skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A snob? For stating what is a simple and harmless truth?

No, for being annoying about it.

> I'm perfectly aware. But I choose to not follow here. You know, English is not the only language on this planet. I am not a native English speaker as well, so why should I care.

Because you went and decided to call out an English speaker, who was writing English, on the "incorrect" spelling of an English word? Sure, in Serbian it might be "Milanković's cycles", but in English it's Milankovitch.
> I think the philosophy community (that was scared by behaviourism decades ago) needs to take a good hard look at reinforcement learning and representation learning. They can clarify many philosophical problems.

I agree with that.

> The hard-problem of consciousness was a detour, a wrong direction. It led to nothing in the end - just wasted decades. It was dualism in disguise.

I don't agree with that.

> You don't even need the notion of consciousness - just use the concept of agent, agent-environment relation and reinforcement - all being well defined, sound concepts unlike consciousness which doesn't even have an official definition.

It does have a definition: you.

What is the goal or purpose for which "You don't even need the notion of consciousness"?

> I think the agent theory is much more parsimonious that the spiritual and philosophical treating of consciousness.

To what end?
Silicon Valley folks need to pay their mortgages, fancy cars and Faberge eggs. Privacy to their victims is a minor concern.
The speed of this EU site is refreshing.. reminds you of using cable modem for the first time.
Good intentions absolutely are[0] compatible with the law...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
I've lived near Puget Sound for 18 years and I didn't know it was polluted (except gasworks park, which I know is a Superfund site).
How are they extending Linux? It also sounds like you are asking them to, since you want to build Windows apps from WSL! A large part of the attraction of WSL for many, is that native windows ports are not needed.

Windows will never extinguish Linux, while it remains closed and proprietary, so I wouldn't worry about that.
Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'
The winters here can be really rough. For me, owning a SAD lamp is pretty much a requirement.
This article is so on point it hurts. Every software business owner and project manager should read this over and over until it soaks in.
‘The Expanse’ Moves to Amazon for Season 4
Yes, I've been running smart-private-npm for years on Cloudant accounts. Works exactly like original npm, but more reliable. Glad to provide advice if you go that direction.
> It's already so complicated to run even git / vagrant on a windows machine, that I'm wondering how are people developing with it.

I find Git fine, but the Vagrant/Virtualbox ecosystem...

I dread every Windows update because something will break the setup, and that will be a day lost to figuring out which version of every component I need in order for my Virtual Machines to boot/build.

I would pay money for something that "Just works". Wondering if VMWare rather than Virtualbox is that, but no way to test without spending money.
the updates .. reset without asking many of the configurations you carefully made on your system.

Funny you should say that, I am normally quite fond of Win10 but I just installed the April update on my HTPC which uses a 4k TV as monitor.

The graphics settings went to hell, making the screen push past the boundaries or "overscanning" them. Reinstalling Nvidia graphics drivers now to hopefully bring things back into order. Willing to bet colours will default to 16-235 instead of 0-255 as well.
5 Tips on Expand Your Successful Business by Amir Najam Sethit
A more accurate title would have been, "Uber Overrode Volvo's Factory-default Emergency Braking System in Crash"
High quality 6dof tracking please!! With leap motion-style hand tracking in the front facing camera! This is all we need for AR to take off!
“As Americans we’re particularly sensitive about having to follow rules made by [others]”

That may be one of the most ironic comments I’ve ever heard. I love americans, but as a super power you stick your nose into so many other countries business, directly or indirectly. So, lets just say that argument is not gonna change my view in any way.

I don’t think I am mistaking intent with implementation. The regulation’s written text leavea many details to be answered along the way and the first couple of rulings on GDPR will (hopefully) bring us a lot of insigts into how to interpret and implement GDPR in practice. So I guess no one really knows the implementation yet. Until then we have to go by what is reasonable and the intent. And if you store data on private citizens you better treat it correctly.
If 3rd party tracking is not arguably required for them to provide the service, then this behavior is not valid, if I understand the GDPR wording correctly.
I immediately dropped Ghostery and switched to PB after hearing this many moons ago.

I've never looked back.
Another nice update to the WSL which I believe arrived with this version, SIGIO and nonblockig reads. This is very nice for console textmode UI apps.
Can someone ELI5 to me why we can't simply have ads targeted to content instead of to visitors?

Native ads do this. It's a huge industry, and will likely get far bigger under GDPR. But it takes highly specialized techniques to make the numbers back out as an advertiser. There's a ton of fraud, the bidding strategy is very different from programmatic/retargeting, the ads that work are different, etc. Most of the ad industry doesn't know how to do this, and many types of ads simply won't be profitable on native networks.

From what I'm hearing from my friends that do ecommerce stuff, product ads targeted to the EU are no longer profitable across the board either. That will force a ton of review sites aimed at EU visitors to shutdown, along with many YouTube reviewers. As advertisers pull product ads out of the major ad networks because they can't make money, the revenue of publishers/content creators in the product review space will plummet in lockstep. Amazon has cut affiliate commissions to the point where turning to them is no longer an option for any site that costs money to maintain either.

GDPR seems to be on track to wipe out vast swaths of businesses serving the EU market, and not just the "evil" ones it was trying to wipe out. It's a shitshow, but it was entirely predictable.
This is just flat out wrong. We do get more cloudy days than any major city in the U.S. but we don't actually get that much heavy rain. This is at least partly offset by the fact that the temperatures are much milder year round. Seattle barely gets any snow in the winter, and rarely gets very hot in the summer.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Climate.
I wonder that too. Circular cnames?
Set up CloudFlare in front of your site. They were literally built to use every method of f'ing with spammers on your behalf.
May I ask what is not clear to you? I can try to help. As I can see it, it very simple, it is same thing as with borrowing someones car:

- personal data (car) are any data that have potential identifying a person

- person owns its data (car). You cant buy them (well this part is different than the car), you cant steal them, you cant sell them, but you can borrow them from. But for that you need to ask (consent), where it is not allowed to trick the owner to give them to you, whithout beeing fully aware what was borrowed and why. And if you are borrowing the data for someone else, you need to ask about that too. And tell when you will return it.

- it is immature and unfair to play grumpy if someone doesn't want to allow to use its data. Or try to force/blackmail them from him. So its not allowed to do that (noyb.eu)

- once you borrow the data (like property, envision a car), behave acordingly, owner can demand them back, demand to see them, demand to know what you are doing with them and if stolen it is completely normal to tell them about that. And if they were stolen due to your fault (leaving keys in a car), they might demand to be compensated. Same goes if you misuse them (let me put some fertiliziers on back seat, forget to return them, giving it to all your friends without asking,...)

- if the data owner asks you to do something that requires his data ("hey, can you please take my car and bring me icecream from the store") you don't need to ask for data, it is expected you can have them.

Did I forget something? I consider it simple, as long as you try to stay genuinly respecting to other persons ownership. Just think about borrowing your car or borrowing car from your best friend and you wont go far wrong.
Bought my 8yo son an Echo for his birthday, we usually read together but he also loves the unabridged Harry Potter series read by Stephen Fry on Audible. Such a good reader, fun for tens of hours when parents have a sore throat :)
News organizations have engaged in "copyright trolling" too. Your Google search term for a notorious case is "Righthaven".
WE HAD a HEART TO HEART IN THE STUDIO :)
Maybe future proofing? They can always make their own and just point CNAME to the new registry?
>> Key parameters to compete here are quality, selection and price.

> Walmart does not compete on any of those parameters, except for price.

This comment seems to disagree:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17157004
Attacks usually come from infected computers, routers or other things-of-internet. Could we find a way to inform their owners about malware on their devices? Or even go as far as cleaning malware remotely and rebooting device (which in some cases might be illegal)?
That doesn't really apply here... Like I said, Python code is already much more uniform than most other programming languages. Unless somebody's formatting style is particularly ridiculous, their code should be just as readable as anybody else's, even if they put a space where it supposedly doesn't belong, or use too many/too few blank lines, or use the "wrong" way to split and indent a long list of function parameters. There is no productivity gain for others here. Maybe for languages like Javascript or C, but not Python. Almost all of it is just nitpicking.

(Of course you can make code less readable in other ways, e.g. by choosing undescriptive names, or weird idioms, but flake8/Black naturally don't address those issues.)
Upwork is pretty decent for dev freelancers.
This is a strange article with a regular message but a clickbait title just to grab attention. I feel like either the author doesn't really understand mainstream humor of a primetime TV show like 'Friends' and/or is trying too hard.
But Facebook wasn't a thing that had to be "invented." It was simply an incremental refinement of things that already existed. Only its marketing was innovative -- the key idea being to build, then connect, audiences of homogeneous users at colleges.

And that 'innovation' isn't worth a half-billion dollar patent suit, either.
I wouldn't be shocked if prescription drugs were detected in every body of water that is being used for human waste.

Wake up to what, exactly?
Bertrand Russell proved it via set theory [1]. Which is again based on the axioms of set theory, so as repsilat said above, you end up in one of the Münchhausen trilemmae, in this case you end up in some mix of regressive and axiomatic argument: there's an axiom, you cannot prove it within itself, but with another axiom and so forth.

It's a difficult subject and I am by no means an expert in it.

[1] https://blog.plover.com/math/PM.html

PS: You are correct, 1+1=2 is not a tautology. With a tautology, both the statement and the negation of the statement are true. In this case either 1+1=2 or 1+1=!2 - but never both, if you get what I mean?

PPS: And sorry for all those downvotes - don't understand why. Your questions are perfectly fine.
Is "hdlss" so named as to remind of headless?
what will this do to the stock market on Tuesday?

I don't know about Tuesday, but you should have been shorting any company that derives a significant percentage of their revenue from the EU ad market for the last several months. Online ad revenue from the EU will fall and never rise again, it's just a matter of exactly how much. The only thing that might change this is if there is such a public outcry about the negative effects of GDPR that it gets dialed back. But that seems like a longshot.
More than that, "compliance with a legal obligation" is specifically called out as one of the six legal bases for processing data.

It's like people are complaining about something they haven't taken the trouble to understand. That couldn't possibly happen HERE, the bastion of rational hacker ethic, could it?

I miss the days when "hacker ethic" meant weird Unix enthusiasts and not neolibertarian grifters...
Run the vagrant inside Debian (possibly inside virtual box/hyperv/VMware/parallels running on your host OS).

Debian doesn’t pull or push the proverbial update rug under your legs without asking, and things rarely if ever break on a Debian stable update.
Metaphone [1] addresses a lot of issues Soundex has. While Soundex is aimed specifically at names, Metaphone works for all English words.

PS: Inspired by Metaphone, I wrote MLphone [2] a phonetic lib for the Malayalam (South India) language. The phonetic keys the algorithm produces are Roman characters though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone

[2] https://nadh.in/code/mlphone/
I get a error saying that Amazon Cloudfront is blocking this from my country. I'm from Switzerland (which is NOT part of the EU), does this happen to everyone?
> what related content would they advertise? Guns? Back to school supplies? Without knowing why a person is on a page, it's difficult to understand what related products might appeal to them.

Training for teachers? Security services? Access control systems? Yes, a lot of those reading are parents, not teachers, but what do you think they'll do if they are convinced something exists that will reduce the risk of school shootings?

Editing: ad "targeting" as it has existed so far has also been insultingly, embarrassingly bad IMO. Even Google tried for years to send me ads for Russian, Ukrainian, Philippine and Thai dating sites. Round robin. I was delighted when they started showing me Wordpress ads.

Those are not relevant either but now we are approaching something useful and not actively insulting (I'm very happily married and have small kids.)
>The number of people who are saying it’s no big deal to comply with this huge law

It's not if you're actually thinking about what you should be doing with user data from an ethical perspective. Our company has had zero problems complying with GDPR.

>My biggest fear is that all of these complex bureaucratic laws

Allow me to be extremely blunt here. If you think these laws are complex and if you have to resort to meaningless U.S. connotations of bureaucracy, you shouldn't be handling user data.
You want to get all political about this? What about extraordinary rendition?
And the pirate bay guys?
Wow, that was a wild ride
If you have developer computers with client data on it, semi-anonymized or not, I want you fined until you stop. What the hell is wrong with that hypothetical business?

It's like restaurants putting the toilet in the kitchen. Shut the business down!
I'm sure the government would love having no record of (taxable) sales
You'd need to cite the law for that, not just a concept that applies to some laws.

The alternative to a mens rea requirement is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability .
I sort of agree with you. Philosophers I knew in grad school were somewhat of dilletantes who didn’t want to commit to becoming an expert within a single scientific epistemology.

But... I don’t know, that feels a little uncharitable too.

I think the charitable reading is that yes, a philosopher of science doesn’t know the science as well as the scientist. They are not as close to the cutting edge of what we know....

But what they can do is look closer at how the scientist knows. And what other people who are not that scientist know. And from there situate the knowledge in a wider context. Not knowledge the universe but knowledge about knowings.
First, let me say that, I'm not the person you're replying to, I haven't read through the entire GDPR (yet), and I think that stronger privacy laws are a very good thing. (Part of the reason I regularly donate to the EFF.)

> The starting point of the law is that data protoection is a fundamental human right,. The data subject owns their PII, not some company collecting it.

> It's all up whether you are willing to accept that as a fundamental right or not.

As a fundamental right, doesn't that mean that the government needs to abide by it as well? Can an EU resident demand that their image be removed from all footage collected by public surveillance cameras, for example?

> Now many US based IT professionals seems to have problems with accepting that nobody else can own the data about a human.

I think the idea that someone can own facts about anything is bound to cause some amount of confusion or even cognitive dissonance.

At what point does one's right to be forgotten supersede another's right to remember?

If Alice knows something about Bob because of their personal interactions, as he asks her to forget about it, but she still remembers it, is she violating Bob's right to be forgotten? How about if she had written it down in a journal? Does she need to erase what she wrote? What if her journal was stored electronically? In any of these cases is she allowed to tell another person? What if she already told another person before Bob told her to forget about it?

More concretely, suppose Bob visits Alice's house, and then a couple of weeks later tells Alice that she must forget that he visited. If she ignores his request is she violating Bob's rights?

Now suppose Bob is visiting Alice's website, which records his IP address in a log file. Bob asks to be removed from the log, and again Alice ignores his request.

I think for many technically minded people there seems like an awfully smooth gradient between these last two scenarios, and so classifying one as reasonable and the other as a violation of human rights can be surprising. Precisely where is the line drawn that makes one scenario reasonable, while the other is completely unacceptable?
Mountain View proposes “Google Tax” – per worker tax for employers
Who he works for won't negate the fact how ridiculous the original statement is at just bare face value.
> Sound Citizen: Students and Citizens Working Together to Evaluate Sources and Fates of Emerging Pollutants in Puget Sound

> SoundCitizen has delivered impacts in both science and education, annually engaging more than 2,000 volunteers, students, and event attendees in 2010 and 2011. In 2010, SoundCitizen tested for 37 different compounds, with the number growing to 110 compounds in 2011. Scientific findings included:

> a pattern in the cycle of ethinylestradiol (pharmacological estrogen) in the natural environment;

> the ubiquitous presence of plasticizers in Puget Sound; and

> abundant anthroquinones (dyes and bleaches) and cyclohexanones (nylons and other synthetic fabrics), which may represent previously unrecognized contaminants in the marine environment.

https://wsg.washington.edu/research/sg-sound-citizen/
Run VMs in Hyper-V. That just works
I dunno what the point of this anecdote was, but the parent poster was right to mock the word "disenfranchise". If the American business doesn't want the buck, they don't want the buck. If they do want the buck, they do want the buck. Their call, not disenfranchising anyone.
I remember seeing a documentary on this is the past. The main things I got from it was:

1. It was designed for countries with high levels of Vit A deficiency (as other comments have noted). Those countries now use simple Vit A pills. There is no need for 'Golden Rice'.

2. It has been trialled in Asia but due to it's yellow colour, the people didn't even want to eat it. In their mind, rice is always white.

I also seem to recall that it is a project that has failed in a few countries to be accepted as a replacement for traditional rice.

I do not understand why FDA approval was sought, nor why it's for sale in the US.

This documentary (it might be the one I vaguely remember) shows how the Phillipines has a government programme which gives Vit A pills twice a year: https://youtu.be/TPRqRjCT_vE?t=11m6s

EDIT: (formatting)
Somewhere else in here, someone else mentioned that "ip" has "--oneline", which does seem to work decently, at least for the first couple columns:

ip --oneline addr | column -t
Seems easy to avoid, though.

1) Get permission.

or

2) Use public domain images.

Bam. Problem solved.
Also recreational drugs.

> In a new [~2009] review study, Castiglioni and colleague Ettore Zuccato found that illegal drugs have become "widespread" in surface water in some of Europe's populated areas.

> Likewise, in 2005, Zuccato found that a daily influx of cocaine travels down the Po River, Italy's longest river.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091112-drin...
For the same reason you'd shred sensitive documents instead of just throwing them out.

If you're a government agency giving advice on discarding potentially scheduled pharmaceuticals, advising people to flush them is an easy way to make sure diversion is no longer a concern.
I'm not sure what there is to do. It's really hard to remove stuff from wastewater that doesn't sink, float, get metabolized by microorganisms or plants, or get removed by sand filters.
CJ (CTO at npm) explained on Twitter why they switched to Cloudflare:

https://twitter.com/ceejbot/status/1000230136900239360

(See: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/)
My girlfriend bought several menstrual cups because I heard about them on the Internet and suggested them to her.
Show HN: Open source a email social platform build in JavaScript with serverless
TL;DR dog and wolf interbred, offspring interbred further, which led to strange results? Doesn't seem particularly newsworthy.
This happened to my old gaming PC as well. I looked into it and it mistakenly installed AMD Firepro drivers during the update instead of the correct Radeon drivers... Had to manually install the correct ones
On one of my old computers with a i7 Sandy Bridge but a 7200rpm hard drive the update took 2 hours
When the dust settles, and they know how to proceed, it will return to normal.

Unless there isn't a corresponding drop in product sales. That would show the ads aren't driving sales, and there's no good reason to go back to spending on them...
100k people per hour per track direction

Your source for this statistic?
I was recently wondering about the same. I regularly hear about breakthroughs in math, physics, biology, chemistry, you name it. I never heard about a breakthrough or significant new ide in philosophy.
I really don't get this argument. Not only is it easier IMO to layout things in one-dimension with CSS grid, but there are subtle bugs that occur on different platforms if you have Flexbox and Grid nested within each other. Just stick with Grid all the time and make your life easier.
inspired by kismet #asmalltalk
I looked at purchasing options for a similar bet, and walked away. I couldn't be certain of the drop. I've made a written prediction instead, and will see how I've done in August.

What fraction of your investable wealth have you (downandabout) committed to the short?
Wouldn't it have been better for Microsoft to support https://midipix.org, which would have resulted in more finegrained POSIX support for Windows, rather than installing an isolated machine, that runs seperate?
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