credit for the success that fortune 100 companies and world renowned universities were using before python attached itself to it.

Give me a break.

If you want to write fast code and interop with C, write Lua and use Torch. If you're doing technical computing or extreme scale numerics, go with Julia.

But never python.
It should be built into the initial price. And perpetual is unrealistic, but 10 years is not.

Microsoft provides 5 years of Mainstream Support and 5 years of Extended Support at no additional cost (cost is built into the initial license fee).

Heck, I would more trust software that says 10 years of garunteed support rather than lifetime support. Too many companies fudge the meaning of "lifetime", and 10 years blows Google's 2 + 1 years of Android support out of the water.
If their tactics are patently obvious why do you suppose they'll prevail?
Yeah me too. I got knockoff shoes last month. And they rejected my review saying so
Booking a taxi online is much easier now with cabhit
This just reminds me how excited I am for passwords to be replaced. We shouldn't need a third party application as an authentication shim for every service that we use. The high lock-in on password managers is also unnerving.
I always figured that the singularity idea might work in theory but in practice it would likely take an ungodly amount of time for it to work.
You forget that repaying a loan for something like the postmodern conveniences of a University Science Education may be the wrong thing to do, especially given that the Universities generally don't require vocational training as part of general education.

When people take the loan it's because they feel like they have to, and when they don't want to repay it, sometimes it's like, "No, look: if the people around me needed this so that I could live, something's wrong, and I don't want to continue collaborating with them."

The U.S.A. may also be experiencing an ongoing violent revolt against compulsory literacy in the high schools, so the problems don't really start with the loans and the college application process.
Lobbying. I can’t think of another practical reason that isn’t primarily based on fantasy. A digital speed limit could allow for a minute say, of exceeding the limit for the sake of evasive maneuvers, passing, etc. lobbying and public perception though, won’t allow it.
> I think a game (quoting Powerball here) where your odds are 1:292,201,338 is by definition a fleece

No, it isn't. The odds from an individual ticket are irrelevant. Only the ratio of expected value to price matters when if you want to call it a fleece. The state lotteries offer many different variance options with Powerball being among the largest. And while the lottery is, in nearly all cases (there have been some exceptions), negative EV, it's not so much so that you'd call it fleecing.

Remember, the original lotteries were unregulated and those selling tickets would pick the winning numbers based on the numbers that gamblers had chosen to minimize the number of payouts. That was a fleece. It wasn't until they developed a system where the winning numbers were determined by the results of horse races that there was some semblance of fairness to the system, but operators still found ways to minimize winners winninga.
I don’t really get this perspective. You can continue using the version of 1Password that you bought without issue. The expectation that your purchase years ago should entitle you to updates forever is pretty ridiculous.
POW limitations. Check out POS and DAG systems