skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's too much to ask is not the issue, nor whether doing what you list is full compliance (doubtful).

No one is asking.

Rather, the right question is whether the entity demanding (the EU government) has the right to do so on the basis that their jurisdiction extends to anywhere that a citizen of theirs can reach via the Internet. I argue no.

You probably disagree, which is fine, but this ultimately comes down to enforcement. And for now at least, I win on that front.
Why is this better than autopep8?
Are you familiar with the term 'unfunded mandate'?
>If you rewind the universe to the same decision again and again, I will make different choices in different iterations, i.e. the choices are independent of and therefore not predictable from the state of the universe, but they are also not just random because that would not be free will either.

That is still randomness, it's a random distribution conditioned on the world state.
> Isn't Moviepass hæmmoraging $20 million a day while its share price tanks?

Correct me if I am wrong. But that just proves my point rather than yours, correct?

They are losing so much from ppl using not because ppl are quitting it due to privacy concerns.
Anyone read The Hacker's Diet?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

I find it interesting that he mentioned as kind of a side note that he only eats one meal a day. A man ahead of his time :-)
Apparently, WashPo prefers a more coercive method: https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/

Either pay or sell yourself.

A gamble they might lose if people just stop sharing and click Washpo articles, but a possible route if others follow suit.

Meanwhile, NPR goes more hardcore than even USA Today: https://text.npr.org

I wonder, does that mean EU users are just a nuisance costing traffic, or that all graphics are tracking visitors?
The city government has failed. San Francisco will not improve its homelessness situation until it gets get by an economic crisis.

I think the city is done for. It will hit a growth ceiling on population and taxes, but homelessness will keep rising and property prices will be unaccessible.

As lower income people leave the city, it will devour everything.
Strawman argument. The feces are not a safety threat for pedestrians.
There's also the security angle. You can't rob a cashless place of business. This is the official reason given by many businesses here in Sweden as to why they're going cashless, and many who don't go cashless use lockbox systems where the cashier can't access the cash at all. The machine dispenses correct change as part of a transaction, but otherwise it's locked tight.

I'd be interested to see any data collected regarding this; whether or not armed robbery against things like restaurants and grocery stores has decreased after the move to cashless.
Do you know how much sf spends on homelessness each year?
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Or even better, just use the Firewall to block by country. That's what we do to stop bots from countries we don't sell in.
Yes. Intent matters. The website is showing that they do not want EU visitors as they don't want to deal with the high cost of GDPR. If an EU visitor manages to bypass this restriction in some way like a VPN then they lose their EU protection as they are hiding their identity as a EU citizen.
I think your analogy holds true for the documents you write on MS word that you bought. Posting on facebook is equivalent to recoding on a song in Gibson's studio, in which case it doesn't completely belong to you.
Z-Shave Attack Could Impact Over 100M IoT Devices
Keep in mind, just blocking traffic out of the EU does not serve as GDPR compliance. EU citizens are covered by GDPR, not EU traffic. A EU citizen traveling to the US is still afforded all the protections of GDPR as they do back at home.
Does "In the context of Marxism" mean "NWO single world government" to you?

Maybe you mean "In the context of Maoism" or want to point out more specifically the tenant of Marxism you're referring to? I can't really tell if you're trolling or not.
Not an ad-free version but you have to provide one without personalized ads being used. Non-personalized ads make far less money than personalized.
> It would seem that Silicon Valley perceives the GDPR as more of a hindrance than an opportunity to offer users better privacy.

Why would you think that SV would be interested in offering anything for its own sake? The vast majority of the model is to create new rent-seeking profit opportunities for investors, with internet users as a mere means to that end.
My understanding is that the measures taken against GDPR infringements will very much depend on the good will of the relevant national authority.

And as a member of a EU country that for the last year has been constantly bending (when not breaking) the rules to repress and attack legitimate political reivindications, the relativism in the application of GDPR is something that I find very worrying.
Uber is awaiting the official sale of medallions to not purchse it and put scooters at cheaper prices.
"I always wonder why it never took off."

It did take off and had a long and productive life.

Many, many of the early ISPs and webhosting providers were built on Solaris 2.6 and "7". In the late nineties it was very common to go into a datacenter and see racks full of ultra 2 boxes stacked on one another ...

If you went to college between 1992 and 1999 you were almost assured to log into a SunOS or Solaris system to read your email or ftp or whatever.

It was only when the dot-com money dried up that people (including myself) made the switch to PC based servers in an effort to save money.
I think one of the hiring strategies is not having those very talented people outside doing damage to them, rather inside even if inefficient/underutilized. They just need to be better than their competition and frankly, looking this week at what Amazon is offering they can continue being in that mode for quite some time.

General public more likely notices improvements in apps with immediate feedback like what Snapchat/Messenger is doing.

There are already models surpassing human cognition in many tasks, maybe the inferencing costs aren't economical yet?
This may blow some minds, but we keep data from paying users too. It’s the nature of the business.
Tesla in Autopilot mode sped up before crashing
Honestly a very good idea guys.. How long have you beeing on this project?
> it trains people into a way of thinking that blinds them to options.

It's also a dilemma of sorts. If you stop running ads, then there is one less outlet for them, which means rates for all the other outlets are likely to grow. If enough people do it, the few players left will make very good business. Would you rather move out, risking your livelihood on experimental business models, or stay in with the devil you know, ensuring nobody is going to do better than you?
Yeah, the Sunbelt migration could be sustainable if people were moving there to live in the heat and xeriscape their yards, but apparently people want to move to Phoenix and live at 72 degrees with lush green everywhere.

Aside from the limited water, there's the total dependence on air conditioning running headlong into the urban heat island and a warming climate.
> Is the EU going to target American banks of American businesses and try to extract fines?

You mean like America? That time when the USA decided to enforce their embargo against Cuba by intercepting a payment from one of the Nordics for a bunch of Cuban cigars? No, that's unlikely.

> Is the EU going to extradite owners of these businesses?

Extremely unlikely, besides that would require the cooperation of the other country. But - and this is interesting - the other countries typically expect the EU to cooperate with extraditions when the law is broken and we do. So who knows.

> Are EU courts going to issue default judgements on businesses and individuals?

Against individuals: Unlikely, but it could happen, against businesses, that's typically how things go when one party doesn't show up.

But note that for that to happen you first have to ignore the regulators for long enough to get them really pissed off, an action I would recommend against.
I got pretty confused by their popup, because there are three options:

- "Update Privacy Settings"

- "Sounds Good, Thanks"

- "Not Now"

Apparently "Sounds Good, Thanks" is their wording for expressing consent, which is already odd, but what does "Not Now" mean? Does it mean no consent, so no tracking for now? In any case, pretty poor wording as well.
> 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.

They are dealing with it... by limiting their liability.
It is if you would prefer to keep using Java. I don't write in either language so I have no dog in this fight, but if you're approaching things strategically...
> The feces are not a safety threat for pedestrians.

John Snow would disagree.
I tend to agree with what you've said here, but there's a lot of unnecessary snark in your comment.
Here is the thing: my email and personal info is mine. And if you are using my info to provide me your service that is also ok - I will rent that to you. And give you my CC#.

But if I do not use your service, then I want that you delete all my personal data. Why is that so hard?
If the payment system allows for microtransactions (and, ideally, allows for ads or alternative payment methods for people who don't have the cash to be micro'd), we get a worldwide web somewhat shaped like the one we have today. That seems similar to what Google is pursuing with Contributor (https://contributor.google.com/v/marketing).

If we just do big-dollar monthly or daily subscription paywalls, we end up with a Balkanized web where I can't read the article you're reading unless I pay for it. That'll significantly change the way interactions happen on the worldwide web.
If it worked the same as GDPR, I could start forcing them all to just by emailing them my health records.
20k per homeless person. Which shows their level of corruption and or incompetence.
Genuinely curious; how is that even remotely possible to enforce?
Project Ears Beta Program
> Nothing has been learned.

Yet. Give it some time.
I used tc for something interesting once: I setup Cassandra nodes in distinct docker containers running on a single laptop. I installed tc in each container to throttle packets flowing between containers and in so doing, simulated a lossy, high latency WAN network. The goal was to evaluate how Cassandra fared as network latencies increased.

tc fit the bill nicely.
I'm really impressed by how long apps remain in RAM on my 8 Plus. I'll play a game before bed and find it still where I left off during my commute the next morning, and that's with some browsing/podcasts in between.
And the docs: http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Graphics
Some low-cost Android phones shipped with malware built in
I understand why you think this way. After all, GDPR is about human rights!

In practice, GDPR is binding on businesses that operate within the EU. An EU citizen in the US doing business with a US-only company is not afforded any protections under GDPR.
How I got in the top 1 % on Kaggle
> Does anyone believe that even Kernighan could write a short book covering C++17?

I suspect that Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" is the shortest C++ book possible. The 2013 edition (not covering C++17, obviously) has the index beginning on page 171 - astonishingly short for the complexity of C++11.

Interestingly, the quote that heads the first chapter [Edit: preface, not first chapter] is "If you wish to instruct, be brief", quoting Cicero.
Last Call for Librem 5 Dev Kit
If you go for cash as part of protecting privacy etc. it seems contrary to suggest that you have to pick a specific bank in order to ensure convenience of paying with cash.

Surely retaining your privacy includes being able to choose freely who you do business with?
I don't know. The issue he is addressing in your quote is that people often leverage criticisms of his approach that are just verbal statements. Pearl wants people to use data-generating models to make their concerns explicit.

The link you used explains the situation pretty well. If anything Pearl's regular acknowledgement of graphical models seems to be an indication that he is mindful of at least one very common approach in current ML.
My main concern walking down market street is the drug traffickers having fights for the payday loans corner, human shit, needles and sick and mentally deranged people walking about.

I wish scooters made the top 5 public safety issues.
They are avoiding it. Essentially they are voting themselves off the island to avoid having to play nice with the other inhabitants.
I actually think 'hard data' is typically about as relevant to philosophy as it is to maths. Not everything is reducible to stats.

I just find it weird to be using a machine that's a recognizable descendant of the work of philosophers, as much as engineers or mathematicians, then to be saying casually that philosophy isn't rigorous.
Thanks for writing this. It echos a lot my own experiences.
I think you’re reading that wrong. Trains are nearly the lowest energy/kg per unit distance travelled, as they’re in the bottom of the graph. Though it’s a bit weird for the x axis to be mass, too.

Basically the y axis is a measure of efficiency. The x axis just spreads out the points so you can compare things of similar mass.
WHOA

That's crazy helpful. I'm aliasing it as well.

(FYI --color works too)
Supernova-propelled white dwarf found zooming through Milky Way at 5 million mph
An admirable effort, but all the fans of this law seem to hear is "You're not 100% compliant with the GDPR? You're scummy and shady and don't care about my privacy. I hope you fail immediately because the world is better off without you."

Meanwhile they'll be using VPNs to access your site anyway :)
It's not "their" information. It's information about them. I collected it and stored in my servers that I'm paying for, and that makes it my information. Your laws may say differently, but practicality wins here.
I didn't get past the first paragraph. The site lobbed four interruptions my way:

- Agree to cookie
- Forced "Do you want our newsletter" prompt
- Request to show notifications
- Pop-up icon to subscribe to notifications

... and one non-intrusive top-of-page banner notification, " Awesome! Your IP is not in our blacklists of abuse...". This last item (when dismissed) may have triggered the 4th item above.

Edit: fix list formatting
This is exactly what startups are worried about: inane threats from EU users.
Seconded this thread, don't understand all other laudatory threads.

Tried again recently, Windows 10 with latest apache webserver fails hard on simple tests.

Some technologies must just die and disappear.
DHS Proposes to Remove the International Entrepreneur Rule
>there are valid, interesting questions to be asked and answered, but they are no more outside science than questions about how, say, protein folding works.

Questions about consciousness are much different than protein folding, because protein folding can be objectively observed and tested.

Consciousness cannot be objectively tested, because in order to test consciousness, you must use your consciousness to do so -- there's no way to control for that variable.

Fire doesn't burn itself, and water doesn't wet itself, maybe consciousness cannot understand itself -- just like our eyes cannot directly see themselves.

If hard science is based on objective observations, perhaps the limits of science are at that which we use to make those observations -- our consciousness.
Recital 23 [1] of the GDPR excludes most US-based businesses from compliance with GDPR. It essentially says that sites that don’t “envisage” (their word) offering services in the EU are in fact not offering services there for the purposes of the GDPR and are thus are not subject to it. It also explicitly states that the mere accessibility of a foreign-based website from within the EU does not by itself subject the site to GDPR.

So while blocking the EU isn’t required, the other tests they use to determine whether or not you intended to offer services to EU residents are a bit murky. In light of that, what better way is there to make your intention to not serve EU users clear to all than to block EU users? That’s the main reason to do it. This kind of blockade will not prevent all EU users from accessing your site, but it doesn’t matter. You’ll have made your intent to not serve EU users clear, which will preserve your immunity to GDPR.

[1] http://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/recital-23-GDPR.htm
YouTube is full of these, typically targeted as vocabulary learning for infants.
Sam Harris and the myth of perfectly rational thought
> Why limit the number of operators? Is this an effort to create a medallion system or similar?

No. It's because this is a pilot program. At the end of the program, if the program is successful and a decision is made to allow this on a more permanent basis, then presumably the restrictions will be lifted.

For context, the bike share pilot programs (e.g. the Ford GoBikes and the JUMP bikes) also have similar restrictions.

Same answer goes for why limiting the number of scooters.
> And your point is?

Please accept my apologies. I was under the impression that we were collectively discussing an issue of substance and import to us, rather than authoring customer-focused communications.

It's my opinion that the writing style appropriate for being maximally nice to customers is inefficient, time-consuming, inexact, and wasteful in other contexts. I'm sorry if I failed you by being insufficiently clear previously. Please accept my heartfelt apologies for this egregious oversight.

> Of course, you should back up your kind words with kind actions too.

You're right! You are without question correct that kind words should be followed with kind actions. Yet, it might be worth mentioning that kind actions can have costs measured in time, funds, resources, and opportunity costs. It's possible that in some incredibly unfortunate scenarios, this might result in actions being considered that some might see or choose to characterize as being perhaps a bit less kind than they could be.

You're still right, of course. Kind actions should follow kind words.
https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/02/the-complaint-apples-paten...

I see a fair list of patents mentioned here. Most of them are about software some of them are about sensors and other hardware. No rounded corners. If these patents have prior art or not wasn't the discussion.
It's not possible for a financial institution to exist without incurring 'extra costs' for SOX and KYC compliance. And yet they all do. That pesky regulation seems to be useful.
I think Chrome really got traction over FF because of these dev tools.

I used to think "Firebug" was the greatest thing since slice bread when along came Chrome with its dev tools and soon every web developer started switching to Chrome because making sites with it is just too easy. When it comes to the internet I've often seen that targeting the technical users can pay back in many folds.
I think that if I'm walking down the road on a hot day and get thirsty and then I decide to buy a soda then my purchase is of my free will despite being cause by the heat, cause by society teaching me about buying things, etc. And I insist that if you told a non-philospher I bought it of my own free will they would agree. So I think you're entirely wrong to say that something that is part of a causal chain cannot be called free.

Now, if you told a normal person that someone in that circumstance couldn't have done anything except buy the soda they would agree that would mean I didn't have free will but they wouldn't see why. To them the "My decisionness" and "Could have been differentness" are the same thing. But philosophically we have to choose one or the other and it's both more useful, in terms of carving reality at the joints, and in greater accordance with common usage to pick "My decisionness" as what we interpret "free will" to mean.

I'm sorry I'm not directly addressing your point about changing the past, but that's because I'm still rather confused by how it relates to free will. Certainly I'd say that nobody can change the past.
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It is genuinely fascinating to me how different people can feel about things. I get enraged when my "government" tells me what I can and can't do with my body/money/time. If I want to snort coke all day, what business of theirs is it as long as I'm not infringing on others' rights? Likewise, if I want to give my data to a super sketchy website, why shouldn't I be able to?

Obviously it's "safer" to let others make rules and force us inside the fence to keep us sheep away from the dangerous wolves out there. I do understand that perspective to some extent. However I would never trade my freedom for security. The former is not easy to regain.
The Android weather widget has an illustrated frog.
I forgot that websites can load this fast, this is incredible. Not on mobile though
I really enjoyed this quote from [1]

> I would be very wary of a company who claims this legislation is onerous. It is potentially life threatening to companies who do very shady things without your consent. That much is true. That is the entire point.

I somewhat suspect those companies hiding behind the 'oh lets just block Europe' excuse just don't want to admit the extent of what they are doing with the data.

US citizens should take note of this, because it's their data too.

[1] https://medium.com/tsengineering/the-gdpr-blog-post-9a571b13...
It’s only the last part we have a problem with. We’re not going to track down every trace of your data and delete it. We probably also won’t let you do an export.

I think we’re perfectly fine with telling you we use your data for ML training, internal analytics or showing you relevant ads. That is standard stuff you consent to in a TOS.
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I see no reading of the GDPR that would lead you to that conclusion...

The GDPR requires many things, but there's nothing in there that says you can't reject the customer if they don't opt-in to the things you want them to opt-in to.

Do you have a citation from the GDPR that leads you to believe that I am wrong on that point?
Given the incompleteness of our fossil records, this makes the old joke about the astrophysicist and the black sheep seem apropos.
It always was.

In the 90s, the N.Y. Times was $1 in my city and the local paper was $0.30. That covered paper, distribution and ink.

The ads paid for it, and I think the ads were more effective. IMO online ads are mostly fraud and bullshit.
I can run WebDAV both client and server on my iPhone, which makes it pretty convenient to transfer files to and from it.
I take it it's because the migration files are auto-generated anyway, so it's odd to auto-format previously auto-generated files. You also don't really want to have repository churn on those files since they're generated once (and then never edited again) along with the feature they're for.
Oh my god, that sounds like capitalism.
I'm confused as to how you have a computer with only a single port... what do you imagine plugging the one port into?
Also the Nestle and other commercial water rights holders from the 1800s who siphon the southbound rivers dry, flowing toward Los Angeles. Good thing they just bottle that water and sell it back.
I drink a glass of chicken broth with extra salt every morning to alleviate keto flu symptoms.
Actually I prefer standardizing on double quotes and I do that in my code on a regular basis. I know some people use a mix, sometimes single quotes and sometimes double quotes, which is fine, but I prefer consistency in this case.
> That doesn't mean that our existing ones should be undesirable because of their gender and race.

Do you think that's an argument someone is making here?