skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that air conditioning is expensive in a place like Phoenix, but isn't heating similarly expensive in the Great Lakes and northeast?
Read up on FATCA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Complian...) before you argue further down that path. The US already has extraterritorial laws that have to be enforced by banks worldwide that don’t operate in the US.
In some regards I think this is the real story... "After billions spent, Government public transit fails to innovate effective solutions to their mission"
You do not have to do that.

Just use Content-Security-Policies to block your pages from loading anything but safe assets/services.

You will need to politely ask those not using browsers that support CSPs to switch/upgrade.
And if you're going to publish something, for heck's sake don't publish it on facebook.com. It's a terrible platform for content. To even read this article, I had to sign into facebook, deny a prompt to provide alerts, close 4 messenger windows, etc. etc. Not a good way to read.
In my experience, many useful invariants cannot be trivially expressed in a singular "target field" against which one may lock, but that's actually beside the point.

The point is that--insofar as it comes to correctness--serializability allows local reasoning, whereas weaker isolation levels require global reasoning. You can't argue against that by saying "well, if every transaction just explicitly locks the appropriate records at the appropriate times …" because that's exactly the type of global reasoning that we're trying to avoid.

There certainly is a difference between theory and practice here, but I don't think it's in favor of weaker isolation levels.

In theory, as you note, one can enforce any invariant–even in Read Committed–by taking a global lock in every transaction. In practice, nobody does that, because it takes concurrency to zero.

In theory, one can regain concurrency by judiciously breaking that global lock into some application-specific hierarchy of locks, and by having the discipline to adhere to that bespoke locking protocol for every transaction, now and in perpetuity. In practice, that is both too expensive and too error prone to be applied successfully in any non-trivial system (though some do still try).

In theory, these concerns can be addressed at the application level. In practice, it is grossly irresponsible that we (as an industry) continue to foist these concerns on application developers who–in the aggregate–cannot reasonably be expected to get it right. The number of viable database systems is small and growing slowly, while the number of database-backed applications is large and growing rapidly. To have any hope of improving the status quo, well: I know where I'd put my money.
82% of MoviePass Subscribers Have Gone to a Movie They Never Would Have Paid For
The major support for PWAs for Edge was released in this recent Windows 10 April Release.

That also includes Microsoft Store support for PWA apps.

Several applications in the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 have already launched or switched to PWAs (one of the most noticeable one was Twitter replaced their increasingly outdated Windows 8 application with a PWA as soon as the April Release happened).

The Android Store also supports PWAs directly in recent versions (the "Twitter Lite" application on Android is the same PWA that Windows users now get by default, and presumably will be the only first party Android Twitter client once usage of PWA-capable versions of Android rises).

Microsoft's Bing crawler is supposed to start adding "high quality" PWAs directly to the Microsoft Store as soon as it finds them on the web and minimally vets them (and will provide tools to PWA website owners to control/enhance their listings).

Google's search crawler team is also supposedly investigating lighting up automatic app ingestion into the Android and/or Chrome Stores.
> It's also to prevent fraud by the cashier

Example:

- cashier says you owe $X

- you pay in cash

- cashier gives you receipt

- after you leave, cashier voids the transaction & pockets the cash

There are plenty of ways the cashier can get caught, but catching then be a non-trivial exercise. It depends on the products being sold, quality of systems to prevent fraud, etc.
> That just isn't true, the GDPR has been law for the last two years and before that there was a law with roughly the same (say 80% or so) components.

You're absolutely, completely, 100% correct! Please accept my deepest apologies for being unclear.

Until May 25, GDRP which has been law for years did not take full effect. It's possible that some people made choices based around which laws are in full effect, rather than what is law, for reasons that might at times be other than negligence or malice.

Again, please accept my apologies for being unclear. Please let me know if there's anything else I can clarify!
Why would that be good for Apple?
"When I lose my weight, I'll still keep fasting as an option, because it's a remarkably powerful tool."

I strongly encourage you to do this because it will remain helpful to your non-overweight body to not incur all of the extra "mileage" of your ramped up metabolic system, day after day, for the rest of your life.

I would also encourage you to attempt to remove the calories from your coffee on your fasting days - it seems picky since it is just 50 calories but your metabolic processes have to turn themselves all the way on in order to process that energy input. I feel that there is a big difference between all-the-way-off and all-the-way-on in terms of your fasted state.

Best of luck to you!
It's not. If you have any legal disagreement with a company outside the EU they tell you to complain on that company origin.

I experienced this myself. EU is absolutely powerless outside their borders.
What are these companies doing that makes it so hard to comply?

I've been involved in GDPR efforts at work and all the policies seem fairly straight forward to me. If you're not doing shady shit and you're upfront with your users what you are collecting the data for, how long you keep it and what access policies you have set up.

Not a problem if you ask me.
Agreed. When the Volskswagen story broke that was my first repsonse: Management Failure. No matter how you slice it in a company that is run in a hierarchical fashion there is no way that an employee at some level decides to break the law in such a blatant manner without being pressured to do so in some way.

Which in the longer term turned out to be right. I'd love to see Winterkorn behind bars for that one.
This is also a straw-man argument.
"Two officers will come to the door, ask if everything is ok, perhaps ask to look around, and then leave as calmly as they arrived."

Did you read what Barris told the police operator in the article?

"Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in the head, was holding his mom and sister at gunpoint, and was thinking about burning down the home with everyone inside."

It is an absolutely reasonable and necessary response for the police to respond to such a threat with the level of force that they did.

I am extremely skeptical that other countries police would handle a potential murder/hostage situation like that by calmly walking to the door and asking if everything is ok. They would be foolish to do so.
Cue the apologists claiming this isn't going to be a money grab very largely targeting American tech companies, and that GDPR regulators are going to be very gentle, rational, and friendly in shepherding companies towards privacy compliance.

I agree with the GDPR in principle, but the manner in which the enforcement was setup, and the way it didn't phase in the aspects over time, and the way the fines are subjective from painful to destructive without any clear guidance as to how they will be levied, and considering the regulations were written in such a way that people seem to have a very poor understanding of what the actual rules are unless they have legal teams giving them the answers leaves me with doubts that this isn't yet another European regulatory money grab at the same time that it's a much needed advancement on privacy reform.

What's even better is all the non-lawyers posting blog posts saying STOP FREAKING OUT!!! Stop interpreting the rules wrong!!!

When you create a system that could amount to a severe financial risk, in the way this was done, I can't exactly rest easy given the advice of Jon Q. Blogspam Esq attorney from Wordpress School of Law.

If GDPR were clearly and rationally written, if it had a explicit grace period and progressive fines rather than instant potential massive liability, if regulators had front loaded more of the official clarifications prior to it taking effect so that everyone wouldn't have to pay law firms to ask the same questions, etc then we wouldn't all be flooded with stupid emails and misfires by every company we do business with. And saying that anyone who is afraid of GDPR is doing something bad with user data is just unfounded slander.

I am extremely pro-privacy and what they're trying to do for privacy here is great. The execution could have been much better. And I highly doubt the apologists will be around to explain why they were wrong when people operating in good faith, trying their best to be compliant are fined for non-compliance in an audit.
In case of credit where credit’s due, is gofmt where the concept of auto-formatting syntax became mainstream? At first I hated it because I thought I had a style, but later on I enjoyed the consistency far more than I enjoyed my signature approach.

A programming language has an opinion on how you build software with it, so it’s appreciated that it also has an opinion on how you should write it so that it remains consistent and easy to follow. No debate about where to put braces or semicolons or whatever else doesn’t matter when putting something in front of your users.

It feels like dumbing down in a way, which is sad, but I think this is more for the benefit of collaboration than individualism or artistic intent. In that case you either disable the tool or refuse to use it.

In every other case, you’ve automated away almost every nitpick from a code review.
It sounds to me like, according to this article, that the software's first response after the car ahead slowed down was to return to the preset speed after it changed lanes, as opposed to looking for a reason why that car slowed down and then changed lanes.

That's a pretty serious oversight in design if true, but to be fair I have no knowledge of how that software works.
Perhaps Apple could introduce a Mac Mini with an iPad-class version of the A12 for all people that need to develop for iOS but don't want to spend a ton on hardware. The basic tools like Xcode and some Apple productivity software could already be ported, most developer toolchains would follow. The Simulator would have realistic CPU characteristics. And Apple would ease in on the transition to macOS-ARM.
But more times than not it does. Since there's a long history of companies doing bad stuff, you definitely don't deserve the benefit of the doubt on this one.
The attention merchants soliciting as much free content as you can produce so they can exploit it.
The emails we get saying what is recently posted on FB and how you are missing out by not participating. It's all increasingly naked and greed driven...and quickly destroying brand allegiance and credibility...
I'm not at all overweight and personally don't see what this fasting thing is about.

If I even skip breakfast forget hard thinking or strenuous effort.
Would you please stop copy-pasting the same thing in multiple threads? You've done it 5 times. That's particularly abusive.

It strictly lowers the signal/noise ratio of this site, meaning it's just what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And the SFMTA is the one regulating this type of transport.
Yes, this is the way the law, prosecution and judgement works. If you violate GDPR and the EU prosecutes you and you don't even show up to court and there is judgement against you and you are fined, the EU can try to get paid from your bank. That's how law, prosecution and judgement work in America too. How else would it work? Why would anyone obey any regulation or ever show up to court otherwise?

That being said, the starting point shouldn't be, "there's no need to imagine that I'm violating GDPR. I only serve Americans". The starting point should be, "I had better imagine that I might be violating GDPR even though I only intend to serve Americans. Are there things I haven't considered? Are there resources I should seek out? As a service provider of some kind, hadn't I better spend a day or two imagining the ways I might run into trouble and plan to avoid it?"
Black and YAPF introduce consistent formatting within an entire file. Ironically, autopep8 goes against PEP 8 by only targetting the places in the file that generate pycodestyle warnings. Some of the warnings are also incompatible with PEP 8 (W503, E203) and the chosen formattings might very well be inconsistent with the rest of the file.
As long as you're just "responding to HTTP requests", there's nothing to worry about and the GDPR does not apply.

It's when you start collecting personal data on EU residents, send their personal data to third parties for analytics/targeted advertising, and so on, that things get interesting.
That's an optimistic view of dealing with government, that they would actually be reasonable and helpful. Many in the US have a decidedly pessimistic view of dealing with regulations and bureaucracy.

Uber versus Night School is an example of this. Uber: Ignore taxi regulations, get tons of VC, get rich while being awful people. Night School: try to work with government and play by the rules, fail, get used as a cautionary tale.

Source: https://psmag.com/economics/night-school-failed-because-it-f...

I think something akin to GDPR is necessary and good, but GDPR as written probably isn't it. I look forward to seeing how it works out in practice, and how it develops/is replaced, and in the meantime feel bad for the developers and customers that suffer through the unintended consequences and misfeatures of it.

After the law gets clarified some, I think you're right that it won't be bad for small players. But I wouldn't want to be one of the test cases.
An Illustrated History of the Picnic Table
I recall watching a Mr. Rogers episode where he visits a robot factory and being mesmerized.

Found the episode. The link has some pictures. The robots were very R2D2-esque.

http://www.neighborhoodarchive.com/mrn/episodes/1513/index.h...
Not only that - this is great weapon to shut down websites that are against current political agenda since virtually every site could be found non complaint.
The point of the crystal clear rules is to reduce how much the human operator needs to think about what they're doing. Should you teach your workers every legal nuance they need to sell a car (and hope they follow them), or do you setup clearly defined rules that can be easily followed and repeated?
I think it is just being lighter, but the difference in endurance/recovery from hills, etc is pretty significant.
I do think it's working as intended, I think that's the problem, the intentions are not good.
Instead of oil pipelines just build more water pipelines. That's what we do here in Oklahoma. SE part of the state is wet, we run water back to the west side.
The Cardiff Walker poses to amuse the girls at the Turing Institute Robot Olympics. (1990)

https://i.imgur.com/Mi0mbWb.jpg

He won Gold in the Biped Race!

CARDIFF BIPED. Uni. Wales, Cardiff, Wales. Paul Channon, Simon Hopkins & Prof Pham

http://www.galloimages.co.za/image/biped-robot-in-action-at-...

>The UWCC Biped robot in action at the 1990 Robot Olympics in Glasgow. This robot is a product of Cardiff University. It consists of a pair of life- size aluminium legs. Pneumatic actuators at the joints enable this robot to walk with a rolling gait. Both feet are equipped with strain guages to measure the rolling motion, with a feedback mechanism to prevent the robot falling over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Robot_Olympics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Institute
That you don't agree with it is obvious but whether or not a law is enforced or not does not change the fact that it is the law.

And something being "the law" doesn't actually mean anything. If not enforced, laws are just words.

So these companies who are now blocking did the actually rational thing, which is ignore the law right up until it matters.

No fines are going to hit these companies that have no EU presence. That's just scaremongering. And for the ones that do, I guess we'll see. Blocking the EU market seems pretty damn fair to me. I don't understand why the EU thinks it can force a business outside of the EU to deal with their citizens if it doesn't want to?
All three versions came from the Web site of Canadian author Robert Munsch.

Hearing Robert Munsch read his own stories can be a revelation. He puts so much energy into the reading, in a way that kids seem to really enjoy. He also often deviates from the published text. Listening to him made me willing to take a lot more risks as a reader.

I read "Paper Bag Princess" to my daughter's kindergarten class, and then played them Munsch's rendition [0]. Whenever I go back, the kids ask if they can hear an author reading their own book.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIPrb-sA6Uo
In the interest of transparency you should probably disclose which business that is.
If this is anything more than fear of change (I suspect it isn't, once people get a little more accustomed to GDPR and some of the inevitable issues are ironed out), and other device owners start blocking EU citizens, I suspect GDPR may end up being a huge boon for Europeans.

Much like China, which has managed to develop a huge internet industry because it doesn't have to compete with the American competitors, the EU's huge market will provide a lot of space for EU startups if the American competitors refuse to do business in Europe. But unlike China, the GDPR will make those European companies more competitive on the world scene rather than less.

If the choice was between 2 services, one of which complied with GDPR and one which didn't, and explicitly excluded GDPR protected users, I'd assume the vast majority of regular consumers, but definitely businesses, would pick the GDPR compliant one.
What about tons of regular birds that don't need trees? Eagles, condors, gulls, albatrosses, etc.
Companies can choose with whom and where they want to do business. The entire world is not entitled to everything Silicon Valley makes.
For what it's worth, since keto strips sort of measure excreted/'underutilized' ketones, you may still be becoming more fat adapted. Also, measuring ketones at night (after a day spent running on them) may be a good time to test.
They're already on the one big island... they've just decided not to worry about the other big island across the sea yet because the one they're on is big enough for the time being.
Nothing will happen to companies outside the EU. You can violate GDPR freely.

There is no possible way they can enforce any law, fine or penalty outside their borders. They won't even try.
Kernel won, userland didn't.
No it doesn't and I suspect the broth is just to make the salted water taste better.
Sounds like you're joking but I'll bite. Yes, it's different because doing what you suggest introduces barriers for people which make landing changes harder. By forcing people to conform to any style manually, especially by blocking them from landing important features and bug fixes due to styling preferences, you are building up opposition. It's just a bad experience for everybody involved.

In contrast, when you're promising that this exact problem won't happen anymore because an automatic tool will handle stylistic preference for your team, people are more willing to accept stylistic choices they (mildly) disagree with. Because on average the style is still better and on average everybody can move faster.
Double quotes also have drawbacks, visual noise and the doubling of keypresses required on the most common keyboard layouts.
I mean, things aren't really that different from when the Loma Prieta hit. Most of the people who died in that earthquake were on the bridge when it happened. It caused a lot of property damage and injuries but not many fatalities.
> Assuming this is a story about

Assuming? Maybe even just skim it before commenting?

FWIW, I downvoted you -- one hopes it isn't undone by commenting -- I just thought you should know why.
The issue is that people are moving into land that wasn't used for irrigated farm land. If we in-fill to 2x the population density, there isn't any farmland to de-water. And most farmland in the southwest is just grazing land that isn't irrigated.
This strikes me as the typical political response when you are backing a terrible candidate and somebody points out something terrible they do/did. Rather than defend your candidate you respond by attacking theirs. My kids do this all the time when I catch them doing something wrong, "well #{brother} was doing #{badthing}!"

Both seem wrong, can we agree on that? DMCA is a disgusting weapon, as is a lot that the US has done. Does that make weapons created by Europe ok?
> NOTE: we delete all client data when they cancel already. And we don’t do any creepy marketing.

This does sound like you'll have an easy time complying with GDPR! :)
You may also be interested in Kill the Newsletter:

https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/

(I think a fellow HN user made it? Can't remember)
I wonder if encasing the 'desert farms' with a sort of greenhouse would be viable economically; it would at least allow for a collection point where that water could be recovered.
Where do you think eagles nest and raise their young before they can learn to fly?
If you have the cash to be able to buy the house outright why would you default in the first place? Otherwise, after a default (which likely includes bankruptcy) you will be unable to get credit.
Doesn't china block itself?
EU citizens have turned into pests overnight.

EU citizens turned into "pests" two years ago. Much like Y2K was a "pest" years before January 1, 2000. But unlike EU regulations, Y2K was like The Terminator: there was no appeal process, and it absolutely would not stop...ever, until you fix your Y2K bugs.

GDPR OTOH, eh, maybe there's some way to wiggle out of it? And two years later, when Compliance Day comes, here we are.
As an apple user and gamer, this angers me.
Numberphile: Weber's Law
There are plenty more examples of the US twisting Europe's arm. Currently it's looking like that is the plan for Iran.
We'll just pump it out and run it hundreds of miles away like it's done with Lake Mead. What could go wrong?
> so many people have lost their jobs, friends, and livelihoods due to publishing the 'wrong' thing on facebook.

If your job, friends, or livelihood is at stake, I'd say either all of those, or your content, needs to be evaluated, and not for spelling errors.

> And the definition of 'wrong' is ever-changing.

It seems like some people have a lot more trouble with this than it really warrants.
Well, if you don't serve European customers, it doesn't.
Slightly OTT: Does anyone know why May 25 was chosen as "GDPR day"?

I asked a data protection specialist, a real expert on the legislation, but they couldn't answer that question for me.