skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that always bothered me about preppers is that our species already developed a really good defence against many causes of untimely death... we call it "Society" or "Community"... and so many preppers are not only anti-social but it seems like they're dead set against allowing anyone else to maintain such things.
> I was just disagreeing that with the point that no-one wants a keyboard phone.

Perhaps glib. I could have clarified further but "a keyboard phone could carve out a small but somewhat lucrative niche amongst people who refuse to get used to software keyboards, people over 30-40, and people who owned devices that sport hardware keyboards in the past but they are ultimately doomed to irrelevancy in the long run" is less pithy.
I think you accurately identify the issue with this situation / skill; voice triggers need to weigh convenience (how easy should it be to activate this skill) against it's permissions or potential (how can this skill affect a customer). In this case, I think this was not done properly.

This does not mean Amazon does not take privacy seriously. It is a company of small teams with very few layers of management between an engineer and business decision. The error in judgement of one team does not reflect on all of Amazon.

As you say, Voice UI is still in its infancy and not lacking growing pains. However, because Amazon does take privacy very seriously, after this incident, I'm certain there will be actions taken internally to ensure teams properly weigh the gravity of a skill with its voice trigger (or adjustments made if there is already an existing policy).

My own thoughts, not Amazon's.
I don't know where the idea that philsophy doesn't involve rigor and maths comes from. Leibniz came up with the entscheidung's problem, for god's sake! If you take the most basic interest in logic, maths, or even computers, you can't swing a cat without hitting a philosopher.
Good point. The problem is that Steve Jobs ignored Ehret’s concept of a “transition diet,” and became taken with the idea of being a fruit-only eater right away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Neo-Aramaic
> People who go on and on about the Google and Amazon "monopolies" -- which only benefit consumers

Google being the de facto gatekeeper to the web, able to enforce its own whims (such as AMP), "only benefits consumers"? Please.
... or you could start a University like Oxford. It doesn't matter if the buildings are gone in 1000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1096
Militarized police tactics work!

You are completely correct that it's largely a fantasy scenario, but who wants to take the chance?
Replace “lot” with “almost all.” I’m from the subcontinent. Do you think people from Bangladesh/India/Pakistan want people from the other countries freely wandering across their borders? Nobody wants that. It’s Western conceit that they’ve somehow evolved this particular mode of tribalism (what most people in the world would instead call ordinary national sovereignty).
> BSD's ifconfig isn't really related to Linux's ifconfig anymore because BSD has continued development and the Linux fork or version (don't remember which it is anymore) hasn't.

There's a simple solution to the lack of maintenance on ifconfig: Maintain ifconfig.

There's no need to break shit.
"This site does not collect personally identifiable information or persistent identifiers from, deliver a personalized experience to, or otherwise track or monitor persons reasonably identified as visiting our Site from the European Union. We do identify EU internet protocol (IP) addresses for the purpose of determining whether to direct you to USA TODAY NETWORK’s EU Experience.

This site provides news and information of USA TODAY NETWORK. We hope you enjoy the site."

Colour me impressed. I sincerely hope it catches on.
Yeah, booo to cities looking to optimize affluence and patterns, hopefully for more efficient lines and service, with the help of consumer data and recurring habits, or offering convenient service as in recovering lost cards. Booo !
FWIW while you're right, that's awfully shortsighted unless you're a mom & pop shop with no intent of ever expanding beyond your backyard.

A lot of devs hanging out on HN are working for companies that have at least some B2B aspect. Being GDPR non-compliant means these companies will have to avoid you too, because even if they're themselves not affected by GDPR they may have customers who are and need the compliance to be able to do business with those customers.

But that said, as an EU company, US companies are only an option if they're Privacy Shield certified and offer a Data Processing Agreement. And even then it's safer to go for a company in the EU or in an "adequate"[0] country. You don't want to be caught unaware when some court or orange person decides to blatantly violate the Privacy Shield guarantees and you have to treat it as a breach.

[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...
haha I was interested in seeing how I could set it up myself - any hints before I start researching a similar setup?
I don’t think contactless is uncontrolled - you see the total before you present the card so they can only take that amount.
Medium article that goes with the release:
https://medium.com/safenetwork/parsec-a-paradigm-shift-for-a...
To me, discrimination based on where one was born is fundamentally immoral. There are legitimate logistical difficulties with open borders, but we need to identify solutions, rather than use them as excuses.
Introducing the Udacity Data Scientist Nanodegree Program
The issue has significantly higher complexity than either of you have portrayed here. Check here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(debit_card)#Europe
Would you agree to those terms if you had a realistic alternative?

Is this contract written in a way that provides equitable consideration to the user for the provisions that solely benefit Apple?

Doesn't seem like it.

The ability of Apple to include those take-it-or-leave-it terms suggests a dominant market position (strong market power) held by Apple, regardless of other mobile device platforms.

The license is a "Contract of Adhesion" "where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and is thus placed in a "take it or leave it" position.

While these types of contracts are not illegal per se, there exists a very real possibility for unconscionability." (Wikipedia)

with unconscionability being "a doctrine in contract law that describes terms that are so extremely unjust, or overwhelmingly one-sided in favor of the party who has the superior bargaining power, that they are contrary to good conscience. Typically, an unconscionable contract is held to be unenforceable because no reasonable or informed person would otherwise agree to it. The perpetrator of the conduct is not allowed to benefit, because the consideration offered is lacking, or is so obviously inadequate, that to enforce the contract would be unfair to the party seeking to escape the contract."
In the spirit of Popper and Deutsch, I’d argue that philosophy makes progress in the same way all branches of knowledge do: filtering out bad ideas.

The Popperian notion of scientific progress as an evolutionary process of conjectures and refutations applies just as well to philosophy. Philosophy gives us the tools to stamp out bad ideas and let the better ones rise to the surface. (Better ~= survive refutation longer).

Without being able to run an experiment on a philosophical conjecture in most cases, however, it is much more difficult to refute a purely philosophical conjecture than a scientific one. But many old philosophical ideas have been refuted on the basis of logical inconsistency or bad premises. So I’d expect the kinds of philosophical ideas we debate today have a higher proportion of truth than what was debated 500+ years ago.
Asking for progress in philosophy is the wrong way to approach it. Philosophy is a domain that lives on exploring new ideas, asking different questions, refining answers.

A more appropriate approach in my opinion would be to ask if there has been a consistent evolution in philosophy? Do ideas and areas build on its predecessors. Do they take reference?

Another approach would be asking whether philosophy has impacted mankind in any way that is understandable? Each era had its philosophers and trains of thought.
In what way? Adhering to the regulations are quite simple and cheap. You just need your users consent to use their data and take measures to protect it. If you don’t have their consent or protect the data you’re doing it wrong - even before the GDPR came into action.
$1M in student loans. How did that happen?
The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto
Turns out I IF’d all throughout high school without even knowing it!
This article has two images of the old way people picture the Pterosaurs, but only shows a close up of the hips, and not the whole animal, in the newly hypothesized position. Highly unsatisfactory.
That would be equally good. I just want to avoid shipping complete IPs to a log-host.
It's still used for a project with another team at my work. For some reason, regular old FTP wasn't good enough for deployment, so this is what they use. They use Microsoft Expression Web 4 to upload/download files, which itself is no longer supported, I believe.
If it’s your right to use an adblocker under the theory that you should control what requests your browser makes from your device, then which requests it makes are also your responsibility.

Regardless, whether you intended to send my server a request is your problem. The fact is that you did, and that hardly gives full control of my business to whatever legal jurisdictions claim you as their subject.
What is influencer marketing? (I am dumb student)
> superior to systemd

SMD was based around XML, which caused a lot of boaking.

systemd was based around .desktop, aka .ini syntax.
> Manufacturers sneak carbs into everything.

It's insane. You go buy beans, and there's rice flour in it. You buy salmon, and there's sugar in it. It's beyond ridiculous, and explains so much about rising levels of obesity. Anything even vaguely processed has a lot of unnecessary carbs added, for one reason or another.
> The metabolic switch usually occurs between 12 and 36 hours after cessation of food consumption, depending on the liver glycogen content at the beginning of the fast, and on the amount of the individual's energy expenditure/exercise during the fast.

I guess that since my breakfast time is around 8 am, then should stop food intake before 8 pm. The earlier the better. And some light exercise during that period, even better. Let’s do this!.
Once the SWAT team is there you are heavily into militarized police tactics.

Gun training is if you shoot someone you shoot to kill. Wounding just gives them a chance to shoot you back. This is universal, ask any officer trained to use a gun and they'll tell you that shooting the gun out of someone's hand is Hollywood nonsense. Shooting to wound leads to accidental death (hit the femoral artery) and/or retaliation.
> Why is HN non-compliant?
> They use Cloudflare

Just the fact that you use some GDPR-compliant service doesn't mean that your product is GDPR-compliant. Because your product has to make sure that it stores, processes, removes, rotates etc. personally-identifiable data in a GDPR-compliant way.

E.g. HN doesn't offer a way to request the data they have on me, or to delete my account. This is not GDPR-compliant.
NextCloud uses it. It's very useful to synchronize your calendar and contacts between your private cloud storage and your mobile device.

So... yes?
To me it's overreach because smaller measures could have been a better first step, this won't help the problem much, and it hurts the non-targets. I understand it's why you asked your government to work on the problem. We just need to stop pretending that any way they work on the problem is a good one.
I built [https://scinder.io](https://scinder.io) as a way to analyse my running and cycling data to see how well I was training and if I'm on track to achieve the goals I've set myself. I've found that a lot of the services I'd used previously didn't give me the depth of analysis that I needed to be able to make decisions about my training schedule.

For a long time the project just sat on my PC but I'm now trying to try to turn it into a paid service as I think some of the features I've added are pretty cool and I've not seen them anywhere else.
Like many other time this has happened, I expect we'll find out that everything we've heard in the first 24 hours was incomplete or just plain wrong, and in a few days this will all get resolved.

Of course the angriest out there will simply claim it was the result of Apple buckling to public outcry rather than self-correcting over a mistake or misunderstanding, but then those people will always choose to see malevolence in any corporate actions they don't like.
It might be, anecdotally I know of a few high performing athletes who are now keto all the way. That said, it is utterly incompatible with my desire for milkshakes and candy bars, both of which are things I crave at the end of an intense bike ride.
Really? Reeaallly?

When not paying contactless (which takes less than 5 seconds like you mentioned), paying by debit card takes 6 seconds: enter card, mash 4 number PIN, push OK. And after that 0 seconds spent on change, fumbling with bills and coins etc.

What I noticed in Germany though, is that many store clerks insist on taking your card, then putting it in the machine, handing it to you, then take it back from you when you’ve entered the PIN. Yes, if you do it 1920’s style then it takes longer than a cash transaction...
What’s their profit?
It would be nice to give people the option. I personally would love everything to be free, and show me ads instead. I don't see how my integrity has anything to do with it.
My apologies if this is explained somewhere and I simply didn't get it, but is the HTML5 app talking to a portable web server (Kestrel?) and the .NET web portion talking to the operating system or is this a case where .NET code is being invoked from the web app with via a JavaScript-to-.NET bridge of some sort? If the latter I'm massively interested.
Isn't that every police call? As far as I know dispatchers aren't psychics.
Well, think about cars and emission issues that need updates - manufacture does recalls and fixes it for everyone. Not sure what's different here? Why not just pull it from stores and fix it if its violating law?
I've done HIIT in a fasted state just fine, and intellectually I actually feel sharper when fasting, which makes some sense. If we couldn't focus our senses while running on stored fat, the human race would have died out a long time ago. There's some data corroborating this, albeit small studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18779282
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7473300
Isn't this what Transmeta was also trying to do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
You may also want 'whereis' instead of 'which'.

I use cope to colorize my output, which makes 'which' useless to me for most common commands, but 'whereis' still works.

Edit for examples:

$ which ip
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/share/dist/Cope/ip
$ whereis ip
ip: /usr/bin/ip /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/share/dist/Cope/ip /usr/share/man/man7/ip.7.gz /usr/share/man/man8/ip.8.gz
Good. if you do not value my privacy, I dont want you to do business here. another product will replace your own. And in all likeness an EU one, meaning less euros leaving the eurozone.

I'm all for it.
>Availability of quality free content is not a problem

Only if all content on every web site around the world is equal. Which it is not.

If the quality was the same everywhere, and the same content was available everywhere, then people in Europe wouldn't have to go to web sites in other countries.

There are lots of reasons for companies in Europe to need to read the Chicago Tribune (PR clipping service, for example). But the Tribune's content is no longer available to the E.U., and will not be replicated elsewhere for copyright reasons.

As much as I dislike Tronc as an entity, I don't blame it for this decision. Within hours of GDPR going into effect, the lawsuits started flying. That's exactly why some companies decided it was easier to just opt out of Europe.
Do they have an EU representative? Then non compliant.
I highly recommend looking into the work of Dr. Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D. She has extensive material explaining the science behind IF, and many other topics relating to bio pathways and aging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KClPkotxM

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/
blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/11/27/zero-knowledge-proofs-illustrated-primer

... time machines and Part 2. I Love this guy :)
Nope. It was a nice step that showed everyone how even the most unexpected website tracks you with some cookies.
Ensuring the high supply of genetic material is the easy half of the battle. Ensuring the demand for your genetic material sounds substantially more difficult.
It is possible to imagine a future in which no one outside the processor manufacturer needs to do a damn thing. Nowadays, no one else knows or cares what microcode is used to execute x86 instructions. Maybe someday hot enough sections of code will get transparently JITted to logic gates.
> Pass whatever law you want, just don’t expect me to care.

That was exactly the position of too many companies: pass whatever law, I don't care.

Well. It has gone on for too long, so, hopefully, now companies will start to care.

> If you don’t want to do business with me because I’m not compliant, don’t send me server requests, data, or money.

The EU is 500 million people. It looks to me that it's you who doesn't want to do business just because you think that other countries' laws and other countries' rights are bullshit and you don't care about them.

I say, good riddance.
Anecdotally what’s helped me get through the initial crappy feeling of cutting carbs is to eat more fat / protein and stay plenty hydrated. (Plus plenty of sleep.)
They're losing $20 million a month, if they were losing that per day that'd really be something. Probably would be out of business in a few weeks.
Well - what does this mean for US citizens then?

If those site violate GDPR laws, what exactly are they doing with user data, how are they securing it? Do they even know what's going on?

Good litmus test for privacy/info sec readiness in corporations.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this. But why is a CNN necessary for predicting the turning angle? Seems like OpenCV would be sufficient (assuming sufficient contrast between the line and the floor). Grab image, threshold, find the largest contour around the line, grab its minAreaRect() and from that calculate the angle.

Editing to add -- this is still a cool project. I don't mean to detract from it by pointing out that I think it could be done without the AI piece.
The linked post is itself linked to the API in question: Perspective [0].

The site has a demo where you can slide the "toxicity" from left to right and view the resulting bucket of comments sourced from various topics of discussion (Brexit, Climate Change, US Elections). You can also provide your own snippet and get a rating.

Obviously this kind of tool will sustain a lot of discussion about what "toxicity" is and how a ML system could infringe on speech by applying bias, either from the engineers building and evaluating the system, or from the inherent bias in data that Google themselves have already identified as a major problem. [1] For what it's worth, Perspective's site offers a definition of "toxic": "a rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable comment that is likely to make you leave a discussion." The training dataset was ostensibly built by having humans rate comments on a toxicity scale based on that definition.

It seems as though the idea is to penalize poorly thought-out or inflammatory comments while encouraging in-depth or at least more measured responses. I think we can all agree that that is an attractive system to build: the main question will be if it can be done in a fair way and what latent problems might exist in such a system.

[0] https://www.perspectiveapi.com/

[1] https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-mod...
If a store takes cash and card why do you need to carry cash? There is no incompatibility whatsoever. Having both only gives you more options.
Something to note about this formulation is the explicit assumption that in p(y|do(x)), the 'do' operation is supposed to be completely independent of prior observed variables, e.g. the doers are 'unmoved movers' [1].

That fits the model where you randomly 'do' one thing or another (e.g. blinded testing); however this is not the same thing as p(y|do'(x)), where do' is your empirical observation of when you yourself have set X=x in a more natural context.

E.g. let's say you will always turn on the heat when it's cold outside. P(cold outside | do(turn on heat)) = P(cold outside), because turning on the heat does not affect the temperature outdoors.

However, P(cold outside | do'(turned on heat)) > P(cold outside), because empirically, you actually only choose to turn on the heat when it's cold outdoors.

These two are also different from P(cold outside | heat was turned on) (since someone else might have access to the thermostat).

In reality our choices and actions are also products of the initial states (including our own beliefs, and our own knowledge of what would happen if we did x). Our actions both move the world, but we are also moved by the world.

Does do-calculus have a careful treatment of 'mixed' scenarios where actions are both causes and effects of other causes?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
Well, the NLP Architect mentioned (https://github.com/NervanaSystems/nlp-architect) uses Spacy, so... :)
I try to move that around a bit just to avoid feeling hungry when I go to sleep.
I hope we get a LOT more of this.

If the EU wants to pass laws that say every company around the world (almost all of which have ZERO democratic representation in EU government) has to fully comply or face huge fines that will drive them out of business, let’s see how they feel when all those companies just shrug and turn their back on the market.

I know the GDPR fans here will just say “good, we’re better off without them!” and I guess on that we agree. Go in peace.
If you had used drug laws, e.g. marijuana laws, in your analogy it would make more sense. They think they are raising standards too. It's not about what the point is, it is about the implementation. It's so tough to have reasonable discourse about the topic because if you are against the approach people think you are against the whole point.
I wonder if it's really necessary to stop using e-mail addresses as usernames / unique identifiers. Presumably you need some sort of unique identifier for each user, and such an identifier can, by definition, be tied to an individual. Would such an identifier not fall under "data required to provide the service"?. And since any such identifier is effectively PII, does it really matter if you use an e-mail address vs. some other user name?
I find outline is easier and less icky than facebook,

https://outline.com/KDybmC
"And it's about 7 extra characters in a line of this length."

(regarding the example from "Class literals" sections)

Well, the Kotlin line is still shorter overall, despite the ".java" bit, because it allows to get rid of "new" keyword (two of them), and to replace the first occurence of "GsonBuilder" with "val".
I agree. I'm using a similar design in a current pet project (http://www.niche.fm), it's fun. I still need to update the old lightpink + #181818 modules, though. :)
You don't have to jump the ship right away. You can find time and transition.