skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At which point the data subject can report them to the regulator. Hopefully everyone receiving such a response will do so. Companies have had 2 years warning.

For most small business and startups this is no big deal as 1 or 2 reports to the regulator isn't going to trigger anything. For those companies of a certain size, the regulator might take note of 1,000 reports in the first week. I imagine some of those will have the regulator check if they have had a self-report from the company for non-compliance. Maybe then an email to colleagues at other ICOs across Europe.
Yeah, I got the same message. Russia gets no love on the Internet. So many web sites just block all Russian IP addresses.
If you continue to hold data from EU residents, it’s somewhat likely that the GDPR applies, or that a court will decide it does some way down the line. If you employed a competent lawyer for about an hour they’d ask you why you’re storing that data if you’re never going to use it again, given the risks.
Recently went to Japan.

For a 'order' freak like me, it was heaven on earth.

Not only in train stations, each and every aspect of their lives revolves around understanding human behavior and coming up with solutions to make activities as less confusing as possible.

Their commitment to discipline is astounding.

If everyone on earth were like the Japanese, our pace of technological, social and other forms of development would be 10x of what they are now.
We covered weaknesses of OpenVPN and strengths of Wireguard in this sub-thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17092338
It mentiones why this is useful:

> it will give scientists a much more accurate method of dating prehistorical events — the dates of fossils, for example.

> “The dream is have a framework independent of the fossils that you can plug the fossils into and see more interesting things — the coexistence of disparate forms, or of similar forms widely separated in location. Now we can place things more accurately in time rather than depending on the fossils to tell us what the time is.”

It's also fascinating to see how it was done:

>By comparing the amount of decay of uranium to that of lead trapped in zircon, the layers in the Arizona core can be dated quite accurately.
Many U.S. companies are updating their privacy policies this week.  why:
Thank you. I do think setting objective metrics would help. It wouldn't be hard to have a set of questions that we ask every candidate during the whiteboard problems to check for understanding. It might not completely eliminate the subjectivity, but it will at least ensure that we are asking the same slate of questions to all and looking for specific areas of knowledge.

I'm also thinking about a more traditional "code a solution to this" challenge where results can be easily checked against a test might be a good idea. It's useful to see how a candidate thinks, but if it opens up the possibility of bias then it may not be worth it.
I'm hopeful that these sorts of languages can enjoy a renaissance in the form of suggestive interfaces similar to the ones that Android/iPhone users get when typing. It'd be much easier to program in Applescript if I had an editor that was letting me choose from a list of valid words rather than me having to remember the perfect incantation to do what I want.
If it was just some rando on the Internet being accused of clipping someone's youtube for a yoga video or whatever, sure. But this is HN and the perp is Google, so they must burn.
Chiang Kai-Shek is not exactly known for his respect of human rights; he became a dictator notable for his brutal suppression of dissent and political opposition.
For the most part in developing countries. But remember that in Japan, most train stations are minutes apart. So getting off at 1:11 is absolutely stunning.

Also, they have a national radio broadcast that broadcasts time. I think most of their clocks are built to read info from the radio channel and sync to it. So you are usually advised to see the myriad of clocks displayed everywhere.
It’s absolutely not true that the goal is compliance rather than fines: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/world/europe/margrethe...
Unlock Mate 10 phones with your face starting tomorrow
I use Wordpress and my English degree to write blog posts for dentists (seriously this is my job). Am I a Content Engineer?
>nternal vs. external use will in most cases materially impact at least one of the fair use criteria (effect on market for the protected work),

Go tell that to farmer Filburn.
That's exactly what he said.

but a well-capitalized company can certainly afford them

But these days when you don't have to buy servers and make a long term capital commitment and you can use something like AWS, if you have a scalable but not efficient architecture and you have the faith of the investors, you can get enough servers to get you over the hump temporarily, slowly start replacing the most performance sensitive part of your architecture and then scale down.

Look at what HN darling Dropbox did, they bootstrapped on AWS, got big and then when the time was right, they moved to a cheaper architecture - off of AWS and built their own infrastructure.
It's not a very good example though - it's not showing me any sort of improvement over actual programming languages - just an intentionally bad bit of code.
Andy Rubin was tasked with heading up Boston Dynamics at Google, who desperately needed leadership and guidance. but he ditched them to go do Essential.

Soon after he left, Alphabet sold BD to Softbank.
It'll arguably end even worse if they keep going up though.
"Looking out the window" and "steering the car" is pretty much exactly what current year cruise control systems do. Just go look at the Subaru Eyesight systems, which depend on cameras that face out the upper part of the windshield.
https://www.subaru.com/engineering/eyesight.html

(Subaru's doesn't do active lanekeeping, but lots of other manufacturers like BMW and Ford do.)

The newer cruise controls have lane-keep assist and adaptive cruise control - you don't have to actively steer or brake. On an open road, there's effectively little difference from the Uber vehicle, which would also let you disengage autonomous mode by breaking or otherwise interacting with the controls. (The newest mass-market cruise controls are "stop and go", which means they'll even bring the car to a full stop, then start driving again.)
Are you sure? Metal fumes and vaporized epoxies are usually pretty toxic.
Here is nice presentation covering those:
(link: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/talks/AC11-Cardinality.pdf)
So, how does the vast majority of the country live without guns?

Is everyone without guns dead?

How do they manage to survive, but gun owners can't without their guns?
i guess people who already have the game are keeping the community alive, but there no longer seems any way to get it now :(
Camel meat is also delicious.
I will recommend Lockstep, a hard sci-fi novel that posits: what if we never achieve faster than light travel, but, do achieve perfect hibernation, what does society end up looking like.

It's a very fascinating book that constantly had me wishing that it delved deeper into aspects of its radically different societies.

http://amzn.com/B00H6E6ATI
Intel CPU Bug Affecting Rr Watchpoints
It's all CSS animations timed with transition-delay (but triggered with js adding a "is-active" class).
Going to be CC0 once I can figure out how the dynamic images work for copyright issues.
What drives the interest rates in the us?

In europe my loan is tied to the euribor 3month rate, which has been negative for ages and hasn't shown any signs of rising.

I remember having an argument on some webforum with some non european guy that could not believe my current interest rate is close to zero (mostly just fees collected by the bank).
As of about 10 years ago our data centers always had 1 out of 4 generators configured with a big M/G flywheel on the output shaft. The flywheel momentum guaranteed generator start, I don't know the latency but it was on the order of a handful of cycles.
This is great! I like the aesthetic, I'd happily use a web-app that was made with these components.
Do you consider yourself to be someone that is open minded? If you do you should reevaluate.
The customers of contemporary social networks are the advertisers themselves. The "users" are more analogous to those on the business ends of weapons.
Appreciate it! Lots of care and time went into seemingly "useless" details but I think the sum is a bit nicer than the parts.
I had the same thought when I read this. I wasn't into Rails back then (or development) so I don't have a sense of context for what the framework was like at that point in time, but the more articles I read about Twitter in the early days, the more of a sense I get that maybe they didn't write the best code.
I really really hope this was a joke, because it was incredibly funny if so and terrifying if not.
Film studios also. I recall reading a whole lot of stories about indie bands who have had their music used in films without authorisation or licensing, and have a hard time getting recourse. Pretty bad look given how rabidly the film studios go against even individuals downloading their movies.

Basically, I think when it comes down to intellectual property, many people are hypocrites (especially the ones who feel they’re big enough to not get seriously punished)
Yes they made Storm for this
they don’t bring any functionality but it is clearer separation. i think it’s easier when you read these components in different scope blocks. they do very logically different things and importing static into instance makes more sense than keeping it all in one. maybe it was just me but i didn’t undserstand static vs dynamic after 4 years of school and into my first job. it took a while to grasp. but now that i know the differences i’d rather keep them isolated
I really wanted Windows Phone to do better, so I may be somewhat biased, but WP 8.1 was reasonable, and they were making progress with market share at the low end.

In my opinion Windows Mobile 10 fizzled out because of a few reasons; the most important reason was organizational changes meant nobody cared about Windows 10 on the phone, and the releases were pretty bad for the first year. The other important one was that for quite some time, the 950 was the only phone it was reasonable to buy that had it, and it was too expensive. The 650 was basically the same hardware as the 640, but shipped with WM 10, and was more expensive.

Also, they had promised all WP8 devices would be upgradable to Windows 10, but then they pulled it back for low memory devices (which makes sense, because it was sloowwwwww, but still)
Good Designer, Bad Designer
The author is Wilbur Ross, current secretary of commerce, and it feels like he was compelled to write this piece after this interaction:

>I can still remember when President John F. Kennedy declared that America would put a man on the moon and when Neil Armstrong took that first step on the lunar landscape. Glued to televisions, Americans were filled with excitement and national pride during the Apollo missions.

> Last month I felt that same passion as I visited the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs with Vice President Mike Pence. “As we push human exploration deeper into space, we will unleash the boundless potential of America’s pioneering commercial space companies,” the vice president told the crowd.

It sounds like the space industry is growing and that's a good thing for space technology. As much as we laud American accomplishes in space exploration, it can be argued that the only investor and customer was the US, and the short term value extracted out of space was negligible.

Today, there's much more market opportunities in space than previously. 15000 satellites by 2024 is an explosive growth of 20x in 5 years. Tickets selling for low orbit tourism - that didn't exist in the past. Asteroid mining - that still seems like a pipe dream, but I'm no expert, it may be more plausible than I realize.

Regardless, it's a huge indicator of a healthier space industry if a substantial part of the investment into space is coming from private companies (SpaceX notably) rather than government grants.
The Federal Reserve Bank ("The Fed") sets the base rate (i.e. the "overnight rate") from which commercial banks can borrow. Those banks, in turn, lend to debtors of all sorts, adding various risk premiums to the interest rates along the way.

More info: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/structure-federal...
Collusion and illegal monopolies are entirely different.

Would Nintendo be in the wrong if they didn't allow PSVue on the switch?
Backlink: [https://ID.Hellstrom.gdn]
TLDR: rates are still very low, but have increased a skosh with some consistency over the past several months, the meaningfulness of which statistic is here unsupported.
When US officials talk up other countries in areas such as military, space, or general technology they do it because they are trying to get funding for something.
Oh yes ! You are right. I was not thinking of artificial systems with well defined dynamics.
Milk, produced by the mothers on this earth is supposed to be drunk by their infants, not by any other animal or humans!
It's quite stupid to drink "another type" of animal milk to cure stomach problems. Stop it all together to cure because the human body is not made to drink milk after infant state.
Yes and every console maker has a monopoly on their own App Store....
I'm conflicted about the appropriation aspect of it. This whole rural aesthetic fashion is obviously coming from modern young men being confused about how to be masculine now as well as a generic naivete about rural life and nature in general that make them see their escape from stressful office bullshit through rose colored glasses.

Mostly though, part of it is just a return to valuing the different types of skills necessary in that setting. This is great, and it is great for their perception of rural people in general, because they are bad at something that people who they look down on find easy - and it changes their mind.

It is a mixed bag, and seems like an overall good to me.
> What drives the interest rates in the us?

This is a very complicated question.

There have been periods where short rates go up but 30y mortgage rates are unched or only up small or even down.

I think most people use 30y fixed rate mortgages in the US.
That's like saying Pizza Hut has a monopoly on Pizza Hut stores?
U.S. variable rate mortgages are usually indexed to Libor or U.S. treasury rates.
That map placement style is a plot point in The King and I.
The initial statement is saying that there is no physical way to achieve this feat today without lidar. While millions of agents (humans) are currently doing this today without lidar, or even eyes in the back of their head. I don't see anybody/anything with the blasé regularity of human drivers without lidar (machine or not) moving things into space except via space craft. So to boldy claim that lidar is NEEDED is absurd. Speaking of getting things to space, I remember people telling the same guy, Elon, that you NEEDED a new rocket to launch your payload into space every time. It is funny, you needed that until you didn't. All the while, humans we, with the blasé regularity of human drivers without lidar, not throwing away their cargo aircraft every time freighted between airport.

Keep the "pedantry" name calling out of this.
Here are my suggestions for a line:

1. One should participate in representational political processes as a matter of self-interest and civic obligation, even if it's just the absolute bare minimum of voting

2. Pursuant to that obligation, one should take the time to develop at least a basic understanding of the differences between the major political factions so that one's vote is not a completely random choice. Every adult should be able to write 2 gradeschool-level paragraphs comparing and contrasting the general principles and policies thereof.

3. Even if one does neither of the above, one should recognize that normalizing and rationalizing political non-participation is damaging to society if it influences others to do the same, and should thus be avoided.

Sound fair?
It's also happening in France, maybe in all of Europe due to GDPR.
APNewsBreak: Tesla in Autopilot sped up before Utah crash
In addition to selenology (which is a big deal because no celestial bodies other than Earth are so far extensively explored) and places for telescopes, Moon can be a source of some metals (Al, Ti, Fe), oxygen and some other elements, perhaps hydrogen. By mass metals and LOX/LH2 could be the majority of mass transported in Moon-Earth space in near future. Other important payloads are electronics - relatively light - and humans.

So Moon can supply vast majority of material needed for operations in Moon-Earth space. You can maybe launch the materials using a mass driver (some demos here - http://ssi.org/mass-driver-demonstration-tapes/), but even more conventional technology will give you results.
Could this be a hint at Intel's supercomputing and AI strategy? They cannot compete with GPUs on flops with Xeon, but an embedded FPGA might get them closer.

It is a risky strategy however. Even if they can attain similar performance, which I doubt, programmability remains the big problem for FPGAs. I know Intel is pushing openCL but it simply does not have an ecosystem for software right now, and it remains to be seen if they can even enable much of the feature set of openCL on an FPGA.
Disclaimer: I'm just an enthusiast.

Generally, in most discussions of the cost of housing, people discuss this expense in terms of a fraction of your income. In the US, a number of advisory articles and books consider between 25 and 30% of your gross take home pay as a "reasonable" amount of your income to pay for housing. So if you make $120,000 a year, that is about $3,000/month as 1/3 of your gross take home salary.

According to the FED income growth has been fairly static over the last decade so that 1/3 number has been fairly static as well. [1]

Given those two observations, you can derive the impact of rising interest rates on home sales, which is to say that as the rates rise, the monthly payment will rise, and that will put homes out of the 25 - 30% window for people. Historically that means a slower sales cycle and downward pressure on house prices (which keeps the payments at the lower level).

If there is a commensurate rise in real wage growth it won't slow down the housing market and the banks will make more money. If wages stay stagnant the housing market will cool off and if it does so for long enough prices will come down as people who have to move will feel pressure to lower the price in order to have the sale go through.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=what+percentage+of+my+salary...

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Huge congrats to Kyle and the team! I'm very excited about this.
> False promises, late releases, poor support, general lack of transparency.

These aren't a problem at the low end; at the low end, you sell someone a phone for $100, and they get what they get, and you're done.

Where you can differentiate on the low end, as an Android founder, is building something where you put out a new phone every year, but everything is on the same / close enough to the same / software platform, so your quarterly (or whenever) software updates apply equally to all your devices. Get about $20-$50 spendier each phone you make, and by the time you're at the high end, you've earned a reputation for quality phones with frequent software upgrades, and people will pay the premium for your phones.

OTOH, premium phones on firesale clearance works pretty well for me. Fire phone, Nextbit Robin, etc.
Amazon's Alexa Eavesdropped and Shared Couple’s Private Conversation
I confirm! Has nothing to do with Russia. Any VPN i tried located in EU cuts me off. Meanwhile non EU IPs do work!
Radio presenters and journalists among top jobs for psychopaths
I have four Apple TVs - three third generation and one 4th generation ATV. The only reason I have a 4th Gen one is because it was free with DirecTVNow.

But if that weren't the case, my next purchase was going to be an Nvidia Shield once my old 2009 Core 2 Duo that I'm using as a Plex Server bit the dust. The idea of having a $200 Shield that could also serve as a Plex server is very enticing. I would have a NAS in my office and the Shield connected to one of my TVs.

I was not going to spend $200 on a 4K Apple TV.
It's still arguable that there could be some ambiguity. The compiler makes sure the statement is interpreted in an unambiguous way on the computer's end, but the writer might still not know which of a number of ways to express what she wants to state.
Yes, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Touch
And waaay before that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_LOOX
For one, the Federal Reserve has been raising the overnight rate it charges banks. Commercial lenders typically try to maintain a certain interest rate "spread" between the Fed's overnight rate and the rates they charge mortgagors, so if the Fed's rate goes up, all lending rates tend to go up in tandem. (This is called "indexing.")

In the past year, the Fed's base rate has gone up 75 basis points (0.75%) and it looks like mortgage rates have basically gone up in lock step (actually a bit less -- last year a 30-year fixed was about 4.05%, today it's about 4.61%).

Usually, the Fed raises rates when it has significant inflation concerns -- so it's most likely the overall inflation risk that's driving increased rates across the whole market, and not something that points to an overheated real estate market in particular.
I'll take that argument :-). If we enter a deflationary spiral in housing it traps people with mortgages who find themselves owing more in their house than it is worth (we saw that after the Mortgage meltdown). Where as if the prices continue to rise, we see people who would prefer to own houses kept out of the market, but their mobility is not impacted.

Of the two scenarios, I consider the deflationary one "worse" in terms of its impact on more people.
After watching FirefoxOS fail I don't think I can put faith in another interesting-looking mobile OS/phone again.
This is why a lunar base should basically just be a refinery, launching fuel into orbit to refuel ships destined for other planets.
> Sure, in retrospect MooTools did the wrong thing...

Are you kidding me? Overwriting prototype is a widespread design pattern. Either ECMA ships the next version making it impossible (and breaking significantly larger parts of the web) or they shut up and accept that this mess is fully theirs. They designed themselves into a corner where developing without breaking user space is hard, they did that, and then they failed, they did that.
Apparently the code examples don't display with JavaScript turned off.
Also note, Elon Musk previously addressed this specific situation [1] [2],

> Radar sees through rain, fog, snow, dust, and essentially quite easily. So even if you are driving down the road and the visibility was very low and there was a big multi-car pileup or something like that and you can't see it, the radar would and it would initiate braking in time to avoid your car being added to the multi-car pileup.

[1] https://insideevs.com/elon-musk-on-autopilot-8-0-if-the-car-...

[2] https://electrek.co/2016/09/11/elon-musk-autopilot-update-ca...
Sounds similar with a base reference rate + lender's margin (in finland currently like 0.2-0.5% for house loans), but for some reason the base rates are positive in the us?

After 2008 in europe the rates took a dive and have been negative for a few years.