skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So because you don’t have many in-scope systems, you believe that the cost of compliance is going to be the same for every company in the world? And what did I say that gave the impression that I don’t respect my users or their data?

Our application is a financial one, so I’d say it’s reasonable to assume that it ends up with a lot more in-scope PII than yours does.

In spirit, we also comply with almost all of the GDPR. However, some of its undefined edge cases prevent us from fully complying with it without an expensive re-architecture project, and re-implementation of some of our toolset. The areas we don’t comply with are incredibly minor, and I’ve seen some people arguing that we’d fall within the GDPRs limits of flexibility. However, that’s not how we manage risk. No matter how confident we were, being wrong could potentially end our business with fines.

As I have said repeatedly, for many small to medium sized businesses that don’t have many EU customers, there is simply no reason to implement GDPR at all. The costs can be quite high, and the risk of getting it wrong is enormous and not survivable. This is one of the many unintended (although entirely expectable) side effects of the regulation. All you’re trying to do is spread FUD.
My goodness, are you me? I've been having exactly the same thoughts. Provided one finds a data science role that roughly aligns with your training / interests, the actual work is comically easy compared to what you go through in academia.

A boot camp can easily teach someone to, say, estimate a linear model or run k-means. I dread the future when the industry decides the right way to put up barriers is by creating ever less-realistic interview loops that are even more coin-flippier, dice-rollier, card-shufflier.
Hot Denver startup solves GDPR with 4 lines of JavaScript
Do you know if it’s possible to change the displayed operator name with this, and if yes, how?

Every since a few years ago my SIM believes its operator to be a random sequence of characters that’s definitely not the operator, and I’d love to fix that.
The Curse of an Open Floor Plan
Yes, this. I was really into model railroading when I was a child, and had a faily elaborate layout in the attic. What appealed to me the most, I think, was being able to sit at the controls, flipping switches on a big control panel, and manipulate the locomotives and switches way over in the next "town" (on the other side of the room).

Years later, when I first started using the internet, I found myself sitting in Atlanta, editing a text file on a server in California. And I immediately recognized that same sensation, of "control from a distance." And, well... here I am.
I’m sure the people implementing their security are the same people recruiting and hiring new employees in an unrelated field.
Because that is personal information that is being stored and processed.
From that link:

> Strictly speaking, it does not actually employ any measurements of parallax and can be considered a misnomer.
Lets use IQ as definition of intelligence, whether you agree that an IQ test is a good test for intelligence or not. I actually think it's doable to make a neural net that learns IQ tests, that will become better then the average human, then, by definition, is the "AI" more intelligent ?
Big data's also like a big dick. Everyone's running around telling their clients they've got an 8 incher if they buy.
Thanks for this, the reviews for this paper were very interesting.

I do wish that they provided the meta-review, however, which summarizes the ultimate decision. Meta-reviews are written by area chairs, which are the final arbiters for whether or not the paper is accepted. Seeing their perspective on this paper would be very interesting.
>Perhaps Europe just doesn't care - release them after a few years and go "oh well" when they hurt someone again

Yeah, our violent crime rates are so worse compared to US... Please show us the way! /s

>in countries where women aren't even allowed to carry pepper spray, there's less emphasis on keeping innocents safe and more emphasis on giving terrible people third/fourth/fifth chances.

Maybe judge from the respective results, as opposed to "law and order theater"?
Do not forget Jack Tramiel, known for "Jack attacks", "I don't believe in compromising, but winning" and his intense micromanagement where every spending over 1000 USD had to be signed by him and he refused budgets, because they were a "license to steal". What do you think happened when he went on vacation :-)
Are you a believer? Do you think it is enough to just say "I do not believe anymore for the next 2 weeks", really meaning it? If so, it means that the faith was not very strong.

Except for some specific cases, one usually grows with a religion or non-religion and this deeply forges one's perspective.
This article doesn't understand the word "star". We use it to mean a particular class of object, things like our sun. For Copernicus a "star" was anything other than the known planets. The term "fixed stars" is needed to differentiate between what we call stars and all the other moving things that today we call comets, shooting stars. The "fixes stars" included galaxies, nebula, and all the other non-star things that seem fixed to the celestial sphere. May of these were indeed as large as a "universe". Galaxies are big enough to be so described.

Star also often mean a sign, symbol or temporary object. The "star" in the Christmas story was likely an alignment of planets. Such stars could appear and disappear on a nightly basis. Before criticizing the ideas in old texts we need to make sure we understand the actual words.
Been using for a long time, but never realized that the product didn't reached v1 yet :) Great job.
WARD is an app for placing fantasy bets on eSports games
> That’s not true, and for many companies this is just a simple business decision.

But likely based on incorrect advice.

You haven't said why you think your company isn't compliant with GDPR, and it's possible your company is compliant with GDPR, or would require only minor tweaks to privacy policies to make it compliant.
After the Facebook data leaks and such, I suppose the field got a bad rep. So not sure if such jobs are really hot. Perhaps the author is trying to influence public perpeption?
I can tell you that even a meager telco that I've worked for has very good security to their PKI equipment and none of it is networked. Has had since before stuxnet became known. And they don't even manufacture hardware.

If you manufacture hardware and distribute drivers you are an even bigger target than a telco.
He memorizes convincing technobabble. That's part of his act. It's no different than a con-man memorizing scripture to scam people.

He might know about how to pimp-out a livejournal page, but that's about it.
> And if philosophy is about having certain experiences, like poetry, but then it would seem to be a kind of entertainment rather than a project to gain knowledge, which is at least not what most philosophers would tell you.

I think all this trouble comes from the perverse desire to make Philosophy "valuable" in the way that sciences are perceived to be, rather than recognizing that it is indeed like poetry.

Not poetry "a kind of entertainment" - which is a gross reduction...but poetry as a means of direct experience and illumination.

Maybe philosophy cannot be "used" to model anything, predict anything or instrumentalize anything...but at the end of time when we have catalogued every atom, it's what we will have left with which to examine the remaining mysteries - which is ultimately a personal journey ... not some kind of utilitarian social achievement.
It's difficult to believe a company like Cisco would release something like this on accident. Maybe I'm just being naive.
Do you have a source for this? I can only find reports from "At the Abyss", which are uncorroborated.
Those that don't legally murder their citizens, for one.

It might not be the litmus test of civilization, but it would be a good start (assuming the abolition of slavery, human sacrifice, and such as already surpassed as a bar).
So you want a company to hire somebody after talking them for 30 minutes? Based off of what? You honestly can't imagine talking about technical software problems for more than 30 minutes? That's a pretty big red flag to me.
I don't think the general public will care. I tried to warn people about security/surveillance for a while but people don't seem to care. I even used http://www.insecam.org/ to show people their children might end on the Internet, they just say "I don't have a camera" in my house. But they are not grasping my point, which is that technology is invasive to a point no one imagined before. Soon the facial camera of your fridge used to authenticate new food order you make through amazon will be on insecam if are not careful. And of course, the most dangerous thing, is not accessing a camera, microphone or location at time T, but it's the whole history, years, even decades of history of your every move. Nobody is perfect, don't tell me you'd never be at a place you shouldn't have been. Information is power, those with access to that information will control the society as a whole.
More likely they just spear phished the people who would have access that can be used to get the keys.
From Wikipedia:

> In the Western classical tradition, Prometheus became a figure who represented human striving, particularly the quest for scientific knowledge, and the risk of overreaching or unintended consequences. In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy [...]

... effectively, Thanos is this at large scale.
Man, it would serve them right to have tried using my whiteboarded regular expression parser. /still bitter
The yellow smiley face was a prominent early-90s late 80s acid-house/rave subculture symbol, and a version with a bullethole in the head was common.

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/a337mb/history-smiley-...
Youtube, disqus, twitter are designed to collect as much info about persons as possible, so yes, it might be difficult to prevent them from doing that.

The fault lies entirely with those companies, which did the wrong thing with impunity until it was literally outlawed.
> the probability a nuclear actor's command and control drops below 100%.

It's never been at 100% anyway. Read the book "Command and Control" if you are not convinced.
I'd guess that historically the Mathematical Optimization department has comprised "legacy" operations research people (spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis, linear and nonlinear modeling with AMPL-type tools, SAS statistics, etc) and the Data Science group is newer and more software-ish.

Am I right?
You'd need knowledge of the beta version of Open GL on OS X, from twenty years ago, as well.
Quantitative subjects are progressive and new discoveries or technological advancements make past theories obsolete; on the contrary, old philosophy aims at studying the world we are all in from different perspectives and with different methods or goals, so that it is cumulative indeed: past theories go out of fashion never becoming obsolete, still being re-usable in need, at different times or epochs.
Am I the only one who thought this post title meant jobs at companies that simply don't use whiteboards in the day-to-day aspect of working?
Hmm, I'd say more like reading the (original) source code of git itself to learn about Linus and his coding"philosophy" [0] vs reading a modern tutorial about how to use git.

[0] I haven't done this so not putting any value prop on this specific example.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thresh.jpg

John Carmack in 1997 wearing what is presumably the exact shirt.
Old philosophy is fun in the same way old science is fun. Watching someone from thousands of years ago use a process to determine a more accurate or valuable way of thinking about the world, with rudimentary tools, should inspire us to go use the tools we have now better.
ABI would still be a complication here, as different languages have different ways of calling into each other, different name mangling rules, etc.
Richard Stallman at the Eleventh HOPE, NYC July 22
One of our users was getting this and I had absolutely no idea why - but now we know. We're also on Cloudflare if that adds an additional data point to the discussion.
In the feature the most valuable thing will be silence

-- Voltaire
I am only trying to understand why people feel so easy about it. I read hundreds of articles on the topic and nobody really has a clue what is going to happen. That my comments were deemed ridiculous and deleted is the symptom how crazy this whole thing is.
I'm assuming you are technical yourself, otherwise please disregard. What you are unintentionally implying is that you can't spot a fraud by talking to them about your chosen profession within 30 minutes. If you can't, you shouldn't be doing the interviewing. If you can, why waste 5.5 hours of the company's time per candidate?
> There's no way we will be deleting interview notes the moment a candidate is rejected. For one, we have to be able to prove later that we didn't reject based on grounds of discrimination (other regulations).

The fun of red tape. You will be violating one or the other regulation, that’s the beauty of it.
I'd say it's got both. It's extremely complex, but it does what it needs so cleanly. I'd argue that it's extraordinarily elegant.
It might be useful for the anonymous downvoter to contribute to the discussion. Why do you disagree?
Eight countries to miss EU GDPR deadline
We run it in our proxy-only environment pretty regularly. You want docker to have proxy settings but not kubernetes. We use kubeadm and kubespray to install upstream. OpenShift is really broken with a proxy though and requires manual intervention to fix after the install, and even then not everything works.
I like a mental model like a real world factory storage: If you have few kinds of objects you just go with random placement. If you end up looking for things you organize them alphabetically. When that gets to annoying you number the locations and keep a list of what is where. If the list gets confusing in turn you split it by type of component or product. Eventually you use search engine returning a building and coordinates.

Each of these is great until it isn't. The real magic is in anticipating what you will need and making the switch from one to the next structure.

Who knows, it might one day be possible to have the same code displayed as either:

give john a cookie
give jack a cookie
give sam a cookie
give tina a cookie

and

giveCookies(john, jack, sam, tina)

and

giveCookies(testSubjects.living)

Only visually depending on the number of living test subjects without the underlying code changing at all.

How we are to accomplish this I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years
>Isn't that similar in that you join with one of the groups?

The argument above was about emotional attachment to one's group though (that they can't fathom to identify as possibly also bad) -- here it's merely a preference or even just a casual order (just because when asked "X or Y" you ordered X over Y food for dessert this time doesn't mean you're an "X person").
Law agencies are using it, with some controversy:

https://www.wral.com/Raleigh-police-search-google-location-h...
You are deliberately misconstruing the things I said. One of those comments is about the disposition of content of the deck, not whether to share it.

In the last para - “dirt” is inane. I know you pitched something but can’t figure out what it was at all looks as bad as you pitched something and there is still information. But neither look good. Instead you are increasing friction in the hopes of redacting possible dirt years from now?
The internet of today is pretty crappy.

Being a first class citizen means being tracked like an animal with an implanted chip.

And let's face it, 99% of web sites and tools aren't really needed, more like a waste of time.
It's the same 4-6 oranges if you consider having a sterilized orange juice concentrate spend 6 months to a year in storage and lose all of it's flavor "the same" as a freshly squeezed orange.
For most commercial orange juices, all the flavor is engineered with artificial ingredients. I'm pretty sure that the only reason they still bother with oranges is legal requirements.
That's how Spring Data JPA works:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/referenc...
Show HN: React-like (200 LOC) view layer for building declarative UIs
While my humble opinion is that MAD was effective, let's be careful not to infer causation from a sequence of events (the rooster crows and then the sun rises). And the events of 'MAD' and 'peace' are not in sequence: WWII ended in 1945. MAD wasn't an idea until the 1960s and not implemented in a treaty until the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, AFAICT.[0]

It makes more sense if you remember that nuclear weapons and delivery technology didn't reach the 'assured destruction' stage for awhile. Remember that in the Korean War, in the 1950s, General MacArthur was pushing to use nuclear weapons (IIRC); it wasn't as taboo then. Finally, remember that MAD applied only to the Soviet Union and U.S. (or the Warsaw Pact and NATO), while major international wars ended worldwide, for the most part. Remember that WWI and WWII were fought between future NATO members; the later peace between them wasn't due to MAD.

> At the beginning of the twentieth century it was looking like we'd have another world war every twenty years or so for the rest of time.

The victors of WWII were very concerned about that, and began planning to prevent it before the war ended. That resulted in the UN, the institutions that became the EU, a rejection of nationalism (as a significant cause of war), the spread of democracy and universal human rights as a peace-making policy (democracies generally don't start wars with each other), and U.S. leadership in the international order to maintain those things and to provide stability. My understanding is that those are the reasons for the relative but extraordinary peace. Here's a Churchill speech about it in Zurich in 1946 (the speech focuses on the future EU; remember he also was one of the architects of the United Nations):

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html

(I'll also note that they seemed to have worked so well that now people take the peace for granted and are tossing aside the things that make it happen.)

[0] The best credible source I can find quickly. If you hit a paywall, access it via a search engine: https://www.britannica.com/topic/nuclear-strategy#ref1224926

EDIT: Added a detail
How difficult would be to pay auditor to close their eyes? Do you need another audit?
I used object proxy to create a DSL for constructing object factories, inspired by Ruby's FactoryBot https://github.com/nathanstitt/object-factory-bot

It's pretty handy for generating data for unit tests, but wouldn't recommend it for production code since I've discovered Proxy is fairly slow.
This is the most suspicious element of the whole affair. The actual security algorithms weren't compromised rather they compromised the whole environment by getting their hands on the Realtek keys.

Personally I doubt that retrieving this key involved required some act of super ninja skills espionage. I suspect somebody high up in the US government simply picked up the phone and called somebody high up in the Taiwanese government. The reality is Taiwan's security at the end of the day is wholly dependent upon US defense. There are no other options, there are no other cards in their hand. They absolutely need the US military to secure the continued existence of their nation.

This is the lesson of Stuxnet: "private" actors aren't. At the end of the day the US government has demonstrated again and again that it can compel cooperation from virtually every technology firm in the "free world." It's not a card to be played lightly but it's absolutely there. Thanks to Snowden we know the NSA regularly compromises Cisco telecom equipment created for export [1][2] and that the US government is working closely with all the major tech firms[3].

And this is why the US does not want China exporting Chinese phones, electronics, telcom kit, chips and social software. There's absolutely no problem when "private companies" in the US, Korea, Japan and Taiwan export this equipment and technology because these companies are squarely under the thumb of the US. Now that China is getting in on the game everybody is freaking the fuck out precisely because they understand perfectly what it means for "private companies" in China to have a significant chunk of the market.

Of course the Chinese also understand exactly what's going on here and this is why they've established the Great Firewall and why they're absolutely determined to homegrow all their technology needs. Right now China imports an absolutely extraordinary amount of chips and it is probably their greatest security weakness [4].

So this is what it comes down to: every large corporation that matters is likely a phone call and/or secret warrant away from literally giving its private keys to some government actor, likely the US or China. Any data stored by these corporate systems should be considered readable and writable by the government. Any service secured by these corporate systems should be considered accessible and ultimately under the control of these governments. These corporations will not risk either their continued existence or the possibility of fat government contracts in order to protect their customers from these governments. Individuals who depend upon these corporations are therefore completely at the mercy of these government actors.

All of this is a long way of saying that security of digital assets cannot be outsourced.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/cisco...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

[4] http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-china-will-benefit-a...
"The best liar you know is not the best liar you know."
I have no idea why anyone would vote this correct statement down. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax for verification.
Ask HN: What should I present on AI/robotics at GitHub Universe?
The GitHub Universe conference brings together the SW community in sessions from team culture to open source software across industries and technologies: https://githubuniverse.com

I'm a Research Engineer / SW Architect for a venture-backed startup focused on AI research towards robotics applications. What would you be interested in hearing me talk about? The call for proposals gives some more info: https://github.submittable.com/submit/110757/github-universe-2018-call-for-proposals

A few (not mutually exclusive) topics I was thinking of:

a. Managing academic developers (i.e. matlab background, never heard of git nor unit tests)

b. Transitioning to a monolithic repo -- why and how

c. Github workflows for AI research

d. Hardware tests -- validating code works and CI

e. Our best practices for Python, C++, and ROS
The racists of the day were apparently quite progressive. They couldn't even see the color of the person's skin. It's almost like race is more of a social construct than a biological one.
That's not what Fig 13 says.
It depends on where you are. In places like Oregon, the DMV is a friendly place full of smiles where expiration dates can slip a few days and you don't have to change your hairstyle for your ID photo.
Does this sidestep the perpetual motion problem?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.00494
Utility Tokens vs. Security Tokens: What the Future of ICOs Will Look Like
A more correct version would be:

"Is America's current fad job, like tons of similar jobs before it" (have lived through 4-5 of those "hot jobs").
I mean it's the 5th highest grossing film of all time and still moving up.