skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We live in a whole new world which absolutely no one understands yet, and the only traits which should be desired in a leader are adaptability and the ability to innovate. Something which old people necessarily lack by definition.

I'm interested in where you've found the definition of "old people" to necessarily mean a lack of adaptability and innovation.
Japan’s biggest bestseller is a philosophy book on “The Courage to be Disliked”
Or you could just not buy garbage games.
What makes you think the NSA employees felt humiliated?

Maybe they were proud that their work was publicly recognized.

Higher-ups understandably felt frustration that they needed to replace the program, but what makes you think that the employees didn't already anticipate that exploits and campaigns would get burned?

Is there a difference between a vendor issuing a patch or an organization's security response team cutting off access, and a anti-malware company doing its job to research campaigns?
I think there’s something to be said for an limit. A term limit on congress of 12 years might be the easier and more straight forward option. This would probably resolve 80% of the age problem as they’d run over their term before they got too old.
It would have been prudent of him to train a replacement much earlier. He still could advise but the risk of him dying suddenly and leaving the company leaderless increases with age.
Have used this to great results in postgres, mysql, redis, etc.
Not being able to factory reset a device that you have in your physical possession is not reasonable, in my opinion

You have a car parked outside your house. You have no keys and no paperwork proving ownership, nor is there a record of you in any central repository. Should you be able to just claim it by virtue of physical proximity? I think most people and most legal systems would say no.
> With a clustered index, when you look up a record by the primary key

To nit-pic - it might be the case in mySQL but some DBs (SQL Server for instance) allow the clustering key to be something other than the primary key, and for some analytical workloads this can be much more efficient.
The link you provided says you need a DPO in an organization

> Where the core activities of the organisation (controller or processor) consist of data processing operations, which require regular and systematic monitoring of individuals on a large scale

Small shops contain things that they sell, and they also keep records of selling things for tax purposes, and may even have video cameras to avoid getting robbed. IANAL but isn't that a lot of data processing operations, and isn't there lots of systematic monitoring of individuals?

Or are you saying that because it's not "large scale" (e.g. only 100 people walk in a day) and it doesn't have sensitive data, then it's immune?
Internet Users, Better Beware: There Are Prying Eyes On-Line
I'm curious which company you work at such that every person in every department is 100% on the same page and adheres to the same conspiracy and never breaks from the corporate message.
... which is short for mobile phone.
Had the same idea and got sad you got there faster. But then I looked at the code and realized you did it better than I would have done it so good job!
Additionally, Reddit stopped allowing what Huffman calls “post manipulation” to highlight certain content.

A certain degree of wise curation can be highly beneficial. We should all know that here. However, there is an accountability problem. Highly popular social media groups aggregate power, and power corrupts.

it's impossible to compete with subreddits sitting on common names, like "science".

Reddit should allow for curation-heavy groups, but these should be billed specifically as curation-heavy groups and they should compete with other groups. Something like /r/science shouldn't get to do that.

Abuse of moderator power is one of Reddit's biggest problems.

I'd say it's social media's biggest problem, but change moderator to insider.
The "popularity" algorithm is potato chips.

Good moderation is vitamins.
I feel pretty conflicted on this. The way Trump is using his Twitter, it almost becomes public property. I mean he's making huge announcements, almost solely on Twitter. So, at that point, it's almost like denying public access to the State of the Union. But, on the other hand, it's his damn Twitter and he should be able to do whatever he wants with it.

I guess it begs the question, when you're a "public servant", and you use your social media as a medium, are you entitled to privacy in the same way a standard citizen is? Or does that medium become public property? It's probably best that "public servants" don't use their private materials in an official capacity.

[edit] switched public capacity to official.
This applies to all uses Merkle trees---blockchains is one example, but someone[1] pointed out that git is another. Each git repo typically contains the names and email addresses of people who committed, and you can't rewrite history without disrupting anyone else who is working with the repo.

Does this now mean that github is in violation of the GDPR, since they cannot retroactively delete people's personal information?

[1] https://social.heldscal.la/notice/7460829
Doesn't really sound plausible to me that a nuclear powered missile engine would, as far as I know, release a single radioactive isotope, Ruthenium 106 in this case, with its exhaust or upon a crash.
Blocking on Twitter also prevents the blocked user from view the blocker's timeline, which means Trump would be preventing US citizens from viewing his "public statements"

Edit: Is this being downvoted because of some inferred snark? None was intended.
I agree that it's kind of a questionable decision but my understanding of it is, people can normally post public replies to tweets- but if the user blocks you, you can't post your public reply. OK (and desirable) for most people, not ok for the government to do.

There's not necessarily a perfect offline equivalent but it would sort of be like if the president tried to forbid a newspaper from running an editorial next to the text of a presidential speech- obviously unconstitutional. (not a perfect comparison because twitter users who are blocked can and do get around it by screenshotting or just linking to the tweet even though they can't reply to it)

I think the more interesting part of this is the ruling that the president's "personal" twitter account is an official government instrument.
If the company is storing Personal Data (on people in the EU) or is present in the EU, GDPR applies. They might also be complying voluntarily for various reasons.

Data Subjects' rights to their data aren't absolute. If you need it for legal/compliance reasons, or legitimately need to keep it for clearly defensible reasons like auditing, preventing fraud, etc., you aren't required to delete it.

But if your only legal basis for processing the data was Subject consent, and they revoke their consent, you are required to delete it. Many companies are treating mailing lists this way and/or are confused and terrified in general, so everyone is getting emails.

Some companies are also adding Data Processing Agreements to their terms of service that allow them to be Data Processors for customers. Maybe your MFA vendor is one of those.
I agree. Their knowledge and insights would be better as advisement to a new generation of leaders so there can be a continuous learnings and new ideas in government.
If Facebook's algorithm buries you, you might never develop an audience in the first place who would cry about things… Smart censors pick their battles. The only way to avoid censorship is to build systems that aren't able to be censored.

Note that https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/25/546127444/epis... convinced me that maybe we actually NEED censorship though… so no easy answers.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute not common law." - Robert Heinlein

The EU is under no obligation to allow the business model of "free, but paid for by selling your data" to continue to exist, just because it has existed until now.
Also tl;dr: They don't explain anything about how that can cause the observed symptoms.
Exactly!

Except, for me, when I was growing up if I woke up my parents for any reason other than a house fire or medical emergency (even accidentally) I'd be severely punished, not just ignored. So my siblings and I played quietly by ourselves most weekend mornings when we were very young.
Soviet regime got to stop those 'enemies of the state fleeing wrath of the proletariat'.

Soviets introduced exit visa back in 1925, so probably that was a reason of that drop.
> I'm saying that on average, whatever you observe in the world is already "economically optimal". You may believe that there's a better way to use land, but if reality doesn't agree with your beliefs, there's usually a good reason.

I got it, this is just misunderstanding. I meant that upbuilding is "econimically suboptimal", but current situation is optimal.

> In other words: owners know what the land is worth
Actually, no. Some of developers told us that the problem with market is that most of the land is not for sale because owners just don't know that they can sell on a good price, they are not thinking about this at all. Developers are willing to buy land up to x10 more that they are currently buying.

> It has nothing to do with regulation.

In regions where there are a huge crisis in housing local government can introduce a new type of a Tax - Underdevelopment Tax. This will reduce margins of the owners that hold their land for "investing" opportunity and force them to sell their land to developers. Even if this tax will be low, they will start to think about selling their land right now and this help to the market a lot.
Could have just been a laser disc replaying rendered footage, or a Sega with a custom made cartridge playing back a demo "video"
I'll put my hands up to 99% being hyperbolic. ;-)

I do worry that a lot of GDPR compliance will amount to "box ticking" rather than a genuine improvement in user privacy.

Legislation is a blunt instrument and it's hard to get sizeable real world benefit from a heady mix of noble sentiment and complex statute.
Oh no, a whole several.
You'd still need to allow AVs to stop. But in my conception, the vehicles aren't so much "autonomous" as they are routed. The routing algorithm would be able to prepare all the vehicles an arbitrary distance away for a briefly blocked lane. I think a lot of redesign would have to happen, realistically, to try to account for all sorts of exceptions. But it still feels like we could have a far more flexible and efficient transportation infrastructure than we do now if a whole lot of things we take for granted coudl be revisited.
Two notes here:

First, pedantically, (But in the interest of maintaining my "trying to reiterate the letter of the law as I understand it") I'm pretty sure interactive/implied consent isn't considered sufficient; (Interactive consent being what was allowed for EU cookie compliance) and that one cannot "Sign away" GDPR protection.

Second, while I agree that it's overkill, I'm operating from the "This is the rigorous interpretation that people far more legally versed than myself have established". This may not be the right decision for a smaller corp or business entity, as it is in my case for a notable multinational. While I might agree that I'd have an absolute spit-take if such a small entity were made an example of, I can also understand the paranoia on the other side, especially given the context of US jurisprudence and how it differs from the "tone" of EU-style enforcement.
That would be great, drop me an email.
This is generally not a problem for any genuinely opt-in features - I went to a particular place to opt-in because I wanted to, and I can go to the same place to opt-out afterwards.

It's a bit different in situations where I don't really want it but the service provider does; but these are the intended target of this legislation. One could argue that this is a useful criteria for UI evaluation - if the site feels that it's unreasonable to dangle a banner "Opt-out of tracking NOW!!!" to everyone forever, then perhaps it should be considered exactly just as unreasonable to dangle an identical banner "Opt-in to tracking NOW!!!" in front of everybody until they accept. If you don't want to do the opt-out banner, then you could be forbidden to show the opt-in banner. So even a very literal interpretation of this may make some sense.
"Sources said that the tests were ordered by senior Kremlin officials despite objections from the program's engineers, who voiced concerns that the system was still in its infancy.". Putin's press conference was on March 1st. The Russian presidential election was on March 18th. I think it's pretty clear that this was a marketing move.
> I don't care how other central authorities audit themselves, that's completely off topic

We're talking about GDPR here, which is most important in the context of centralized systems whose operators have to worry about compliance with European law; really, it's easier to argue that the fully trustless systems you're imagining - what Bitcoin attempts to be - are what are off topic here.

> A simple list of "data", it's hash, and a counter would be better for what you want in just about every way. You'd still be able to see that data was modified or removed, and it would be faster, simpler, and easier to work with.

If you implement this in a real system, you'll need to rehash all the data any time any of the data is changed. The obvious optimization there is to only hash new data plus a commitment (hash digest) of the old data, at which point you have a blockchain.

> I never said anything about Bitcoin. I'm saying that using a blockchain while throwing out the "chain" part is more complicated, slower, and more expensive than using a simple append-only log file.

How do you know the append-only log file was actually append-only? You'll want redundancy, which means multiple systems must have their own copies of that log file.

Next you'll want auditors to be able to challenge those systems, which is often easiest if you have those systems sign cryptographic statements about what should be in that log file. Real-world systems have log files whose state changes over time, thus you'll want to the chain of blocks optimization so you don't have to re-download and re-hash everything every time the state changes to verify the latest set of signatures for the log file.

And at that point, you have a blockchain whose consensus is defined by a centralized quorum of trusted but auditable entities.
Yeah, people switched from cable TV to on-demand niche content, but it's the same kind of passive entertainment.
The ruling revolves around how he is using the account. If the had been just giving cooking tips then it would not have been considered a 'government' account which seem reasonable.
ReclaimID: Secure, Self-Sovereign Identities
That's what's crazy to me about this whole thing.

Yes, morally and ethically, the ends don't justify the means.

HOWEVER, the mods were manipulating votes to bring high profile visitors to Reddit, users were happy, Reddit execs (should be) happy that they were getting big time scientists posting, it seems like the only disconnect is how they did it.

This finger wagging is just PR from Steve Huffman. If they really cared, they would have worked with moderators to create the toolsets to bring in more high quality content, and moderators wouldn't have to resort to desperate measures to bring in more eyeballs.

"We're working on it" is a nothing statement. Instead, they're putting resources into a UI refresh that does not have very much support from the community.
I really like this idea. Every video frame from a political/public personality is cryptographically signed with their private key and edge viewing devices are able to tell if it's properly signed or not.

It's easy to imagine this idea becoming a part of video (be it VOD or broadcast) encoding standards in the future, once this becomes a critical thing.

In terms of UX: one could imagine a simple indication on TVs: an RGB led that shines in different colors depending on verified authenticity levels.
OP here. I took the title verbatim from the article to avoid editorializing. I am not sure where HN stands regarding changing the post title to something that is significantly different from the article title.
* > Basically, Kaspersky's role of tracking nation-state malware inflitrations gives them a position as a quasi-intelligence agency. The US government didn't like that, because they constantly out the various programs going on, and because they operate out of Moscow. So the US and/or its allies infiltrated their network and reverse engineered its software in order to find whatever dirt they could. https://www.observeit.com/blog/kaspersky-lab-nation-state-at... https://theintercept.com/2015/06/22/nsa-gchq-targeted-kasper...

Is revenge the only motive to do this, if indeed it was the NSA (it's likely it is)? Wasn't there an allegation that Kaspersky software had exfiltrated NSA employees' and contractors inappropriately-stored classified material? Or wouldn't it makes sense for the NSA, an intelligence agency, to spy on a foreign company with good access to information about foreign officials?
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You're correct that PostgreSQL has had clustered indexes for quite a long time. The only difference here is that PostgreSQL allows a HEAP table. That said, you do have to re-cluster a PostgreSQL and that requires an exclusive lock on the table, which is obviously not idea for a massive table. MySQL will always cluster on the PRIMARY KEY or (if there isn't one) the first UNIQUE key[0], but as far as I can tell it always clusters on write. I don't see any way to configure the padding of the clustered index like you can on SQL Server, so I'm not sure how this is accomplished.

MySQL only supports SQL in procedures[1]. There is no PL/pgSQL[2] equivalent, and except for custom UDFs written in C/C++, there's no support for external procedures, either. PostgreSQL[3] supports PL/pgSQL, PL/Python, PL/Tcl, and PL/Perl in base, plus there's external modules for PL/Java, PL/Lua, PL/R, PL/sh, and PL/v8.

[0]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-index-types.h...

[1]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/adding-functions.htm...

[2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/plpgsql-overv...

[3]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xplang.html
I think the cost of Delphi is more a sign of the fact that not a lot of people adopted it, or at least not a lot of people currently use it. I tried to use Delphi when it first came out as Pascal was my favorite language at the time. But the IDE was incredibly buggy and would crash on a regular basis, so obviously not a lot of people adopted it then and probably never gave it a second chance.
Tangentially : I'm currently reading a book about microbes and microbiomes in general.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multi...

I've found it to be pretty interesting and accessible if the subject interests you.
The guy who runs Bogons is Brandan Butterworth, who is credited with getting the BBC onto the internet in the 90s, and is currently "Chief Scientist" for BBC R&D.
Well I've already gotten simple 2D games working in bare-metal ARM with OLED and TFT displays, it's more the emulation aspect of things that is intimidating.

ARM Cortex-M cores are also a bit different from the Application-class processors used in boards like the Raspberry Pi. They are closer to an Arduino than a "real computer".
Given that protectionism is stupid and protectionists genuinely believe that they are doing something good for their nation when they implement protectionist policies I can use Hanlon's razor and assume both.
Just a note that you can only have max $1,000 in an Mpesa account.
Has the judge read some of the comments being made? Absolute craziness in there. Some accounts should absolutely be blocked, they are repeatedly spamming and saying things you would never say in a meeting face to face.

-EDIT-
Funny that my comment is being down-voted. Seen everyone wants to moderate comments. If someone says something you don't like on your personal page, you should be able to stop that. You've just exercise your rights to drop my comment to the bottom.
It is quite the opposite: China is much crazier than the western press makes it out to be. If western media reported things about China too accurately, no one would believe them.

You really only have to read Chinese media to get this, reading even state-owned media (like China daily or global times) will leave you with a much more negative impression of China than reading CNN or NyTimes.
Microsoft's CD-based movie encyclopedia product, Cinemania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cinemania), was similarly excellent. In terms of presentation, Cinemania 97 was far superior to IMDB as it is 20 years later.
Oh, God yes. That poor old 90x just couldn't keep up. The Sequent Balance 8000 (6-way SMP circa 1985!) was vastly better.
Who are "we"? I didn't vote for them.
Judge Backs N.Y. Parents, Saying Their 30-Year-Old Son Must Move Out
Will this apply to all government officials on twitter? Can twitter still ban a user if they deem the content to be harassment/etc?
This all depends whether you can shift the risk. It is fine to break things if you have managed to get insurance to cover the downside.
Nepal's first ODI will be against the Netherlands
Those rising sea levels might as well be.
We need to do whatever it takes to ensure this type of system never gets implemented in America.
Strangely, i find the UI screenshots in the article to be clearer than some modern UIs (eg Gimp).

Why? I'm not sure, but maybe: (1) there is less functionality, so less stuff on the screen. (2) Black and white means that the icons are all high contrast. (3) the icon shapes are simpler (compared to Gimp's toolbar icons). (4) the borders on the forms are higher contrast; in Gimp's color picker form, for example, the boxes surrounding places where you can type stuff in appear to be gray, whereas they are black in these early Photoshop pictures.
Don't be shy; let us know what we're supposed to do.
This is not the same thing - it is rearranging an existing index for efficiency as a one-off process. It needs to be repeated when the data is substantially changed.

With a true clustered index the clustering property is as far as possible (it can get somewhat fragmented in the presence of random data) maintained during normal operation without the need for a full rebuild every now and then to keep the benefits for new data.

> When a table is being clustered, an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is acquired on it. This prevents any other database operations (both reads and writes) from operating on the table until the CLUSTER is finished.

This makes that operation very nasty. For a large amount of data you are looking at locking your applications out of the database for some time, and the delay is relative to the total data size in the table being acted upon, not the amount of data that has recently arrived or changed.
You can kind of get around this by viewing the site while logged out. But I don't know if that kind of thing is supported in any of the apps, so it's a big hoop to jump through.