skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "free will" question has centuries of ethical baggage attached to it that are critical to a functioning justice system, among other concerns.

In that case the concept is detrimental to our justice system. Take away free will and it still makes sense to protect society from dangerous agents, the only thing that changes is the notion of justice being somehow predicated on retribution and punishment instead of rehabilitation and restoration.

> that anything that comes from the brain of a single individual is that individual's free will, by definition.

In that case free will is the effect of your past causal history molding the neuronal structure in your brain, your brain's current chemical composition combined with electrical signal processing. Describe where there is something "free" in that.

> If I hold a gun to your head and force you to do something, that isn't your free will, but if you choose to do something without my influence, that is your free will.

That does not make any sense. It's not like I can choose to ignore my self preservation instinct when I'm on top of a tall building, but suddenly can't ignore it when being threatened by you. You seem to claim that we are influenced by our environment only in some subset of circumstances. How can you tell when that switch is turned on or off?

> Whether you actually had the option to make another choice (whether any specific moment in time has multiple different future paths based on some magical internal rational agent) is irrelevant.

How are you defining free will if the ability to make choices is irrelevant? Also it seems to contradict your previous sentence that I have the ability to make a choice unless you are influencing me.
I was thinking about getting in to the car market but all these pesky requirements that I sell a car with airbags and seatbelts and fuel efficiency compliance are just there to protect existing incumbents.
Lots of people do Ramadan while bodybuilding, playing international level soccer (football) while fasted including no water.
Just thought I'd comment to link this from the article in case anybody misses it:

http://www.rbrobotics.com/Products/RB5X.htm
Read Article 27(2). There's a good chance that you don't need an EU representative unless your product is based around the processing of personal data. Also read Article 37(1), you _don't_ need a compliance officer unless you are dealing with one of the special classes of personal data or performing "regular and systematic monitoring".

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-27-gdpr/ / https://gdpr-info.eu/art-37-gdpr/
For a news site, it loads quite fast.
I didn't address your other points because I didn't disagree with them.

I think we're talking past each other. You assume my position is promoting hedonism. It's not. I believe should take time to do things to make lives better for future generations, and humanity as a whole. I find that a better way to live.

However, if your motivation for making a difference is not a concern for others, but a need to be immortal in some way, that's a sign that you have an unhealthy attitude towards death.

Given the context (We're on HN, where transhumanism is more common than in broader society)and given the way the OP phrased the question, I sensed they might be afraid of death, and not simply concerned with making an impact.
> I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut.

Well, if you go to sit down and then an employee accuses you of not buying anything (or of stealing something, or whatever) and threatens to call the cops.

I'm not being facetious, and it's not just the recent news; a lot of people have been trained to keep receipts at establishments for this exact reason.
Microsoft is creating an oracle for catching biased AI algorithms
Just like the other two people that brought up the same thing:

Microsoft had a presence in the EU long before the antitrust violations came. I'm talking about a US company that has no presence in the EU. That's a harder example largely because it doesn't exist.
I think I've answered my own question: it's the latter: https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp

I think a sprint or two to document this project better would be massively helpful and I'm willing to volunteer.
You have those backward. Natural rights, at least, are considered to exist before and outside of government. Enumerated rights may derive from government, as do privileges. The "lege" in privilege literally means "law".

Enumerated rights are the rights the GP was talking about. These are defined in law, though may derive from natural rights.
Enhance Your Hugo JSON API Using Custom Output Formats and Netlify Redirects
You won't get a response. There aren't any accords and there's no way to enforce it. It's empty threats.
Do you really need to track every time that each individual move to do that?
Do people care that much about we use their data? I mean they care a little bit, but I still think given the choice between where we're at technologically and where we'd be if no one had access to users data -- I think the vast majority would take where we're at today.

The funny thing is that I generally wish companies did more with my user data. Why don't events sites do a better job just showing me events it thinks I'll like -- when was the last time I showed any interest in country music? I think customization is a huge value.
> Chromely uses Windows and Linux native GUI API as chromium hosts.

No plans to support macOS?
Perhaps, but wouldn't digital ocean/VULTR etc start offering a free tier and catch up?

I think they also focus on a few large customers. SNAP, Netflix, and others can't really use Digital Ocean (can they? Does anyone know enough to do some back of envelope math?)
You may want to consider installing cope, which colorizes the output of a number of common commands, including 'ip route'.
> We just need to stop pretending that any way they work on the problem is a good one.

Just because the government does something, that thing is bad? I don't understand your logic...

I quite like what they've done.
You can collect email addresses still, so long as you have a legitimate reason to, you seek consent, you store them securely and remove them if consent is withdrawn. These are things that you should be doing anyway! Even if it's an open source side project.
And broccoli sprouts! Don't forget the broccoli sprouts!

Jesting aside. She is cool, talks very fast and deliver an awful lot of information in a short time.
Not every claim on HN needs a backup. This one makes total sense to me. In this case, the article itself shows that regulation is definitely decreasing alternatives, which in turn can lead to monopolies
Your comment seems to prove my point: a society or culture has a huge influence on e.g. whether you are disqualified from certain education opportunities because of your gender, or whether you experience debilitating anxiety or stress growing up because of the laws your country mandates regarding sexual orientation.

If you are lucky and grow up without those factors, you might realize more of your education potential, and then have a greater labor product output, and then gain more income from better-paying employers, all because of that early luck regarding what country you were born in.

So the characteristic of interest, which country you were born in, plays a dominant role in success metrics of your life outcome, and this characteristic is not something under the control of the individual (as you point out, you have no choice about where you grew up).

So it seems your example proves the point: characteristics we attribute to the volition of an individual (things like charisma, hard work, positive attitude, persistence, etc.) -- these are not nearly as important as factors with no volitional component (your gender, your country of origin, the wealth of your parents, your genetics in terms of height, athletic prowess, attractiveness, and so forth).

So in the end, success is determined by the random assignment of characteristics we don't control for ourselves -- a phenomenon known as "luck."
Really disappointed when I see these kinds of scare tactics. Compliance (or at least a good-faith attempt at compliance) is quite easy for small/new projects. I'm willing to bet that courts aren't out to make an example of every small infringement, and there's really no reason to discourage people from starting new projects.
Most people shop on multiple websites, most people don't carry around two phones.
Human-granted rights, in contrast to:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ..."

Perhaps it's time for an update to our global practical ethics.
I treat all my users fairly and protect their data, and I am not intentionally targeting any EU users with anything I do online.
The solution is to enable everyone to improve their quality of life where there are, as it's going to be impossible to come up with a system that is "fair" to everyone who wants to emigrate/immigrant. You can't craft immigration policy without a comprehensive understanding of how it relates to your country's economic and cultural foundation (are you allowing large amounts of unskilled labor in that is going to depress wages? allowing large amounts of immigrants in who might not want to integrate into your society and adopt your values? you're gonna have a bad time).

First world countries want the best of the best, not unskilled immigrants who they'll have to support. Developing countries aren't going to want to allow non-tourist immigration unless you have investment to offer. So we end up with this byzantine system of quotas and quid pro quo which treats people like pawns. Unpleasant and unsustainable for all involved.
Anyone remember Verbot, it was an inexpensive voice controlled robot
> He spends best years of his life building phone OS by walking a fine line to clone a work of a genius.

You do realize Android was founded as a company in 2003 and acquired by Google in 2005, and the iPhone was unveiled in 2007? Google of course altered the design direction based on the iPhone, but the first prototypes looked more like Blackberries.
Believe it or not modern browsers are a clear winner when it comes to graphics performance. Sure WPF has a slick animation API that can do all sorts of things and a super-flexible "lookless controls" model, but the second you try to display a lot of data with anything fancier than plain text, you're in for a world of pain. Endless optimizing of visual trees and layouts, large data binding operations causing opaque and difficult to control UI-thread freezes that disable all your wait indicators, half-baked UI-virtualization support, it's not fun. What takes me days of fiddling to get to acceptable with WPF I can do with HTML5 and an easy to use battle-tested library in a few hours.
I know a few of them, they are all game developers.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncySiTOMAHc
I believe Adobe's CMS, Adobe Experience Manager, supports WebDAV.
Let's not lump keto and IF together... IF from what I understand has more substantial as well as proven health benefits (related to stem cells, celluar autophagy, etc.). Whereas keto cannot make the same kind of claims; if you just keep your carbs relatively low you'll probably achieve a similar effect as keto.
> I am only claiming that it is accepted by most people without any reflection.

If you discuss philosophy with a scientist/tech-person, on most occasions this happens, or at least from my experience. Questions about usefulness, measurability etc are the ones that are discussed first. And that's fine on an individual level. But as a generation on a whole, it's a turn into a somewhat morally ambiguous direction.

Algebra is based on five axioms [1], and an axiom by definition is a condition that is assumed to be true. How can you prove that 1+1 is really 2? There have been attempts to prove this, like in Pricipia Mathematica [2].

So basically what I am trying to say is that there is no absolute and not everything must have a value.

[] http://www.aaamath.com/ac11.htm
[2] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/278974/prove-that-1...
Anecdotally, if I have something important to do and it's before lunch, I'll delay eating as it seems to slow down my thinking. Not exactly evidence, but thinking on an empty stomach seems to work for me.
Maybe they could arrest employees on a visit to the EU? Maybe you could even get arrested at home due to extradition agreements? Or get assets in the EU frozen or seized? But that is all pure speculation, I have no idea what actually can and can not be done or what is likely to happen.
How JavaScript Works: Parsing, Abstract Syntax Trees. How to Minimize Parse Time
ATM fees
Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones
Thanks for posting this, I must have read it at the time because it feels very familiar! Particularly the thread started by this comment from ChicagoBoy11 [0].

I've often wondered what a world without borders would really be like. As ChicagoBoy11 said, it would be very difficult to oppress people if they were simply able to get up and go somewhere else. Eventually I think the world would be a better place.

But in the short term, developed countries would be absolutely swamped. They'd have to completely rethink almost everything to do with work, welfare and housing. Maps like this make you realise how "small" the developed/western parts of the world are [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12622327

[1] http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/earth-divided-in-ten-zones-...
Mike Meru Has $1M in Student Loans. How Did That Happen?
The Aristotle's definition and others like it.

For Aristotle there was three causes for things: chance, necessity, chance, a third thing (the agent-causality) or "up to us".

In the Nicomachean Ethics virtue and vice are "up to us". We have desires and we deliberate and make voluntary choice. What is left unsaid because it was self evident at the time was that there was something called soul or person separate from the environment.

In the modern sense "up to us" is not same level ultimate origination concept as change and necessity.
Launch in the rest of the world first, if you're successful then think about the EU. Seems like the way to go.
What if you have to exercise? Should one exercise while fasting?

Or to put it another way, if you only eat between 10am and 6pm (let's say), what is the best time to exercise? Before work or after work?
Of course, that does not say that this was a systemd change, and reading this very discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17151686 shows that you lose your bet.
This is retargeting, and is pretty much the least sophisticated ad targeting out there.
1 in a million happens about 4000 times a second on a single CPU running at 4ghz...

Did you really want to talk concrete numbers? Because if so, I am wondering about the probability that Amazon's voice recognition mistakes random conversation as a valid entry in someone's contact list, as well as the other terms in this equation.

I don't know if you work for Amazon, and if so I don't want to single you out specifically, but this is a pretty bad screwup, and it does not inspire confidence. Please don't brush it away with "oh it's a 1-in-a-million edge case". That attitude is even worse, and if it is indeed that attitude inside of Amazon, then I am even more strongly against this and I hope that further, deeper scrutiny is applied here, because this screwup is actually illegal.
Theoretically yes. Practically you need to be rather verbose in certain cases (e.g. you need to specifically name which articles of the GDPR you're using to justify collection) while also being told to be concise. The general advice I've heard is to have a human-readable summary and then follow it up with the lawyer speak for compliance.
Fitting to see this during this month, as it is currently the holy month of Ramandan for Muslims, who fast from sunrise to sunset for 30 days.
It's sad commentary when such an accusation alone is bad enough that we require such documentation to prove our innocence. It's an unfortunate reality.
Well-written, maddening story. If nothing else, I'm at least glad the death penalty didn't come into play so there's still a tiny chance at a shred of justice if some DNA evidence can absolve him.
What time do you eat and how many times. Did it improve your concentration?
I become an asshole when I've cut most or all carbs.

I don't know how to push through that.
Weird Al always gets explicit permission from artists whose songs he releases parodies of on his albums. He's got an additional repertoire of songs he only performs but never records, some of which I believe he was denied permission for.

It's still legal.
Erm, I hope it is. My Nextcloud uses WebDav, CalDav, CardDav and a whole host of other things to sync everything from files to bookmarks and calendar appointments.
This is like saying BMW, Toyota and the like have a monopoly because you can’t use your own infotainment software.

There are enough alternatives to the iPhone.
The Golang flag [0] package uses a single dash for long options.

The flags that a UNIX command uses can sometimes used to carbon-date that command. For example, dd(1) doesn't use a dash at all, uses long args, and uses an equals-sign to connect a flag with its argument (e.g. `dd if=/dev/null`). It's because dd(1) was written in the dawn of UNIX, before a convention was established for flags.

I believe the first step in creating a convention was the introduction of the getopt(3) library, which introduced single dash, single character options (e.g. `tar -x`). Commands that only have short options tend to be old commands.

Later, GNU introduced getopt_long(3), which allowed for long options and double-dashes to distinguish them from the short ones. This made commands more readable.

There have also been cases where the `-` is optional. `tar xvf` for example. And with the `ps` command, the `-` is used to distinguish BSD flags from System V flags (e.g. `ps auxwww` vs. `ps -elf`).

There has also been a movement for subcommands rather than options (which bring to mind the Cisco CLI), of which `ip` is an excellent example: `ip route show`. But subcommands are not a substitute for options; sometimes you need both (e.g. `ip -6 route show`).

All this goes to show that, although long options are quite common, they are not only game in town, and UNIX commands have a rich and varied set of conventions.

[0] https://golang.org/pkg/flag/
Yeah, I think it was pertaining the Samsung network account only. For secondary features like calendar sync, app control etc.
The US is an enormous market. You could easily be a multi-billion dollar company without having a single presence in the EU. Hell you don't even have to stay in the US market, since Asia is a thing.

Calling it a "backyard" is disingenuous. Most companies are going to follow this because they have global aspirations, but that doesn't mean it's impossible... or even all that hard.
I had the Tor Project's repos added, but I guess no auto updates.
Sources and not just fringe sources please.
Well most of the time they aren't dying and hopefully they are mostly helping people. Firefighters put their lives at risk in a similar way. The respect and honor earned by protecting your fellow people is a strong motivator.

Hopefully this would change the public's perception of police to some extent and improve public relations to the point that they would walk around being thanked like veterans.
I mean... it's literally named "break fast" for a reason!
Early submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17144221
Well, that's what makes me curious! They have a class that runs the BIST parser (by Kilperwasser and Goldberg) using spaCy to pre-process for tokenization, sentence boundard detection and POS tags. Now, spaCy by default uses the parser to add sentence boundaries...So you've already got a parse right there.

So, is their BIST parser more accurate than spaCy's parser? I'm getting similar (but slightly higher) WSJ accuracies to what Eli and Yoav reported in their paper, so I'd be surprised if they're doing so much better?
No, just because they do something doesn't mean it's good. I don't like it, but then again I don't like the cloud act, some dmca provisions, etc. We can disagree whether the law is good or not, it's just that this topic (not you specifically) causes people to assume being against the legislation means being against its purpose. I think there were many better ways to work on the problem.
as soon as some of some assets pass through entities in the EU (or even, entities on wich the EU can apply pressure), they would be seized.
Could just be me but the site appears to have been Slashdotted (sorry -- inspired to use a throwback term based on the other HN story about WebDav).

Assuming this is a story about Android development, there will be the sequel: "From Java to Kotlin and Back to Java -- before surrendering to Dart and Flutter." :-)
NFC is just as slow. It’s fast until the payment device accepts my card but then it takes forever until the receipt is printed, the cashier looking really annoyed having to wait while doing nothing.
Name any system that does not experience entropy.. all 'regulations' over time become corrupted/exploited. That's the nature of evolution and natural selection.
Hah gotta get that sulforaphane!

Though I do agree - her podcasts can sometimes be a bit of an information overload for those who aren't biomed folk. However in my opinion, her youtube channel[1] is significantly easier to follow as there are often animations and more lengthly explanations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/foundmyfitness
American Failure: top 0.1% owns as many assets as bottom 90%. And it's worsening
Debugging behind the iron curtain (2010)
I set my VPN to an EU server and it seems to work. I wonder if this will be one of the new "privacy tips" for Americans from now on.
You could backup your cookies and share them across devices? ... I don't think "bogging down" requests is a very big issue nowadays...
How does that work? Doesn't broth generally have calories?
In order to author your decisions, you'd first have to author the decision to author your decision, and so on. So you would need to decide what your next thought is going to be before your think it, as well as deciding what that thought was going to be. Clearly, that's nothing like how our minds work.

If you remain unconvinced, try meditating for like 5 minutes. That is, focus on nothing but your breath for as long as possible. You could not avoid having other thoughts pop into your head even if your life depended on it.
The fans of this law seem incapable of separating its intent from the practical realities of the underlying principle it introduces. Namely, that every website on the internet is now subject to any laws by any jurisdiction in the world (down to the city level) because some subject of that jurisdiction might visit their site. It’s insane.
The relevant part of GDPR is Recital 23.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-23/

Short version: GDPR does not apply if you happen to collect data on a few EU residents by accident (assuming you're not otherwise based in the EU).
There is a difference between collecting usage data of their customers and also requiring the user to provide their name address etc..

Of course with enough transportation usage data (+ maybe additional external data) the identity can be reconstructed in a lot of cases, but the same entity already collecting PII does indeed sound problematic.
Maybe I missed it, but I don't see a comparison with PyCharm's built-in code formatter. Why would I integrate this code-formatter, "black", into PyCharm when PyCharm already does this for me and the whole team?
The right to control borders is not “human granted.” It derives from humans’ inherently tribal social structure. It also is an necessary corollary of the democratic right of self determination: peoples’ right to form a democratic government out of a specific body politic.