skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Starting June 30, Swedish researchers will no longer be publishing in Elsevier and will not have access to Elsevier magazines.

Legality aside, given how high the usability of Sci-Hub is these days, I have no doubt in my mind about who got the short end of this stick...
With the ones powered by sails, it sounded to me like something out of a Studio Ghibli film.
There's plenty of Tesla's out there with worn down tires.
thanks, you’ve pointed out a great signal that now exists. don’t do business with companies that choose to pull out of the eu market rather than comply with gdpr. these are companies that have made an explicit decision that user data privacy is a burden not to be cared about.

my company OTOH is choosing to apply gdpr principles globally.
As the other comments point out, any OS will have bugs.

But it is widely believed that Stuxnet was initiated from the US, and Microsoft is a US company, so...
NO NEED COOKIES!

Please, disable cookies for HackerForums.co too.
This is probably me.

I use instagram a little bit.

I am writing an app in react-native.

Does that count? I basically check facebook for event invites only.
Azirevpn[1] (Swedish based)
Always been very fast for me.
One of the first to implement wireguard I think, which they offer for free at the moment, tho I pay anyway for the service...

1: https://www.azirevpn.com
Big win for JavaScript DSL composers. Reminds me of method_missing and other sharp knives in ruby.
If you come to think at it, this "worm" is really a form of life, with a certain degree of intelligence, I might add.

Just like a biological virus, it replicates itself, it hijacks a pretty secure environment, like a cell, and uses it, first to replicate even more, and second, to alter its behaviour in order to accomplish its "goals", meaning deeply hidden instructions that only activate, and this is amazing, only in certain conditions, just how a certain piece of DNA is only activated in certain conditions in the cell.

The intelligent part, in a more humane uderstanding of the term, comes when it is able to act and update in a distributed fashion orchestrated by a central command and control.

This is not just a sophisticated form of software. This is a sophisticated form of life, albeit a distructive one.
I wanted to read the article, but unfortunately it requires me to activate cookies or to subscribe.

I was about to create an exception for nautil.us but I had a Wait-Why-Should-I moment. Now I find that request unacceptable, really. They're blocking my access to some article because

"Nautilus uses cookies to manage your digital subscription and show you your reading progress. It's just not the same without them."

Yes, it is. It is exactly the same. If nautil.us can't go without a cookie, I can go without reading their articles.
>if in 10 years a new Commission arrives and changes their mind they can retroactively decide that things previously allowed were actually illegal.

If 1) A new European Commission arrives and proposes a change in the law that is retroactive; AND
2) The European Parliament agrees with the change; AND
3) The Council of the European Union (ministers from every EU member state); AND
4) the Court of Justice of the European Union doesn't strike the legislation down

THEN you can worry.
Cisco seriously needs to fix this and make sure that next time it is much harder to find their hardcoded passwords. /s
Are you claiming that most companies are not storing data in compliance with current law today? There's a meme about how all businesses are trying to exploit personal data mercilessly at any cost, yet among the small businesses around here and the people I know who work there, none of us is in that line of work, nor I suspect would any of us want to be.
It fits easily into a 280-char tweet, with plenty of space left over for a link or explanations - the below is 160 bytes give or take:

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So sophistication == Exploiting dozens of Windows zero day exploits.
Mid-late 20s man here.

I dont care about anything on the news feed. I officially quit in an overtly, long drawn out week of statuses, but prior to that I had barely used FB in over months.
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It's pretty good. The problem with automatic lossy compression is consistent quality.

There is a number of issues with each and every tool you mentioned, e.g. color information stripped with metadata causing color shifts in wide-gamut and non-sRGB images, camera images changing orientation when Exif stripped, color banding on PNGs and JPEGs even when using Guetzli (JPEGmini is not nearly as good in other cases, but Guetzli is extremely slow), unexpected dithering noise on flat PNGs, tracing artefacts on screen recorded GIFs, JPEGs being overcompressed, poor lossless compression (virtually any online service), progressive JPEGs incompatible with Photoshop, etc.

These are just some of the problems I've been solving, and yes, there are better tools.
Sci-Hub's DNSs often change due to ISP blacklisting and such. However Wikipedia has a pretty reliable list of still alive DNS/IPs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
> These systems are designed to ignore static obstacles because otherwise, they couldn't work at all.

Just to be clear, it does not automatically follow that therefore it is acceptable for them to be on the road like this. That argument must be based on efficacy, not feasibility.

My understanding is that statistics show that these emergency braking systems do, on balance, reduce the severity and frequency of collisions. Perhaps that is because drivers of these vehicles are not being given the opportunity to stop paying attention to the road, but once that option is offered, the minimum acceptable performance for obstacle detection goes up. It's no use arguing that the drivers of level-three cars are supposed to be paying attention at all times, because people are human, and don't do passive attention well - acceptability criteria must be based on what actually happens, not what is supposed to happen.
Some self-promo: I run a weekly newsletter with lessons from HN: https://lessonsofhn.com

It's a collection of mostly life lessons I find interesting similar to comments from here.
Success Formula Behind Ranking Higher on Google Play Store
> lso, alleging astroturfing or shilling is explicitly against the guidelines [2]

Thanks for letting me know I wasn't even aware of this.
Except that FATCA's sole purpose was to raise money, and the US isn't even compliant itself. FATCA is a whole different ball game to GDPR, and I don't recall the complaints from Americans when EU instituions were forced to implement it. In addition, the costs for implementation of FATCA were huge. Most people are halfway there with GPDR compliance already, unless they're doing something they really shouldn't have been doing.

GDPR is not a money making mechanism but a way of forcing compliance. I think that's the difference that many US people don't seem to understand.

Also I was responding to the comment that the US has never done anything like this, which is completely false, US people tend to forget what it's like for the rest of the world.
I've seen enough custom forums appear here only to die out to know that building the software and building a community are two completely different things and that one shouldn't expect that they will come if you build it.

I can see the temptation to want to hack around on it because it's a forum for hackers, but it's not as if HN is taking pull requests either.
so you say. if you don’t have strong processes to make sure that is true, it isn’t true. gdpr is mostly about ensuring you have such processes. if
you can’t do things such as tell the user what data you have, and delete it, you do not have a great policy.

methinks you need some advice from better counsel. i bet that you are closer to compliant than you think.
As a user I suppose they should do whatever satisfies me, and I'm not always need a bunch of populists from EU parliament, who can't write a clear text, run to save me, making field even more favorable for big corpos at the expense of SMEs, and small non-profits in the course of action.

>Given FB revelations and additional scrutiny to Google, I see some form of this law coming to the US.

That would be good news for the EU, of course. Even before GDPR, entrepreneurs were routinely advised to incorporate in US instead, and the legislation likely added incentives for that.
> You know what's worse than the instant obliteration of millions of people? The slow obliteration and starving of millions of people

Yeah, I'm going to have to sort of disagree with you there. Once you are dead, you are dead. If you are starving, things can still change and you can still have free agency.
Ivan Godard discusses the various positives and negatives of IA-64 in his description of the Mill Computer spread across many videos. (If you really want to dig deep at a architectural level) https://millcomputing.com/docs/pipelining/
Aided by Palantir, the LAPD Uses Predictive Policing to Monitor Specific People
Supply will be lower than what’s currently available. Prices could go up. If so, lower income households may not survive.
OTOH, no URL or contact info anywhere in the post or profile.
i second this, i really enjoyed that book.
Why you should join an early-stage startup
I recently had an onsite tech screen at a FANG company that requires whiteboard programming. The problem itself wasn't hard but I missed a requirement that was actually a hint. I shutdown and couldn't move on or work through it.

That said, I don't think whiteboard programming is always bad but it is a skill that I don't exercise and it showed.

My advice, talk through the problem with the interviewer and don't start writing code on the whiteboard until the interviewer has ok'd your proposed solution.
This seems like a very dishonest assessment. Are all the people who see this differently from you just brainwashed EU cultist who just feel the need to defend wrong things?
Back of the envelope proof that e^Pi is greater than Pi^e
>That dynamism stands in contrast to the usual tales we are told about the birth of science, stories portraying the debates around the Copernican theory as occasions when science was suppressed by powerful, entrenched establishments. Stories of scientific suppression, rather than scientific dynamism, have not served science well.

Well, this doesn't make sense. Galileo was executed by the Inquisition, an institution inside the Catholic Church. The church was not interested in debating rival scientific theories. They only debated heliocentric theory and their own earth-centric dogma. Once they identified the heliocentric model to be against their dogma they supressed and punished anyone who advocated heliocentric notions. But this does not mean the church was ignorant of astronomy. The church was the main supporter of astronomy because of their interest in maintaining an accurate calendar. Christoph Scheiner mentioned in the article was a Jesuite astronomer respected by Galieleo and the two corresponded.

The title of the article must have been decided by an editor who did not read the article. He wanted to write something like “The popular stories we are told about the beginning of scientific thinking have been wrong.” The word “creation” is totally wrong. Astronomy was not created in the 17th century.
The Different Covenants Pertaining to Israel
I've been working a theory that what we are seeing in the last 10 years or so is the escape of these techniques from government into private industry.

With a single powerful player, you get a consistent, but slightly false narrative. If you have lots of players though, you get multiple competing narratives and the news stops making sense.

Is partly why I still think Gibson is one of the people who got it closest to the mark.
VMware has EoL'd Socialcast [pdf]
> but then the caffeine will cause them to have another headache tomorrow and need it again.

I think that this is rather about people for whom lack of caffeine is a headache trigger. I.e. a withdrawal symptom because they are used to caffeine.

Of course a caffeine-loaded painkiller will just delay the withdrawal.
Facebook, Uber, Wells Fargo: The strategy behind 3 corporate apology ads
I bet it was a bitch to debug and test it :)
There's two kinds of "free service" on the internet. There's the Facebook / Google kind of free, where the herd of non-paying users is being aggressively monetised in other ways by a very profitable business. It's perfectly reasonable to expect this kind of free service to jump through the GDPR hoops as just another cost of doing business.

This is the other kind of free, where it genuinely is being done out of interests sake as a public service, like guerilla gardeners. In this case, it's perfectly reasonable to say that you got into this because you're interested in solving the technical challenges, not because you enjoy wading through bureaucratic rules, and decide to stop offering that free service in the EU because the fun has gone out of it.

Probably you're completely right about how easy complying would actually be, and in that case you could certainly take this code and run your own push server that serves EU clients.
I agree that markets tend to buffer the effects significantly.

The problem is in times of crisis, the appreciation of market dynamics and rule of law tend to wane. Even if those things are intact, the flow of goods and services can be undermined by well-intentioned but misguided politicians.

My point was simple. Despite the systems of trade, a catastrophic shock in trade or production systems could literally kill millions in a way that is more brutal and horrific than instant obliteration.
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> people's personal data.

I remember back in the day there was no such concept on the internet. Your identity didn't translate to anything in real world. At somepoint people started to treat it as 'real world but on the computer' instead of thinking about it totally radically new way about 'self'/'identity' ect. People thought of their internet profiles as their own self.
Intenet age was killed even before it started. Endless promise of internet to free human beings was thwarted by paranoia, censorship, laws ect.
It's very nice that you can specify the period between sending logs in nanoseconds, microseconds or milliseconds, but also utterly useless. Even if there's a time library being used that has these options, it's appropriate to only advertise the units that make sense.

Sadly, it does not include "days", although one can always specify the value in milliseconds. (The fifth hyperfactorial, as recently mentioned.)
> At which point do you take responsibility for yourself?

According to my life amongst real breathing people, most people come to that phase either very late in life, or never.

Plus as another comment said, these platforms are designed to addict -- they exploit brain bugs and vulnerabilities, so to speak.

Me personally? I only lasted 5-6 months in the first part of 2013. I very quickly understood what is going on and even though I was much more insecure and needed loads of validation, I still got out.

I am sympathetic to the message -- I fully get it that you should be mature and take responsibility for your emotions.

But don't idealize Homo Sapiens. Common sense isn't common at all.

Yes we should take responsibility for ourselves but the companies must be penalized when taking advantage of brain weaknesses as well.
Intel Scalable CPUs are already at 205W TDP, and also see: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_platinum/8124
So what happened during the Irish Potato Famine?
Comment: I think whiteboards get unnecessary flak when the real culprits are games and riddles. I would argue that using a whiteboard to convey ideas is a fundamental skill if one has to work in a creative team.

Question: How do you validate that the posted company or job position doesn't need whiteboard? Is it after the fact, as in a disgruntled candidate complaining? I couldn't find any information about this on the site.
While I agree the US was generally benevolent, it did it because it knew it had the tech superiority. It's the same thing with the Opium Wars and China or Perry's gunboat and Japan: we'll force you to trade with us because we know our goods are superior and you'll buy them.

Same thing with the internet: the US was the biggest developed country, it had a large, stable, rich internal market, it had big universities churning out graduates (many of them coming from other countries!), it was the inventor of many tech things that make up the internet. So of course a less regulated internet would benefit it since its companies were best positioned to take advantage.

My guestion for the next 30-40 years: unless China screws up badly, it will overtake the US. It's simple math: a moderately rich Chinese population will overtake the US one, as it outnumbers it 4 to 1 or so. Will the US be as benevolent and open when it's the underdog?

Based on some reactions I've seen here, regarding the EU and the GDPR and also on reading a ton of comments about China, I'm not so convinced.

TL;DR: The US is reasonable, for a super power, but it didn't do it out of the goodness of its heart.
I don't see how option 1 (link to outside twitter) interrupts my flow more than a 2-minute video
I never realized whiteboarding was an issue. I wish someone would would make one of these sites for open office free jobs.(not the softare)
Yes, that's typically the case for small businesses. You'll find much better luck mid-market.
I want to do this.
I'm always amazed that the Ffestiniog engines were built just around the corner from where I live at the Hatcham Iron Works on Pomeroy street in New Cross, London. It seems unbelievable that you would setup a locomotive works so near to central London.

https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/England_Engines
As well as the other answers here, an additional reason was that during the time from announcement to shipping silicon the performance of x86 had improved such that the Itanium chips were lackluster performers in comparison to a top end x86 being produced by Intel at the time Itanium shipped silicon.

Couple lackluster performance compared to x86 with a significantly higher price than the equivalent performance x86 CPU and you get an additional damper on excitement and corresponding sales.
I still whiteboard my programming question when giving interviews, can someone summarize the case against whiteboards?

I'm just looking for the candidate's thought process and some pseudocode. I could do the same thing in an empty text file but the substance of the interview wouldn't change.

My feeling right now is that being anti whiteboard is focusing on trivialities like complaining that the office style guide uses Allman vs K&R bracketing or something. But I'm open to having my mind changed if there's something more to it.
I was “surprise whiteboarded” recently. It was my first whiteboard interview and I actually thought it was an interesting experience.
- windows security is not Uranium HD Ready /s

- remember systems evolve, these failures aren't hard to harden, both at the electromechanical and human level.

- raw network and electronic activity can be monitored

- is there a way to render MITM UI (the fake display loop) impossible ? a feedback loop pc -> devices, and if deltas are too high ALERT ?

ps: is IBM refining radioactive material ? ;)
I can tell you that GDPR is going to cause issues with block based backups. Many hosting providers don't separate customers on different block devices. When you back up a block device you have snapshots that have many different organizations data on them.

Part of making good backups is knowing that the backup can't change. The only solution now is to add paths to go back and modify those backups to remove customer data when asked too.

That is my plight anyways.
Thanks - I have no idea where I got the $500 number in my head. Maybe I was thinking of one of the private mediators I was researching? Sorry for questioning your initial number...
VASIMR rocket engine
The problem is not everyone on the world stage is a rational game theory nerd that links to papers like we want them to be. Also 60 years of treating every other country as a box in a threat model to be manipulated against other boxes has been a completely unmitigated disaster, so maybe we should stop that.
People hate their superiors unfortunately. This is why I think rich/high IQ parents need to put their kids around other rich/high IQ kids: proles/low IQs will tear your children apart out of jealousy, possibly leading to mental disorders and drug addictions
Whiteboards are not the problem- rather the questions that candidates are asked are bad.

Asking someone to solve an obscure mathematical problem (the Two Egg problem seems to be in fashion) doesn't do much except test whether the candidate has memorized the answer.
You could use home.arpa or mshome.net.
The sophistication is to do all this while remaining completelt undetected in a highly secure environment. Iran didn't find Stuxnet, it was stumbled over by Kaspersky Lab.
There is more than one naming rule for organic compounds. The standardized one is IUPAC. That is to say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_nomenclature_of_organic_...

IUPAC is a standards body; that is their nomenclature.

From an IUPAC name, you can work out the molecular structure but IUPAC names are often longer than older names for the same compounds.
That is a huge oversimplification. Do yourself a favor and read this http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/secur... or just the 'Executive Summary' if you don't want to read the whole thing
Indian Education System and its impact on my life
Ask HN: Find a partner for an informal side project?
I was wondering if there is a site to find a partner for informal side projects. With "informal" I mean to just develop something, not launch a startup. That means not caring about licenses, monetization, contracts, SEO, ads, MVP and so on. No binding documents (at least at first). Contributors are welcome, and they may come and go. Some examples of the type of projects I'd like to find:

- I think it'd be cool to download the full Reddit dataset and apply NLP techniques. Somebody out there who finds that interesting? Maybe with multiple TB of hard disk, or fast internet, or willing to setup a ipython notebook server, or experience with RNN, or just general interest and ideas?

- I've been wondering if you can efficiently find two nodes in Wikidata, and automatically extract insights (like "hmmm, this politician comes from the same city as this real estate tycoon and he entered office the same year that such controversial mall was built, soon after that forest fire burned the same area"). So, who would find that interesting?

- I'd like to take part in the Kaggle competition to detect Diabetic Retinopathy. Somebody who is a doctor dipping into data analysis?

- If I had a dump of the position of all planes each minute for the last month Somebody would find that interesting, and wants to propose an analysis? Like, detecting erratic flight patterns, or potentially forbidden areas?

- I find HFT (High Frequency Trading) interesting, so I listened for the raw transaction socket from multiple bitcoin exchanges, and I run some basic analysis. Somebody would like to extend it?

- Clickbait is both eerie and exciting. How such headlines play with our basic instincts is worth an analysis. Inspired by [1] I dumped thousands of clickbait ads, and I'm trying to find the patterns they follow.

If there's none I guess I'll build it myself, as another side project :-).

[1] https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum
You should read "Countdown to zero day"[0]. Some of the measures that were taken exceeded what anyone in Hollywood could ever imagine.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp...