skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider a rephrasing: don't hold back on publishing unfinished thoughts relating to programming/IT because you fear they aren't of sufficient quality, because it may turn out that people find more value in it than you realize.

I don't think it's talking about politics or religion, unless you're a political or religious expert. Note that this has been what kept me from getting my thoughts out on blog myself, so I think it's an important lesson that I'm going to try and take.
Some CPAP manufacturers have fairly compact first-party batteries:

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-CPAP-Battery-Kit-Air/dp/B01I4...
Correct I think. The one time the power went out at night and I woke up out of breath was enough to make me realize I should have it on my ups.
GoalZero and Anker (Power House) are a few of the LiPo portable battery systems.
Try imagining yourself as a system of molecules all responding to their environment. It is reasonable that your complexity might be a good indicator of your potential for intelligent responses. I don't think that holds for your consciousness though. If it did, that would imply either consciousness is a spectrum or the universe has a hard coded on/off switch for consciousness. The on/off hypothesis has problems with conservation of information, and if consciousness is defined as "having an internal experience" it isn't clear how that could be non-binary.
Is this likely to be popular in areas of thew world where it isn't strictly needed, such as the US? I find it aesthetically appealing, although they don't say whether it tastes any different from white rice.
It applies to anything that contains PII, so sure you should ensure your queries are not sent in plaintext over the network and are not logged unnecessarily. There isn't much else that can be done.

It is perhaps a bit too abstract, but that's because it's covering a highly complex topic, but I don't think it's too vague on this: If it contains PII, protect it. Which, of course, you should be doing already.
> ban on EU IPs is both draconic and ineffective

It doesn't matter it's ineffective. The block means they're complying with GDPR's requirement that they not target Europeans.
I thought this was talking about Vimeo.
The Lenovo Thinkpad T480 has an M.2 slot and a normal SATA bay. If you order with an NVMe SSD, it goes in a caddy with an adapter in the SATA bay. The M.2 slot is optionally used for WAN or a small secondary SSD. However is is only 42 mm long and PCIe only, so third party SSDs are difficult to find.

I only know all this because I just bought one, and have been hunting for something useful to put in that slot...
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sure, but what's preventing more (non-union) captains from being produced? clearly there's an oversupply of pilots compared to captains. what's the minimum amount of flight hours to achieve captain status? is it a high amount that there's legitimately a shortage of qualified captains?
For the 2k/day pilot he was operating outside the bounds of the FAA - so essentially he was being paid black market prices. The legal competitors all had to fly real aircraft so he only had to undercut those inflated prices. Its not surprising the costs come down when legal avenues are opened.
Only 31% of California voters want to keep paying for bullet train
i play lots of stuff. Here's my complete history of plays a logged at BGG : https://www.boardgamegeek.com/plays/bymonth/user/baldgeek/su...

And for a small picture of some titles, here is 61 plays broken down by title in March of this year:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/plays/bygame/user/baldgeek/sub...
What's the setting in httpd.conf for that?
I can imagine that this is really tied to the confidence you already have. If you feel that you are a capable programmer then looking up something on Stack Overflow is just looking up something you kinda know but forgot. No big deal.

For someone in the grip of impostor syndrome, it is admitting that you are indeed just faking it and don't know enough to 'deserve' your position.

Now it is probably not true, but that does not matter for how people react to it...
Correct me if I am wrong ...

Sure Xamarin.Forms will be a lot more "lightweight".

Chromely is an HTML desktop app.

All the options you mention will end up being traditional (with their own controls) desktop apps with HTML support. Chromely is pure HTML. Chromely is not tied to rigid frontend controls .. you can use any html/javascript/css framework you like.

Chromely does not use WinForm or WPF. Extendable to WinForms and WPF for those who want to.

So, a different approach, if you may.
Ip used for technical reasons such as logging access are not concerned by the gdpr per se. The same goes to KYC informations.
The gdpr is actually a well written piece of legislation which should worry you only if you do shady stuff.
The only edge case that I know are not well addressed concerns the status of encrypted data (would be deleting private keys considered to be deleting them? This question is important on blockchain data storage)
No... I mean I see your point, but that depends on what data you use to target the customers. Staying with in the boundaries of your own site, tracking what a person is browsing isn't necessarily personally identifiable, so no need to ask.

If you use data that the user actually enter, or their IP for some reason, then yes, you do need to ask, but you could just ask when they are entering the data.

If you want to target based on activities across website, then you'll most likely need to ask, but that's already the case with the cookie law.

You do have me wondering if I'm correct, but I would still claim that if you noticed that browser with the "cookie XYZ1234" read five article related to child and then ask your ad partner for an ad for "people with children" would allow you to be GDPR complaint without any pop ups. It does flip the current ad tech model upside down though.
That's a dangerous oversimplification. Standard best practices like logging server traffic with IP addresses, or making immutable backups with no way to edit that data now have serious problems. It's ridiculous to call them "unethical", and it has nothing to do with business models.
I had some very accurate voice recognition software on my Windows 3.1 Tandy in 1995 or so. I also played VR games around that same time. The tech has been minimally viable for a very long time. It's the user experience that's evolved and frankly it hasn't evolved all that much.
I don’t need to see your books to know that someone signing up for your marketing email is not violating the GDPR.
I've seen thoughtful, well-crafted ColdFusion and PL/SQL applications and I've seen Swift code that was incomprehensible and unmanageable. I've seen beautiful PHP and ridiculous Python. The amount that the language matters is way out of whack with how much we talk about how much it matters.
The parent said "You could literally put a team of about 5 people on this", and now we're up to "they’d need a gigantic team" in 3 levels of comment replies.

I bet if it was easy they would've already done it, and I wouldn't be surprised if they DO have a gigantic team working on it.
Imagine what that bad boy would do to perturb an entire solar system by even a near pass, though..
Sigh. There is no such thing as an "M.2 slot". There is always a key and a size. The T480 has three M.2 slots:

1. Optional M.2 key M 2280 in the main bay via an adapter.

2. M.2 key B 2242, the Lite On T11 works there for an SSD. It's the only consumer M>2 key B+M 2242 PCIe SSD. This generation doesn't support SATA disks in this slot, the T470 did.

3. M.2 key E 2230 as practically all laptops do since Broadwell for wifi.
Not a great deal. I think management got together with the lawyers to do a cursory review but we've already been under similar legislation for at least one of our European markets so code-wise we haven't actually changed anything.
The EmDrive, NASA's 'Impossible' Space Engine, Really Is Impossible
It takes many more servers to deliver a 200mb page than it does a 600kb page
The parent post is entirely speculation. It is speculation about how a new law will be enforced. It’s not even very robust speculation since after March 2019, the GDPR will not be enforced by any organisation in the UK.
But.. but diamonds are made of carbon and so can burn.
It depends on your situation. I did it last year, and I ended up with roughly $700 more space in my monthly budget even though my mortgage interest rate went up by 0.25%. I have enough equity now that I no longer have to pay for mortgage insurance, which saves a lot, and I also took the opportunity to roll up all my other debt into the mortgage. I'll pay more for the house over the long run, but I have more flexibility in the meantime, and that's been completely worth it.
Yup, the fingerprinting portion of that was what I had in mind.
She gonna run the company from a nursing home?
> Free will has been settled? What?

It's constantly being settled - in fact, it has been settled several times in these threads.
Facebook and Google flagarantly skirted the laws. Facebook ignored the whole bit about how you can't make consent contingent on providing service. A dialog forcing people to click "I Agree" like it was any old EULA flys in the face of both the letter and the spirit of the law.
Unless the cigarette lighter plug has a clip to hold it into place, it seems like a bad connector to use to power a life-safety device since they are easily dislodged (in fact, the spring at the terminal at the end is actively trying to push the plug out of the socket)

I'd probably use something like Anderson power poles if it were me.

http://www.andersonpower.com/us/en/products/powerpole/index....
> another product will replace your own

That's optimistic ... but there is no reason to believe in many niche areas that another equally good product will do that. It is very plausible that in fact what will happen is that EU customers will be significantly delayed in accessing valuable services and products. And in many cases the web sites provide those would be making no meaningful intrusion on privacy in the first place.
Are you being micro-managed? Manage your relationship with your manager instead
The regulation is ineffective because billions of people have already given consent to Facebook and Google because they just want to get on with their lives and aren't about to stop using their services.

And sure, China has nothing to worry about other than this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

>>> People have already faced various punishments for violating social protocols. The system has been used to already block nine million people with "low scores" from purchasing domestic flights. While still in the preliminary stages the system has been used to ban people and their children from certain schools, prevent low scorers from renting hotels, using credit cards, and black list individuals from being able to procure employment. The system has also been used to rate individuals for their internet habits (too much online gaming reduces ones score for example), personal shopping habits, and a variety of other personal and wholly innocuous acts that have no impact on the wider community.

Also tell these people it was just a big joke: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2144690/chine...

>>> Authorities vowed to collect the personal information of debtors and publish it in public places such as newspapers, train stations and other high-visibility platforms. The Supreme People’s Court reported in January that by the end of 2017 it had publicly listed the names of nearly 10 million people. They had been blacklisted from various activities, with 9.36 million of them prohibited from buying plane tickets and 3.67 million from buying high-speed rail tickets.
Given that a typical white dwarf is thought to occupy a volume comparable to the volume of earth-like planets, it strikes me as precisely the sort of object one might select to destroy a planet like earth in a single stroke.

From wikipedia:

The estimated radii of observed white dwarfs
are typically between 0.8% and 2% of the
radius of the Sun; this is comparable to the
Earth's radius of approximately 0.9% solar
radius.

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

Catapults, naval cannons, carpet bombing cities to hit one obscure factory. War is littered with stories of absurd mismatches in economies of scale.
It's ok, I just meant I got downvoted initially and I don't know why
Expedians.
"Oh no, the EU passed a law that is totally in line with my ethics! I'd better rebel against them."
In retrospect, safe doesn't equal healthy, and the damage is usually recognized decades after. I don't think people know coke was unhealthy in the first day. GMO food is still very important though, considering globally we may have a food crisis. However, until that happens, nah, thank you.
> The moment that story estimating becomes time estimating...stop. That's not what it is there for and you're not trying to assign out every minute for a person.

I don't see the distinction here. The whole reason you're estimating things is to guess at how long they'll take. If the story points do not translate to time, what use are they?
Uhm... $1bn for federal gov is pocket change.
One of the things that I noticed in the grocery section of Walmart is that they have a smaller quantity of items on the shelf that will expire more quickly, such as ground beef. My guess is they know the sell rate of those items in that store, and are able to better predict how many will be sold in the next few days, to minimize spoilage.

Not sure WF/Amazon has that skill, especially since Whole Food's margins have allowed for them to have a greater spoilage rate, while still having attractive displays of produce/meat.
Bad advice: Don't publish anything unless you have something of value.

Don't especially publish it on a walled garden like Facebook.
Well I've quit smoking multiple times, the first time in 1990 and then after a few relapses that each lasted a few months, in the time since.

I still want to smoke. I see no reason that will ever go away. It is enjoyable and relaxing -- during the time I am smoking and soon afterward. But it makes me unhealthy and generally feel like crap overall, so I choose not to anymore.

But I do know that during my relapses, this box would have fixed the problem quick. I just have short term weakness, and if a whole pack is sitting there, I will smoke it pretty quickly. If I could easily taper it off (and this device allows that) it would have been easy. (I've actually done the equivalent, but it required someone to hold onto my cigarettes and dole them out...the box automates that)
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That is the equivalence of, "if you haven't done anything wrong, why do you need to hide your information?"
Well it's funny because Uber, a company that actually does seem to have financial resources, is allowed to run their apparently unsafe cars on the streets of some us states.
I agree about the noise, but, it's much easier to work with. raise FooException("Can't load bar") works, as does f"The flange is elevated by {flange['spronge']} degrees of spronge."
Yes, please do block all those customers. What a terrific business opportunity for new companies to enter markets previously full of strong competition!
TryLock vs. lock
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The other thing is that time estimating has to inherently consider which specific personnel work on something, but often this is taboo.
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Can you think of any good technical regulations that do lay out requirements & obligations in a useful manner without being massively outdated, trivially bypassable, or some sort of hugely onerous 'one size swamps all'?

I mostly agree that the lack of concrete measures makes it horrible from a compliance view, but I'm not sure you can have both things, especially in a relatively immature area of law.
Alternatively, some part of your business has spent the last X months preparing for this so that their business won't be affected dramatically.

I am easily tracked to my place of employment so I don't want to get into too many details, but we were doing things ethically but still had a non-trivial amount of going through, dotting our i's and crossing our t's, making sure that there weren't pockets of unknown data, putting together plans in case someone asked for data retrieval or deletion, etc.

The longer a company's been in business, the more onerous the task is. I can't imagine what it would be like for a large company with mainframes still around.
Large tech company: it took tens of thousands of jira tickets and umpteen-trillion human-hours to become gdpr-compliant in preparation for today.
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Thats because the EU has no tech giants.

If Facebook was german there's no way that GDPR would of passed.
Fred was devastated
It's fast-growing, but the land-use policy is still oddly parochial in may ways: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-fut....

The vast majority of the city is still zoned for single-family housing: https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/10/23/the-path-to-eliminate.... Just allowing multi-family housing and eliminating property requirements would do a huge amount to alleviate affordability and income inequality problems.
And then you can still have ads, just not track them.
That's in part why I said 'sorta', but Kern actually sells a 150w CO2 laser that they will support for metal cutting applications (2mm for mild steel).

I'll conveniently ignore the O2 assist for the sake of counterpoint. :)
It should be noted that I'm talking about the previous poster's proposal. The GDPR doesn't demand that; it specifically says that simply being available in the EU does not automatically make it fall under the regulation.
"...we can associate a set of behaviors with an intelligent creature. If we empirically prove that those behaviors emerge from a collection of neural impulses,..."

Beware! Here be the dragon of pure behaviorism, which potentially denies that "consciousness" is a valid noun.

On the other hand, mathematics is the last refuge of the hardcore platonist (and worse, allows them to run around loose); the rest of us are true formalists who realize it's all a game whose basic rules happen to coincide with reality suspiciously well.
Agreed! Peter has actually done some really great research into this, finding real vulnerabilities in applications due to insufficient transaction isolation: http://www.bailis.org/papers/acidrain-sigmod2017.pdf
There are a ton of great business models for financing content that do not require smart ads or the kind of tracking we see today. They are not as exciting but ... tough cookies.
Pretty sure the EU and US have deals that allow legal actions against companies in other's jurisdiction.
But this is coming from human waste, how much of a filter does the human body act on heroin?

If a person puts a gram of 100% pure heroin (another good question might be how purity affects the measurements) in to their body, how much will come out the other end?

Also, from a chemistry perspective, how does water bring a solvent affect opioid molecules existing? Would the water or various things in the water break down the molecules into other non detectable molecules?
>I actually think 'hard data' is typically about as relevant to philosophy as it is to maths. Not everything is reducible to stats.

Oh yes, I agree entirely on that point.
Key para...

"What we eat and what we excrete goes into the Puget Sound," Jennifer Lanksbury, a biologist at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, told CBS News affiliate KIRO.

...so enough crap going into the water from the local population to be picked up in the Mussel samples... Crazy!
So for all those comments on how violations would slowly escalate based on complaints, only turning into huge fees when you blatently ignore all the warnings, in practice we learn that those tiers of escalation only apply to companies the EU likes, is that correct?

Because last time I checked, both companies at least made some effort, and as thus should get a last warning calling their bullshit before going full throttle into billion dollar fine territory, especially when the regulation has been in effect for less than one day. Otherwise I don't know why I should trust the bureaucracy not to max out a $20 million fine on my business when its discovered that I'm not in compliance on some edge case in this 80 page bill
Hello mere mortals,

Its your favorite dictator, the leader of Crazystan and from 29th of May 2018 I ask that from that date, for every site accessed by citizens of my country I require the hosting company to send one employee to be sacrificed to our mighty gods.

Failure to comply will attract a fine of 50 Gazillion dollars.
What does it mean for a website to "cater" to just my home country? The internet doesn't know political boundaries and most sites cater to all visitors on some marginal level.
First, I'm responsible for handling my clients' data, such as their email addresses or phone numbers. It doesn't matter that they're business customers rather than consumers. GDPR still applies.

Secondly, though not always the case, I might have to process their respective customers' data in some way in order to do my job (by having access to a production database, for example).

So, yes, GDPR absolutely does apply to my business.
I disagree with the analogy. Trying to use the same analogy: If I were a one person entrepreneur trying an MVP, I would be building a bicycle, not a car. And what I suggest is have the right to put a sticker on the bicycle: "Warning, this is not compliant with the car regulations" to make sure people don't have false expectations. (Because I agree that in the real world, only a fool wouldn't be able to differentiate between a car and a bicycle, but for web services, this isn't an easy task)

A one person entrepreneur might not consider him/herself to be "being in the webservice business". Instead he/she would consider being in the business of [whatever problem the MVP is trying to solve]. It just hapens that in the 21st century, most of innovation happens online.

Back to your car analogy, it seems that people on one side argue that all companies "being in the webservice business" are 'car makers'. some people on the other side of the argument might say it's not.

Also, ultimately, it's possible that after spending a lot of time and hours examining the legal requirements of GDPR, a startup realizes it's not technically hard to comply, but the issue here isn't implementing the requirements, it's more about getting all the legal analysis, certification, handling customers requests, etc.

> If you disagree, should the US also stop prosecuting VW for the diesel cheating?

In that case, VW has clearly been in the car business for much more than 2 years, and in my example "X users", a good value for X would be something order of magnitudes less than the number of VW customers around the globe. So no, the US would continue prosecuting VW.
People who drive normal cars are on their phones while driving all the time. There's no "probably" about it — I know lots of people who have had their cars hit by inattentive drivers. I myself got rear-ended by a guy who was honest enough to straight-up admit that he didn't see me stop because he was messaging on his phone.

Also, I'm not sure what connection you see between recognizing a stationary fire truck and seeing two cars ahead with radar. They seem like pretty different tasks.
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That’s like saying that property rights are the “freedom to deny others’ freedom.” Banding together and controlling territory is one of the most basic functions of human societies. There is no “right” to go onto territory another group has developed, cultivated, and controls.