skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, not to mention that phase 3-6 months ago where they were supposedly injecting several rapid (a few times a week) multi-hundred million dollar issuances. That's the kind of thing that raises red flags. "Hey, Mr Banker, here's $200M USD", three days later, "Hey, I have another $150M for you", and a few days after that, "Another $150M. Business is go-ooo-d!".
I was very surprised to recognize one of the train-leaving jingles:

https://youtu.be/470_2wt2t1o?t=41

Took me a second but I realized it was the same music that the old Mr. Do arcade machine (from 1982) plays when you get an extra man:

https://youtu.be/5_BBQWed8Vk?t=434

So is this jingle an homage to the game, or did the game lift the melody from somewhere else?
One could not say what is "expected" without knowing either the statistics of suicides in Japanese train stations, or the statistics of where installations happened. If per-station variance is high, or if the installed stations were significant outliers (or both), 84% would be perfectly within expectation.

I find it very hard to believe that the color of the light in the train station would sway a person's life-and-death decision. Plenty of things could, but "it's blue here" does not seem like one of them. "Colors have 'magical' effects on emotion" is a very woo-y thing to believe.
True that the text doesn’t say this, but several of the privacy authorities in the different jurisdictions in Europe have been stating this publicly in interviews. The last one I saw was the ICO in the UK today on BBC Click saying exactly this...
> Can everyone just stop repeating this, pretty please? That is the maximum penalty. You'd have to try really, really hard to get that kind of penalty. For minor transgressions, you're likely to get away with a reprimand.

I find this really ridiculous as well. To run a business, there's lots of rules you have to follow which can result in fines and even jail time if you make mistakes (taxes for example where the rules are complex). If every small transgression for every rule was hit with the maximum penalty, nobody would be able to risk doing anything.

The large GDPR fines to me seem to be aimed at big companies so more than a slap on the wrist can be issued for abusing vast amounts of personal information. I don't think small companies need to be blocking EU users because they're worried they might make a mistake in how they implement their newsletter consent checkbox for example.
Not as many since they banned them here, but it used to be quite common given the combination between the fact it's pretty windy here in SF every afternoon, and there's lots of trash / debris around. It's still pretty common to see blowing paper or other debris (tire shreds) in the road at least a few times in my 12 mile commute.

This has been a not-minor problem for autonomous cars and the Tesla-style autopilots / adaptive cruise controls that depend on vision only. You have to program it to ignore some types of things that seem like they might be an obstruction, such as road signs, debris in the road, etc. so they don't hit the brakes unnecessarily.
I like art, and am all for it. But nobody should mistake it for a business.

Want to make a poignant, subtle art-house film? Go for it. Want to make a blockbuster sequel which will be predictably profitable? Go for it. But please don't raise money like you're doing the latter and then do the former. Steve Jobs said, "Real artist ship." And given his record at Apple, I suspect he'd agree that real artists ship things people want.
Nothing to see there anyway... full of sheep, hobbits and the odd moose some say.
> Pedestrian on the road at night is one that I've encountered twice on my trips and they did not lead to any fatalities because when I can't see I slow down. If 6 seconds isn't enough to make a decision you have no business being on the road in the first place.

I've seen a few people comment on the footage that they too would have run the pedestrian over, to which my only response is: I sure hope you don't have a driver's license [anymore]!
Not much. If you're not compliant, you're not compliant. However, that's not the end of the world right there. GDPR takes ill-intent into account, and it also requires warnings before any punishment is applied. They should instead have started working on compliance before they actually did.
What's that got to do with it?

It's the law, it was created by a democratically elected body. Racial and abortion laws are on a different plane altogether, and are not typically the playground of globally acting corporations.
Solid laugh here, thank you
I noticed this too. I think its fixed by using: window.history.replaceState({}, '', '/landed') instead of pushing the state.
I just Googled "us map" and, of the first 32 results, Hawaii and Alaska are missing from 6 of them.
Coin price is determined by (amount of $ chasing coins) / (number of those coins). Tether is effectively inflating the $$ side by pumping USDT into the system and making people believe USD and USDT are virtually the same. As long as the game continues the prices go up, which benefits everyone in the coin scene, hence everyone is playing along.

Also I imagine that major exchanges could get discounts on volume USDT purchases - this would allow them to paper over their own cash shortfalls in exchange for lending legitimacy to the scheme.
Article opens by claiming "DES-Crypt has a core flaw in that, not only was the algorithm reversible ..."

That's not true in any meaningful sense and points to the fact that the author hasn't any clue what they're talking about. Which doesn't magically invalidate their experiments and data, but it does mean you should probably take their opinion with an extra table spoon of salt.

DES of course is reversible, it's an encryption algorithm, so if you have the key you can just reverse it, that's the whole point. But what DES-crypt does is something else, First it takes the DES algorithm and tampers with the internals, it has 12-bits worth of random data for this, a salt (today obviously we use larger salts, but this one already makes time-space tradeoffs painful, 4096 times worse than normal against a "good" DES crypt). Then it encrypts a bunch of zero bytes using the password, and then it encrypts the result, and that result and so on, 25 times in total.

This isn't a reversible algorithm. You can't take some encrypted DES bytes, and then run DES backwards 25 times to find out what the key was knowing the original was all zero bytes, you quickly get conflicting possibilities.

What you _can_ do, in reasonable time, is try all the plausible passwords in turn, for a particular salt value. This is what DES crackers do, and for passwords like "ksdcunfm" it works pretty well on commodity hardware, which is why we don't use DES Crypt any more.

But that's not reversing the algorithm.
Looks like I'll soon have a replacement for my Nextbit Robin I bought last year for $100.
I have never been to Japan myself but those of my friends who were all had nothing but praise for the train system.

WRT the lack of English: In most parts of of South America you won't find anyone who speaks English. Same for North Africa. One can be annoyed or just see the humourous aspects and put the car into the "car parking park" (seen in Morocco) before having a "vegetarian in bread" (seen in Berlin). ;)
Both adaptive cruise controls and human drivers do this by default. If you're doing 60 MPH on a highway and something pops into the periphery of your vision that you don't recognize, do you slam on the brakes? No.
Pressure sales tactics, spamming and hijacking the last click are the things that really work in affiliate marketing
This is such an awesome system. It completely makes sense that your mindfulness will increase when you integrate your full body with a task, using your eyesight, gestures, and voice.

It's quite similar to jotting down notes using pen-and-pencil and enunciating the object of study in order to remember it well. It is even similar to prayer and meditation, where incense and singing increases your own awareness.
A cruise control system doesn't look out your front window and doesn't steer the car. So the driver is still actively engaged in operating the vehicle, just has one less lever to work on. And at the first tap on the brake it disengages.

If you want to compare it with a car operating on cruise control you'd have to sedate the driver.
>Punishment and reward are relative in a connected economy. If you think that "A stupid person that contributes nothing deserves nothing." then you are proposing their murder via starvation.

Look I'm not arguing against your imagined dystopia and I'm not a radical like you are. People in society are charitable and do provide basic needs for those that can't earn enough to feed themselves.

>My moral premise is the society should strive for the creation of the greatest utility for humanity. Withholding utility from some group humans, for whatever reason, directly harms that goal.

Your statement is factually incorrect. If we are to say that utility as you say is money then intelligent people are better at allocating resources than intelligent people. An intelligent person that is a good investor will invest in technology that they can leverage to create more.

If an intelligent person is given a significant amount of money because of their contributions to society, and then this person uses that money to create a new technology, utility has already exceeded the case where the less intelligent person and the more intelligent person are given the same amount of money.

>It can be argued that an unequal allocation of resources to individuals creates more overall utility by creating incentives, and I'm receptive to that argument, although I don't agree with it.

Ignoring rewards unequal allocation of resources gives those that can make better use of resources more.

>But arguing that the less productive individuals deserve less means your moral premise is no longer about creating the greatest utility, it's about creating utility for those you deem worthy.

It's not about who "I" deem worthy. I don't promote a central authority ran by me that ranks people and rewards people based on their worth. I promote allowing people to use the resources they have access to as they see fit and if the vast majority of society believes it's correct to give all their money to one person due to that person's contribution to society I believe we shouldn't interfere in that process.
If that's the case, then perhaps that startup shouldn't be sucking up all the user data it can.
These all seem like table stakes. My Home can do all of these, but I just have to say "hey Google, turn on CNN" instead of the awkward "tell harmony" thing.
Oh, you mean the guy who's the subject of a criminal investigation and has had half of his campaign taken down over money laundering, influence-peddling, and fraud? That guy? Weird example, but okay.
Text console in the distant cyberpunk world – 15 messages from a far galaxy
Is what you say actually written into the law, or is it left up to the discretion of the enforcer?

Because I'm sure EU companies will be given lots of leeway, but non EU companies will not, and no one wants to be the example.
And each of those hundred people probably has _one_ additional app that they find essential, that no one else does. It's a brutal market.
How is geoblocking a solution? How does it absolve the company of their compliance obligations? Does using a VPN mean that Data Subjects in the EU are not covered by GDPR?

Is geoblocking sufficient on its own to show that the Controller/Processor is not doing business in the EU? Even when the Controller/Processor still provides localization to EU languages?
the weirdest scenario is if people inadvertently leak medical data on a unsolicited email.

"I've a motor impairment do your hotel have accessible rooms?"

say you have your hosted email system, now you're in a huge mess.

people downvoting this should really hear a lawyer about gdpr.
I have no stake in this, and am in no position to make any judgement at all, but I'm still hesitant to conclude that K8s has "won" or something. There was a story here two weeks ago about the absurd complexity of it. All I know is that it's heavily promoted left and right, and like for most tech products this decade, big media has won the attention grab, and has been successful in creating the perception that k8s is the orchestration software most people are using or look forward to using. Not saying it isn't, but I've yet to see any figures supporting that statement.

What Google is up to here is pretty clear IMHO: they want to be perceived as the go-to provider for k8s based clouds. It's not like the iPhone-vs-Android situation at all where Google's goal is to maintain influence over advertising channels rather than push Android sales per se.
It's passive observation of a successful authentication session. This may occur if the victim performs authentication over a network where you can observe the authentication traffic (even though it is encrypted in transit), or if you can inject a timing script that can observe when authentication starts and finishes, or if you can gain access to logs of the server performing the password check (containing at minimum e.g. IP addresses and timestamps).
Personal anecdote alert. Last year at work I had to design some process diagrams. I enjoy this sort of thing, but I was finding it very hard to get past that initial hurdle.

I found, by accident I think, Visio’s ‘hand-drawn’ template - and everything changed. Suddenly my nit-picky perfectionist mind could get past the fact that these diagrams, which I was in the process of drafting, weren’t perfect. The edges didn’t align, the connecting lines weren’t all on exactly the same horizontal, the boxes weren’t all exactly the same width.

I’m not kidding, I finished it within an hour. When it was done, I switched back to ‘square boxes and round circles’ mode, lined everything up, and was done.

It was a revelation.
Sad news. I remember refreshing /. multiple times on 9/11, and also getting my first goatse link.

RIP Rob.
Isn't the largest cost of most online business the staff? This cost would reduce 10x if given to third world devs and surely that will put most of these flailing websites in the black
I read OP as "the ability to endure and be comfortable with cognitive dissonance".
>Lower than average intelligence does not cause people to become "wife beaters". The lack of emotional intelligence on display in this whole comments section is deeply and painfully ironic.

Jesus christ, are you capable of reading? I never suggested

> Lower than average intelligence does not cause people to become "wife beaters"
I've been through mass transit systems in at least fifteen countries by this point. Japan (Osaka) didn't leave a huge impression, as plenty of countries in Asia have similar systems. Yesterday I caught the first inter-city mass transit in China from Guangzhou to Foshan, part of the aggressive infrastructural beginnings of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) megacity.

The two cities' systems were evidently conceived and funded independently, with an interconnecting station design that terminates both systems in a big mess. Hauling a kid and luggage we first had to climb two huge flights of stairs (no lift), go through a stupid ineffective security screening, interface with a horrific UI to buy tickets, walk a substantial distance, descend, negotiate more stairs, walk a substantial distance again, and finally stand on a squashed platform. I did note they had anti-suicide barriers, but the lack of space made them more like anti-accident barriers. (Shanghai by contrast has full height doors on the platforms.)

The actual metro ride was very pleasant and fast however and despite a crowded train (it was evening rush hour) and some ill passengers nearby we managed to emerge unscathed. Total cost from Guangzhou to Foshan: 6元 (about USD$1).

IIRC I think John Young of cryptome published or shared something years ago on "the architecture of control" specifically discussing the physical environment of train stations. I remember it changed my perceptions of train stations even in the comparatively vacuous venue of Sydney's system. I just had a search but unfortunately couldn't find it.
Microsoft and Amazon and Facebook (with HTC).

It's obviously not an easy space to enter.
But we may also lose the next potential Einstein by NOT firing them, based on victim stories we know this is the kind of behavior that convinces people to leave institutions or even the entire field itself.

When looking at historical figures context is everything. I judge men who sexually harassed women in the 80s way less harshly than men who harass women today, why? Because in the 80s society still told you, 'this is ok, this is normal, feel free' for many forms of sexual harassment. That doesn't exempt them from culpability but given the degree of effort that would have been necessary at the time to understand what was wrong with their actions we should temper our condemnation of them.

The point this leads to is: If Feynman was alive today, sexually harassing women, that's significantly worse than similar behavior in his heyday; making your question hard to give a meaningful answer to.
We need to distinguish between shock hazards, which are proportional to voltage level in terms of the proximity required to cause a shock, and arc flash hazards which are proportional to the available current and the speed of the nearest upstream protection device.

Low voltage systems are often much more dangerous for arc flash than high voltage ones: the current is often higher (thousands of amps instead of tens of amps) and the protective devices (circuit breakers or even fuses) are slower. That means the amount of hazardous energy discharged into a worker before the circuit is automatically isolated can easily be enough to maim or kill even at relatively low voltages such as 120V. There's a 208V transfer switch in one substation I work at that has potential arc flash incident energy of 38 cal/cm^2. That's more than enough to kill even from 2 metres away.

At 480 or 690V it is sufficient to simply not touch energized equipment to avoid being shocked, and PPE is available that allows hand-contact (class 0 gloves). However, available arc-flash energy in the event of a fault while the energized equipment is exposed can easily be above the level that any PPE can protect from (usually considered to be 40 cal/cm^2). If the arc flash hazard is at a level that cannot be mitigated with PPE, it will have to be reduced in some fashion either by re-configuring the circuit or de-energizing it before work can be done.

Employers are responsible for performing engineering studies to determine the arc flash hazard level at every relevant location in their facility, labeling it appropriately, training employees on these hazards and providing adequate PPE. Unlike voltage, you can't just look at something and tell how much arc flash potential it has which is why engineering studies need to be done in advance. We have widely-accepted standards such as NFPA 70E and IEEE 1584 that codify the appropriate methods for engineers to use in estimating these hazards, and there's no excuse for failing to do that.
How could Gresham's Law apply to Bitcoin if it were not divisible? Or are you suggesting that comic books could be considered money (one property of which is divisibility) to the same degree as Bitcoin? Hopefully we agree that divisibility is not an "ostensible" characteristic of Bitcoin, but a "factual" characteristic of it?

Also your tendency to define things in binary terms (liquid/illiquid, value/no value) is troubling.

Why the struggle to pretend not to be able to tell the difference between Bitcoin and limited edition comic books?
"- IPs are personal private infromation"

IPs combined with other user data could be PII.

"- You need opt-in consent for all (ad) cookies, including non-tracking ones. Basically, advertising is optional in EU sites as of today."

Wrong. You need opt-in consent for non personalized ads, but this can be the "soft consent" type where you only present the "Accept" button. Advertising is no more optional tomorrow than it was today.

"- I could argue the right to download your data is superfluous, mostly because it creates potential holes for data leaks/phishing etc."

Knowing what you have on me is not superfluous; it's my data.

Seriously, the FUD around this law is getting tiresome.
Mike, is that you?
The market for this is tiny, that's why it doesn't exist.
> No constructors/destructor (if I remember correctly), no stack based objects, no exceptions, no virtual functions, no library, and you had to provision your classes with the right number of member function 'dummy' pointers to allow for expansion.

I think that you are fairly mistaken. IOKit drivers are written by inheriting from a base class and overloading virtual functions.

Here's how it looks :
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Da... ; it may be not 2018 template-metaprogramming bliss, but it's fairly standard C++.
As a first approximation, you don't need wealth to recognize that someone else is wealthy, but you need to be intelligent to recognize that someone else is intelligent.

A poor person understands that thousand dollars is more than ten dollars, and million dollars is more that thousand dollars. A poor person can recognize an expensive car; for a sufficiently poor person even the fact that someone owns a car already suggests certain level of wealth. Of course there are ways to make yourself appear more wealthy than you are -- the car may be rented, and you may actually be deep in debt -- and there are "invisible" forms of wealth -- no one knows how much you own in stocks or bitcoins -- but when you observe people, there is some correlation between how rich they are and how they live, and you don't need to be rich yourself to see the difference.

On the other hand, levels of intelligence that are above you seem pretty much the same. Not just intelligence, but also education, etc. If you know absolutely nothing about quantum physics, you may listen to Stephen Hawking and Deepak Chopra, and have no idea which one of them is right. Under specific experimental conditions you may be able to compare levels of intelligence above you, otherwise IQ tests would be impossible to construct for people smarter than the average psychologist -- a person who can solve puzzles 100 times faster than me is probably smarter than a person who can solve puzzles "only" 10 times faster than me -- but in normal life, when you meet two highly intelligent people in different circumstances, when they have different professions and different hobbies, it is difficult to compare them.

I guess what I am trying to say is that a person with IQ 100 and a person with IQ 150 can both be sapiosexual, but it will make the latter much more choosy. In other words, you cannot be a choosy sapiosexual unless you are intelligent yourself. (A person attracted to 50% of population probably would not label themselves as "sapiosexual", if all they mean is pretty much that they are not attracted to retarded people.)
... especially since SF is clamping down... hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17148644
As a full-stack dev I concur. Trying to do front-dev these days is not an intelligent choice.
You make good points for sure. I wonder how much it takes to bring one phone to market compared to 2 or 3. In other words, how possible/practical is it to try for 2 or 3 bites at the apple compared to simply focusing on getting the first one right enough to keep going.
And if it was truly okay, why did they need to "remind the executive of their copyright policy" (never mind the law...)?
> No, they don't. Do you really think if, before she made this purchase, someone explained to her all the things that could theoratically go wrong with this device, she would have chosen not to buy it?

Yes. Do you think if everyone knew what was going to happen with the Facebook scandal before it happened they would have signed up for Facebook? That's why it's called a "scandal."