skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re not Government, they’re employed by a private company contracted by the BBC - they have no special enforcement powers. They have as much right to be in your house as anyone else who turns up at your door i.e. none.

The whole TV licensing thing is basically based on the assumption that most people want to follow the law most of the time, which it turns out is a true assumption.
I can't help but think there are going to be significant unforeseen consequences of this -- consequences that will give rise to business models we haven't even begun to consider yet. Off the top of my head: why have retail stores to which you have to drive 5 to 15 miles? Put a densely packed warehouse (one that looks more like a large home than a warehouse going ten levels below grade) of the most commonly needed groceries right in a cluster of neighborhoods and orders can be made online, picked by robots, and delivered by autonomous vehicle (and restocked from larger, more central warehouses in a similar manner).

And kicking it up a notch: how about the domestic robot signing for the order and beginning dinner preparations with the just-in-time delivered products while the humans in the house... well, play video games....
This is a good one thanks!
What is LEMP?
I think the idea is that in an ego-dystonic illness _you_ know this is a problem, and in other mental illnesses other people have spotted it's a problem but you can't/ won't.

For example starving yourself to death is definitely a problem, but body-image mental health illness that causes it usually leave the sufferer unable to recognise this consequence of their actions.
Oh, only seven months to look at it? What were the lawyers doing all that time before then? IT techs here have been training for GDPR for the four years since the law was first designed.
I love the circuit simulation that shows the field. I've never seen that before and its super neat. Its cool how you can see what looks like random electrons occasionally flying off and coming in from outside the 'wires' as well.
The cost of privacy protection at most registrars is ~$5 a year.

Grandpa Joe's understanding of it all is completely separate from any "class" considerations.
"D" is surprising to me. It's either going to create a high incentive for dark patterns or it will kill the business of selling data. Why doesn't the proposal make it illegal to sell data if that's the case?

Past that, it's also surprising that a lot of this is about selling data, but what about using it internally? It seems like Facebook and Google don't want to sell your data as they consider it their proprietary asset.
I left because of these types of people. I don't want to stay on a platform where I have to be careful with my speech so I don't offend anyone and I don't want to be banned, blocked etc. for discussing wrong ideas. Some communities there turn toxic really fast when you don't share their opinion, real discussions are often times not possible at all.
So how is whoisguard legal?
I Guess they whitelist it. If someone types a valid command send the command. If someone types an invalid command then it prob sends something that isn’t descriptive. (Assumptions I’m making)
how would they know you’re 39 versus 40 in the interview process?
Previously posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17130339 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17146891, but never got discussed.

It looks like a really interesting solution of how to build up a Lisp machine from bare metal.
That's interesting, I'll take a look, although I don't like using Google services. Thanks for the suggestion, I wasn't even aware that they had a domain registration product.
I believe in free speech online, Yelp included, however, I would be factual and concise when writing a review. The article quotes she wrote "crooked", which means dishonest, or illegal. I am not saying there are not scammers and bad doctors, but it's best to keep your language objective and answer after you have emoted offline, or the legal issues have been resolved. She could have stated that she was billed for X, but thinks she did not receive X as defined, and did not receive sufficient clarification or verification from the doctor. She states the doctor's office were aggressive on the phone when she called. Per her allegation they stated she complained of pelvic pain and this required an ultrasound. Did she complain of having pelvic pain and was given an ultrasound? Is this covered in the annual checkup for free?

I have a bill from my daughter's pediatrician, which on first look appears to be a double charge for a developmental evaluation (filling out 3 pages of questions on her). I am not going to jump on Yelp and write the pediatrician is crooked or otherwise, until I am convinced it is either a clerical error, includes another form she had us fill out that I am unaware of is a separate, standard billable practice, or is plain dishonest, and trying to get more money out of my insurance company. I will admit my first reaction upon opening the bill, hungry, late, and overworked was "This is bullshit! They are trying to rob me!" I have been overseas for the past 8 out of 9-1/2 years, so I am going to tread lightly until I can ascertain the doctor's intentions. I think many people use Yelp or other online reviews as a forum for knee-jerk, emotional reactions.
Isn't the point that the attacker could compromise that promise of non-tracking? They could track whatever is routed through them and then forward them on to the legitimate destination.
This sounds alarmingly similar to something like, the terrorists win if we don't watch the NFL on Sunday while drinking mainstream American beers.

The racist or ageist "win" if they are not held accountable, with visible punishment, for their racist or ageist actions. They don't "win" through bespoke second order effects of their first order actions.

In terms of what a candidate should do, it's a heuristic. I choose to apply the heuristic of, "be really wary and cautious that self-interested commercial entities have incentives to generally be ageist or racist."

I pay a cost sometimes when that heuristic was suboptimal. But it's worth it to avoid super widespread predatory practices in a bunch of other cases. Worrying about the hyper-optimized policy that accounts for secondary perceptions of my fear of ageism seems like a huge waste, huge premature optimization effort that could be better spent choosing a simple heuristic and focusing on the up-front, obvious, primary ageism or racism issues.

To boot, honestly, if an employer gets some kind of "weird vibe" from me because I ask questions or discuss policies from an anti-ageism point of view, and this leads them to reject me, then probably my heuristic was right, and really there are internal dysfunctions in that company that I am better off avoiding.

Corporations can harm applicants and employees in so many ways that it often really is better to have a default belief that this is what they are trying to do, and take a very risk-averse heuristic to just avoid places that give off even slight signals, like if they treat you like you're weird for taking a proactive, positive stance on it.

If they reject you, you're probably dodging a nasty bullet anyway.
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Tesla/SolarCity previously imposed unfair fees on potential solar power purchasers, which virtually killed the local solar market.

When Musk company SolarCity was heading for BK Tesla 'bought' them and made them part of Tesla. This has more to do with that than people having political issues with Tesla and environmentalists etc.

Tesla batteries are essentially Panasonic units with Tesla branding and packaging...
Ant Financial raises $10Bn($150Bn Eval), becomes world highest valued startup
This, I hope, is the list of documents filed in the case. No. 36 records a motion sealing some for containing her confidential information. I can't cut and paste here, but it says that in one of her affidavits, she included private information and in a response the plaintiff also included private information. There are charitable interpretations on either side.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivil/FCASeFiledDocsDeta...
Wheres the find and replace shortcut?
The O(1) amortized access of a hash table is for the number of entries, not key hashing or comparison. Doubling the number of entries does not double the retrieval time.

As a hash table gets larger, the cost of key hashing (for the same domain of keys) does not increase. Of course hashing and comparison performance can still be important, it's just not what is generally being analyzed with basic complexity theory.
Interesting thought experiment, although, as others have pointed out, a huge section of industrial civilization would be required to get to the point of producing CPUs.

A more interesting question would be how many volumes the build instructions would comprise.
Only some primitive hash table algorithms have O(n) worst case access. No one implements those algorithms anymore though.
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I think the difference with games now is that the expectations are much higher - games cost far more to produce than they used to, and are much more complex and have better graphics, so it is harder to recoupe development costs by selling a game at an upfront cost, especially when the expectation is that a game should cost $60 or less. Maybe we need to change our expectations of how much a good game should be worth.
Show HN: Howler 2.0 is PR outreach as a service starting at $99/mo
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So far we’ve helped ~100 startups like Ben (YC W18), Bitsbox (as seen on Shark Tank), and Off The Grid get dozens of interviews with outlets like TechCrunch, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. (You can see some of the features we’ve gotten our subscribers at www.howler.media.)

We’ve taken all the feedback we’ve gotten from our subscribers and have just shipped a 2.0 with an updated pricing model, brand identity, and landing page. We’ve also recently on-boarded someone to our team in NYC to lead our outreach campaigns and account management. Here's how Howler 2.0 works:

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4. We'll follow up with each journalist 1-2 times

5. We'll CC you on the thread if any of them express interest

6. We'll monitor HARO and reach out to journalists proactively if we think you’re a good fit for their story

7. We'll provide analytics of open & reply rates throughout the campaign

We’d really appreciate your feedback on our messaging + pricing model! We also have a 20% discount code for HN: HACKERS.

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And the job is well-done. Nice graphs ;)
Usually upstream ISP providing transit accepts only a valid set of prefixes that they have agreed to advertise on the public internet from an ISP customer, they enforce a policy on the ingress to make this happen. Idea being, if the customer ISP ends up advertising an incorrect prefix, then the impact is only localised to his ISP and not to the whole world. But some ISPs don't follow this and implicitly trust the customer ISPs and of course there is no cover if the tier1 ISP itself typo's a prefix. There are tools such as BGP RPKI available, but its not widely deployed.
I hate paywalls as much as anyone else, but it's just too common with papers to restrict HN to free only, however you can use scihub easily enough... the latest GDPR geoblocked newsites on the otherhand are very unwelcome.
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How would you make the system moral?

Let's say "moral" means "won't discriminate based on X" and the same "system" is used by everyone, which of course it wouldn't be.

So do you make up a bunch of fake "people" who are equal in everything except X, and test that it doesn't advantage/disadvantage the X's? Would that even be possible if the "system" is getting its inputs from social media?

Do you do mandate some kind of audit of the system's decisions, and require it to choose on average the same percentage of Xs as... what? As there are Xs in the general population? In the candidate pool?

I'd love for this kind of thing to work but even in an idealized hypothetical version it's hard to see how it could.

I think in tech we've already shown that shame is no barrier to hiring discrimination, and as HR+AI type filtering systems preselect candidates for you it'll be harder and harder for you or the government or the disadvantaged candidates to even know if you're discriminating.

You'll judge the "system" based solely on whether the set of candidates you got achieved the outcome you needed.
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I have recently started working remotely and dealing with my own productivity as opposed to have some expectations of work hours has been an interesting challenge.

Since I log my own hours I became full aware of this 6 hours "ceiling" in the long term, for a few days I could work for many more hours, but that would have a big price to pay in future productivity. In the beginning I felt bad, as if I was not able to produce as much as other people leading to a lot of anxiety. As I realized that my actual productivity was going up, compared to my older self and other peers, I embraced it.

Now I work 6 productive hours and to me that's 8 hours of work, my results are better month by month, my quality of life is better and my anxiety is more controlled. Everybody wins.
devils advocate reasons to avoid older tech job seekers:

1. they are less pliable. they have experience st other companies and typically want to keep doing stuff the way they did at their previous company. it’s a lot more work to make someone unlearn bad habits than teach them good ones

2. If you have 20+ years of experience you should really be at the management or architect level. if you’re still a typical engineer (even senior) it may indicate a defect.

3. Our company wants people to work insane hours and maybe your family prevents that
> > It's also nearly impossible in an Enterprise IT environment to get Kubernetes working on your laptop.

> huh? What does that mean? Maybe that means the environment is broken, not the software you want to use/work on.

That is what the word "Enterprise IT" means. If you ever work in a company that makes more than a million USD per year, you will find an imperfect network in a nearly unknown state, with proxies and firewalls making your life hard, and automatic reconfiguration tools/scripts/antivirus-software resetting everything to "not working" the moment you take your eyes of the config files.

People and Software who really want to make money in Enterprise need to be able to handle that somehow. If you develop software on your macbook in an environment with the complexity of a Starbucks Wifi nobody can actually use your software in Enterprise.

Btw. did I mention that Windows+Outlook+Lync is the high standard of Enterprise laptops? Forget Enterprise users if you are not developing ON Windows.
The nature of the chain business. Chains do things that small ones don’t and the extra regulations are about that. As I said, small restaurants are not allowed to be dirtier than the chains.

The same goes for the software, if you’re not doing things that Google does then GDPR affects you less than Google.

Seriously, the cost of GDPR compliance is not the same for Google and mom&pop businesses, just like the cost of food safety regulations is not the same for the chains and small restaurants.

You are freaking out for no good reason.
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Thanks for the article, the insights are super. With GDPR it's honestly simply funny how people are only now starting to get the basics (if you are one of those - go check this out - https://www.omnisend.com/blog/gdpr-hub/) of it, when they were suppose'd to know everything a long time ago. But still good.
It is at times a good move, but make the offer before the rejection, possibly as being willing to work as a contractor and later go full time.
It seems the standard recommendation to swim parallel to the shore may be wrong.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2089696/everything-you-know-ab...
Bayesian reasoning is good when applied rigorously, but can be dangerous when applied sloppily and lazily, since people are terrible at subjectively estimating probabilities and tend to be way over optimistic when updating their priors with any new information they receive.

Basically people will treat information that should realistically cause them to update their priors from 50-50 to 51-49 as if it was information that should cause them to update to 80-20 (and then they round off too 100-0).
an ip as an int will be converted back to binary to be stored, so will still require 4 bytes to store (uncompressed). unless i'm missing something?
Well, it depends. If you only enable access to the demo without storing any personal information, there is no prblem whatsoever.

If, in order to access the demo, you need to give your e-mail address, and you are harvesting e-mail addresses in this way, you need to inform the users you are doing so, and provide a separate unchecked box "Subscribe to the Newsletter". In this way you are honest with the users, with how you are using their data, and you stick to the letter and the spirit of the law.
I highly doubt that. Websites are much more throw-away than the average enterprise backend processing app, even for large apps like Gmail I suspect the churn is orders of magnitudes larger than in their backend systems started in 2004.

COBOL skills remain valuable because they're running hard-to-replace data processing systems at the core of large corporations. Java fills the same role.
Glad to hear it's helpful, thx.

I know amazon's got a different motivation matrix than a startup; e.g., Amazon won't die if some feature isn't delivered by the next trade show, but they do have competition from the other majors.

That said, amazon certainly also has the funds available to invest in a parallel risk team. If they're not motivated to do it from the risk to their users, the best argument might be the potential reputation setbacks if stuff like this gets out there & causes problems, bad press, reputation for creepiness, etc.

I know it always seems inevitable that you'll weather the reputation hits from errors and just press on to greater usage/adoption/sales, but it will always seem that way from the inside -- until it doesn't. Google's experience with Glass comes to mind; could have been a fantastic product, but it went just under the tipping point of being creepy, and poof, they're gone. It'll be a generation before anything similar comes back.

I'd hate to see that happen to Echo/Alexa. TBH, it looks like this product has both greater potential, and also greater creepiness potential than Glass ever did.
1st-party data is different from 3rd-party data, regardless of how it's physically stored.

I'm not sure what your question is though, are you asking how to protect yourself? It seems you already have it covered if you delete cookies.
It was sci fi 50 years ago. By the time of the Newton (25 years ago) and iPhone was a predictable evolution of existing technology. So was the Star Trek voice command interface. The question is: are self deiving cars iPhones (where the technological curve played out as expected) or voice recognition (which never really got as good as people expected it would be).
The "prices" are moves in a game played between hospitals and insurance providers, and don't correspond to anything real or to the amount that gets paid. If a hospital discovers that the patient doesn't have insurance they'll be charged the real (more reasonable) prices instead.
Mr Tomato has apparently never heard of the Streisand Effect
the placebo effect is both larger and smaller than people intuitively assume.

it's larger in the sense that part of it is essentially impossible to control for; people in a clinical trial are predisposed to, at a minimum, think about the issue which is being investigated, which likely causes some sort of change in their mindset and subsequently their body. there's no real way to measure that adequately.

but it's smaller in the sense that the body isn't a system like in the Matrix where "the mind makes it real". if someone tells you that you drank lethal poison (but in actuality you drank a placebo), you might feel bad, but you won't die. the reverse is not necessarily true, bizarrely.

if you get a (unbeknownst to you) placebo/sham knee surgery as part of a trial to investigate the merit of a genuine surgical procedure designed explicitly to reduce pain, it'll reduce your pain almost as effectively as "the real deal". but here's the clincher. if you are told beforehand that it is a placebo, it'll still reduce your pain, although if i am remembering the study correctly it was a smaller benefit than those who were not told they received a placebo.

so if you know you're getting a placebo, the effect is WAY larger than it "should" be. but that's for a subjective variable -- pain. but when the subject isn't prompted about the effects of the placebo, or is administered a totally implausible placebo which can't possibly fix the issue -- like a pill to cure a severed arm -- it's even more impotent than we would expect.
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Blaming the victim just for the sake of being contrarian is an even stronger one.
Anonymous reviews are a sort of a good thing, viewed from that end
> What were the lawyers doing all that time before then? IT techs here have been training for GDPR for the four years since the law was first designed.

wow, and people claim this won't just destroy totally innocent startups.
Financial records, block chains, the knowledge of mankind, etc.
I'm using the Web app, looks like it was something on my end causing the problem. All good now, thanks for the quick response.
How a race to the bottom hurts your bottom line
The GDPR wouldn't limit the sale of privacy services to 90+% of the world.
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Seems heavy handed and ineffectual as a means of hunting down fake users, with a high risk of cannibalizing the social media presence of legitimate (especially tourist catering) businesses.
People would try to troll the system and trick it into sounding false alarms.

It's still a good idea, but just an idea at this point. There would be lots of challenges to make it work.
You should still consider using an activitypub platform. I know mastodon has a decidedly lower quality of user, but I use a gnusocial instance and I have lots of interesting conversations.

Now, there's degenerates there too, but they're not quite so irritating and there are lots of tuning controls to play with.

Honestly, using anything other than large, centralized social media will be a boon to the world, imho. I don't want to be a farm animal, just creating more data for an advertising company. I want to talk to people.

There are other interesting implementations too. Pleroma comes to mind, it's an elixir activitypub server.

Or maybe you could write your own. Or fork one.

Idk.

But don't let the mastoverse disenchant you from federated Internet content.
If you find that kind of thing fun, there are a bunch of free online CTF-style "wargames" that involve exploiting software with intentionally added bugs in a sandbox. Not nearly as difficult and impressive as this kind of real in-the-wild exploit, but definitely fun.

http://overthewire.org/wargames/

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