skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
65 million people voted for someone with a life long habit of lying about ostensibly rather important things, and who's rate of lying continues to increase, and continues to hold the attention of millions. Few and far between taken literally applies to one. But few and far between taken in connotation: that they can't meaningfully affect the lives of many others, and therefore they can be ignored as edge cases, is provably wrong.

If you're talking about tinfoil hat nuts, e.g. Alex Jones, sure that's an edge case that doesn't matter and we really can't do anything about it anyway, whether you categorize them as liars (which they are) or bias (which they have). Bias does not imply malice, where lying generally implies either deception or malice or both.
Should I also be washing fresh eggs from friends' chickens/ducks then?
Oh for sure. I am watching https://github.com/zserge/webview/issues/85 like a hawk and have even tried to do some self-contained binaries w/ the new WinRT libs myself with limited luck (because of the UWP packaging). I personally won't use it from Go if I can't distribute a single binary.

I have used CEF and while I love the abstraction, it comes w/ baggage. I ship CEF along w/ an app (it's the browser I'm typing this from now) and just libcef.dll is 91MB, not counting some of the tiny ancillaries. I think you are on the exact right approach and even if you want a CEF, just make sure it's not the preferred option on any platform. I have heard that MS people are working towards a usable Edge shared lib elsewhere, we'll see.
My comment to people in similar situations, is to always remember that if you have that much savings, you are closer to retirement than you realize. If you can live off of a 4% drawdown, then you have very little risk long term of ever touching your principle in a very conservative index fund investment (stock markets historically in the US average 4% above inflation, and I suspect that's true globally). I'm not sure what the russian equivalent to Vanguard is, but I'd he surprised if you didn't have access to similar low cost investment.

Sometimes all it takes is another couple years of slogging away at a job you hate to get you to a critical mass where investment income matches your yearly expenses. At that point all risk of quiting is basically gone, and you can pursue whatever you want.

Also keep in mind that seven years is a pretty common number in business for a good product to become successful. You can have 100% growth year over year for 5 years and still only have 32 customers. So it may make sense to hold off until you have slightly more runway than 5-6 years savings.

But doing the math, and putting dates on calendars can do wonders for how you feel about going into work.

Also, you sound like you're in a really good spot no matter what you decide. Good luck!
Can't break privacy laws if you don't have any customers.
I think GDPR applies to EU citizens no matter where they are? So while this will work for most cases, it doesn't really give you immunity?
It really annoys me how many self-styled "Europeans" on HN feel free to speak for an entire continent.

Firstly, the EU is not the same thing as Europe. Yes EU officials and supporters love to use the word "Europe" when they mean EU - I find it nasty and manipulative.

Secondly, I'm from an EU country, now live in Europe but not in the EU, and I think GDPR is absurd. A great example of the general malaise and decline of the continent. As I have pointed out elsewhere, GDPR is not even remotely an important topic to people in the EU. Actual opinion polls run by the EU Commission have shown for years that the top concerns of the citizenry are immigration, terrorism and the economy, in that order.

Data protection simply doesn't feature in it at all. It's a dog and pony show put on by the EU to distract people from its failings.
Arguing about the progress in philosophy is sophistry. There's been plenty of progress that has affected lots of lives. It just doesn't happen to fit someone else's narratives or views.
Is your argument that someone else in the business should care or is your argument that EU visitors should not have rights to their data because it is inconvenient to you? Depending on your arrangement, if you are a reseller for example, you probably are not responsible for what that software does with your customer's data.

Also, burger shops that do business in EU(usually chains, McDonald's and Burger King) do care about the EU food regulations, why shouldn't they and why shouldn't you? You are aware that McDonald's isn't steamrolling in the EU, right? They do follow the EU food regulations. And no, you don't have to be a big company to sell burgers in the EU, we have plenty of local independent burger shops all over the continent.
We can also have reasoned discussions directly with each other (as you and I are here). Here we may have an audience of other forum members, but the same audience can see the same back and forth (and contribute).

In my opinion, the 'speaking to an audience' via indirect blog posts doesn't really help us move forward as much as direct discussions do. Since we already had thorough discussions about this topic both here and on reddit, I don't see the value in this post.

I will admit that this type of indirect conversation isn't without its uses though. For one, I don't think the original blog author participated in the discussions here or on reddit. So our discussion boards were also indirectly attacking that post, without much room for the author to respond. Similarly, it's impossible to have a discussion with everyone you disagree with. Sometimes the best you can do is state your opinions, and let people consider them as they will.

I guess a better statement I could have said earlier is that we already have a forum (right here) for discussion of articles, and we don't need the disconnected responses-via-blogposts, because we can just discuss things normally here.
The font is "Avenir Next", and its pretty cool.

https://www.fonts.com/font/linotype/avenir-next

I can't see anything special about the blacks though...
That'd be the ultimate in safe space...
around the same length of time developing. ... i still hand format; mostly because i think most auto-formatters have bad defaults. Which may no longer be true, since i turn off indent in vim immediately on any installation.

It isn't really interest in minutia -- My fingers just do the thing automatically at this point; which means if autoindent is on, I then have to go back and delete all the stuff my muscle memory has made me do.

I'm ok with it if i'm forced into some IDE with an editor that is not built for actually writing code (i.e. every IDE default editor); in those instances auto-formatting is very useful. I just avoid those environments, if at all possible.
What do "collect" mean. Its too broad to comply.
Cloudflare has a country header. So yes, an easy way to block millions of users is checking that header against the list of countries applying GDPR.
What kind of skills are you looking for?
Yolo
assasasa
Good looking Ubuntu i3 desktop for less than 256MB of RAM
No, Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Whatsapp have a choice, on whether they want to continue operating in the European market.

> why do you think you have a right to use it without consenting to the ads?

Consenting to targetted ads. That's a big difference. All operators can show ads like they always have, but they can't specifically tailor them to the individual, using accumulated data, without their consent.
New PGP encryption exploits are being discovered almost every other day
This seems to be a prevailing attitude on the web these days, the growing opposition to down voting. This is a bit amusing to me. Aren't people allowed to disagree anymore?

That said, I have a problem with its implementation. I don't like the graying out of the text as its done in HN, or collapsing the post as done elsewhere etc. That is sort of pushing the majority viewpoint on everyone by effectively censoring the less popular ones by hindering access to them. Surely, some of these 'alternates' happen to be downright stupid, inflammatory, abusive etc, but if the uncivil ones are modded off, we are left with stupid ones, and since when is expressing stupidity a crime?

Instead of censoring, why not simply have a sort of visual indicator that a post has garnered several disagreements? May be with a series of red dots with more number indicating more disagreements should serve well.

To specifically answer your question - I don't care much. I mean, this is ultimately just an online forum that has some interesting stuff, nothing more nothing less. There is life beyond the www aka internet.
I don't have access to the full article, but

> lowering the rate to 7.25%

> repaying his $600,000 in student loans at a rate of 4%

These two things don't jive. Did he have the option of a loan at 4% at some point?
Not an RL expert, but Model-Based RL is a thing, where you try to train a model of how actions affect the world, and then use that model to choose/influence your actions.

But I don't think it's true that we always need a model, or at least I don't necessarily think we always need a human understandable model.

Your doctor example is weird to me tbh. A non-causal ML approach would seek to determine whether a patient has a disease based on some symptoms, and then send them to a doctor based on those results, sidestepping the need for causal models.

To rephrase it in a way that makes a bit more sense to me is: let's assume we want to know if a specific procedure would be good for a patient (basically the same example). With a non-causal approach we would want to predict whether a patient would have a better outcome from doing a procedure than not.

A natural way to solve this (to me) would be to build one model that estimates the probability of various outcomes from the procedure, and one that estimates the probability of various outcomes from not undergoing the procedure.

Or if you're working in the world of Neural Nets/Deep RL, have a model that takes all the non-intervention data as input and outputs the expected outcomes from the procedure and the expected outcomes from not doing the procedure, and when you train it, you only supervise the outcomes that you had data for.

This ignores the Bayesian/Distributional Shift issue, but I don't think the do calculus has a real answer to that either.

I would be interested in knowing if this ad-hoc modelling approach is any different to the causal modelling the Pearl is arguing for, or if Causal modelling is more necessary when you have more complicated causal relationships than a single intervention.
I wanna see this for mobile apps too.

Also, how did you make your landing page? What template did you use?
As a kid I thought the whole Tomy line[0] was awesome. I lusted after an Omnibot and Omnibot 2000, but never got one. (I did get a Verbot though.) My imagination still makes me think they'd be awesome, even if I knew they were mostly remote controlled with weak motors, butd damn, seeing a an actual demo of them is heartbreaking.

[0] http://www.theoldrobots.com/tomybot.html
For stuff that's new I always tell management to give us a certain amount of time (weeks or even months) to figure out the major unknowns. After that has been done they can get a reasonable estimate or cancel, whatever they want to do. This seems to be the only realistic way to go about things.
The word BITCOIN is a registered trademark in the UK for clothing and food
> Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets

Right now one can buy an Exynos5422, which CPU wise (I've never tested the GPU) is 4/5+ times as fast as an RPi 3b, for the price point mentioned (<100$, board only).

For me, this is effectively a "high power SBC at a reasonable price", however, at the same time, users interested in SBCs (or micro-PCs) seem to have a wildly different array of requirements (I've read virtually everything: (very) low price, GPU, kernel support, open source drivers, arch, ports, form factor, etc.etc.), so a desirable SBC seems like a pipe dream due to the fuzziness of the requirements.

(For reference, the CPU performance ratio is calculated on single-core performance of a generic RPi 3b core vs. a fast Exynos5422 core, on OpenVPN maximal bandwidth).
There's a lot of Android specific kernel interfaces that'd have to be added to the desktop. Stuff like the binder IPC. It's doable, but work.
Most of this is pretty irrelevant to the comment you're replying to. The argument is that EU companies don't pay tech talent what they're worth. School shootings and bike lanes don't have anything to do with that.

And I'm completely sympathetic to the argument that you're making about compensation vs. cost-of-living, but I think you're mistaken. The cost of living isn't 10x that of Europe. Taking into account taxes and government benefits that we have to pay for ourselves, it's probably more like 50-100% more expensive to live in, say, the Bay Area or NYC vs. any major metro area in Europe other than Eastern Europe, which will catch up eventually. I could be wrong though! I live in NYC, in a very nice 2 bedroom apartment in a doorman building right next to a large park. My daughter attends an expensive private school. We have excellent healthcare, travel a LOT, eat out frequently, etc. Total basic budget (not including taxes, savings, or other splurges) is ~$10k - 12k / month. Is your budget for similar lifestyle around $1k / month?

In general, those of us in the US who are lucky enough to work in tech and live in HCOL areas and work for high salaries aren't irrational; the tradeoff is usually worth it, especially if you enjoy urban areas.
Yes. I have chickens (hence the anecdote above), and if you're getting eggs from friends, you should definitely wash them. I've personally just made it a habit to to wash all eggs in warm water, regardless of whether they're store-bought or fresh.
7nm sheeeet
You might want to take a look at Indie Hackers[1]. It’s exactly about your question.

[1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/
The map reading should be useful for a drone pilot. The "map reading" in a PPL course is mainly focused on identifying airspace, which is critical for a drone pilot. There are apps that help, but you should be able to reference a sectional or TAC and know whether you're legal to fly or not. I would call it a fundamental drone pilot skill. The fact that is disregarded by so many drone pilots is one of the reasons why the license is needed.
That's an interestingly spun perspective. So you're asking for Apple to produce an open source ecosystem around their hardware and OS, while simultaneously refusing to use the products of the company that did?

No devices are "forced" to use "Android type hardware / Android OS". They use it because it's free. That's... important. Right?
I wrote the blog post to show how Dilbert's boss would solve GDPR for his company.

Don't take it seriously.
The notion that something is only free will if it uncaused is not at all the compatibalist position. The general compatibilist position is that an action is done with free will of a person if the causal chain it is part of runs through that person's intent for the action to occur, or conventionally that person's 'will'.

If you choose to define an action as representing free will only if it is uncaused then first, you've made up a definition entirely at odds with the normal English usages and, second, your definition is useless because it only cuts actions into those actions that exist and those that don't and we already have a perfectly good word for that so the new one is redundant.
It's sad how these institutional procedures deny basic legal rights by not allowing you to confront your accusers, examine evidence, or hire competent legal council. Without these important protections, its no wonder they're abused.
As of 2017, Whole Foods' marketshare in grocery and retail was 1.2%.

Walmart 14.5%, Kroger 7.2%. Data from GlobalData Retail, via CNBC [1][2].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/16/amazon-whole-foods-control-o... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/dont-worry-wal-mart-amazon-b...
Amazon Alexa Recorded a Conversation and Sent It to a Contact Without Permission
I'm sorry but I simply don't agree about the politeness comment. As linked from a Quora post that goes into, this was one of Pearl's original statements about the disagreement (link to the original at the UCLA site appears to have been taken down) [0]:

> "I therefore invite my colleagues... to familiarize themselves with the miracles of do-calculus. Take any causal problem for which you know the answer in advance, submit it for analysis through the do-calculus and marvel with us at the power of the calculus to deliver the correct result in just 3–4 lines of derivation. Alternatively, if we cannot agree on the correct answer, let us simulate it on a computer, using a well specified data-generating model, then marvel at the way do-calculus, given only the graph, is able to predict the effects of (simulated) interventions. I am confident that after such experience all hesitations will turn into endorsements. BTW, I have offered this exercise repeatedly to colleagues from the potential outcome camp, and the response was uniform: “we do not work on toy problems, we work on real-life problems.” Perhaps this note would entice them to join us, mortals, and try a small problem once, just for sport."

This is absolutely the cheeky spirit of one-upsmanship I am talking about. The offers are always framed in terms of "look how causal inference supersedes everything," which is not a charitable take on approaches from others, especially in historical applied ML, that might have already developed some of the same underlying ideas.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-a-dispute-between-Judea-P...
No; it applies to EU residents, and they don't have to be citizens. From Article 3 (2):

"This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union"
I thought people on HN might be interested to see that the word BITCOIN is now a registered trademark in the UK for clothing, food, drink, and alcoholic drinks.

It's a recently granted trademark, and it's being actively enforced.

https://imgur.com/a/JTBZKui

https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/8m286u/advic...
> Much better.

Is it? It's a lot of bloviating about love and kindness and positivity that dances around the point a lot. It implies, instead of being explicit. It focuses on feelings instead of making a point clearly and concisely.

It's poor communication. For the same reasons, it's great PR material.

> But I wonder what changed since last week because those compliance concerns were just as valid last week.

I imagine that for a lot of really small shops, what's changed is that GDPR is now law when it wasn't for the past couple of years.

> Or do you mean to imply the company knowingly broke the law for a couple of years just because they could?

Maybe! Depends on the company, I should think. In some cases, I'm completely certain that you're absolutely right and they've been knowingly breaking the law for years because they can and there were no consequences.

For others, it's possible that the situation may be more subtle. The costs in time and money and opportunity costs to determine how compliant they are or need to be might be daunting or dwarf any reasonable forecast of revenue from EU users.

It's possible that not all scenarios might not be quite as simple as having nothing to fear so long as you are doing nothing wrong.
It could be a very frustrating toy. It was like the future when it worked though.
Some example progressive web apps: https://pwa.rocks/

The enabling technologies, like service workers and web assembly are in the early stages of being supported across evergreen browsers. These are progressive, because they work in all modern browsers, but have extra capabilities like being "installable" on forward looking systems like, Android and Chrome OS.

It is a big deal when industry is willing to work together.
Along the lines of show, don't tell, the best one I've found is http://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/

It helped me grok monads after I had a hazy understanding of them for a while.
*TX2

Also it has a student discount to only $300 which imo makes it much more compelling if you're eligible.
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In the case of Medium, it says essentially that right on the tin. Because, you know, the medium is not the message.
Not for me if I accept the first privacy screen
It’s also not a low cost of living state either (not SV but not the midwest). That’s a $400K townhome with shared walls on both sides and a $225 HOA.

Here is a milion dollar detached home in that area: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/934-E-Crosswind-Way-Drape...
Wow! $1800 for the arm subassembly. (IMO, an essential component. If you're going to have a 'bot it must be able to fetch a beer.)

That strikes me as a tough price point to meet. Perhaps I'm jaded after having seen numerous 3-4-5 axis arms on thingiverse & hackaday being 3d-printed and built with servos & stepper motors for a couple hundred bucks or less.
I suggest you actually read the GDPR (for legislation it's actually quite readable) before spouting off nonsense like this.

>How many months of work did the EU just add to getting out an MVP?

None.

>How are EU startups even going to do AB testing to improve their product without collecting user data?

The same way they always have.
Also, for others that missed it, here's the HN discussion on the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17137073 (I find the discussion a bit better)
I think GDPR is a pain in ass but ultimately is not my decision no matter how much I judge you all.

Why judge at all? Europe has an extremely troubled history when it comes to abuse of private data - WW2, Franco, the Stasi, infiltration of moderate left-wing groups when the RAF was active, communism in East Europe. So, can you blame us for being protective of our privacy?

But it does frustrate me that you all believe that GDPR will somehow be good for you.

Why not? Many countries already had strong privacy protections, but non-EU companies could retract itself in various ways. So, it hasn't been a level playing field for a long time, since EU companies had to provide these protections. So, it is good for EU companies. It is exceptionally good for European citizens - they have a choice in how their data is used. US companies will eventually come around, Europe is a large and wealthy market. And complying with regulations is a walk in the park compared to e.g. China, Russia, or India.

The only way I can see it work out is if GDPR is selectively enforced against American business which it seems obvious to me that will be the case.

Please let this myth die for once and for all. The largest fines handed out by the EC affect European companies:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/the-largest-fines-dished-out...
> A nation doesn't have collective rights to do anything; the individual citizens have rights.

That’s facially untrue. For example, the right to self determination. It makes no sense to say that an individual has the right to, e.g. have a democratic government. Groups of people have the collective right to form democratic societies.
No one's going to delete data without authentication. You could be anyone sending these.
ifc TAB ENTER is just so much faster then ip addr.
> Instead of censoring, why not simply have a sort of visual indicator that a post has garnered several disagreements?

Wait, what? That's exactly what HN is doing now!

(Except for some very rare examples marked [flagged] or [deleted] and unreachable, but I see them maybe less than once a week.)