skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually based my recommendations off of the most common areas of complaint I come across and specifically the areas the younger set complain about most often.

Battery Life:

You can find someone tethered to a wall outlet in almost any public space these days. The apps which the younger set use most frequently (photo, video, and data heavy social media apps) are also enormous battery hogs. Facebook and Snapchat in particular are the source of more "my phone is on 2%, can I borrow your charger?" requests than anything else.

Durability/Ease of Repair:

Go to any high school or college campus and count the number of phones you see with cracked screens. I can't even count the number of people I know who have been stuck using a phone with a busted screen until they're eligible for an upgrade or able to afford a new one. Back in the days of the iPhone 4, a broken screen was a $50 fix. Now it is a mark of shame that lasts until you buy a new phone because replacing a screen is either not feasible at all or far too expensive to justify (this applies more to phones in the $250-300 range)

Bring back the landscape QWERTY keyboard:

I'll admit this is heavily biased by my curmudgeonliness because I loved my OG Droid and Droid 2, but there's something to be said about a feature that helped those 2 phones rack up huge sales figures but hasn't been seriously tried ever since. In relation to its appeal among the younger set, the amount of horrific typos and "oops, autocorrect screwed that up" I see across all forms of content generated on software keyboards is enormous. People may be "faster" with software keyboards but the speed means nothing when they either butcher their point or have to edit/send a second message to correct their mistakes. Also, the proportion of smartphone users who actually use swipe style predictive input and those who hunt and peck is skewed heavily toward the peckers.

You make good points in relation to camera quality and cost but I see those as inherently "solved" problems in today's smartphone market. There are dozens of phones with great cameras, copying what they're doing is both easy and not a real differentiator. Any feature I neglected to mention can be covered under the heading of "just don't screw it up", there's no excuse for fucking something up when you have dozens of examples of how to do things right. As far as cost is concerned, it's obviously factor #1 these days as the "mid range" is continually eaten away by pressure from unceasingly good budget phones and the "flagship" price point becomes unattainable to startups that can't create an entire supply chain to support the latest whizbang innovations. I still think there's room for a phone like I've described at the $400-500 price point, whether that's achievable with the landscape QWERTY is the real question.
I'll make a separate plug for KFJC, a radio station in the bay area. All the DJs have totally unique taste and the station is really good if you're into experimental or electronic music.

My personal favorite radio station, and their donation t shirts are awesome.
Hey, rest of the world, sorry some of our idiots are calling people pests for defending privacy.
Intent matters. The website clearly indicates that they do not want to serve EU users. EU law does not apply to them unless they have a physical presence in the EU.

It's trivial for end users to bypass any restriction through technical means (whether legal or illegal). The fact that they bypassed the block is an act that indicates that they are bypassing the rules and thus are forfeiting some of the protections they would enjoy otherwise.
Anyone who is in the EU (citizens and not) at the time of using the service. EU citizens living abroad are not covered (unless they are visiting Europe, of course).

Geoblocking is not enough. A user in Europe that bypasses an EU block with a VPN is still covered (this has been explicitly stated).

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ Art 3 (2b)
The challenge is absolutely not technical, so 2 years makes no difference. The challenge is that GDPR is essentially impossible to comply 100% with, and absolutely impossible to comply without incurring extra costs.

GDPR is the PCI of the privacy world, 99% of companies will be non compliant if audited, but 99% of companies wont be audited. The difference is unlike PCI anyone can launch claims against companies, including for malicious reasons like taking out a competitor, and political reasons like a eurocrat taking a disliking to a particular company.
yeah, i thought it was a ponzi scheme too.
Perhaps I'm not understanding the matter but I don't understand how this is different than what Microsoft faced with IE.

This is seemingly worse since at least you could still install Netscape back then.
Fluidics have actually found useful applications at extreme temperatures. Fluidic capillary pyrometers have been used to measure the temperature of molten steel and here is an image of a fluidic afterburner fuel control operating at temperature's so hot it's glowing[0]

[0]https://imgur.com/uwPSpR5 from Fluidics Quarterly Volume 4 Number 2, page 54
On the surface yes. But to sue a company into oblivion you have to create statutes (legislation time cost) and create a process for identifying violations (do cops do this? meter maids? city workers?) establish a legal team task force to handle those prosecutions (more money for the DA? a new team? outside counsel?), follow through those prosecutions (court costs, sheriff costs), and finally collect judgements (collection costs)

As compared to putting accessible restrooms and disposal bins around the city and cleaning them weekly.
Hasn't this been a core component of doing "agile" in any meaningful way since the beginning?

Example: "architectural spikes" in eXtreme Programming: http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/spike.html
Wow this post really pisses me off.

A lot of these issues are addressed in Continental Philosophy which never really caught on in America because of its association with Hegel and Marx.

I wonder why the author doesn’t... oh American Economics professor... no a philosophy prof that’s why.
If the poop is free, are you the product?
The difference is that you may be willing to accept a much higher false-positive rate than your attacker can. This is the same idea behind the old "flip a coin, and then raise your hand if either the coin came up heads or you have [embarrassing problem]" method to statistically count everyone with the embarrassing problem, without disclosing anyone's status with certainty. That's the same property your truncated hash achieves.

A Bloom filter could also be designed accordingly. I'm guessing this post's grandparent was thinking of the filter's natural false-positive rate, or you could add deliberate noise.
In the environment that you describe, I imagine if there was a problem with the methodology both parties would be receptive and adapt.
Right if you don't follow the law, you're now conducting illegal business. I think you get that, but you just don't want to fess up to it.
I’m including southern CA in that. I for one one be voting for the “bail out” when it comes to that. These people all have notice that their societies are not sustainable in even the relatively short term.
Maybe someone should name the AI "Autopilot - now with 99% less head chopping."
I was wrong saying "the problem is", whereas what I should have said instead is that he didn't even follow the book, so there is no reason to avoid an interesting read.

> And the history of modern chemistry traces back to the days of alchemy; it doesn't mean there is any deeper truth to be discovered by reading alchemy books today.

You don't need a deeper truth, but be aware why the believed truth is truth, ie seeing the problem from all the angles. You don't know what you don't know.
SCRUM predates agile. Though SCRUM has had many changes over the years, the manifesto was responding to problems of the day; that is, a giant statement of work up front, hundreds of pages of design documents, a giant build process where everyone figures out what the product really should do in engineering while product forgets about it except for occasional questions.

Then, that whole steaming pile was thrown over the fence to QA which tried to figure out heads from tails and developers started fixing the issues they already knew about but had to leave in so that they would make their deadline.

THEN came user acceptance testing, where people actually looked at the product at the first time. This is when people realized what the miscommunications 6-12 months ago, and the change request process started.

Finally, over budget and after everyone was finally exhausted and tired of fighting, it was released to users with promises of changes after the release.

From this world, SCRUM and the manifesto makes sense.
Good point. I'd never heard of denotational semantics before. I'm coming from a more or less naive perspective of trying to pinpoint where the ambiguity is that you have to wrestle with in different kinds of languages. In formal languages, the classic problem is, what you say is not what you mean. In natural languages, the classic problem is, what you mean is not what really exists. So for the latter, we have the whole development of science, epistemology, empiricism etc.

For the former, we have the whole notion of semantics, the development of tools like valgrind, tests, etc.

Is there anything you can reccomend to read? I'm pretty familiar with how computers work on a mechanical level, but I'm pretty ignorant about the theoretical intuitions behind all the more functional stuff.
I would argue that many people try to commoditize developers through scrum (edit: and call it Agile). Agile is just a set of principles. Which pretty much state the opposite, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools." As the article states, scrum can work in some cases, but doesn't in others. If you keep trying to force it where it doesn't work, you aren't following the agile principles anymore. (edit: I'm probably making a "no true scotsman" augment and should've said something like "If someone keeps trying to force scrum where it isn't working they should reflect on the principles and ask themselves if they are putting processes first".)
Well European users (like other users) don't want to pay as well. And why create a specific feature for European users when globally people are just fine clicking on ads.
OK, if you don't trust me, then please avoid using my service. It's no problem for me.

But I won't jump through hoops to reassure you. The cost is too high for too little benefit.

Two things could swing this in another direction:

1. The EU figures out how to levy fines or force compliance against small businesses in other countries.

2. The revenue loss from EU users and possibly others is so large that the benefits once again outweigh the costs.

Very skeptical on both counts.

Until then, the GDPR goes on a large pile of perhaps well-meaning laws passed by foreign governments that don't apply to me and that I can safely ignore.
I know plenty of people who block all of China, simply to be rid of its many botnes which run rampant and are hosted by network administrators who don't respond to abuse requests. I guess Europeans can now experience how it feels to have parts of the internet made unavailable by whimsical sysadmins.
Great. If the internet was mission one thing, that would be Google's AI moderating every single comment section on all independent websites. In Google's cyberspace, nobody can hear you scream.
>Publish pretty much everything you write because you can’t predict what is going to be popular. There is a lower bar for quality, but barring dishonesty and literally unreadable prose, everything else should go out somewhere.

Extremely reckless advice, so many people have lost their jobs, friends, and livelihoods due to publishing the 'wrong' thing on facebook. And the definition of 'wrong' is ever-changing. Bottom line is you need to consider the downside tail risk if you want the upside tail risk, this post baits you with the latter.
Could fork it and remove that rule
Thankfully, Cape Town's had a very rainy May.
"If any provision of this policy is found by a court to be unenforceable, it nethertheless remains in force."

I could absolutely see this on a real TOS/Privacy Policy page.
Look at it: that's an RSS feed, basically. They could have had paywalled feeds with a standard payment system that people could write clients and aggregators for. No ads, just subscriptions.

The irony is that we'll get there, eventually: Apple and Google are slowly agreeing a payment system and then they will push it into the browser, and everyone will use it.
Does "in the Union" has to mean geographical presence? As far as I can tell it may mean legal membership?
Nobody's stealing anything. You're giving the product away for free. Sure, the user is still "paying" with their data. But they didn't sign up for that. (And if they did, congrats, you're a step closer to GDPR compliance!)

If you're sick of people using your product and not giving anything in return, Charge. A. Fee.
As a developer I can understand this point of view, but as a consumer I say it's time to grow up. Internet startups have taken a "move fast and break things" approach that is analogous to early industrial revolution approaches to worker safety, product efficacy and safety, and environmental protection.

You're working in the real world, with real consequences if you end up exposing people's personal data. The party is ending. Either deal with it, or find something else to do.
> This potentially means transit routes will be shut down. If you want to make it easy for everyone to navigate a city

Why is this a private industry problem? Isn't that SFMTA's charter?
Actually I found this post about it:
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/66957/is-salmone...

Apparently there is some evidence that egg-related salmonella is 7x more prevalent in Europe vs the US.
Can you point me to where in the GDPR it talks about being given "advice and the opportunity to towards an amicable resolution"? (I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious to read about it, if it exists)
We're so acclimated to having no choice that I was genuinely surprised when I clicked on "Do not accept" at the http://politico.com web site and... nothing bad happened. I could read it as always.

Clicking "Do not accept" made me nervous and feel somewhat rebellious.
Meanwhile around the great lakes where water is plentiful we are bulldozing farm land for new homes. I wonder if this could make problems later on when water is rare out west and the farms can't produce. They will be bulldozing homes to put the farm land back in because it is near water.
Has anyone evaluated Tray.io vs. Workato?
Looking to understand these two solutions vs. one another
Facebook and Google hit with 8.8B dollar GDPR Lawsuit
There's an unfortunate perception that philosophy is utterly divorced from reality or pragmatic concern. To be honest they might have a point, but I still find philosophy to be of great value to me personally.
> what's changed is that GDPR is now law when it wasn't for the past couple of years.

That just isn't true, the GDPR has been law for the last two years and before that there was a law with roughly the same (say 80% or so) components.

That the law got ignored we can agree on.
Someone should really make a tool: use Cloudflare to block your own trackers and user data collector and etc with one click :)
I simply don't understand how or why a law that has scope in the EU is causing trouble for companies which conduct no business in the EU beyond responding to HTTP requests on a global decentralized telecommunications network. Why would an American internet business which conducts no operations in Europe and has no servers in Europe be subject to regulation that affects the EU? What is going to happen? Is the EU going to target American banks of American businesses and try to extract fines? Is the EU going to extradite owners of these businesses? Are EU courts going to issue default judgements on businesses and individuals?
Eh, I'm not sure we want to go down that road either, but it's an interesting thought experiment. If you declare that EU visitors are unwelcome and unauthorized, are they violating the law by working around that? I find the idea both horrifying and interesting. So many GDPR fans here seem outraged at sites blocking access to them, which seems an acknowledgement that they want to have their cake and eat it too. What if criminal penalties for attempting such enter the mix?
> More importantly, a low column limit is helpful to disabled engineers who don't have to navigate horizontally so much.

I saw that you mentioned that - where have you seen a study that claims 100 is the cutoff? Would be interested in seeing that.
>https://eu.usatoday.com/ is fantastic, loads instantly, no clutter, smooth experience, I love it.

I am willing to believe it to be someones idea of sarcasm, lets strip our website of all the "goodies", give viewers poorer experience and watch the cries!!1 Except its actually better, and I wouldnt be surprised if it vanishes really quickly once they realize it backfired by reminding users how fast and clean web once was.
These videos are not full blown math course, but will definitely give you base to develop your own math intuition: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
> It focuses on feelings instead of making a point clearly and concisely.

And your point is? Customers appreciate when you consider their feelings.

Of course, you should back up your kind words with kind actions too.
As an 80's teen I was pretty obsessed with getting an Omnibot 2000 (http://omnibot2k.com/omnibot/Omnibot_2000_Information.html).

My parents failed to fork over the cash for that (but they did get me the very first Mac, which blew up my 12 year old mind so hard that it probably began my career in software dev, so... I think I won anyway)
Yes, this is how Agile should work but rarely gets done from what I have seen.
Credit freezes will be free, thanks to banking deregulation law
Before you click the link, be aware that the alt-text states:

By clicking anywhere, scrolling, or closing this notification, you agree to be legally bound by the witch Sycorax within a cloven pine.
How a particle may stand still in rotating spacetime
Trib and Daily News are not journalism lol
I prefer the version which enables the publisher to pay for his cost.
Become an archivist of the present. Something like Humans of New York where you use photographs and interviews of the heart, to portray the myriad ways life was experienced back when people were mortal, ate meat, and had children.
Or rather: block all EU users because you want to sell the users' data without informing them about it?
I like to think of flight as an artifact of nice pleasant gusts of wind on this particular planet.
I'm not against pairing more but there are some people who are incredibly uncomfortable with it.

For a short period of time, you don't need much more than a person having a suggestion and dictating if they want to jump in.

I'd have serious reservations about mandating too much of it.

There's a gap between, "I need to type in this environment for a few minutes" and "I need to become proficient with this environment so I can work in it just as well as my preferred."

In small doses, the proficiency and work environment preferences don't need to bend much (even to share the keyboard a little).
Thanks. I didn't even know variable fonts were a thing. Perhaps someone will submit a pull request for the issue I just added.
is there a reason why pilot wages aren't more... uniform? it's hard to imagine an captain flying 5x better than a beginner.
New Observations Following Replication of Famous Marshmallow Test
If you have fins and are streamlined like a fish, I'd assume it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to move.
Hey, rest of world, sorry some of our commenters can’t express disagreement without name calling.
Lazy Django: How Django accesses project settings – setup part 1
No one should pay an "apple premium" anymore for their computer- Their recent MBPs and their lack of response to the many complaints shows they don't care about reliability and quality in 2018- I am so happy now that I'm using a PixelBook as my dev machine (with the new official linux support)
Anecdotally, anger and hate were keys in my diet-soda & coffee based IF diet that helped me lose about 20lb (165->145).

More seriously, my irritability and lightheadedness got alot better after about a week, and it was worth just embracing it until then.
What makes you think that European users do not want to pay for content they consume? Given that Europeans passed this law we apparently are.

You don't need to create a specific feature for European users if you don't want to, just as European users don't need to do business with you if you don't value their privacy. Economic exchanges are voluntary. If you think ignoring European customers is something that pays off for you, go for it.
Describe the subjective process by which you decided whether to get up. Probably you just felt like it, or were coerced by your bladder. If you had a reason, then your actions are a product of that reason, which itself is part of a casual chain of past circumstances that you can't control now. If you didn't have a reason, then your decision to get up or stay was random, and that's not free either.
> You keep repeating this on various threads, but it's not a good argument.

It's an excellent argument. That you don't agree with it is obvious but whether or not a law is enforced or not does not change the fact that it is the law.

Those companies that have decided to block EU users as a rule have done fuck all in the last two years and now, rather belatedly, have realized that in fact they are subject to the law rather than that they can afford to ignore it.

> They are either taking a huge risk or are correct in assuming that there's no enforcement mechanism, so they don't need to worry about it.

I sincerely hope that they will swap positions after the first few fines have been dealt out.
No, he doesn't know that. And you don't either, although you might believe you do.
Before I worked in precast I did a lot of temp industrial work. One of those assignments back in the late 1980's was in a Martin Brower warehouse for all the McDonald's in Florida plus the one in Guantanamo. Thirty years ago, they were incredibly organized and efficient. A lot of that efficiency came from 19th century technology: a rail spur where boxcars of french fries and pickles pulled up. Since they're still in business, I imagine that time has made them Moore's Law more efficient.
It force redirects me to www. on mobile for me :(
Cyber Actors Target Home and Office Routers and Networked Devices Worldwide
In the heated GDPR debates in Hacker News over the past few weeks, it was argued again and again that no lawsuits would happen because that's the US way, In Europe it's different, and the law is phrased in such way as that people can only complain to the regulator, who will serve as a free sanity filter. Only if the regulator decides there's a violation, then lawsuits can occur.

Is that plain wrong, or am I missing something?
> Docker in general isn't worth it relative to just VMs...

Thats not what I think. I have load balancing, autoscaling, health and update management with AWS ECS just fine, using just a couple of Cloudformation templates, each is a fixed text file. Two files with parameters is all I need :)
How many European companies deal with US health data (HIPAA)?
yup, maybe, probably not... we'll find out
GDPR requires explicit consent if you're using consent as your legal basis for storing that contact email.