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No way?! How confident are you? Anyways, I mentioned Steve Jobs just as an interesting fact. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't personally believe that anybody should be cautious recommending a book. It's a whole separate topic, but in short, can't help one if he's stupid enough to try whatever is on the internet, but I'm glad to share useful information with the smarter one. Otherwise there is no neither progress nor evolution.
TV stations have survived thus far and are doing a little better than online publishers.

The number of TV stations has a hard limit, so that's why the average TV station makes more in ad revenue than the average online publisher. But the top online publishers (Google and Facebook) make much, much more in ad revenue than the top TV stations.

Perhaps we should just give out operating licenses to 1000 websites and force the rest to shut down :)
Cannot agree more. You can get 6-core i9 Dell Precision with 4k screen, 32GB RAM, and 5x better GPU that weights 4lb for 2/3 of maxed out MacBook price.
Sure the build won't be that good but with this new keyboard I'm not so sure anymore. And I get fucking ports.

The only reason I'm with MacBook is vendor lock-in with my work environment but that isn't going to last forever.
Where did the money go? To the academic establishment (USC in this case): tenured professors, deans/administrators, etc. Where did the money come from? The US taxpayer.

The whole rotten system is a thinly-veiled massive government subsidy to the higher education industry. In addition there's a weird incentive structure for students where you either minimize loans to a reasonable amount (increasingly difficult), or you go all-in and borrow such an extraordinary amount that is impossible to pay off in any reasonable time. Then in 20 years, it's all "forgiven" and the US government covers the balance. There is no way for this to be sustainable in the long term.
OK. Why is forcing people to consider the ethics of gathering data that have hither to proven to be lacking morally and ethically a bad thing?

In terms of "impact to garage innovations", there shouldn't be any if there is nothing nefarious about it. The cost of designing and engineering software ethically is minimal.
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> It almost feels to me like he is shopping around for some sexy application area where his one-upsmanship approach will catch on too give him a chance at the hype gravy train or something.

This doesn't seem like a very fitting description of Pearl. In his work, he is very careful to cite existing approaches (structural equation model literature, various topics from graphical models). In his various discussions with Gelman, he comes off as freakishly polite and not looking to one up.
Or it could be another ill-conceived half-baked product, like most of the stuff Apple has released in the last five years.
You’re going to get downvoted for that comment, but you do raise a legitimate question of enforceability. Sure the EU can say any company in the world who has EU residents’ data should comply with GDPR. But... or what exactly? The EU doesn’t have the power to fine companies outside of their jurisdiction. I mean, they can try. But as far as I know there is no enforceability to ensure that the company actually pays the fine.

For larger companies with offices in the EU (especially the ones headquartered there for tax purposes), they obviously have no choice to comply. But what about a small startup, with its only domicile and employees in the US?

What exactly could the EU do to punish a startup in that case? Unless they have some enforceability treaty with the US, I don’t see how they have any legal ground to extract fines for arbitrary laws defined in their jurisdiction. The worst they could do is ask EU ISPs and/or payment networks to block the offending sites, right?
> Really? Reeaallly?

Yes, unfortunately. I don't know if many shops have shitty Internet connection (sometimes the card reader even displays "ISDN dialup" in the status field) and/or the online clearing takes so long, but it really is annoyingly slow most of the time.
As most applications older than a year are called legacy nowadays gcc (~30 YO) or openssl (~20 YO) are not what comes into my mind when asked for "modern" commands.

Neither are for 'dd' or 'tar' (probably 30 YO) from the other comment.

There are probably other, younger commands not following the --long-option pattern, but i think that doesn't make it better to break this convention.
I don't think that Mike Meru has anything to complain about. Professional schools have been this way for a long time --- you borrow a lot of money to go and then make a good salary which let's you pay it back. It looks to me like it worked out for him. There are prople who borrow money to attend a program on the basis of misleading information from the school. But it doesn't look like that happened here.

That he lets his debt balloon instead of paying it down with his $225K/year salary is on him. It seems like he's betting on some loan forgiveness program coming along to bail him out. Meanwhile, he lives in a $1,000,000 house and drives a Mercedes.
Did you use the internet back then? Do you remember what online ads were like before AdSense?

My god. They sucked so hard! AdSense was a revolution.
OT, but with the whole GDPR drama, this website has made a better effort than most to comply. However, I doubt that all the default opt-ins would be ruled GDPR-compliant.
On the contrary, if you are running a business where 99% of your customers are outside of the EU, its totally rational versus opening yourself up to massive liability.
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True, but Amazon Prime is a de facto warehouse club (cf. Costco) where you pay $100+/year for the privilege and perks to shop there. Once you're in the Prime ecosystem, your switching costs become higher.

Within Amazon's ecosystem, you can get a discount by using their credit card, a discount on shipping, a discount on pre-ordering items on a subscription, and all the personally-targeted aspects of a typical loyalty card. This is their moat vs. Walmart, and consequently, Walmart would have to offer a significantly cheaper (or "better") service to entice switchers -- a high bar for luring discretionary customers.
Isn't there a Cloudflare geo-location header that you can trivially activate and map to EU/Non-EU? That would result in no additional latency except for the worker itself.
The phrasing "minutiae" is unfortunate because it makes it sound like the exact formatting is a matter of taste or doesn't matter. In my experience, there are always corner cases where either tools like these produce bad results. "Bad" isn't just some aesthetic property, it can mean the difference between being able to absorb the meaning of a block of code in 10 seconds, versus having to spend a minute taking it all in. Across a large body of code, those paper cuts really add up.

Personally, the only code formatter I've ever been really comfortable using is clang-format. And the reason is that they really try hard to get the corner cases right. Black might be fine, but I've been burned many times with other tools and in general would be reluctant to trust a tool like this without seeing what it does in practice to a large code base.
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If you have no connection with EU why do you collect personal data from the EU citizens? If you don't collect why worry?
Philosophy is sophistry. I like R. Scott Bakker's take on the semantic apocalypse, and the lack of progress in philosophy.
https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/what-is-the-semant...
PSLF only takes 10 years so if he could get onto that program he’d save himself a lot of money. PSLF forgiven debt is not taxable.
I've been doing intermittent fasting for about a year--it seems to work for me because I struggle with controlling portion sizes. Mon/Wed of every week I limit caloric intake severely--I skip all meals and snack on olives, pickles, maybe a small amount of avacado in the evening along with a couple of La Croix. Not sure why olives/pickles, other than I wanted to keep the fasting foods keto-friendly. Other than that, I used to chew a lot of gum during fasting, but have since stopped because I'm not sure what exactly "sugar alcohol" is doing to my body.

It has worked out well for me. I started at 230 in June and hit my baseline of low 190's in mid-November. I've been there since doing the 2-day fast. It is not too bad so long as you can stay busy, although it does really affect my mood on those fast days. It has helped my mountain/road biking immensely.

Just wanted to share my experiences...if anyone has other recommendations for fasting days, please share.
Best hope there are no people using VPN’s
I agree. He bought a used Mercedes for 390/mo while in college and not paying loans. What was wrong with having a used Toyota Camry for 8k?
There may not be a lot of difference between "very safe" and "most safe", but if they have enough of an advantage to get to "safe enough" before anyone else, that's a big deal.
You have to know things about weather and reading maps that you'll never use when flying a drone, bu it only takes a weekend of studying to pass the drone pilot test.
>> EU citizens have turned into pests overnight.

Are they really pests for demanding privacy? In today's environment?
No rumors may also maybe be because they don't have anything exciting to show?
Jetson CPU performance is on par with chips like the RK3399 or the Exynos5422, which are 4/5+ times as fast as the RPi 3b (I owned RPi 2/3b series, and the Exynos).

Note that the first benchmark in the mentioned article is an outlier.
Sure. Any incidental effect related to the actual physics used to encode information potentially could leak information. Fluid has mass, and accelerations require forces, so acoustic, acceleration, and thermal side channels are all a possibility.
Same for me getting 128 gb storage
Is it onerous because you are doing dodgy things with EU citizens data, because you don't take information security seriously or because you've fallen for some of the FUD around GDPR (having to hire a DPO, being fined 2 trillion dollars, etc etc)?

If it's too hard for you to copy paste a GDPR compliant privacy policy and monitor a GDPR email address then well, maybe you're in the wrong job.
My understanding is that if a post did not get a lot of attention, then the duplicate will be allowed through.

> Are reposts ok?

> If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

> Please don't delete and repost the same story; accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges. Deletion is intended for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Yes, I believe that there is a non-zero probability that could happen, just as there is a non-zero probability that all the air molecules in the room you are in, which are bouncing around randomly, may all end up in the other corner of the room and suffocate you.

Since all nodes change sections randomly, like air molecules, they should remain randomly distributed, provided the network size is large enough. For a small network though, one can imagine you could get lucky eventually. Like other decentralized networks, security and size are related.
// churn:

Most meal kits companies will die because they are inconvenient. Too expensive, too much messing around in the kitchen.

But heat-and-eat is easy(just putting something in the oven), somewhat close to takeout easy, and Walmart may take it to really interesting price points.

// Quality, selection at Walmart

Online ordering greatly increased selection. Will do for Walmart.

Walmart order food at the quality and price point fitting customers. Assuming grocery pickup/delivery will attract wealthy urbanists(see my other comment), Walmart will offer also higher quality products
People keep saying this but its not true. The EU has no jurisdiction outside of the EU. If both the user and site are outside of the EU at the time of the transaction, they can not make claims, regardless of citizenship.
Why did her time in residency not count toward pslf?
> You don't have full control over your profile.

Well, I do.

> You can't download a copy of your entire posting history

Yes you can.

http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=author_:krapp

> You can't can't edit or delete comments after a certain window

Yes you can, just not automated. You could mail the moderators with a request.

> You can't edit your username

Why would you, that's your HN identity, not your identity in real life. You ascribe more power to the GDPR than it has.

> you can't delete your account

Have you tried mailing the moderators to ask them to delete your account?

> Full control over your profile would allow you to do all of those things without needing to contact a moderator or use a third party service.

No, the GDPR does not say anything about the company having to automate these things, only that there should be some way to do them. On HN the moderators are in charge of those things. So if you really want to delete your account feel free to contact the moderators. And the GDPR also does not forbid for the company to engage a third party to export the data (though, funny enough, that third party would have to have a DPA with the company).
Alphabet does have a minority equity stake in Vevo.
It certainly doesn’t hurt that the simulator only needs to run the iOS front end on top of macOS Darwin instead of a full copy of iOS, though.

Couldn’t something similar be done with Android on Linux, running x86 Android and using the host system’s kernel?
They used to be critical features, but I just don't think the incremental improvements are as noticeable anymore. My iPhone 6s feels quite snappy yet.

The iPhone 3G to the 3Gs was an amazing leap in usability though. Everything just worked so much better, mostly just due to faster chips as far as I'm aware.
It was a standard from a time when we had green-screen terminals only capable of displaying an 80x24 grid of characters. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100)

It's worth asking - does the standard make sense still, given how we edit today?
Pretty sure this project is dead: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cag/biostream/

But it has some pretty neat examples, not doing computation, but a programmable system for moving, storing, and mixing samples.
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In the first example there really _could_ be sheeps, or at least goats.
They could cover there quite well.

Like in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izxifsh0MU
Much better.

But I wonder what changed since last week because those compliance concerns were just as valid last week. Or do you mean to imply the company knowingly broke the law for a couple of years just because they could?
From the article

"Since refinancing his debt with the federal government in 2015, lowering the rate to 7.25%, Mr. Meru’s balance has grown by $148,948. It will keep growing through the 25-year life of the repayment plan until it reaches $2 million. That sum will be forgiven and, at current tax rates, could cost Mr. Meru more than $700,000 in income tax payments.

By then, Mr. Meru will have paid $1.6 million. That would be about the same as repaying his $600,000 in student loans at a rate of 4% over 25 years, said Jason Delisle, a student-loan expert with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. The biggest factor in Mr. Meru’s runaway debt, he said, was a high principal combined with long periods when Mr. Meru made no payments."
It's irrational, but I'd like to tinker around with a HERO robot, too. I say irrational because it's possible to have vastly more capability with a Raspberry Pi-based modern bot, at 10% of the price. But there's something alluring about the golden era "old iron" computers (pdp8/11) and 1stgen micros (8088/6502), tube amps over solid-state modeling amps, and robots. In a sense it's amazing they (we?) were able to accomplish so much with so little resource.

But also, in the same way that cabinet art portrayed 80's video games as graphical masterpieces even when the graphics themselves were little more than blocks, perhaps it is the hopefulness in the face of failure to deliver on the promises of the early robots that makes them so charming.

I hope to live long enough that someone looks at a Boston Dynamics littledog and says "oh, look at that old thing. It's so primitive!"
Keep in mind that in absolute terms, earning 5x more and 10x cost of living might be larger savings. It sounds like Romania is a nice place, so you could even save for 5 years and retire there.

That said, I dislike rewarding california a single cent of tax revenue for them to piss their LSD-addled urine into the wind, fuck SF go to austin TX (state income tax, easiest 10% raise of your life! pay is same as SF)
I'm actually kinda curious what role the US government will end up playing in all of this
They really choose to start somewhat from the bottom then, doesn't Whole Foods have something like ~3%-5% of the grocery market?

Compare that to companies with comparatively massive market shares like Kroger and Walmart. I can see an argument being made that groceries is a good way to go because people have to eat, but the topology of the industry doesn't really have a medium sized company that you could pour gasoline onto to gain a lot of market share. Something in a different industry might have been a better play to pilot before moving into other retail spaces.
The dd syntax is meant to mirror that of the IBM JCL command dd, and it may have been meant as a joke.

Old versions of sort used a + to begin some options. So yes, there has been a lot of variation over time, but I see no reason to gratuitously diverge from the common standards now in use, unless following them is too restrictive in some way.
> In practice fining companies for getting hacked just boils down to a tax, as no company wants to be hacked

No, it boils down to an incentive. No company wants to get hacked, but a lot those same companies aren't willing to invest in security measures and training that could mitigate the risk.

> Hacking is not a problem you can solve by passing a regulation that says "don't get hacked".

I don't think anyone's proposing a regulation like that. However, it's not fair to put the costs of a data-theft squarely on the victims, when it was really the company that was responsible for securing the data.
This is right-wing fear-mongering slippery-slope nonsense.

How does it make any sense that a future government is so authoritarian/statist that they have "social points" yet advocating against the libertarian/anarchist ideal of open borders costs you government-controlled "social points"?

This kind of "left wing idea -> slippery slope -> communist china" strawman is getting really popular, and it's disgusting. In actual China it is far more likely you would lose social points for advocating for weaker borders and thus against the government status quo, rather than the opposite.
Congratulations on what you have achieved. I have had very similar experiences going from 450lbs+ to 250lbs and counting as a disordered eater. The low carb change had a marked impact on my willpower, among a plethora of benefits, but introducing long term and intermittent fasting took it to another level where I was finally comfortable stating that I am in control after 20 years of battling disordered eating. I am thrilled to read of others getting the same results.
Very true. The core Avail language uses “_=_” for comparison, “_:_” to declare a variable, “_:=_” got assignment, and “_::=_” for constants (think “final”). It also has “_:_:=_” for the case when you want to declare a variable of a general type, but initialize it with something more specific (say a counter that starts at 1).

But yes. There’s a lot of deeply evil things that can be done in Avail, right down to the lexical scanning. Like forbidding certain variable names, or manufacturing a run of tokens every time a certain emoji is encountered. There are also a lot of safeties, like sealing methods to prevent someone overriding “_+_” for [3’s type, 4’s type]->9’s type.

Oh, and writing “x = x + 1;” as a statement will be flagged as a syntax error, because it would produce a Boolean value which is not allowed to be silently discarded like in Java or C. “Discard:_” makes these rarely needed situations absolutely obvious.
I completely agree. But on the flipside, having that control gives you a more secure and robust environment (app store) _almost_ free of spam and phising apps (Windows app store anyone?)
I keep seeing these posts on how to block European users to avoid the GDPR. As a citizen of Europe, seeing these posts consistently making it to the front page is disappointing. It would seem that Silicon Valley perceives the GDPR as more of a hindrance than an opportunity to offer users better privacy. Nothing has been learned.
IP address by itself is not enough to be considered personal data. Only if they gathered other info would it become so.

My ISP can tie IP to my account and other info, so for them it is personal data.

If they're not processing personal data they don't need DPO or rep.

I'm not against analytics for helping to make a site better or understand how people are using it, eg piwik or processing access logs (ok that's a bit old school now). GA I block along with other analytics services that work across numerous sites. That's nothing against HN or an individual site that's not wanting an aggregate profile growing with the analytics provider.

Optional email? Choosing to provide it might be enough opt in. Not sure. There's certainly no restriction of service without or pressure to provide.
Agreed. He also made some frankly bad financial choices along the way: Taking out student loans to pay for the $1,800/month apartment they were renting, putting off paying the loans for a year+ while the interest accrued, buying a house while still having all this debt so that they could "live comfortably", etc.

Dental school is expensive, I get it. He wouldn't have to be here if he made some better financial decisions though.

In the end it's going to be the taxpayers taking the hit, however - apparently he's part of a program that will forgive the debt in 25 years.
What I was referring to is the sharing of remarketing lists. One example:
https://analytics.googleblog.com/2015/06/remarketing-lists-f... https://analytics.googleblog.com/2015/11/share-google-analyt...
A fullsize BB-8 style robot today would be cool, and maybe even useful.
Spot on. That's exactly how it is. It would be nice if the GDPR mandated automated procedures for all of the above that are no more complex than it is to sign up and post in the first place. But that's not quite how it works. There are such requirements in some of our laws with respect to signing up and cancelling paid services.
Article says $13k a month!
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You need to purge that 1% customer data though. If you're accepting EU citizens data through any channel - another business, them using a VPN, via smoke signals, you need to comply.
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