skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things come to mind: poor backwards compatibility and reliance on compilers to emit optimally ordered code (inherent in the VLSI system philosophy), which they proved unable to achieve, resulting in comparatively poor price/performance. Eventually x86_64 came along and provided an alternative that provided backwards compatibility, horizontal (PC/server) universality, and most of the purported benefits without the hassle, and the Itanium came to grief.
The only thing I can do as a customer is be mildly amused at the fact that you're complaining it's inconvenient for you to respect my privacy now that a law is coming into effect forcing you to do so.

From the other end of the spectrum, I know you're wildly exaggerating the difficulty of compliance.
Note that this is the UK agency, you might see different behaviors if you scanned the Belgian regulators enforcement list.
Shorts and a t-shirt would very much be scandalous! In fact there's a good chance the Tyler wouldn't let you in.

Normal lodge dress code is a dark suit and black tie (or the relevant masonic tie). Some lodges like mine are Dinner Jackets (Tuxedo). Provincial and Grand Officers wear a 3 piece morning suit (striped trousers with a black waistcoat and jacket).

My lodge is meeting tonight so I'm sat at work with my DJ trousers and a white shirt on and my DJ jacket in a suit carrier.

I agree that the man is more important than the exterior, but the way we view things over here is that it's not much to afford a black suit nowadays, and it means everyone looks more or less 'uniform' and therefore on the level. Culturally we tend be rather formal over here anyway.

We once held a meeting on the same night as a carol service in our local cathedral, so we were told that we were just going to open and close the lodge and open the festive board more like a ladies evening and DJ wasn't necessary due to the service, just wear a lounge suit. I wore a black suit as per normal, but with an orange tie and that caused quite a stir!
if only the future was same as the past and the economies remained the same
I don't think that's fair.

I rather think it gets a lot of hate because it leaves a lot to the discretion of the regulators. Overall, the SMEs I talk to don't have a problem with regulating data (most think it will pop the gangrenous ad-tech bubble). It's the lack of predictability that bothers them.
What will eventually kill Facebook is going to be people just abandoning their account, not #DeleteFacebook or scandals. Most people simply don't have any long term memory allocated to Facebook behaviour. We may actually mean it when we say that we'll delete our account, but when time comes to do it we forget, and forget the scandals and bad behaviour.

Bases on what I see, and that of cause completely anecdotal, more and more people simply don't post anything and the few that does are mostly commenting on sponsored posts in hope of winning a prize.

End the end enough people will quietly start visiting Facebook less and less, because their friends aren't posting anything. In the end they will simply stop using Facebook because they forget about it. Just as Facebook became inevitable at some point, because so many used it, it will crash just a quickly when enough people stop posting.

The surprising part is that advertisers still view Facebook so positively as they seem to be doing. I would think that engagement is pretty low and the number of people you actually reach is pretty low at this point.

In the end Facebook will need to be able to monetise Messenger, luckily they have WhatsApp that already knew how to do exactly that before Facebook bought them.
> Rightfully, the information belongs to the webmaster.

What? Because you just decided that it does?

It's people like you why we need GDPR-like laws. I'm curious, what's your stance on the Equifax data breach? They had data that belongs to them and they could do with and treat it as they pleased, right?
See "Europe vs Facebook" for another pre-GDPR example where people were obtaining data Facebook stored on them via existing data protection laws: http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html
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It was leaked to the New York Times (sanctioned leak?) that it was a collaboration of USA and Israel. Not sure where France comes into it...
That makes sense as administrating a forum takes a significant investment of time, and you don’t necessarily have enough time to run a forum and also develop the software. However, if it became popular, I would expect some of us would want to hack on the software... but who would want to work on a phpbb theme? I’d pretty much rather be using a Google + group.
The Python ecosystem in general is severely underfunded despite all big players using it extensively.

I think one reason is that the community is doing too good of a job. The language is pretty sane, it solves most problems right, the libs and docs are good, and the general direction thinks take is reasonable. And it's free not only as beer and freedom, but also free from business influences. The PSF is really giving away pretty much everything.

Everybody contribues a little (we have the brett canon team from ms, the guido team from dropbox, the alexi martelli team from google, mozilla even donated for pypy, etc). But it's nothing massive. Nobody said "ok here is 10 millions euros, solve the packaging problem".

Compare to JS: the language started as slow, with terrible design, and no consensus on the direction to take. So eventually, people (Google first) pourred a load of money to it until it became usable, and they had a cleaner leadership. They had huge problem to solve on the ever expending market that is the web plateform. Of course JS as the unfair advantage of a captive audience and total monopoly on its field.

Remember Unladen shallow ? "Google" attempt to JIT Python ? It was just one guy during his internship (http://qinsb.blogspot.fr/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospecti...).

And look at the budget the PSF had in 2011 to help the community: http://pyfound.blogspot.fr/2012/01/psf-grants-over-37000-to-... I mean, even today they have to go though so many shenanigans for barely 20k (https://www.python.org/psf/donations/2018-q2-drive/).

But at the same time you hear people complaining they yet can't migrate to Python 3 because they have millions of lines of Python. You hear of them when they want to extend the support for free, but never to support the community.

It's ridiculous.

Also compare to PHP: the creators made a business out of it, plain and simple.

Compare to Java/C#/Go: it's owned by huge players that have a lot of money engaged.

Python really needs a sugar daddy so that we can tackle the few items remaining on the list:

- integrated steps to make an exe/rpm/deb/.app

- JIT that works everywhere

- mobile dev

- multi-core with fast and safe memory sharing

There are projects for that (nuikta, pyjion, kivi, etc), but they all lack of human power, money and hence integration, perfs, features, etc.

You need a simple way to code some GUI, make it work on mobile or desktop, turn it into and exe and distribute it.

You need a simple way to say "this is a long running process, JIT the hell out of it".
This looks really interesting, esp. the multiple backends design. I was looking for something like this to use with seafile (https://seafile.com). Would that be possible? How hard is it to add a new adapter for a backend? My JavaScript-fu is a few years old by now, but the existing adapters don't seem to be too complicated/involved. Not sure if the seafile API provides all necessary methods though...
How about instead a software system to manage all billing for a hospital owned/ran insurance scheme.

People signup for their favorite hospital. The hospital gets MRR. You set your primary care physician and other providers. They get MRR too per patient who's picked them.

Patient pays 4-6% of their monthly income for insurance.

When patient travels, their local hospital foots the bills. Hopefully this goes national and it lowers costs -- hospitals would negotiate with each other for lower costs instead of insurance companies. They would also have a centralized uniform billing (the biz) that joins everything together and is the glue. As a result each hospital no longer needs medical billers.

Hospitals could join forces to also negotiate in bulk the price of prescription drugs and keep those costs down as well. Since it's income based everyone could afford it, so it's basically privatized universal healthcare.
There is actually an over-arching requirement for proportionality in all EU regulation: https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2015/06/27/supreme-court-on-eu...
That's not true.

Under the existing Data Protection Directive these notes are subject to people making a Subject Access Request.
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Proxies can also be really helpful for unit tests.

Obviously you have things like sinon for stubbing out methods, but they do have to modify the original object, which I don’t think anybody loves.

But you can also wrap your object in a Proxy with handlers that stub certain methods.

You can also use proxies to implement validation and observability on objects. Here’s a very minimal example of a sort of Backbone-esque Model class with proxies: https://gist.github.com/kevincennis/25ba31b2e9f9c8b7a34047ba...
Prolific (http://prolific.ac/) is designed specifically for science research, but I've used used it for two different use cases:
1. Product research, quickly testing appetite for an idea.
2. Micro tasks (a "survey" with at least one participant, where basically the only question was "have you done the task (on external page)?" The task in question was editing a public transcript, so confidentiality wasn't even a concern.

Each time I was impressed with the quality of the responses. In the optional open-ended text fields for the research survey, in particular, I was impressed with how people took time to free-write their thoughts, rather than just rushing on to the next question / to complete the survey. Point is I do think you get what you pay for...

From my experience, it seems Prolific's ethical approach (e.g., insisting on decent minimum payment rates) leads to overall higher quality of participants as well as responses (vs. race-to-the-bottom micro-task platforms like MTurk).
[Disclaimer: I'm friends with the founders -- so I'm quite familiar with the amount of resources devoted to ensuring truthful/quality responses.]
last full time job I had, I blogged almost daily, on an internal system I installed. I was laughed at a bit. Mgr asked for weekly 'status reports' but they always either had too little info, or outdated info. The blog was my daily/hourly notes. Initially I just said "read my blog" for the status update, but that didn't go well, but it helped me summarize.

Meetings? I had the discussion/outcomes in the blog. Tricky SQL or weird edge case decision? I blogged it.

A few months after I left someone said "thanks for writing that - it's been a huge help in figuring out why some of the stuff was done the way it was done". Same person who'd laughed at me for wasting my time. :)
Definitely Vue, React is so 2016, get with the times. Plus FB is evil, and FB owns react so that must make it 'toxic'.
Equifax.
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Wow!

This might be my case ( whole I think I'm lucky enough that it is not a real big issue.) I remember drinking despados ( some kind of tequila and beer drink.) And having a huge headache the day after. And getting them once in a while. I connected it somehow to the beer and stopped drinking it.

That might be the cause... I need to keep an eye on that. Thanks for the tip :)
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I want to second this. The things I wrote throughout my career that I'm most proud of aren't very complex.

I find it very satisfying to understand a problem so well, up to the point you can find a simple and elegant solution to it. It makes the solution easier to reason about with other team members, and easier for the team to maintain it later.
I see this as making your domain expertise available as a framework for the other team members.

This is my idea of sophistication in the software development world.
Just add stripe, they are miles ahead of the competition and it is just so damn easy to set them up.

Paypal is gonna cut your conversion rate by a huge percent. I had a startup which initially had just paypal and after adding stripe my number of signups doubled. There are a lot of people who hate paypal or don't have an account with Paypal.
But that is in the eye of the beholder. With a maximum fine of $20 million, a country like Germany might say, for example, "Ok, small American company, yours was a minor violation. We'll only assess a $2 million fine - that's only 10% of the maximum! See how lenient and proportional we are? Danke und tschüss!"
Ah nice, thanks.
That would explain the randomness then, as a few sites it has happened on have been using cloudfare - so I guess they are upgrading
Ah, I see what you mean now. That's not how I understood it, but some people might.
I have a lot of companies emailing me saying I can opt-out, I thought that was the opposite of what the law is saying?
Eg. If you continue using our service after 23th of May you automatically agree to the new terms. Huh?
Generally they don't, until something happens that reveals the contrary. Like the Cambridge Analytica fiasco.
Is this phenomenon anything like adversarial images in neural nets? https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-i...
Yeah, lazy evaluation is the big feature of generators. Given that it's such a powerful feature of Haskell it's definitely worth investigating them.
>What does this mean? I was born in and grew up in the US and I have no idea what you're talking about

That basically proves his point. If you haven't noticed any discrimination then you're likely in a position of supremacy, whether or not you want to be.

Talk to minorities, especially in impoverished neighbourhoods, and ask them how they feel about the police. Most of them will have likely felt discrimination at some point. And that's just the quantifiable stuff, there's far more under the surface that makes minorities feel very, very persecuted. There was a good read on HN about this a few weeks ago [1] which I fully recommend reading, it's eye opening.

>I'm guessing Obama being president does not throw even some slight wrench into this notion?

Well if Obama threw a wrench in, Trump took it back out. And as much as I admire Obama, after the initial high of America finally having a black president wore off after the first year of his first term, not much happened. Dealing with decades, if not centuries, of institutionalised racism in the US is not an easy task, especially when you have to answer to congress/senate and try and appease Republicans who more often than not stood in the way of Obama's goals.....well you can see why he may not have been the end of discrimination. Interracial marriage only became acceptable to a majority of the population in the late 90s, there's still a massive amount of progress that needs to be made.

White supremacy in this context does just mean "whites have an advantage" by the way. Nobody is accusing all white people of being white supremacists. I personally hate the term "all whites are racist" or whatever people say nowadays, it has the same intention but is hugely misleading.

[1] https://lithub.com/walking-while-black/

edit: should've had more coffee this morning. Privilege would be a much better word than supremacy in this context.
I am trying to build a portfolio of small services at http://staticgarden.com and then charging people for the whole bundle of services. Services like form endpoints, json store etc, mostly targeted at the JAMStack.
> Data persistence. We add a proxy backup function to each object that is fired when modifying its content.

This makes me think of database triggers, which would imply that it's quite easy to implement dark patterns with Proxies.
In particular (you can take this as a TL;DR summary), it is about the myth that some people were stupid (for example, to oppose ideas of Kepler or Galileo), while others were smart. They were all pretty smart, and the opposition to new ideas actually had math and data (that were available at the time!) on its side. Kepler's model, for example, required a believe in gigantic stars (all starts are the size of Betelgeuse or even larger), based on data available at the time, which today we know was wrong. Somewhere else I read about Galileo, as far as I remember apparently his telescope was pretty bad and it wasn't that other astronomers refused to look through it, as our modern myth about their "stupidity" goes, but that what could be seen was not conclusive. I may be wrong about the last one, this is from what I read long ago elsewhere, the Kepler theory is a main theme in the linked article though.

Another document:
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0903/0903.3429.pdf

> How Marius Was Right and Galileo Was Wrong Even Though Galileo Was Right and Marius Was Wrong -- or, how telescopic
observations in the early 17th century supported the Tychonic geocentric theory and how Simon Marius realized this.

Sometimes scientists who followed their instincts were right, and those who followed the available facts/data were not. Sometimes. Or in other words: Things are not that simple.
The best thing about the list is that it doesn't always answer the question.

"Are My Kids Safe?
An estimated four million Americans under 18 years old will dial in this year, up from 2.3 million last year. That leaves a large group of parents worried about what their children are watching, saying or downloading."

It still didn't answer whether the kids are safe or not.
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You'll have to visit New Hampshire, USA. They have the first mountain-climbing cog railway. It's the second steepest. Some of the trains still burn coal, including one built in 1875.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway
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In the GDPR draft it was "250 employees or with 5000 records." but 5000 records was dropped.

Now it says:

http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-5419-2016-IN...

>The obligations referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to an enterprise or an
organisation employing fewer than 250 persons unless the processing it carries out is likely
to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects, the processing is not
occasional, or the processing includes special categories of data as referred to in
Article 9(1) or personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences referred to in
Article 10.

Basically small firm that is just holding minimum amount of customer/user information and data and where the business model is not centered around profiling and processing user data.
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The slave population in 1860 was about 4 million. ~150k surviving black soldiers with an unknown number who decided to stay in south, doesn't really justify stating that blacks had easy access to weapons.

That said, I think you were also stating something different than I was. In particular a recurring theme in history is that people don't tend to fiercely resist disarmament. So even if blacks had easy access to guns prior to disarmament, we would have expected them to give them up with relatively minimal resistance. This happens time and again because disarmament, in and of itself does, not seem particularly heinous. But the problem is that the heinous acts, that would more clearly justify violent resistance, start only after disarmament - when it's already too late.
We're talking about university here - if you need to rely on feeling passionate about every single course you take, and you actually do, then you're one in a million.
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As a solo business owner based in the US, I’ve been spending the last couple weeks learning about GDPR and getting compliant. While it has not been a fun process, I do think in general the regulation is quite reasonable and overall good for the world in general. So far, GDPR compliance has not cost me any money, only time.

There are three problems however that I have with GDPR and I’d love to hear how other small non-EU businesses are dealing with this.

First is the requirement to have EU representation (Art. 27). Since I don’t have any physical presence in the EU, GDPR requires the appointment of a representative. It would appear that a new industry has been created selling non-EU businesses GDPR representation in the EU which in my brief Google searching can cost $1000 per year or more. Are other small businesses owner out there paying for this? Or how else to deal with this requirement? Not a lawyer but this is the only part of GDPR I am tempted to ignore.

Second is the common practice of using lead magnets to collect emails for marketing. My email signup forms are very clear about marketing use, and are double opt in, and subscribers can opt out with a single click. But my research suggests that this is still not GDPR compliant unless there is an explicit consent, which I believe will reduce email signup rates. Also, while Mailchimp has a GDPR form, but it is quite large and doesn’t work embedded in web page headers, sidebars or popups. I’ve only seen one of these Mailchimp GDPR signups in the wild and they opened a new browser tab to present the hosted Mailchimp GDPR form which to me isn’t ideal. How are others handling email marketing signups? Disclosure and checkbox for consent seems a reasonable compromise but I haven’t seen this very often in the wild, at least not yet, that may change come May 25. Not a lawyer but I’m tempted to keep my current forms until I see more websites make changes.

Third, I have a medium sized mailing list (less than 10,000) mostly US based emails which is important for my business. Are people running consent campaigns (as suggested by Mailchimp?) I’m concerned that I will lose a substantial part of my list due to non-response. Again, the list is double opt in and I am very reasonable with my marketing emails. (Not a lawyer) but my thought is to segment my list into EU and non-EU customers and run a consent campaign only on EU emails. Has anyone run a consent campaign and how did it work out for you?

Any thoughts or suggestions from other small and solo business owners would be much appreciated.
Yes, but you cannot check whether a person is a resident unless you explicitly ask them. There are no "public" API.

It's much easier and safer to just assume someone who's in Europe is a resident, rather than figuring out if they really are.

GDPR only applies to EU residents, yes, but not if they're on ex. holiday outside of EU.

Say, a EU citizen is on holiday in The U.S.

In such case the EU citizen is not protected by GDPR.