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To your friend:

Why do you think of them as white males? Do you think of your friends as the white male, black friend, asian dude, indian girl?

2 routes to improve your hiring process - go more objective or go more subjective. Right now, you're applying the worst practices of both points of view.

1) Be more objective. If you're going to treat candidates as a category of people instead of individuals, you should do it correctly. Establish defined metrics/values that the candidate must have in order to pass the interview. Evaluate based on those metrics, and completely ignore other signals or red flags that aren't part of the evaluation criteria.

2) Be more subjective. These are people. Treat them like individuals instead of categories. Look at them as potential friends, colleagues instead of just a category of people.

Either way, you're stuck in a one of the more unfortunate human biases, it's cognitively easier to continue to do what you're doing than it is to do the above.
> IPs combined with other user data could be PII.

1) Bob signs up for a service and is logged

2) Bob than asks for his account to be deleted. Account details are deleted, but the ip logs are retained.

3) Bob signs back up for a new account allowing the data processor to make the link from his new account to his ip old logs with the first account.

This seems like a likely violation, if so you would have to treat ip address like personal information.
I totally agree. But where do I draw the line. How heavily invested do I have to get into politics to get over this line you're alluding to, but haven't defined.

What about global warming? Space junk? Plant and Animal species becoming extinct etc. I expect you'll say those all tie back to politics and yes, they do to a degree. But having a strong political opinion doesn't suddenly change the world.
We have limited time on this earth, I chose to invest my time into local things I can have some influence over.
I agree I am extremely lucky to be in a privileged position to take this stance.
Lots of people on HN keep up with the space industry and news. Is there any coverage of this story elsewhere?

I'd really like to see the other side(s) of this story. I don't trust op-eds at all, especially by politicians, especially by this U.S. administration, especially in regard to it helping its supporters (big business).

EDIT: And trying to hook people with moon colonies is transparent.

EDIT: added first paragraph, to get to the point promptly, and edited the second.
TCAS systems won't automatically take over. Instead they audibly issue an order to the flight crew, describing the action that must be taken, and the flight crew must take the action.

Instructions from TCAS are near absolute in their priority. If ATC says to do something different, you ignore ATC and do what TCAS says. If the pilot in command says to do something different, you ignore the pilot in command and do what TCAS says. If somehow God Himself is on your plane and tells you to do something different, you ignore Him and do what TCAS says. Compliance with TCAS is non-negotiable, and the Überlingen disaster[1] is the bloody example of why it's that way.

Self-driving/autonomous-car systems need to have a similar absolute authority built in. If Uber disabled theirs because of false positives, it's a sign Uber shouldn't be running those cars on public roads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_c...
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My point is, "making sure x happens" or "follow this sure to work design philosophy which will break once the system is more complex than a game of billards" is not a guarantee to anything, therefore none of the smart pointers solve any problems about deadlocks caused by resource sharing.
A lattice is a partial ordering where any two elements have a supremum and infinum. I.E., for any two types in avail's lattice, there is a unique super type, and a unique sub type. A partial ordering means that -- given any two elements -- I can say that either one is a subtype of the other or that the types are not in relation. The super type of every type is known as 'top', and the sub type of every type is known as 'bottom'. An infinite lattice just means that there is an infinite amount of types in the Avail type system.
If I wrote things in sex I’d probably get fired.
There is revenue involved, but not enough to cover the costs. You can do anything and you can sell anything, when engineers use the word feasible they often mean "the prices are right."
Yeah, that was my problem with AppleScript. It’s a read-only language to me. It took me years to try other languages and discover I could actually write code.
I used to work at Hyves. Hyves overcame it's scalability issues, but went out of business for other reasons. Hyves used MySQL and Memcache similar to facebook at that time.

By the way, RocksDB which is now Facebook's main database (afaik) is written on top of LevelDB. So both Google and Facebook run on software written by Jeff Dean...
I will have one of these in my house when it doesn't send recordings of me to the Internet in the first place. It can do the voice recognition locally. I'm actually really interested in having one of these in my home, I'm also actually really not interested in it being cloud based at all.
The EU actually loves levying huge fines against rich US tech companies. Why do you think they prefer compliance to fines?
> If you go to Seoul they don't even have Romanized names for the train stations. Everything's in Hangul. For a massive system built primarily for Japanese speakers it's really pretty accessible.

I'm not sure when you were last in Seoul, but this was not the case when I was there recently. Perhaps they worked on it for the Olympics? Most signs (and I think every navigational sign) I saw in the metro stations was quadrilingual - Hangul, English, Chinese, and Japanese. The station names themselves were written in Hangul and English (not sure about Japanese/Chinese characters). I tried to find any news articles or background about this but I couldn't.

I have much more difficulty navigating the metro in Tokyo than I did in Seoul, and I can read a good bit of Japanese and no Korean.
> Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

lame.
I used to go to the same food court nearly everyday for lunch during work. They had birds wander in, little sparrows, that would peck at the crumbs. Not that many of them if any at all.

They deployed a constant sweeping high pitched noise emitter to combat the birds and it's impossible to be in the area now. I just can't imagine how they're legal or even sensible.

I wonder if perhaps it wasn't a ploy to get the court to slow down and get the tenants to leave so they can redevelop it. It's been a local institution for some time.
Phoenix will be much better than Rails out of the box for things that need a certain level of concurrency. However Twitter's problems were about scaling dependent writes, this is a data-store / architecture problem that really has nothing to do with the chosen language.
This particular cycle was not taught in the Astronomy PhD courses where I attended. Your comment near the top of this thread appears to claim that it's a part of 'basic astronomy'. That is not correct. The precession of the equinoxes is basic astronomy.

(Ha. Firefox's spellcheck doesn't have "precession" in it.)
> We encourage everyone to configure their relays to do updates automatically

I understand the general security benefits of automatic updates, but on something with as big a target on its back as Tor, isn't it asking for trouble? An attacker could poison an update and make vulnerable the entire network for as long as it takes for the Tor Project to discover the problem and patch it.

How does the security professional balance such issues? I can imagine mitigating the risk with rolling updates, but the 0-days aren't patched immediately.
First off (but probably inconsequential), why do you put "monetary policy" in quotations? Monetary policy is literally an Econ 101 term.

But also: A large percentage of any public companies' value can be decided by monetary policy, in the sense a companies value can be decided by inflation or deflation. Monetary policy is just an official term for central bank decisions to influence the supply of money and credit in an economy.

> When the inflated value leaves the stock market, it has an effect of deflating the value of the USD

If you're trying to argue that QE is bad because inflation is bad and people participate in profit taking, you'll need to get over that. What would you like to do? Ban the sale of stocks by persons over a certain net-worth?

> while creating market manipulation tools to coerce stock-driven companies

What, pray tell, are these tools? You know, besides creating mild inflation and some influence on interest rates?

Additionally, you seem to have forgotten that an explicit goal of QE is to lower interest rates, allowing everyone, not just the rich, easier access to capital in order to stimulate the economy. QE demonstratively does not solely redistribute more wealth to the wealthy.

Furthermore, your entire premise is shaky, considering the most prominent historical example (the US recession) mostly consisted of the Fed purchasing $4.5 trillion of mortgage-backed securities.

It's really not exactly "making money out of thin air" considering the Fed purchased securities pegged to a real good/service, mortgages.

Lastly, SV IPOs weren't exactly popular last year. Nor in 2016 or 2015.
that... is an ironic example.

To be fair, the community came down on Ubuntu like a ton of bricks for the whole... Amazon search thing.
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> Competition is already fierce, with Russia and China challenging the United States for leadership

That's incorrect. Russia hardly ever pushes new things in space lately. China has carefully launched several manned flights, and works hard in government space; but no commercial revolution in space of SpaceX scale anywhere on the horizon, for good reasons.

The biggest opponent of USA in space today is USA itself.
Here is the executive directive: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-do...

Nothing has been done yet (only started), and what's been started isn't a new program, but some regulatory and administrative changes. Therefore if you don't trust the predictions of politicians (a wise choice) then there is no information.
I'm pretty sure the goal of these "natural language style" programming languages extends beyond printing a comma-delimited list of numbers. This arbitrary example doesn't mean much.
So why don't we see this kind of behavior in the Automotive industry?
Oat milk's actually quite nice. Seems to do much less "taste damage" toward espresso drinks than other nut milks.

It'll be the fad alt-milk until we hit macadamia milk, I reckon.
If they're not updating their main software, what makes us think they're patching the host? It makes me wonder what percent of those 1100 are compromised.

For example the 1213 days of presumably no updates by f2n (mentioned in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17150526 )
Fine for browsing pornhub, but it blocks traffic between users, so it's unsuitable for many general net use cases.
"an efficient compiler that concurrently explores all possible parses in pursuit of a semantically unambiguous interpretation."

This suggests they have a solution to the ambiguity problem
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Is this GDPR in action?
Using Duck Duck Go, nearly all my top search results are Yelp, and that is at times enough to make me use Google. (Yes, for every search I could type -yelp but that gets painful.) It's clear that the way Yelp indexes, that Google is doing something to push it down. The question is whether that is purely to squash their competition, or because people don't actually want Yelp results. I'm not suggesting the former is not the case.
If the car cannot use emergency braking it could at least decelerate. It looks like some hack where the engineers just commented out the code for brakes and left decision to the driver.
Based on this precedent, we should have seen a lot of half-billion dollar lawsuits over the design of automobiles in the last 30 years.
Can someone with a background in econ / real estate weigh in on this a bit? Curious to hear some opinions on the housing market within the context of rising rates.
So many:

> Udemy has not yet provided a link for this course

Is it a scraping limitation?
The Mars Colony that people have assured me will be in operation within the next 50 years, is still 150 years away at least.
and then makes an external request to the ISP to take down the site.

It's quite tangential to the article, but I do want to mention you'll get much faster action (if you get it at all) by reporting the URL to places like Google Safebrowse and Microsoft Smartscreen. Both of those typically block quite quickly, which renders the site effectively offline for a lot of end users.
>assuming the phones sold for $499 each

Except it isn't. Many were sold at heavy discount.
Software engineering is a very different job market from engineering-engineering (the one that involves the title Professional Engineer), so in this case the distinction is justified.
This is consistent with the other crash, in which the radar detects stationary objects, but ignores them because it doesn't sense on the Y axis, and a parked fire truck looks just like a metallic overhead sign.
Apparently no data is being lost:

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Thanks for the clarification. I missed that on the initial skim of the article. (And yes, I appreciate the irony of me introducing the 'ambiguity' arguments into a topic which deals specifically with the removal of such) :)
> At times of higher eccentricity you get more pronounced differences between summer and winter.

Why would this be the case?
> super simple stuff

If people did the super simple stuff, we'd have boundless peace, prosperity, liberty.

I remember a story - stop me if you've heard this one - about a God helping out a group of desperate people, freeing them from slavery, parting seas, feeding them in the desert. They were camped at the foot of a mountain with the God right there on top - right there! And they built the golden calf anyway. And that rule seems easier than all the other 9. WTF did they even need a golden calf for?

So sadly, the criteria of simplicity is irrelevant - people will find a hard way to do it.
Inform 7 thoroughly explored this space: http://inform7.com/
But if the original legal entity no longer exists (which I believe is the case with Instapaper)

Unlikely. "Instapaper Holdings, Inc." is right in their footer.
And that is why these are not decentralised solutions. Just maintain a controlling stake and you are good to go!
Why would more eccentricity lead to colder winters and hotter summers in each hemisphere? How would that work?
I can tell you worked with them, too. I think you were only scratching the surface, though. Most of the stores I see run on some mainframe apps or something that people use terminals for on buggy handhelds. The checklanes got upgraded recently to what looks like a Fujitsu Linux running Java-based clients. Slow and limited in UI control compared to the concurrent DOS thing from IBM that only slowed down on updates. They had no interest in stuff like QNX when I proposed it for U-Scan to keep robots running despite software failures which they have a lot of. Employees complain the browsers in that company can take several minutes to ten minutes to load on whatever thin client and virtualization solutions they're using. They didn't know. The inventory and Clicklist computers often have different inventory in them or other preventable problems. The digital coupon system constantly screws up to the point that a recent sale required printed barcodes for cashiers at registers in case it screwed up again. They apparently have a social network that few workers use for knowledge sharing since they don't even have time to stock stuff.

The list goes on and on. I keep following the situation out of both concern and morbid curiosity. Easily one of the worst I've seen at managing both operations and IT. Their media and legal departments are among the better I've seen, though. I mean, nobody reports this stuff. Can't be an accident with the amount of attention on them.
Ask HN: Must early stage startups hire a Data Protection Officer under GDPR?
While I fully support all or most aspects of the GDPR as a consumer, as a producer, I must admit it is a bit of an overhead.

Nevertheless, I feel that many of the requirements can be met by careful and deliberate design decisions at an early stage; by treating your users data as you'd treat your own.

I am however concerned about the "requirement" to hire a Data Protection Officer that is sufficiently independent. This seems rather onerous for an early stage venture. Anyone understands how to deal with this?
For DonkeyCar: follow the guide, join the slack group, ask questions!

You'll need to purchase a number of things more than the raspberry pi itself (camera, battery, car, servo controller board, wires, 3D print or purchase or build a mount for it all).
Heh, from back when Scott Adams wasn’t a crazy alt-right, moon-landing conspiracy, Alex Jones loving, jerk. Or perhaps hid it better.

Sorry to derail it, but I’m a millennial who grew up with Dilbert, and it just feels so wrong now. :(
There's something weird going on in Chrome. This link works in Firefox though with the webcomponents polyfill https://codesandbox.io/s/jn85y61kx9
No, one or more shareholders and a handful of employees are going to formally propose a plan to link executive compensation to diversity goals.

Alphabet opposes the proposal because they believe it’s not in the best interests of the company or shareholders.

I don’t think it’s a good idea. I think there are better ways to nurture your company culture than depending on arbitrary objectives with vague, or even nonexistent, finishing lines.

My two cents.
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Under existing law companies can be fined somewhat ridiculous amounts for data breaches and essentially never are, so why exactly would the enforcement strategy change for the GDPR? Maximum sentences just aren’t an EU thing, nobody gets them unless they’re wilfully causing damage to people and this isn’t their first time. I don’t know if America does things differently, but based on what I know, it doesn’t - maximum fines and sentences are essentially never passed out there either.
Some of them just do not see humans as a threat. This one in unincorporated Cupertino walked at me for a quarter of a mile and then walked past me.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/swoo/8590438705
There's one in La Honda for at least a few years that does not move when I go past on the road, it just sits in the road and makes people move around it.
The example at the beginning strikes me as a bit over the top.
Something like 'String.Join("," Range(1,10))' (pseudocode, but you get the picture) would be better, and avoid all the ambiguities of the plain english version.
Yes, information.

I’ve got a link for you as well, but it’s in Danish.

https://www.information.dk/indland/2018/05/tag-dit-newsfeed-...
Ask HN: Legal compliance for small side projects
To fix my paranoia, can I get some case studies for what's the worst that can happen for messing up terms of service / privacy policies?

Fines for $xx billions for messing up COPPA compliance like in Silicon Valley(the HBO show) is probably not real: https://youtu.be/JNuTcsp4SvA?t=40

But what's something more realistic that actually happened before?

My specific website has user generated content which blows up the legal complexity a lot (intellectual property rights, DMCA compliance, user accounts which means GDPR stuff).

Is there any scenario where I can't just fold up shop and run away? Do I need to be doing the project under some LLC?
> if you don't trust the predictions of politicians (a wise choice) then there is no information

There could be plenty of analysis from others.
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I could not find any code examples on the website within 3 minutes of searching, gave up, and left.
See http://spacenews.com/new-policy-directive-implements-commerc...

I'm not sure there's really an opposing view in this case. In broad terms, everyone seems to agree that some commercial space policies are no longer serving their intended purpose and are in need of updates. Whether or not this directive will improve matters is unclear, however.
The LG Prada had a touch screen. But did it have A full HTML browser? A music/video store ecosystem? Would LG have been able to create an operating system on par with iOS? Within a year would they have had a development environment and a platform to create what became the App Store? Would they have been able to dictate to the carriers that they were going to upgrade their own OS and not be beholden to them?
Pondering over the uses of such an endeavor.

- Tourism
- Minerals
- Building a space observatory
- Launchpad for further manned planetary missions.

I did read somewhere that, just as easy it is to get off the moons surface, it's equally or more difficult to get onto it.
they've fought to expand access (when it's in their interest, at least)

Google is attempting to build a world in which the only way to monetise creative work is to put an ad on it. In this world only works that Google deems to be ad-friendly (and/or a good source of personal data) will be commercially viable. There is nothing altruistic about “expanding access”.
Also not OP, but not having a headphone jack is a non-starter for me. In a tie-breaker, I'd prefer a smaller company over a larger company too.
You embed Chrome into a windows-only WPF app?

The OS already has two web browser controls built-in.

The good old IE has a couple of issues, but they are fixable, especially if you only display your own content.

Also there’s newer MS Edge: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webvie...
You mean like the HTC Dream?
Sounds more like what keywords, rather than words, are hot. I'm interested in how many who have "cloud" skills don't have strong Linux skills.
Same. It's a stunning phone and I would've absolutely bought it. It's too bad.
On that note...

A sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.

Let’s be real, it’s mostly the wheat dough.

They must be huffing Play-Doh fumes over at Hasbro legal.
FYI, housing prices can rise as well as fall for periods of 40-50 years and this has been shown in the historical record.

The Journal of Real Estate Economics has a fascinating article from 2011 which goes into this in detail, by looking at the price of land / various housing structures in Manhattan and Chicago from 1920 to 1960.

By 1932, housing prices had dropped nearly 70% from their 1929 peak. If you had bought a 1-story house in Manhattan in 1929, it would not be until the mid-1960’s that you got to just break-even, let alone made any money.

http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/anna_tom.pdf

Also for those curious, I suggest you search “home prices” on https://images.google.com. The very first image is so laughable, and such a suggestion of the times we are in. This will not end well.
But you need to prove that it halted - to you manager obviously - that's the impossible and stressful part.