skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WebASM is definitely the way to go today. Just wish I had the low-level know-how.

Maybe I should take on the task myself like the OP did...
Kernighan also has a very well written book called Understand the Digital World, which is an introductions to computer and network technology for a non-technical person. It touches on binary, assembly language, and a few higher level programming languages while emphasizing the general idea of what a computer can and cannot do. It also includes very up to date discussions of how networks work (at a high level) and online privacy and, encryption and security.

His ability to explain highly technical concepts to someone with no assumed computing background in concise and lucid prose is really impressive.
There have been a number of discoveries but the most central one is probably of an Iridium layer by Alvarez in 1980. AFAIK there’s still debate around whether the meteorite that landed in the Gulf of Mexico was truly the Dino killer or if it just hastened a process that was well on its way in any case.
Right now, it's not. Management has decided that we're going to keep operating the way we have been as if the GDPR didn't exist, and hope nobody notices. Which isn't a surprise, this company is very reactive. Proactive planning doesn't happen.
Recital 43 is a fair objection -- I should rephrase what I said in light of it. I should have said:

> "The GDPR requires many things, but there's nothing in there that says you can't reject the customer if they don't opt-in to the things you need them to opt-in to in order to provide the service."

The last sentence of recital 43 says that consent can only be given to those personal data processing operations that are necessary for the performance of a contract/provision of the service.

In Google and Facebook's case, collection of personal data for the purpose of targeted ads is necessary for the service because targeted ads provides the source of revenue for the service's operation.
Sometimes personalized advertising makes money at the cost of privacy, e.g. selling of personal data. In the EU, data privacy is a right. So the law isn't maliciously making life hard for these 'services', but if your entire monetization strategy is breaching data privacy, then good riddance to you.
The search page is slightly obscure (though semantically obvious): http://freemusicarchive.org/search It allows to search by license criteria, for example use in commercial derivative works.
> Management decided we're not gonna comply with the GDPR and just hope nobody notices.

Although they don't say it that way, that seems to be what most GDPR advocates are implicitly advising. They keep saying not to panic and shut down your web site or block europeans because and the EU is not going to sue you as a first step, etc etc.
I mean... there's plenty of other islands where they can still make money, so why should they even bother?
Is there some way they can fine me with me being in a country completely and totally unrelated to the EU?
Fasting is great and all if you don't have to perform mental tasks throughout the day.

When I am on vacation and have time off of work to just relax, I regularly forget to eat, and I barely even notice.

When I'm at work and doing programming, however, even the slightest reduction in my caloric intake schedule results in me feeling lightheaded and "foggy". My ability to code effectively plummets, and I also find myself unintentionally being more irritable towards co-workers.

As such, my job as a professional programmer basically requires me to eat regularly. Fasting is not an option for me, unfortunately.
"consciousness" has a definition: You.

It's a common misconception that there's no way to detect consciousness. It has no qualities and so cannot be measured, but consciousness can be detected by other consciousness. Since you are conscious you can detect consciousness in other beings.

What's actually happening is that what we call consciousness is unitary and co-extensive with the entire Universe. When two people merge consciousness' they are just increasing the bandwidth between themselves until they are effectively a single organism, the separate self-models in each person merge into an integrated self-model. People do this spontaneously sometimes when the sex is really good.
A new look at Apple's self-driving car [video]
> What action do you take when someone accidentally CCs another party when they should’ve BCC’ed, and your address is leaked?

I realize that it was a user error, am a bit miffed about it for two minutes, maybe mail them that they should be more careful with mail addresses.

If, OTOH, it's a business misusing my mail address intentionally and for monetary profit, I hope that regulators stomp on them.
Yeah, that was my first thought. I'm very careful what opinions I share, even when I'm relatively anonymous. Early 21st century American isn't the time or place for the free and open exchange of ideas.
>No ads, no tracking, no cookies, not even Javascript. Just plain HTML+CSS and JPEG images.

Are we viewing the same page? Not only do I see JavaScript in the EU page, but I also see this in the code:

"trackingServer":"gannett.hb.omtrdc.net"},"market":"gpapermobileapp","trackingServer":"repdata.usatoday.com","trackingServerSecure":"srepdata.usatoday.com"},"ads"
I prefer the other one where they do so without farming my personal data.
Most of the costs of this (so far -- we'll see how it goes with subject rights; I spent several hours already working on a right to erasure request that was so confusing it will take a number of additional hours just to entangle and document) are learning the regulation (not privacy, but the regulation itself -- very different), doing documentation (the largest cost by far), and holding customers' hands. The last 5% wasn't all that meaningful; a few assorted things, like one of our S3 buckets that was storing encrypted backups of non-sensitive data with no expiration, and it got noticed during GDPR prep. It would have been noticed anyway (probably even before now).

We've also lost customers (including a contract that would have been our second-biggest) because our competitor is either lying or doesn't know anything about the GDPR, and has convinced customers they're compliant. Their story sounds easier than ours; "We're in the EU, so we're compliant" as opposed to "Hey, you need to sign this DPA with us to be compliant."

And no, many companies already did care about privacy. Companies are not faceless villains -- they're made up of people like you, assuming you have a job, and even aside from not wanting the bad publicity of breach or misuse most people want to use data correctly.
I don't have sources handy, but IIRC the brain will generally to run on about a 60/40 or 70/30 mix of ketones/glucose, but in some experiment they gave people in ketosis a does of insulin to drop their blood sugar to near 0, and they didn't pass out and were otherwise fine.
publish early, publish often.
A double-quote is more noisy than a single-quote, and W is more noisy than V.

The difference is that " and ' are equally usable options in the context we're talking about. Quotes are very common, so the visual noise adds up when your screen is full of quote marks. Given that they mean the same thing, and one is both harder to type and harder to read, it makes sense to prefer the other.
Sure, but that's easy for Apple to fix if they want. The lack of true, useful multitasking on iOS is the much bigger issue.
that’s the whole issue with the regulation unfortunately :(
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

> ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

So not a database query itself, but the thing that drives the database query. It also extends to things like logs - aka don't keep a log full of SQL queries that are full of peoples personal information. Don't ship that log off to some third party, or make it available to random people.

For web apps it's mostly the storage and retrieval aspects that are important. Don't store too much PII. Don't allow anybody to access it at the DB level. Implement appropriate access restrictions at the web-app level.
No it's not bike shedding. The team should certainly choose the most appropriate language. Even if not all of them have experience in it. If they decide on clojure then go for it. But agree on something and move on.

Also, saving lines of code isn't necessarily the end goal for me in a language choice to be honest. Get rid of boiler plate code yes, but what I'd like to aim for is code that is easy for the next developer to understand and support as quickly as possible, whether thats 10 lines or 20 lines.
Even the mussel's personal insurance would not generally cover situations resulting from deliberate (in the insurers eyes) drug ingestion. Unless the mussel could prove it was contamination of his environment.
Cookie & javascript aren't forbidden...

You can have sensible context-sensitive advertising without problem with GDPR. You just can't target a specific reader using its behaviour
They're musseling into the Seattle opioid industry?
> than an opportunity to offer users better privacy

I have a site that I did this with. I also wish the US would pass a law like this. And I beg to differ. No, I don't believe this is self-contradictory.

The issue is risk. I'm a one-man band - the site in question does make money most of the time, but not much, and it has always been much more of a hobby/labor of love than a business[1]. And when any legal change means I might end up with legal grief or potentially not be visit European relatives again, even if I generally approve of the change, I'm going to knife it because there is no planet on which the site means more to me than the risk.

My plan right now is to let the big boys who can afford it take the initial lawsuits and let them shake out what the vagaries mean, then come back in a year or so and see what my exposure would be if I let ya'll back in.

[1] Oh, and it should already be complaint, at least as I understand 'compliant'; I added notices and rejiggered a few things for selective denial and whatnot. I never have and never will sell/rent/share user data, don't integrate with any surveillance/ad networks, etc. But I have no confidence that someone won't see me as a likely target to use to make some point, and hiring a legal consultant for something this size would take it from slightly profitable to a future break-even measured in many years.
It has been 24 hours since GDPR came into effect. To be blunt, if anyone’s business has been affected dramatically, then their business is likely too brittle or unethical. If that’s the case, you should rethink your business model.
Very cool. Though in your first cell, you misspelled build-essential:

!apt-get install pkg-config lua5.1 build-esbsential libav-tools git
The FUD is losing your company because someone signs up for your marketing email.
Any simulation in a sufficiently forgotten machine is indistinguishable from reality.
Out of curiosity, what industry is the company in, and are you in Europe (either physically, or do you have a significant European market)?
How long ago was this? These days, I would expect a LiFePO4 system to be comparably priced (especially if you consider that it should survive considerably more cycles than a lead-acid battery) and smaller and lighter to boot. M
Asimov's Three Laws don't even work in the fictional setting. A common theme of his robot stories is humans investigating strange or harmful behavior of robots, that ultimately turns out to be a consequence of the laws as the robot understood them. They're good storytelling, but bad real-life ethics.
I believe the efficiency got "worse" because it revealed the harsh truth earlier which the Gantt chart hides... until the very end.
But is it the speed of dark?
I think the rest of the world can survive on the 75%+ remaining.
Nothing, but we are strictly located in the U.S. and only sell products in local markets. I guess we could block non-U.S. access though.
Exactly. Some analytical techniques can detect incredibly small amounts of chemicals.

It's kind of like saying "Water tests positive for arsenic!", then finding it's 5 ppb and the EPA limit for drinking water is 10 ppb.
Even if that was true the void will be filled with local competitors.
actually what you quoted might as well apply to query as it is actually processing data... and again the point is the regulation is vague... it can be interpreted in multiple way before we get precedents.
What makes a TV harder to counterfeit than an SD card? Buy a cheap panel, slap it together with subquality work, apply the brand name, sell sell sell. Or even simply rebrand.
At the practical end of the scale, I was involved in a project where we were quoted in the region of $25k for a 4 hour LIDAR flight, and my colleagues considerably better versed in the subject than me were reasonably happy this was (i) better value for the region than they expected and (ii) cheaper than digital elevation mapping the same set of discrete areas by specialist drone with the drone operator driving in between. Limited range of current generation drones is the real downside...

The flip side of this unhappy mapping equation is that if you're happy with lower resolution remote sensing data the government satellite programmes are mostly free and libre.
Since the page seems to be struggling to load https://web.archive.org/web/20180525203140/http://irri.org/n...

(ahem https://archive.org/donate/)
The first robot that can scrape dishes for the dishwasher, then take them out and put them away when clean is going to be a huge hit.
> And Walmart will gladly take their money without judgment.

But the mid to higher end doesn't give away their money without judgment; that's the problem.
> Coordinated gangs will clear out your bank accounts faster than that.

But a credit card doesn’t give access to a bank account - it’s a credit line.

If someone except me uses that credit line then the purchase is taken off my credit line in minutes.
When humans ingest opioids like oxycodone, they ultimately end up excreting traces of the drugs into the toilet. Those chemicals then end up in wastewater. And while many contaminants are filtered out of wastewater before it's released into the oceans, wastewater management systems can't entirely filter out drugs. Thus, opioids, antidepressants, the common chemotherapy drug Melphalan -- the mussels tested positive for all of them.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mussels-test-positive-for-opioi...
> Giving people the option to delete their data is a bit like allowing someone to get their money back two years after eating a meal at a restaurant.

I'm sorry the analogy is totally flawed. On one hand you have something consumable: food, on the other side that can be made eternal: data.

When making an application that collect data, you just have to make a form/button to give the ability to update/delete data. It's no more different that when you make an adult website, you have to make a page "Are you above 18?"

Sometimes, it sounds to me that people on HN don't have a problem with the law X or Y. They rather have a problem with the concept of regulation in general. (See the comments on all the posts about Germany requiring Uber drivers to have a car insurance with a higher liability.)

But if you want to give an analogy to normal business, a more suitable one would be: "Giving people the option to delete their data is a bit like allowing customers to get their money back on their gift card they purchased 2 years ago"

How is that unfair?
Why is Tyler Cowan, an economist, trying to answer this question himself? Why doesn't he interview a philosopher or several? Would we read a philosopher talk about progress in economics? Will Cowan next address progress in software engineering? There's a real intellectual arrogance to the post.
Right you are sir. I haven't actually followed him since I got out of the DSLR filming (rigs, follow focus, all that jazz) nearly a decade (7?8 years?) ago. I just remember that on dvinfo and similar venues he was a force to be reckoned with along with Vincent Laforet. People would follow his travel schedule almost religiously.
People don't know what HTTP is.
I made a web application that helps people play chord progressions in their DAW
But if the fees are the same for people who pay with cash and people who pay with card, which they are, then you’re better off using a card.
But this time they wouldn't have to evolve it from scratch. It's not hard to imagine a bird such as an ostrich evolving into a flight capable bird, especially if there were no existing flighted birds to compete with. They have elaborate feathered wings, so the biggest change needed is probably just to be smaller. Probably 99.9% of the DNA necessary for flight is already there, it just needs to be regulated a bit differently. This would even be true in birds like kiwis or emus, whose wings are much smaller and vestigial.
The GDPR doesn't use "should"; it states that "[w]hen deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to" that factor. Basically, if you can show that they _didn't_ take that into account, or that you tried to cooperate and were stone-walled, you will have good grounds for having the fine overturned.
Check out the top links on Indeed for AWS. How many of them have Linux as a requirement as opposed to knowing the different AWS technologies?

I never said that EC2 instances were obsolete, but as a "cloud architect", companies aren't bringing you in for what you can do within an EC2 instance besides probably bootstrapping it using start up scripts. That's what the developers are for.

There are plenty of all Windows shops using AWS as far as development. Even if you came in as an "Cloud consultant" to a shop that was doing everything on prem running Linux, they have Linux expertise in house, what they don't have is cloud expertise.

Even if you have never touched a Linux computer in your life, you could still tell them how to develop using AWS technologies. All of the supported language SDKs work the same regardless of platfitndc.
Chickens can perform short flights, but from my limited observations it seems like the stamina is the main limiting factor for them. They've however clearly evolved from fully flight-capable birds, but the now-extinct Moa however might have been a different story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
Oxycodone and its metabolites are excreted primarily via the kidney. The amounts measured in the urine have been reported as follows: free oxycodone up to 19%; conjugated oxycodone up to 50%; free oxymorphone 0%; conjugated oxymorphone ≤ 14%; both free and conjugated noroxycodone have been found in the urine but not quantified.[1]

[1]https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2008/02...
Facebook's democracy salvage effort tilts scale in Mississippi primary
Where do you want to go if planets are thrown off orbit? You need to plan that years or most likely decades before. We also have no evidence that we are capable of surviving off Earth long term.
Gotta love TechCrunch's coverage of the round: "Sentry’s technology originated as an internal tool for exception logging in Djana applications."

Djana is everyone's favorite type of application.
I'm not clear on what it exactly is - a hybrid of different rice varieties, or a GMO, or something else?
Can someone explain to me how the EU is planning on enforcing GDPR on US-based companies?

And even with EU companies, without some kind of third party auditing, how can you actually believe anyone's privacy policies which claim to conform?

What's actually preventing everyone from just claiming that they are following it, and then secretly breaking the rules?
"Boring" is where the money is!
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If a venture is not profitable for Google why do you think it would be profitable for a bootstrapped EU competitor?
Microsofties or Amazones?
The companies that are most guilty of mishandling personal user data are American companies. If it could not apply to them in protection of EU citizens any regulation would be useless.
This is a common misunderstanding. GDPR makes no mention of citizens or residents. It just says “data subjects IN the union”

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
Seattle now decade’s fastest-growing big city in the U.S.
Huh. Good catch. Thanks

Should be fixed now
So if your dating site matches gay couples should you expect fines or worse if a Saudi expat uses it?
Oh, well =). I enjoy living in city, it is very convenient. I like city infrastructure (especially public transport, here it is awesome).

And here we have a "real winter" with snow for 4-5 months a year, so it's a additional challenge to clean out of snow your backyard.
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Free will is arguably the hard problem for physicalists who feel that they have it.
SF already has those things.

The bathrooms are expensive because they need technology that prevents ppl from hanging out in them, so they automatically lock down and power wash the inside after every use.

The sidewalk cleaning is also expensive, it costs the city millions per year to power wash the civic center sidewalks every morning. And that's just a fraction of the area.

These expensive things don't make the city better they just improve the quality of life for the homeless population, which can now boom until the quality is right back where it started. Would you then add even more bathrooms and street cleaners in response or realize that cleaning the mess isn't going to solve this problem?
'Nuff said: https://github.com/erikfrey/bashreduce
They're arguing that US companies are afraid of the EU behaving like the US, & then asserting that the EU will not behave like the US
Thank you! I was looking for something cool to put in my spare M.2 slot. It's only 2242 so useful SSDs are a bit thin on the ground.
The development of Quantum Field Theory is a good example where >10 people all collaborated to come up with a framework that integrated the viewpoints of multiple theorists with radically different approaches, rather than every new contributor forking a personalized version of the previous theory.

Sure, I hope I was clear that I don't ten theorist (or ten programmers) collaborating is impossible. I would simply say that collaborating has an extra cost to it - and a competitive academic world, any cost needs some degree of payoff. This makes extending a mainstream theory advantageous but not so much less-known theories.

And Quantum field theory had the advantage that the experiments for demonstrating it's truth or falsehood were relatively straightforward. With AI, the question of a theories truth is more debatable.
Shotgun approach: anywhere we think we might have even a remote hope of colonizing, prioritized and weighted (in terms of number of passengers) by likelihood of success.

It's amusing to think on two such populations of this human diaspora surviving to eventually reunite one day, probably tens of thousands of years after the original colonization event faded from their collective cultural memories.
Odroid N1 is getting close.
I just finished the Sam Walton biography. I'm not sure of the author off hand (in case there was more than one) but you are spot on. Walmart started off in small towns where other stores couldn't justify a presence. It was a great day when a Walmart came to your town. The current evil mom-and-pop killing mega-corp is a more recent rhetoric.