skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW the first serious startup I worked at chose not to do CE compliance (the EU governing body for electronic devices that may interfere with RF). Thus we did not sell our product to Europe.

Every single blog post had a set of people raging that we were assholes for doing this, but the reality was the cost of compliance just didn't make sense for the MVP. It was high 5 figures in cost which was just too much at the time. If we had achieved product market fit then the obvious move would have been to do that compliance to gain more customers, but we never quite got there.

I doubt GDPR gets to that level of cost, so the ROI looks a bit different. But I still think it's a reasonable decision to say "I simply won't do business in the EU because it costs more than I'll gain". A lot of companies also don't bother to go through the effort of printing the dual language labels required to sell their products in Canada, even though it's a decent sized market close to the US.

Tech, specifically the internet, has grown without regulation for a long time. But that era is over. These kind of decisions are routine in non-internet businesses where distribution, borders, and regulations exist. I suspect we're going to have to think a lot more about this in our work in the future.
I was simply implying that Yoga and Ayurveda both originate from the same 'body' of ancient indian literature called the Vedas. I am no expert though and cant comment on how closely related they are.
The IP itself isn't much use in the context of personal identifiable information with more data say from the person's internet provider. Also, having http logs with IP addresses (stored for a reasonable short amount of time) is still allowed as it is a necessity to provide any service at all.

The regulation isn't about fucking IP addresses, it's about big data collection information about, what you buy, where you go, who you are friends with and doing shady things with that data.
Well that's true if you redefine 'year', 'woe' 'profit-motives' etc -- a necessary skill to have to support current government's narratives.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/atms...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/atms-run-...
The Game, by Neil Strauss.

I know, I know, PUA's are despicable and all that. But as a super sheltered Mormon nerd who had zero flirting instinct and put girls on a pedestal/treated them like aliens, it absolutely refactored the social part of my brain for the better.

When I read the book, I was 22 and had never been on a date. Six months later I was engaged. Still married now, almost ten years later.
One thing that is missing from the maps is the interstates, 20/75/85/285. Atlanta is very much defined by its interstates and it contributes to our overly divided mature. Leaving them out clouds the analysis of the food part, though the others seem to mostly stand fine without it, but it’s still be nice to see.
I come from a Latin country and the history of the Roman Empire is a huge topic in History classes. And I definitely learned about Trajan and knew that the Roman Empire reached its territorial peak under him, plus he has a good reputation as a relatively enlightened (for the time) ruler.
You have to take into account the different workload and priorities. The average annual rate of hours worked in Germany is 1300 hours roughly. In the US it's 1800 hours, eclipsing even Japan. That's more than three full months of additional work.

Germans usually express a preference for long-term stable employment and work-life balance rather than skyrocketing salaries. The same is true for a lot of European countries.
There is no extradition in civil offences. For example extradition under Europe Arrest Warrant require criminal offence carrying maximum panelty of >=1 year [1].

GDPR only fines and sanctions. Dont hold EU assets and you would be ok.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Arrest_Warrant
Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield, because I realized how simple are my own troubles compared to those 300 spartans that faced death against a force that easily was 1000 times bigger.
Now every time I’m facing difficults I remember about those guys and nothing looks so hard in comparison.
What's going on in Venezuela with Bitcoin? From googling, it sounds like a small fraction of the population is setting up mining operations because electricity is subsidized enough to make it profitable. But I'm not finding anything describing significant adoption of Bitcoin as a currency.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

masterpiece
Dense matrix algebra has the benefit that besides the matrix dimensions, the data itself has no impact on performance: the access pattern is entirely predictable and known as soon as you know the matrix sizes (side note: which is why just-in-time libraries such as libxsmm exist). For most cases, you can rely on MKL or Eigen to produce near-optimal performance for your dense linear algebra operations.

Sparse matrices do not have that luxury. Sparse matrix ops have access patterns that entirely depend on your data. You simply cannot make a library that covers every possible distribution of non-zeroes in an optimal way. At best you have a toolbox of a large number of representations and algorithms that you choose for each different use-case. Engineering simulations and solvers can have block or cluster patterns of non-zeroes, which can be exploited by doing dense operations for the dense blocks. Large real-world graphs often have an exponential non-zero distribution and are often extremely sparse, which might need an hash-based join algorithm for an axpy-kernel. Are you running a tight CG-solver loop? Then you might want to bundle multiple spmv-kernels to operate multiple vectors on the same matrix (for similar reasons as states in the original article). You are distributing with Spark? Unless your non-zero distribution is uniform, your matrix is really hard to partition evenly. If your matrix never changes, you may consider preprocessing using a partitioner (METIS, Mondriaan).

In short, it is highly unlikely that the library you are using is anywhere near optimal for your use case. Do explore alternatives based on your domain-insights, it is not uncommon to net double digit performance improvements.
Maybe you need Linux for the host OS, that not everybody already has. It might be like KVM switches, that nobody using Linux would ever feel like they needed.
Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt.

It's old but many of the lessons he teaches are still relevant today. It opened my eyes to the danger of only thinking about the things that are easily observable, and ignoring the "unseen" things.

> The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
An avalanche can be started by a single snowflake, but that doesn't mean a single snowflake is an avalanche.
Yeah, fantastic book - I remember specifically the section about his wife teasing him because he hadn’t experienced nirvana or something.
Alas, not quite! But thanks for pointing me to that article.
The Art of Shaolin Kungfu by Wong Kiew Kit
An interesting article

But a very bad GDPR opt-in experience. You can't say "no thanks", only "set preferences". From that popup I couldn't spot how to continue without opting into to anything. Very "dark pattern" feeling, which is silly for a company that has put any effort at all into GDPR compliance. If a company puts in the hours making sure you don't opt in by default, why risk the wrath of regulators by trying to funnel opt-in? It's like they read the rules without groking the spirit of them.

Luckily I was on an iPhone so I just hit the reader view without accepting anything.
> No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA

that's ridiculous, small companies grow by targeting audiences and computing expected future cash flow

the cost of legal action is a risk that affects the bottom line (it also affects reputation, but for new laws, the issue of reputation isn't as relevant because the laws haven't been tested by the society yet, they are fresh laws)

the idea that a corporation is "insane" for estimating the future cash flows and legal expenses for providing services to an audience is comedy

no, that's how a good, well-run, intelligent organization grows

the GDPR represents a risk to the bottom line when services are provided to European customers, and that risk must be factored in; this risk directly affects the corporate financial structure, and investors may have some input in terms of when and how to extend service to the EU

pretending that spite or some petty or small emotional frame of mind is required to apply basic sound financial principles of running a business is bizarre

when running a business, you are expected to win, and winning means not going bankrupt because some psycho lawyer in the EU wants to make money by destroying your reputation, destroying your life, and destroying your business

GDPR gives fuel to psycho lawyers. If you don't want to get sued by psycho lawyers, don't provide services to people who hire psycho lawyers, don't provide service to the EU.

If you have deep pockets and you know the expected cost of fighting off psycho lawyers is less than the expected revenue of providing service to the EU, then it may be time to expand to the EU; you and your investors should both have an understanding of the risks and rewards of expanding service.

Let me repeat: this is not an emotional matter, it is a matter of doing business.
The past 50 years have not been so great for African American families either.
At this point one could ask whether "excess wealth" shouldn't be used to battle society or species wide problems, like global warming and certain deceases.
That is awesome, and exactly what great writing is about.
make -O does the same. In fact, it can serialize a whole target, at the cost of buffering that output.
A really nice video with animations of various scheduling approaches for these types of linear algebra algorithms:
https://youtu.be/3uiEyEKji0M
>What purpose does cryptocurrency serve beyond enriching people who are already invested.

Limited scope and obviously doesn't justify the money that is swirling in crypto right now.

However, if we want digital things to be non-fungible we're probably going to need something like a block chain. Cryptokitties(as beanie-baby-esque as they are) and the implementation of the ERC-271 token come to mind.

Again I realize cryptokittes are not really a great example other than proof of concept, but imagine with me for a second a fine art market where all the art is digital, this requires a decentralized non-fungible token, maybe digital house or car keys would be another thing where we want to limit the number of people with access to the thing, again if we don't want to trust someone like say equifax, with control over that we're going to want a decentralized non-fungible token.

I realize these aren't necessarily the best examples of non-fungible assets we might want one day. However it seems absurd to me that moving forward society won't at some point demand some digital asset that is non-fungible. If that assumption holds true then some form of cypto-currency is going to be necessary to provide such an asset.
> The asymptotically fast algorithms (such as Strassen's[2]) outperform the naive algorithm (i.e. by definition, such is in the article) when matrices get large.

This is true only if approaching the matrix multiplication problem purely from a theoretical perspective. But the reality is that computers have a specific architecture designed to be as fast as possible, while still respecting the laws of physics.

The libraries such as BLAS deal with those architectures, and it happens that there, an O(n³) triple loop with the optimizations described in the Goto paper is what gives you the fastest performance.

Maybe if we were dealing with 1b*1b matrices, Strassen's like algorithms would start to shine, but with those sizes you already exceed the maximum space on a computer, in which case you then start looking at parallel algorithms on clusters/supercomputers where the algorithms become very different (see things such as SUMMA: Scalable Universal Matrix Multiplication Algorithm). In those cases, the computation happening on each processor would still be the fast O(n³) BLAS code.
This book is complete trash. You should find a better book.
Cryptocurrencies are the pet rock or beanie babies of today.

It's just on a larger scale of stupidity.
That's not how most regulations work. If you are a chemical company selling something that is legal in the US but illegal in the EU, the EU doesn't use your bank to enforce their regulations on your business in the US.

Using the banks to cut off commerce across borders is an enforcement action for what countries agree are crimes - terrorism, money laundering, fraud, etc. It takes a lot of political willpower and negotiation to use that tool. I sincerely doubt it would be used against American websites that choose to not serve the EU.
Middlemarch.
An absolutely excellent book. Read this when first starting to think about economics and followed it up with Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
> 'Educated' people once believed the earth was flat.

This is a myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth
>college debt is going to crush the next generation

I'm not really convinced. There's income-based repayment and other options for federal loans if you can't afford payments. You can even pay nothing for a while, and after that, income-based payments will be affordable even with a minimum wage job. All this assuming you couldn't find anything better with your degree.
> ... being robbed by the dignity and opportunities of a paid job ...

Why don't you work for below minimum wage and relate to us what dignity and opportunities it provides.

I worked as a developer and I didn't get any additional dignity from the fact that the job was paid. I got the exactly same dignity when I got same money (and more) for doing nothing.

As for opportunities I don't think there are many in below minimum wage jobs, people tend to describe them as "dead end jobs".
One also has to factor in second dimension which is behavior towards in-group and out-groups.

I understand that as we become more multi-cultural, there is a decrease in the percieved kinship between city dwellers and thus less alturistic behavior.

Basically, in diverse cities people are more likely to be assholes to each other.

> Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States, Africa and South-East Asia find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. Moscow beggars receive more gifts from fellow ethnics than from other ethnies [sic]. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found that ethnically or racially diverse cities spend a smaller portion of their budgets and less per capita on public services than do the more homogeneous cities.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism
"Crime and Punishment",
"Science of Evil",
"Developers Hegemony".

Well, it's 3 - but it is a hard question.
For U.S. companies that have a physical presence in the EU, the GDPR can be enforced directly.

For the other cases, EU uses intentional law. EU-U.S. Privacy Shield data sharing agreement for example.

In the case that the law can't be enforced directly against the violating company, EU can enforce it trough companies that provide the infrastructure for handling user data and have dealing with EU.

This includes trackers, online ad-selling companies, clouds providers, CDN provides, ISP's that have physical presence in EU and who handle user data when people visit the site. Like Google, FB, Amazon, cloufare, Akamai, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, ......

Also, if the company takes any money from the user from EU, they can get into trouble when banks with business in EU stop transferring payments.

Only if the company is handling all user data using companies with no EU presence and are not violating any US-EU privacy agreements, they should be safe.
You're right it couldn't be true on all the cases
In my use case map and array are generally enough.
You would need to take screenshots and links to the malware, you may also have to send the links to VirusTotal - https://www.virustotal.com/#/home/upload
URL submission.

If it is targeted then you will have a bigger problem getting this resolved and law enforcement agencies would have to take over the investigation as it would be out of the scope of most to properly review this.
Read Patanjali Yoga Sutra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali
Ha, the Ferengi are never really an enemy. They just want that latinum.
Getting Real by 37Signals - https://basecamp.com/books/getting-real

Got me started building my first business.
> people that strugle with fizz buzz being able to magically understand complex abstractions

Are these the same ones who are "too smart for their own good"?
This assumes it was the bomb-planting that led to concessions for the suffragists. Violence usually prompts a violent counter-response, or at least for the "adversary" to become more entrenched. Consensus is the answer, which is why the politics of accusation and anger creates a negative cycle perpetuating violence.
This is a ridiculous interpretation of the law. Brought to you by some «experts» in Colorado.

If you had followed EU policy discussions over the last 10 years, you would realize this is about creating a single, unified online market.

Meaning a citizen living in Poland should have access to the same online services as a German, unless there are valid reasons for denying him.
If there's a square grid in that process for Planetside 2, it'd have to be for coarse culling, not anything final. The game is pretty precise about ranging this stuff, if not always responsive (pop-in can be pretty bad in dense fights).

The US East server had ~900 people on it an hour ago, and this isn't a peak time. With that many people, there are two continents open, but usually most of the players are on one continent or the other. Continents are big, and support many separate battles at once (spatially separated, no hard lines). A very big battle may have 200+ players, and with certain exceptions players in it won't need to know anything about players outside that particular battle.

If there are actually 200+ other players near you (within the nominal 300 meter range where updates should be sent), the server won't be sending you data on all at once, just whatever it thinks is the most relevant subset (hence the pop-in). It also breaks the 300-meter default to send data on and for snipers (and probably some other stuff) a bit further out.
As someone writing occasional Swift code, this is very encouraging and educational. It makes me wish for a Swift-related e-zine with quality articles like these.
If you've raised a kid, a lot of these things are really obvious with just a few gaps of understanding here and there where a good book on learning comes in handy. Watching a tiny human go from knowing virtually nothing more than how to breathe, three years later, singing, ABCs, various animal recognition and a plethora of other stuff is educational to understanding "learning". If you haven't raised a kid, then it's no harm, no foul. I didn't realize how important family influence was on a child's learning until I did it myself.

I think you're working too hard with the semantics here. Parents, as in, who ever the hell takes care of the kid the most. That's either your bio-parents, typically. Maybe grandparents if your bios are crackheads. Maybe a foster care system because everyone in your family is jacked up in general. But parent: those that are responsible for your general well being. Yes "society" plays a roll. But random people don't walk up to a toddler to teach them their ABCs or 123s. Someone has to work with a kid from beginning to end for that developmental knowledge foundation or that kid has a really good chance of having a ton of problems down the line. And yes, schools still do the ABCs and numbers. But that's more to fill gaps, which do happen. Not to straight up teach a kid that can't do shit at all. There are different programs for when a 5 year old can't even say their own name. Research shows things like consistent night time reading and playing with infants and toddlers give them a solid base that proves them well throughout their lives. There was one paper (out of many) that was on hackernews a week or two ago about it as well.

And technically elephants do communicate, both vocally and through body language. As do most mammals. Just no where near the sophistication we can. That has to do with the sophistication of the brain. Those crazy folks that have wolf sanctuaries and are "apart of the pack", would argue with you about animal language too. But to be fair, you have to be a level of crazy of jump into a cage full of wolves. Hell, bees do interpretive dance to communicate. They sure kick my ass in that field. Then take Koko. From the age of 1, they taught a guerrilla to use a modified form of American sign language and was pretty proficient at communicating. I highly doubt starting at a later age would have been as effective. Developmental years of learning are vital for that foundation.
Actually it isn’t, in fact the US is kind of unique in that sense.
I'm not the guy who posted, but probably because the book has a conservative lean.

Regardless, I think the book is great as well.
I absolutely adore that book
>"The government" probably doesn't say it;

The comment I was replying to specifically says they do...
Everything you say about bitcoin is equally true of a bank account in pounds in London. There’s zero reason in principle that it is any harder or easier for an oppressive government to prevent capital outflows to bitcoin than to British bank accounts. At very best there’s a temporary advantage in bitcoin’s favor as oppressive governments take time to understand and lock down the newer avenues for evading their controls.
oh I didn't mean from the technical aspect. I meant socially, how it works. What kind of things your friends post there, how often you go check what's up with them, with type of discussions you have there etc'.
Yeah, it's not like he became big in a political regime which tried to kill him. We should wait for the "reveal" because people are speculating and Bollywood portrayal of sanyasis is as good as having proof.
Polish displaced people. Russians citizens who seen villages burned in cold winter as German army was doing their "cleaning up for settlements you are not even people" thing. By historical accounts, German army behavior in West was very bad and much worst on Easter front.

If you are going to single out Red Army, lets also not forget the other armies in that war.

(And yes, people affected by communist persecutions have their trauma too.)
Dandelion Wine
The Story of B by Daniel Quinn helped break me of the last vestiges of magical thinking. Immediatism by Hakim Bey helped me see the beauty of disobedience.
> Companies record video and audio outside their premises all the time.

It's this kind of tone-deafness I was trying to describe in how Google talks about their plans. Yes, I'm aware that companies do that kind of surveillance on their own property. But what Google is trying to here is test out how to build entire cities. Surely you see the important difference and user expectation when it comes to a very clearly designed and secured corporate building or campus vs. an entire section of a residential and commercial city.
They use radar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
Have you actually been to a meeting and attempted to ask questions? Or are you just repeating the same hearsay as the guy in the article is?