skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not believe that the vast majority of companies which are significantly impacted by the GPDR were storing data in a reasonable manner, no.

If that's your personal belief then obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but have you seen any actual evidence that that is the case?

However, after the initial bring-up pains any business which continues to have a problem with the GPDR most likely has a business model directly in conflict with the spirit of the law.

Perhaps, but as you say, what we know now is that there are some initial compliance costs for everyone. If nothing else, we all have to understand the new regulations and our obligations under them, and we will now have to allow for additional subject rights and stronger and more specific documentation and notification obligations, which generally apply retrospectively as well.

I admit that part of my concern here is not specific to the GDPR, but rather to the general practice of creating ever more rules governing businesses. Every time some new regulation comes along, the costs of running a business go up. Not only does that impose some level of overhead on established businesses, it also has a chilling effect on new businesses starting up, and on paths to growth like starting a side business that can expand to something full time and later to take on additional employees. If a new regulation is necessary to achieve some positive effect, then those overheads might be justified as well, but I remain to be convinced that this is the case for most of the new rules and regulations that have come in over the decade or so that I've been doing this now. The GDPR is just the latest example of something perhaps well-intentioned but poorly implemented.
What would be a GDPR-compliant yet useful access_log setting?
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What is that system? Dismissing other methodologies without proposing a workable alternative? Reveling in vulgarities?
Eh, I'm not so sure. One of the biggest appeals of our current WMDs is they can take out the enemy's WMDs in addition to infrastructure. An attack that paralyzes an entire nation's computer network and sends self-driving cars crashing into substations doesn't mean anything to the group of guys in a bunker/submarine with the keys to the 50 year rocket powered by vaccum tubes
> Majority of those surveyed who are connected to the Chicago School.

How so? The majority of those surveyed are not from Chicago. According to the About section:

> ...our panel was chosen to include distinguished experts with a keen interest in public policy from the main areas of economics, to be geographically diverse, and to include older and younger scholars. As with the IGM’s US panel, the experts are all outstanding researchers in their fields. The panel includes recipients of top national and international prizes in economics, fellows of the Econometric society and the European Economic Association, members of distinguished national and international policymaking bodies in Europe, recipients of significant grants for economic research, highly accomplished affiliates and program directors of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and past and current editors of leading academic journals in the profession.

> It's about not allowing the ISPs to slow down other traffic.

What you think a policy “is about” and its actual consequences are very different things.
Sure. People with certain personality disorders are extremely good at reading others, and convincing them to do what they want. Two common (and apt) terms I see thrown about are "social chameleon" and "reality distortion field".

You can also learn how to do it if you don't have one by studying those who do.

Regardless of how someone ends up with the ability, I don't think it's unfair to refer to it as genius, even if it's specifically based on emotional intelligence. They're just on a completely different level in comparison to the general population when it comes to bending others to their will and getting their way.
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Therefore, if a candidate can't whiteboard a design, solution, architecture, etc. in a manner that other engineers can understand it, they are going to struggle.

If that's the kind of whiteboarding you do, no problem. But, don't ask me to write a merge sort in C# (been there done that). If you ask me to sort a list in C#, I'm going to write:

sortedList = employeeList.OrderBy(e => e.LastName + " " + e.FirstName).ToList();
I love the sarcasm, but id advise you to mark it as such.

Hn readers are very literal on the whole.
> This isn't how we use whiteboards every day so why should a candidate be expected to use them this way during an interview.

I work at Google, opinions are my own.

I think your assumption that Google interviews based on what you will do on the job is wrong. The reality is that for most SWE positions, we can't assume you will know the things you'd be using for the job because of all the internal tools. Thus, algorithm interviews are more or less a proxy for some combination of general intelligence and coding questions.

I'm not saying it's perfect and there are many things I don't like about it, but I think it's important to know what the goals are when making a critique of whether the process meets those goals.
a) the headline is bullshit. This is a small panel of economists selected from a right-wing economics association.

b) It's clear from the responses that none of the individuals surveyed (in 2014) had any understanding of the issues involved. Most of them clearly think that net neutrality is about dealing with congestion/excessive use, and obviously think that ISPs should have some way of dealing with that. The question is worded in the most deceptive way possible to encourage that misunderstanding.

For example, look at the response of Thaler. He says he agrees (meaning he is "against" net neutrality for this question) and then explains his answer: "Seems like those who cause congestion should pay more. I know some worry that ISPs will play favorites, but that should be preventable." He's clearly for net neutrality but is an "against" vote for this question because he doesn't understand what the issues are (or didn't in 2014).

Another way of looking at it is that the question as stated, despite being titled "Net Neutrality", has nothing to do with net neutrality.
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Of course it's possible that there are competent data scientists without graduate degrees; the parent was simply suggesting possible reasons why you might have been passed over for those positions, such as positioning your previous positions as more engineering-focused and less research-focused. I doubt the intent was to "gatekeep" you, but to give you suggestions on how to improve your search in the future.

This is a grossly defensive overreaction to the parent reply.
That the modern illustrations are wrong doesn't diminish what Brache correctly measured and Kepler carefully figured out by his calculations.
THIS. there are countless stories of this happening inside Jobs' Apple. In fact it was a well known ploy that to get something contentious approved you presented it to Jobs who immediately torpedoed you, then let him stew on it until he later presented your idea back as his own.
Such vulgarity!
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I don't have time to build user exporting, user deletion, user notifications, amongst other required features on top of the already big backlog of fearures to do.

I use third party tools to help worth logging and error tracking.

Its just not worth my time to support gdpr on a website that makes no money.
> I googled her images after reading your comment and it is so funny to notice the impersonation.

Well, it's not like she made any effort to conceal it. In fact, she was very public about her desire to appear like Jobs.
As a consumer, I am precisely buying the right to download from those content providers as fast as possible using my speed tier (10 Mbps or 1 Gbps). I am paying the ISP to get that data.

When I ship a package, post office doesn't get to charge the recipient of the package after charging the sender for the shipment?

Why would a Internet user buy ISP service if the users can't get the content from other users on the internet, be it content providers or other end users i.e. peer-to-peer?

I pay $70 for internet service precisely because I can watch youtube/netflix over my internet connection.

ISPs asking youtube/netflix to pay on top of that is ridiculous.

It is actually the ISPs who should be sharing revenue with content providers. Without that content, nobody will buy that high-bandwidth internet connection at high price point.

Netflix charges $11 per month for their service.
Comcast charges $70 per month for their service.

It is Comcast who should be paying the content providers that their customers use the most.

How many people got internet connection so that they can watch Netflix and YouTube?
If Netflix and YouTube stopped serving customers of an ISP, how many would stay with that ISP?

Would Comcast's services be in such demand if there was no services like Netflix or YouTube?
It is not that Netflix and YouTube are making Comcast spend more, but without Netflix and YouTube nobody will buy Comcast's high tier connections. Everybody will just use $15 10Mbps connection.
What Jobs does here is truly impressive, for the following reasons:

* he listens carefully to the customer - not just pretend, but truly understand the issue from the customer's point of view

* he then allows his engineering manager to present the counterargument - to understand what the current situation is

* he's able to then follow the back and forth of what is presumably a highly-technical conversation. Most CEOs would at this point defer to their technical person's opinion, as they would be unable to follow such a nuanced conversation.

* he then makes the call - you'd be surprised by how rare the simple ability to make a quick decision is

* he then has the power to make the internal team do what is required - again, you'd be surprised how in some companies internal teams ignore or subvert the leadership's directions

What this incident shows is his singular ability to listen to customers, conceive of the ideal product in his head and make the team deliver it. That explains a lot of his success.

PS None of this should be construed as absolving any of Jobs' negative personality traits.
This sounds like a very interesting paper.
I see more segmentation in software roles: front-end, back-end, full-stack, embedded, devops, realtime systems are all labels that get you in roughly the right place.

Beyond that, there are labels that refer to specific technologies that get you even closer: Rails, Elixir, Django, React, QT, C#/Winforms, Verilog.

There really aren’t the equivalent shorthand filters in data science.
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Kind of an apples to oranges comparison on Carmack's point though (no pun intended). Keyboards were invented 100 years earlier than the mouse. People, especially older adults, instinctively knew how to use them.
My reading of the GDPR says that the MINIMUM fine is 20,000,000 Euros, which I think would be a pretty big problem for an individual working on a side project.

I also think the 403 error page explaining that the GDPR is the reason the visitor can't access the page is a nice touch.
If this story inspires you at all to troll old John Carmack .plan files and interviews, I believe you'll discover that id software stopped doing Linux versions of their games for reasons that had little to do with the technical difficulty of porting.
For those hunting for a sign up link, it appears to be an invite only alpha.

How do you plan to handle scoring? Visible up/down votes? Upvotes and flags? Time based with no scoring?
OP here: just wanted to submit this to have some feedback regarding the idea and the code.

Insecure internal IDs is a problem that quite a lot of companies I've worked for have so I just decided to have some fun solving the problem!
I feel like Yuval Noah Harari is spot on with dataism emerging as the new dominant inter-subjective truth. Go and read Homo Deus, you will not be disappointed.
The idea of dataism will slowly replace our current humanistic ideas of liberty/individualism. I'm not saying I agree with the video/general direction, but I think we're foolish to disregard this idea as an isolated event produced in a "culture bubble".
with all due respect to author,
here's why solving real problems > interview problems
Because those businesses don't employ anyone? I assume you've never had to work a job you don't care for.
Why do people interrupt? It depends on whom you're talking to
It's really not though. Here's the bottom line: You want money from a company

And the company wants to make money from me. In my market, there are a lot more open positions for senior devs than senior devs that are actively looking for jobs. I
What sorts of positions are we actually talking about here? How many companies actually need a research lab? I don't think anyone contests that a PhD is very useful if your job is to actually write and publish papers, attend conferences, present at conferences, etc. But many data scientists and machine learning engineers working in industry don't do any of that, and many companies have no need to have anyone on staff doing any of that either.
I've been programming since BASIC on a VIC-20 sometime around age 6. I can code in like 10 languages and have written everything from crypto and network protocols to distributed systems, database sync engines, and high throughput video compression/decompression codecs.

I always fail whiteboard interviews. I can't code at all on a whiteboard.
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They are still pumps: a physical system. Give me a couple hours and I can get gasoline out of any gas station without needing electricity. Of course I will destroy large parts of the machine in the process. I'll get my gas, and so will anyone else while that turns the crank. The pump will need to be replaced to use normally afterwards.

The bigger worry is gasoline in tanks is good for at most a month. The refinery is much harder to start/operate without power. They have their own backup power on site (I assume) so this might or might not be a real worry. If it is I'll just brew some ethanol.
I think "rewriting shit" may be one of the leading causes of recurring bugs...
Under traditional Parliamentary procedure the so-called long title of a bill circumscribed its effect. But for various reasons this was never a rule that courts felt empowered to enforce. British Parliament (to a greater extent) and Congress (to a lesser extent) adhered to the rule for a long time, but I think in the modern era it's really of no consequence any longer. Among other reasons, like corporate charters long titles now often include vague language that negate any limiting effect.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_and_long_titles_(legisla...
Prestige and artificially pumping salaries. It’s all about brand building.

I don’t have an advanced degree, just a bachelors of math from 1995, and have been breadboarding (and more), and coding since the 80s

I can follow along with ML and have implemented toys with the ML algorithms in a couple days.

It’s bourgeois intellectualism. Like a law firm only hiring from Harvard

ML is automated schema design. And the current methodology has known limits of applicability

This is “Mongo DB”, “devops” like hype all over again.
Do we know it was the US IC? I think its likely that it was Mossad.
From John Carmack's post - https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825... )

"When I was preparing an early technology demo of Doom 3 for a keynote in Japan, I was having a hard time dealing with some of the managers involved that were insisting that I change the demo because “Steve doesn’t like blood.”"
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It didn't seem to me like he followed the back-and-forth so much as he just cut off his own guy, screamed at him, and humiliated him in front of one of the most legendary programmers in the world.

To paraphrase The Dude, Steve Jobs wasn't wrong, he was just an asshole.
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If I recall correctly, Steven Levy's book "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" also covered some of this story.

Woz was intimidated by disk controllers because he didn't know much about them, other than they were big complicated things. So starting with his own ignorance as a fresh slate, he ended up with something better than his former employer HP had in their products.

Sometimes (Sometimes! Not always!) not knowing better can be helpful.
> There was a widespread suspicion that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy.

And that was the secularized, polite face of the common religious belief that both the Papacy as an office and the particular occupants of that office were the literal referent of the biblical Antichrist, and that “Papists” were, therefore, followers of the Antichrist.
Part of the problem in my mind is that most high speed Internet in the USA is provided by companies that have a vested interest in sabotaging the Internet and thus have a conflict of interest. They'd love to see something like the old TV cable model where customers have a small set of choices that must pay to play.
yeah every IT conference now has ML/data track to train the legions so they won't need to create positions for PHD candidates...
> more or less a proxy for some combination of general intelligence and coding questions.

It's a proxy for one particular style of coding questions: leetcode. It's nothing more, nothing less.

Calling it a proxy for general intelligence or coding in general is a joke. That's propaganda passed around the company to convince people that the practice should be continued. It strokes the employees own egos to think they passed some magic intelligence test so it motivates them to keep repeating that it measures intelligence/skill.
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"In ten years all programming will be either outsourced or automated..."

-everyone in the 90s
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(I was being sarcastic, by the way. That Linux isn't even mentioned in a sub-thread that talks about portability is disappointing.)
Really hit a nerve to get flagged on HN.

There's a huge difference between civil workers making sure plumbing works and the SEC using tax dollars to create a strawman propaganda website about why we need the SEC and why we should give them even more money. SEC cares about expanding the SEC, everything else is just justification. They are one of the most corrupt government organizations we have. They've colluded with the government to hand the future to the elite and castrate the free market.
I posted this because while it's easy to point out everything that's wrong with the world we often forget about the areas that are improving, and that are important to continue focusing on so that they can continue to develop in a positive direction.
re-read GP - he did not write atheist, he made a joke with the word thesis.
But that's just because philosophy originally meant all scholarly pursuits. All of science was called "natural philosophy" before it got its own name. That doesn't mean that what we'd call science today is the same as what we call philosophy, even if some ancients like Aristotle did both.
> Weird how “writing portable software” was (and in many places still is) considered deep wizardry

Well, at this time most code had OS-specific hacks for performance reasons…
was there ever a cto at apple.
Sure. Unjust as it may seem though, requiring a PhD in science is a free and simple way for employers to narrow down the field of candidates to those who are good at data science. It's the data science equivalent of requiring a CS degree when looking for a programmer. It's natural for employers to use that tool.
You basically repeat that ‘reading the old philosophers is important’ about three times, but give no reason for why that would be important and what exactly you would learn from that.

That they teach it at Eton is not a reason. At most a suggestion there could be a good reason for it.

To realize that ‘they were wise’ is not a reason. Why is that important to realize?

That there are ‘vast amounts of wisdom to be gleaned’ is a restatement, not an argument.

So whatever reading the old philosophers taught you, certainly not argumentation skills.
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Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities.

I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal at this point (imagine a slightly-more-functional HN with separate "groups" for different subjects), but you're definitely welcome to invites. Since HN doesn't have private messaging (Tildes does!) please send me an email if you're interested in an invite, and feel free to ask questions here.
Anyone here ever work with a genius who wasn't an asshole? I did and he'll always be a key part of the template to which I both aspire and measure others.

It's not like the stories about Carmack make him out to be a saintly, fuzzy human but I will definitely give him credit for standing firm on some big ideals/principals, even if I don't share them.

I guess I just hope that you can (a) be really good at your work - like -genius good - and also (b) a decent, empathetic human being.

Wishful thinking? maybe, but I don't really want to be top-level successful if you've gotta choose.
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> How so? From the About section:

Chicago school is a broad term for an economics ideology, like "Austrian". Those surveyed are part of that ideology.

> What you think a policy “is about” and its actual consequences are two very different things.

So tell me then, how does this magical go faster lane work from a technical perspective, and how is net neutrality not letting them turn it on? Please be specific.
Probably not. Complex things break a lot. You want the life-critical code to be as simple as possible, with proven correctness if possible. I bet you'll not find 1 recursion in ISS flight code, and you'll not find anything that's not having an known-upper-bound on time run.
[rant] Why are these stories posted on Facebook, of all places? [/rant]

You would guess that people of this stature would know better...