skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The critical difference is that in China, the apps effectively are the banks, whereas in the US, regulatory capture ensures that the banks stay the banks and it's the app's problem to figure out how to interface with them.

My wife works in banking, for a small local bank. The regulations are heavily skewed against smaller banks. Regulations around consumer mortgages seem to be designed to keep smaller banks out. Unless you have the resources to engage in sizeable software projects, you will have to write your own software, spend a lot of money on software licensing, or engage in a lot of manual work while risking draconian penalties for little mistakes.

So regulatory capture doesn't just mean rigging the game for banks. It's only the large corporations that do the rigging and gain the benefit.

Tech needs to figure out how to combine the power of small community banks. Small community banks can only survive through having superior local intelligence. That superior local intelligence is worth a heck of a lot in aggregate.
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There's a common point of view that any member of a privileged class is implicitly responsible for the state of things as they stand, regardless of whether their individual actions align with the conditions perpetuated by the privileged class, as a sort of societal original sin.

The spread of this view is unfortunate, because for any particular privileged member, it makes the support of social causes a lose-lose proposition.

While in some people this manifests as outwardly displayed resentment, most people in this situation just avoid engaging the topic entirely, as the default option in this trolley problem. This is also an outcome that activists decry, but ironically people in this situation are afforded by their privilege to withdraw from the conversation.

Seeing threads like this appear and then get flagged shows that enough people anticipate no productive discussion on the matter, which seems to validate the efficacy of the strategy of silence.
We still have an operational CD-i in my parent's house. We played the heck out of it back in the day. We did own Link: The Faces of Evil, but it was insanely difficult as a kid. Even recently when I've popped it in, the controls are just terrible. A few of the games we played a lot of were The Wacky World of Miniature Golf (narrated by Eugene Levy), Cartoon Carnival, and Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces.
Maybe not Pac-Man, but a lot of the arcade games in the mall from my generation (40yr old) had the "Continue" option and there was no way to win the game on one quarter. It was cheap to play but expensive to win.
Hyper: D, B, G; Hope: E, A, C
I've been looking into writing an emulator for a while now. There are some excellent references for specific systems, but one of the best sources I've found is here:

http://www.codeslinger.co.uk/pages/basics.html

In addition to having source code for several different emulators, they've written a ~150 page document about emulator development. It's easily the best resource I've seen on the subject.
Sustainable food supplies means that food may look different soon
> ... and that seems to be a problem because the theory asks us to believe something implausible; that during times of war coin production went down.

This doesn't really surprise me. Lead production during the first downturn was controlled by the Carthaginians, who were effectively wiped out by the Romans (which is why there was a sharp reduction in lead emissions when the Carthaginian Empire fell, followed by a sharp increase after the Romans restarted lead production).

The second and most severe dip happened during the crisis of the third century, which destroyed Roman trade and kicked off the transition from a quasi-market economy to a feudalist economy.

The Plague of Justinian happened after the western empire had already collapsed. The eastern empire did control some of the Spanish coast around that time, but it's plausible that mining had already been reduced to a minimum, since most of the Spanish mines were located in what (as far as I can tell) were effectively frontier regions.
There are many things I don't agree with on reddit such as locking of posts but r/science has to be one of the best moderated sites on reddit.

I'm not sure about removing posts I've never noticed that on r/science. But just because I have not witnessed it doesn't mean it isn't true. I do have to say in post comments all the jokes, anecdotal stories (I'm guilty!) or bickering are quickly removed and that seems appropriate for the science. Let actual verified scientists answer genuine questions or make comments in a post's comments section.

This seems like both sides have good points but one side is the overall owner. The majority of subreddits have abysmal moderation quickly locking what the mods can't be bothered to moderate. Locking posts stifles debate it's just pure moderator laziness.
> passive consumption over leisure

This is the money quote for me. We somehow managed to convince an entire generation of people who were skeptical of the passive consumption of television that 'Hey wait, this other form of manufactured entertainment is entirely different and not at all bad for you because we're the tech industry and we aren't the people in suits."
I miss when my twitter feed wasn't 85% ads.
When applying to jobs this is frustrating. But being on the other side of it, as an employer, the administrative load of processing applications is huge. As a small company, I simply cannot afford to spend hours and hours writing responses to people we don’t hire. It sucks, but I completely understand why this is so common.
> If GDPR applies to Bitcoin, _who_ would you demand the purge action from?

It's not doable for sure. However, one can argue you can find all the node IPs, subpoena their ISPs, sue every companies and individuals to compliance, jail the ones who don't obey, and blacklist IPs from non cooperative jurisdictions. Fun times.
One of the solutions to the problem of pay-to-win is to eliminate all laws making it illegal to hack these games. This position seems very problematic and will rub a lot of people the wrong way, but we should have the freedom to hack the code running on our devices. If that breaks someone's business model, then maybe it's the business model that's broken.

Most people don't have any ethical issues with hacking single-player games, but the morality does get hazier when you talk about hacks that unlock otherwise paid upgrades. I'll be honest, I don't know how to feel about it. I want game designers to get paid and don't want to "cheat" them out of payment, but I also feel strongly that I should be able to open the hood of my car and do whatever I want up to the limit of endangering others (whether through exceeding emissions limits or general "physical" safety).
TipEx == White Out for other US residents. (I had to look it up.)
...and how does one practice to "beat" Pac-Man with a perfect score?
Cross Entropy
Judge rules 30-year-old son must move out, sides with parents
Is it really a bait-and-switch? Advertisers can be pretty scientific about their use of FB. It’s standard practice to balance the amount made from acquired users against their cost of acquisition.
FATCA, for example. It forces all foreign banks with US customers to report their customers and their assets to the US treasury or suffer a 30% withholding tax on all US sourced payments [1].

Needless to say, non-compliance is not a real option for most banks, given the importance of the US in the banking sector, so they're essentially being blackmailed into compliance.

(Unfortunately for US expats, some foreign banks figured out that the easiest way to be compliant was simply to get rid of their US customers.)

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/1471
> Why are we turning internet browsing into an annoying experience filled with popups that are a minefield to navigate?

Honestly, because it works if you are targeting a specific niche. The problem with large, generic platforms such as Google and Facebook is that there is no typical demographic, so without knowing who people are it is difficult to point advertising at the most suitable demographic.

In the old print days you knew the reader of a car magazine was into cars and the reader of a caravaning magazine was most likely a middle aged couple who were fairly well off and receptive to more expensive lifestyle upgrade goods. If we could find a way to segment like this without tracking that would be great but while everyone uses these large, monolithic, caters for all platforms, it’s really hard, without tracking, to know who you are advertising to.

I find retargetting creepy and annoying but I like targeted, informative ads that are relevant to my interests. There is a balance to be found here that walks the line between useful and effective and creepy and annoying.

Oh and the cynic in me thinks that the 7 years of ineffective cookie law pop ups was just training people to accept them for GDPR now that they mean a bit more.
I wonder if Berkshire Hathaway should have forced Warren Buffett to retire at 60, 17 years ago.

For reference: he's more than quadrupled his investors' money in the years since he turned 60.
I love the "especially US companies" bit. US companies have long assumed any laws are just words on paper that don't apply to them. I really truly hope GDPR hits many of these (and similar companies) really hard.
I've been heavily thinking about making an emulator for a while now, maybe seeing some of the sources here will motivate me to go through with it.
"My generation (millenials) are forced to just sit by and watch as these senile dinosaurs rip our country to shreds"

Don't stand by but make yourself heard. It happened in the 60s and can happen now.
Welcome to dystopia, have a seat and watch. Until you're at the other end of the viewpoint.
Don’t understand this. Blocking a person does not prevent the followers of said person to see the conversation , thus it’s not a public forum?
I noticed HN fixes inaccurate titles, can that be done here? I don’t think it’s fair for the title to imply Reddit is to blame, based on the CEO’s comment in the article, which goes into detail on the (completely reasonable) anti-abuse measures that resulted in this. The moderators were clearly manipulating the site to promote these AMAs (albeit with good intentions) so it seems things are more complicated than “Reddit censors science”

Edit: looks like it’s been changed, thanks!
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It does not have to be machine readable. GDPR is technologically neutral. If the medium of storage is paper, a data subject access request can be fulfilled on paper. For example, photocopy the page, redact the other names, and mail the copy to the data subject.

If the data subject access request is sent by email, you can take it a step further and scan and email that page. Still, it does not have to be machine readable.
>If your guestbook is physical and substantial, this may be limiting without additional systems, but GDPR also is rather vague in the pushback you're allowed to give if you're completing the export with best intentions, so this will likely not be settled until precedent occurs;

And then you are fined 4% of revenue when you are the scapegoat setting a precedent for a vaguely defined law...
I had this wrist pain 2 times in my life. If I would put pressure on that wrist (eg to do pushups), it would hurt like hell.

I was always able to fix it by using the keyboard shorcuts more. Navigating to menus with alt etc.
Uber is shutting down self-driving operations in Arizona
> The loss of sick days also tends to get people to show up to work sick which is terrible downside IMO.

True though we're 90% hot/hotel seating now so pretty much everyone is setup to work from home if they're sick-ish and don't want to use a day.
Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid, that is all. It's greatness will never be equaled.
What's the basis of your accusation that FSB has overt access into Kaspersky's infrastructure?
when you ask for, e.g, "/springfield", how do you know which Springfield you get? And how to you specify a particular Springfield out of the many?

Edit: By using '~' to use the search/lookup feature, and adding the state to be specific. The '~' will cause a line below the weather to appear, telling you where it found.

$ curl wttr.in/~denver+iowa
[weather stuff]
Location: Denver, Bremer County, Iowa, 50622, United States of America [42.6713719,-92.3374045]
Peter Thiel and Maria Bartiromo Fireside Chat (March 2018)
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Show HN: I made a site that aggregates every crypto job on the web to one feed
Why isn't this a solution:

Everyone has some gpg-like setup.

If we see a statement or video or audio by a person accompanied by a public (graphic or audible) key that checks out...ok, done, verified. If we don't, then we can justifiably disregard the statement or video or audio.
No, I was a bit hyperbolic perhaps in response to the tone of the article or its headline. Of course there are responsible organizations who are affected and have costs associated with GDPR. Knowing nothing of what your clients do, 99% seems a bit hyperbolic to me, too. The reason email is so "hard" is because in reality not many people want to get the emails being sent. I find it annoying that I have to unsubscribe from a mailing list and sometimes even go out of my way not to get repeat snail mail when I'm being charitable and giving a donation to someone. Aside from all that, costs of doing business happen. I don't think the cost vs benefit is so out of kilter as you say.
Just to add something, we can make some guesses about the circulation of the ocean and wind currents during Roman times because we know that the Roman Warm Period approximated the climate we enjoy today, for several reasons. For example the locations where date palms are grown and dates harvested. We have at least one account which mentions that date palms can be planted in e.g. Greece but that dates will not fruit there (which is the case today), but that dates can be grown and harvested in Judea, which was not the case between the time of the Roman Empire and today because of the colder climate. Medieval scholars weren't sure what to think of that.
8 months into my first year of freelancing in the UI space:

* Closing in on $250k revenue

* 2 major clients, 4 smaller, short-term engagements

* 100% utilization rate (no downtime between clients)

* Successfully raised rates with all client projects (avg: 19% / engagement)

* Closed via a sales funnel of: 5 new prospect outreach / day, 2 proposal follow-ups / day, 1 existing (or prior) client referral / month

What worked:

* Networking aggressively (see sales funnel)

* Setting up a 3-prong presence of blog + personal site + consulting site

* Pruning and refining available code/assets for portfolio

* Pricing / week & value-based, fixed-cost pricing

* 100% money-back guarantee (no one has asked for it)

* Having an accountant

What did not work:

* Thorough proposal / contract documentation. I figured having detailed, in-depth scope of work showing I had knowledge of their industry, problems, etc, would help close deals. The teams that closed the fastest already knew they wanted to work with me, but the ones that weren't sold couldn't even be sold with excellent SOWs and proposal documentation.

* Having a lawyer. For a one-man consulting shop, you really don't need one. Most standard SOW/Contract/IP documents are easy enough to generate/find yourself.

* Toptal / Upwork / any of those race-to-the-bottom sites. There's great arbitrage if you're international like OP. But I'm in the US, and it's not worth the effort for US rates.

* Meetups. I just didn't invest time in them (yet). I think the next leap in rates will come from becoming more "well known" through blogging and speaking engagements, which this is a key area to invest in.

* All this "double your rate" business. Sure, I imagine this works if you're used to pulling in $50/hr, and I imagine Brennan Dunn and the sort are marketing themselves at more commoditized development. But trust me, people ran away when I doubled my rates. I had to find a sweet spot and build up my rates slowly per client rather than just assume I was wildly undervalued.
Is this the old "hot" front page, or the new default "best" front page? The latter is complete and utter garbage, and favours newness above all other criteria.
That is of course one alternative. Depending on your business it might be viable, but the EU is a pretty big market to skip out on assuming your business model itself doesn't violate the GDPR.
I understood that leggomylibro would like to learn the hardware first, before getting into emulation.

Hence the idea of learning ARM Assembly, I guess I got it wrong.
Well, then remove all of the other data associated with the customer. CustomerID then is then going to be irrelevant anyway.

But frankly, all of your points are equally invalid. Replications are a copy. Replace values in replications with faux values if that's required. ETL? Absolutely the same. Logs? sed s/UserID/FauxUserID.

You're operating a semi-garage business if it's so hard to comply with GDPR. Data does not belong to you anymore, and you've had a few years to make sure you complied.
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To be fair I am yet to see any implementation of giving consent that enables people to revoke it as easily. There should be a link in the privacy policy that revoked access with a click for whatever tracking platform the site is using, without having another bar that hovers all the time with those links in I doubt you will find easier than that.
Storage and thus speed at the expense of memory utilisation. RAM vs HDD.
As the median age of Americans grows [0], having an age limit would make it increasingly difficult for the demographics of Congress to match the general population.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/us/graying-of-america-is-...
The US looked at this in the 50s and the 60s as Pluto & SLAM.

The consensus was that it was a dumb idea, especially after ICBMs were deployed. Their only benefit vs alternatives -- incredibly long flight time (on the order of months / circling the globe 4.5 times) -- doesn't allow you to do anything you couldn't already do.

This was pre-stealth, but I can't imagine it's easy to stealth something with a red-hot exhaust (remember, to have endurance, it's superheating air rather than combusting limited fuel).

Hypersonic re-entry vehicles are far more useful, but also harder to develop.

Honestly, this seems a pretty blatant attempt to trot out Cold War era technology for a ra-ra "look, we're still relevant" showing than new R&D.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Miss...
> We somehow managed to convince

We did? I though people just switched from TV to Internet because Internet is more fun or more faddy or just cheaper.
The Gameboy CPU looks more like a stripped-down Z80 to me, it doesn't have the ED, DD and FD extended instruction ranges of the Z80 (most of those aren't that useful anyway), and the shadow register set is also missing, but the complete CB instruction range exists (bit twiddling and additional shift/rotate instructions). Also the relative jump instructions of the Z80 are there which are redundant NOPs in the 8080 instruction set.
> European companies don't appear to be having this problem

Did you miss the articles of EU based small projects shutting down operations? Also, do small web based tech companies even exist in Europe? When I look all I see are medium to large 90s era b2b tech companies.
Pressing, for example, Ctrl+C is simpler with the left hand only and if one uses sticky keys then it's two separate keypresses, no stressing of the wrists needed.
Has anyone run the numbers of how UBI would be financed?

For the cost of the current welfare system in the UK we could give every man, woman and child £3000/year, approx. This assumes that the cost of administration is basically zero, so it would involve sacking all the employees of the DWP or whatever it’s called now. Well, they would be entitled to UBI too... it has to be “universal” and “basic” or the numbers don’t work
Sleeping in on the weekends might also cause an early death if you're married to my wife who wants to go on a shopping spree on Saturdays...
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Ravindran Kannan, one of the authors taught a course of the same name at CSA, IISc. The video lectures of the course are available here: http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~chiru/datascience/iisclectur...
Is "Shaffer" a typo of "sharded"? If not I'm curious what
the term means (all that google turns up are a bunch of papers by a guy with that name)?
If you run a hotel, you can presumably answer the phone, and a photocopier and a dark pen should be enough to comply with reporting and deletion requirements.
> and even Scheme is 'the ultimate imperative' https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5790 !

Scheme isn't, lambda is. That paper is about how lexical closures alone are
enough to simulate a lot of imperative concepts like assignment, loops, and
gotos (they do cheat and use set! in a couple places, but the point of the
paper is how much lambda application can do all on its own). Your broader
point about Lisps not being particularly functionally oriented is correct,
though; they're some of the most unopinionated languages you could imagine.
CES demos were often being played off a Laserdisc player hidden under the table.
I have not found a situation where mongodb has been a better choice than postgresql.
High score resets whenever the machine is unplugged.

Score isn't the only measure of success in Pac-man or other arcade games.
"maybe" doesn't detail the steps you could take to bring yourself into compliance, doesn't describe the specific decision points that put you at risk, and doesn't describe how the "maybe" ever resolves to a hard "yes or no"

I've given you the benefit of the doubt in answering this honestly but I don't think you read my initial response charitably.
> There is only one country in the world that is brazen enough to attack a US consulate in China.

> Russia should be the #1 suspect.

If it was actually true that there was only one country in the world brazen enough to attack a US consulate in China, that country would be China, not Russia.
Trump blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional, court decides
I don't know why this reply is downvoted, it's essentially correct. Many science AMAs feature obscure subjects that not many would be interested in interacting with.
Medieval Theories of the Emotions
Isn't the golden age now, where difficulty is customizable?
Websites don't need a cookie warning for harmless cookies (like login cookies or language preferences). Cookie warnings are only needed for tracking cookies, and those aren't exactly harmless.
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I understand the point about the data resellers, and I agree. But TBH I'm more concerned about the minority of 'good actors' in this space, who have gotten my information the correct way, but now, due to various constraints or ignorances, are left at a great disadvantage and may end up losing a vast chunk of their diligently acquired subscribers.
Facebook needs to start treating their video platform more like a YouTube competitor, that pays content-creators real dollars.

If they stay on this path where they try to force all consumers and creators to be on their platform without incentivizing, people will eventually get upset enough to leave.
I would imagine it’s analogous to blocking phone numbers on the White House switchboard: freedom of speech in this context means that the President cannot artificially limit who speaks to him through publicly-available means.