skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt the same about 4th edition. It was very streamlined and balanced, but everything felt too smooth and consistent (all classes used the same mechanics, for example). 5th edition, on the other hand, is very good. The rules remain simpler than in the old days of 3rd edition, but the classes and races feel distinct and charming again.
Like google.
Oh, the HTTP scourge.... We run a few websites and we have been doing some work around automatic HTTP traffic... what astonishes me is how much there is...
If you think of yourself as primarily a resource to governments, law enforcement and corporations, as they do, then it makes sense.
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Not everyone agrees with that.
> “Internet Explorer + CSS Grid????”

well the original css grid spec actually did came from microsoft (https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-grid-layout-20110407/)

That's why it's only partial supported, they never updated it to the current version.
Okey, thanks.
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You are right, I was assuming, it'd be running in a VM. At least, that was what was being said, when this project got introduced to me a while ago.

I still don't sympathize and would prefer Microsoft putting other efforts, than this, into making Windows more POSIX aware/compatible.
Usually just by that, in increments. It helps to time-box something early into a new client relationship and once you're delivering proven value, clients tend to be fine with just incremental delivery and billing.
>"Our sincere apologies. We were given incorrect information.

I feel like knowing Maori's are from New Zealand is not very difficult to find out with 30 second of research.
There are intermissions in films > 2 hours in European cinemas.
Good point, thanks. I haven't read it, but have read good reviews of it. A classic, I believe.
I even read somewhere a while ago that the US claims jurisdiction on any financial transaction in the world as long as it's done using USD... Talk about overreach.
The iptables MIRROR target is fun. Be aware of spoofing though.
Atlas Obscura video here

https://youtu.be/WeTcYcd5dUM
Yeah, but I asked what happens in a closed system. Germany, for example, doesn't sell electricity to USA, so there are limits.
> but I can also have my own perspective.

That seems alien to me, the notion that access to an interpretation prevents you from forming your own.
Ip adresses are needed for security anslysis in case of attacks, for example.

the thing is not about doing what you propose but that however you‘re doing it, you have a lot of bureaucracy and legal insecurity right now.

The examples of wrongdoing you give should be leading to hard measures.
But those with good intentions shouldn’t have high bureaucracy costs.

To be clear: i don’t say these laws shouldn’t exist. They just should have been targeted at the actual wrongdoers and put smallest possible burden on all with no bad intentions.
position yourself as an alien observer who happened to have evolved trilobozoan radial symmetry. you might have conceptual models of two separate oppositions and a third (their constant mixing) and build corresponding mathematics to reflect your biological nature.

or perhaps some parasite or virus which requires a host body. in which case you must concern yourself with your own survival, the survival of your host and the stability of the host/virus system, often tending towards co-dependence to ensure future generations. these types of entangled systems are how life tends to really operate, from the dust mites on your skin to the bacteria in your gut it's a giant complicated mess of competing and cooperating hierarchical dependencies which are taking a rather more risky route towards increasing entropy than an icy comet orbiting our sun every few thousand years.

human cognitive experience is a tiny sliver of the humanity engine, and often breaks in quirky ways- see drugs.
THIs is a wonderful story that doesn’t make any sense. You are suggesting that there are two sets of people, those with BTC that is increasing in value and those without. Those with are spending nothing and getting fabulously wealthy not spending their appreciating asset. Meanwhile, on the outside the no-coiners suffer from the lack of trade and become destitute and the economy drives to a halt.

This makes no sense for several reasons. The no-coiners could just buy a tiny fraction of a BTC with whatever fiat they have and become fabulously wealthy. When they do this they would be setting the market price even higher for all the rich Bitcoiners. All the of these fabulously wealthy holders think against deploying any capital to either enrich their life or increase their rate of return over asset appreciation.

It is absurd to think that as an entire population becomes wealthier that was risk taking occurs, when it it people that are mired in debt that often take less risk.

Before you respond remember these facts, the market price is set by buyers and sellers (trading). Bitcoin is infinitely divisible despite a capped supply. Gresham’s Law dictates that people will spend bad money first. Your no-coiner set has at least the ability to provide a service to begin wealth accumulation.
Why aren't subscription prices going up for EU only customers?
Please if you've customers in EU, do not blend the prices.

Add fee of lawyers (and future litigation/compliance risk damage) into EU customers' subscription fee.
I’m using WebDAV for my OmniPresence Sync (syncing OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, OmniFocus, and DEVONThink.

Usually if you have a desktop/mobile application that has a self hosted setup they are using WebDAV.
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Yes it's fantastic. Now if we only could ride the momentum of this and slam something equally as punishing on Facebook, then we could be heading towards a renewed golden age of the internet.
Is this resource new, or has it been available for a while?
> GDPR will wipe out many niche blogs

To the contrary, niche blogs can place content-based banner ads for their audience without targetted advertising because they're much more focussed.
Native ads don't do this unless you mean something other than the standard definition.

Native ad is just an ad that is formatted so it fits with the aesthetic style of the page, (for example it uses the same fonts and colors). This makes the ad less jarring to the user and makes the overall page look better. Many people don't like them for this exact reason, because they say ads should be very obvious and native ads might look like content.

Native ads can do tracking the same way non-native ads can.

The rest of the comment is more or less spot on though.
He would frame my answers in such a way to assign malicious intent, accuse me of trying to siphon data out of the system or maliciously make the system less efficient.

"oh! I see, you want to stop the government from looking up drivers' social security numbers..."

"no, but that data doesn't need to be in the same table that the civilian website queries from, just in case."

"just in case what? Just in case I don't catch you stealing civilian's personal information? Just in case I don't catch your ass performing treason in my goddamn system?!"

"no no no, I'm just saying that information should be divided according to where it is expected to be used from, that way if there was ever to be an incident, the more sensitive information is farther away from where the attack surface is"

" so you've thought this through, tell me: how are you gonna do it? When I'm not looking, you empty out a government database and sell it to someone. Who? How? When?? Are you gonna make me sit here all day before you tell me?"

That type of shit.
> As a 10 year redditor, that really frustrates me, since I can't go back and see my early posts any more.

I'd much rather they let you get your own history out and then make it impossible to get said history for anyone else (unless that person chooses to allow it).
Trust the benevolent dictates of the undemocratic EU, right?
Both of these are great ideas. Too bad about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence though.
Me to I have US friends who recommended the expanse but its not on the UK prime
<table> is not grid. <table> is a fixed container. grid does not. <table> is HTML. grid is CSS. The structure does not change when using CSS.
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This wasn't CC, they used To:
The tables bashing was because of the common view that CSS and HTML, the styling and markup, should be separated. It wasn't due to tag bloat, which has remained common with HTML regardless (we still have a million div tags in the place of table/td/tr).

<table> is a rigid display value taking up an entire tag. So the argument is why not push that into the CSS eg in a div instead and get rid of an entire unnecessary tag. This is why display:table doesn't get the same kind of hate thrown at it that <table> does.
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Tables are not 'tag soup'.
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> Ip adresses are needed for security anslysis in case of attacks, for example.

Then you have a legitimate need for the data, so store it for a reasonable length of time and then delete it.
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I will echo the opinion of others in this and say that in my experience fuzzy matching based on string distance metrics is a better approach in most cases I can think of.

I do search related stuff and we use phonetic algorithms for names (in a rather interesting way as well which I haven't seen employed elsewhere) and will occasionally get reports or inquiries of weird unexpected matches, or questions about small typos not producing any of the expected results.

I feel these approaches maybe were a better fit for a time where talking was absolutely the main means of communications, but in an era where people communicate more and more by typing things into their phones, any input is frequently a) copied over instead of transcribed or b) first seen written and then typed out by the user, on a small touchscreen keyboard with 1 to 2 typos of letters close to the actual intended letter.

I wonder is there such an approach that takes this key distance into account? (ie. in a search for Nock results containing Nick should be higher than Neck)
Looking at the shotgun blasts they had been able to produce, I'm disappointed there wasn't a clearer signal. Take out the 130 IQ kid with little fluoride and the three kids with high fluoride and slightly-below-average IQ's and you might even be able to predict a beneficial effect to fluoride.

To clear up a few of the other questions, they didn't measure where mama was getting her fluoride, or how much was in her tap water, or even how effective she was at excreting it. They also didn't measure postnatal fluoride exposure by the children, which may be less, more, or just as important.

Mama could have swallowed some toothpaste or mouthwash even though she lived on unfluoridated water. She could have eaten a steady diet of fluoride-infused potato chips manufactured in a place with fluoridated water even though her water was unfluoridated. Or, she could have been a tea drinker, which is a leading source of fluoride.

Absent evidence to the contrary, I believe this study's conclusions are the right ones, but the study could do little to back them up. For all we know (and for all the efforts the study didn't make to rule it out), higher fluoride exposure could simply be a reflection of poverty, which would similarly correlate to lower childhood IQ's.

If you drink untreated water in Mexico, you may very well be drinking fluoridated water, which occurs naturally in some spots. El Paso and Albuquerque have naturally fluoridated water.
Way too much work for a personal machine.

I can see where it might be useful in formal environments and have used nix before sparingly. I found quickly that you need to get in the habit of using the same package manager, when after a few months I couldn't remember how to use a nix package or didn't know how to update a package properly (can't remember exactly what the problem was).
> In conversation and in court documents, attorneys who have tangled with Liebowitz have vented over what they deem his chronic overvaluation of his clients’ claims, his habit of dodging discovery obligations, his disregard for the admittedly vague concept of fair use—which, basically, is the doctrine that makes it OK for journalists and commentators to quote limited portions of copyrighted works without first asking permission. (“Fair use is an area that, so far as Richard is concerned, apparently doesn’t exist,” one attorney told me.)

Large media owners also seem to think fair use doesn't exist, and deliberately make it hard for citizens to exercise fair use. It's interesting to see them squrim when the shoe is on the other foot. (and the irony of this post is not lost on me ....)
My understanding of "blockchain ledgers" is that it's not the case that every single byte of a ledger entry is present in the blockchain, but that some other ledger is maintained and its digest (at various points along the way) is incorporated into the blockchain.

That being the case, "the network" doesn't own these 'side ledgers.' They have owners who may well keep non-public data. Further, that the data comprising a particular digest needn't be disclosed, only that the owner of the digest vouches for the digest. For forgettable mode, said owner validates their own data, generates the digest, adds it to the blockchain, and subsequently 'forgets' the data that created the digest.

Now maybe that flies in the face of a fully public blockchain, but it allows the implementation of that which you couldn't fathom: a right to be forgotten alongside blockchain technology.
I think it's mind boggling how you equate startup with abusing user data without users consent. Is that really the only way you think someone can make a business and earn money?
No, it is not the same. You should at least try it out before you make blanket statements like that.
flexbox was not created for, and should not be used for, page layout. It's to be used for for a series of elements that flow in one direction only and designed for sections of a page, not a whole page.
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Ask HN: So your startup received the GDPR Nightmare Letter, now what?
We're a two-person startup and we've already received "the nightmare letter" (literally copied and pasted) from a few users: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-access-request-under-gdpr-karbaliotis/

It's one thing to send this type of nastygram to Google or Facebook, but sending this to someone you know is a tiny outfit is like a Denial of Service attack. We spent significant time making the systems and policies GDPR compliant, we store minimal PII (first/last/email and Google Analytics), but how do you even start to respond to this thing...
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And I’ve always thought that triple quotes are for degenerates who... no, wait, nvm.
Fluoride toothpastes sold in the U.S. generally contain between 1,100 and 1,450 parts per million (ppm) fluoride (the equivalent of over 1 mg of fluoride for each gram of paste).
http://fluoridealert.org/issues/dental-products/toothpastes/
They would be some sort of probability distribution.
What a great link for starting off the long weekend!

Great idea!
> This culture has driven innovation of the last 2 decades.

So what? Communism turned feudal Russia into a world superpower in less than 2 decades. Do the ends justify the means?
That is good news. I was planning on cancelling my Prime membership at the end of this yearly subscription. But the Expanse officially justifies it.
Google can't make it work because they need to sell out there users. A random company does not need to do that. Even google doesn't do that if you're an enterprise user. So you see google does make it work if you pay them. The same way you can pay a random company.
“It turns out you can literally fit an elephant with four parameters”
Wow this is fantastic! Maybe we’ll have a web with no 3rd party adds one day!
... who can’t write self-explanatory code.
they installed a backdoor which needs a reboot to load
They adjusted the results for the excretion ratio (adjusted for urinary creatinine and specific gravity, respectively).

Note that at least in Europe the toothpastes for children contain no fluoride.
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I read a lot about cascading deletes, which I interpret as holding personally identifiable data redundantly.

I can see two reasons why this would be a problem:

You have a really shitty un-normalized database design. Granted that you may have to denormalize specific columns for performance reasons. But why that would be the case with, for example names, phone numbers or sexual preferences, totally escapes me.

Or, you're referring to actual cascading deletes, meaning that you need to get rid of child relations, based on deletion of the parent relation. If this poses a problem then I'd argue that you're guilty of a shitty database implementation, arguably with criminally bad definition of your primary / foreign key pairs.

I really don't see a problem here, unless the database schema is implemented in a totally incompetent manner.

Edit: Clarity
Did Firefly had a logical end at the and of its single season? Is it worth watching?
Which of the points do you have concrete trouble with?

Since you say you've spent effort to be GDPR compliant, most of the questions should be easy to answer (and can become boilerplate text snippets for all other letters).

I'd recommend starting on top, answering all the low-hanging fruit while skipping more difficult or expansive questions on the first run-through. And then take a look how much is left and see whether those are rightful demands and who can answer them.
Ask HN: How many privacy policy updates have you read?
Assuming you got atleast 15 emails informing you about the changes to the Privacy policy to be GDPR compliant. How many documents in full did you go through and how many did you unsubscribe from?
The way I see it, politics is about balance of some kind... e.g. if either Earth or Mars had a huge advantage, they would have already won. (Of course it’s possible for things to fall out of balance, e.g. US vs Soviet Union, but that usually happens rather slowly...) The protomolecule is what throws things out of balance, so things become interesting again!
Where do I sign up? I was forced today to accept Facebook's new settings and I was presented with an option to either allow facebook to process my data for face recognition or not. Choosing not does not allow you to move forward in the settings, and it is deeply confusing - there is an "accept and continue" button, but there is some rather small text that states choosing accept and continue will enable face recognition. Closing the browser and reopening it at this point shows the same text, and only the option to accept and continue. Doing so and then checking settings will show face recognition to be disabled, but I am no longer sure what I accepted and continued with.

The whole scheme is scammy as anything. The text presented is something along the lines of "disabling this feature will allow other people to impersonate you" which at best is nasty fear mongering.

Fuck those assholes.
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Could also be that if you send one message with 10k bcc, they all hit isp at once. If you send message per recipient, the isp will get a stream of messages.

I love asking why when I get these kinds of request so i can better understand the requirements. I’ve found that some people aren’t interested in helping you understand. I had a recent interaction with a surgeon who was vexed by me asking for more detail and why that reminded me that some people just want to do their job and don’t care about learning.
Innovation costs money. GDPR threatens part of their model, but the tradeoff is calculated.
> In practice, the non-renewable energy turbines like gas are the easiest to control so these are used to balance the grid.

You can use energy from the renewable sources to charge up storage systems, which in turn can be controlled more easily. That way you achieve flexibility without relying on non-renewable energy sources.
Cool to see that this is written in Crystal.
How is it out of Pearl’s hands? Also, Gelman & Rubin already did look into Pearl’s models, and even agreed that for some toy model examples, the technique works as intended, but that there are serious how-things-work-in-practice reasons why Pearl’s models are unlikely to be mathematically appropriate for some real world use cases.

It’s really a fair response from them to Pearl, especially when the whole time Pearl is presenting it like causal inference is a miracle cure-all.

All I am seeing in your comments is hand waving attempts to shift the burden of proof onto the group of practitioners who already looked into this stuff and weren’t convinced!

So why does it being incumbent on Pearl or on another causal inference practitioner to demonstrate it scaling up to a more complicated in-practice problem still get qualified with an “in theory” from you? Why isn’t it resoundingly obvious by this point that the burden of proof lies with Pearl, and that people would be happy to hear if he can use these models for large-scale, practical use cases, but they (rightfully) don’t see a reason (even after looking into the models) to spend their own time doing it?
In some cinemas, for some especially long films.

I have only encountered breaks twice: for Titanic and Pearl Harbor.

Infinity War had no break where I went to watch it.
I see a receipt come out of every till for every transaction. Afterward, they ask if I want it. If I don't, they drop it in the bin.

I don't see how the receipt is proof that the store isn't evading taxes - someone would need to collect them all and compare them to their tax filings.
This is a conspiracy theory view which isn’t worth giving much consideration to.
I think that would be awesome, if correctly dosed. It would create a sense of belonging and working together.
Put it this way. People who want to use Linux will keep using Linux and are very unlikely to switch. Microsoft obviously wants a piece of that Apple cake where people want a polished and consumer grade OS with a unix-y environment to write code.

This is likely a response to the fact that today's web OSS dev tools are first class UNIX Cli programs
I wonder how much Amazon made on season 3 sales already? Is SyFy going to even survive? A lot of great science fiction shows come to mind; none of them on SyFy..

I'm sorta happy they picked it up and not Netflix; I find the quality of Amazon's streams to be higher on average. Netflix squeezes the bitrate too much even on their flagship titles like Altered Carbon resulting in banding an artifacting in dark scenes. Space is pretty dark.
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The movie, Serenity wraps it all up, so it's worth watching the series.
The first one was handed out by a court based on criminal law. This is not comparable to administrative fines. He got fined 260 days of his income (which is the basis on which such fines are assessed). He had two previous, very recent convictions. I'd say this is not a very harsh sentence but your opinion might vary.

The second one is a law very much like GDPR (notice the little words "up to"?). Not a single fine has been given based on that, not even a small one.
Continue to set deleted=1, but also now just set name="DELETED" and email="DELETED@DELETED" at the same time?

You don't need to actually delete the row, just overwrite the information which you no longer have consent to store...

This is obvious isn't it?