skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have is that you are conflating potential damage and actual damage as the same thing, which is not how you accurately measure risk.

I am honestly confused as to how you interpreted my last comment as "utterly cavalier about the prospect of ruining people's lives", when all I said was that your assumption doesn't take into account the actual probability of data being leaked and it doesn't weigh any of the benefits of data collection against that risk.
About 4 years ago I started changing my diet. I drastically reduced foods with sugar and carbs and gradually shifted to a one main meal a day regiment. I eat my main meal (4 eggs, half an avacodo, cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers salad with some feta cheese) around 12-2:00. I usually have an apple later.
Some weeks I fast for 44-48 hours.
I workout at a boxing gym twice a week (about 1.5 hours of a strenuous workout). I’ve been going to the same gym for 10 years, but after changing my diet my stamina increased, sometimes I feel like I can be there all day.

The 44-48 hour fasting are interesting and are hard. Not because of feeling hungry(you’re but for me it’s more mental, the thought of all the food I should eat the next day), but because of other factors.
The second night your brain is very alert, almost feeling like consuming a lot of caffeine or other stimuli. So if you wake up middle of the night it’s hard to fall asleep again. In the morning, I’m very hyper again as if I had consumed a lot of caffeine and if I drink tea or rarely coffee just before the end of my fast the effects are greatly magnified. Your brain races like mad.
I feel like I have an improved cognitive ability, but I’ve not tested that in any form so it could just be a reflection of being hyper.
That said I’ve gotten physically stronger, since my diet change and my fasting. I end my boxing workout with some weights and now I often get comments how strong I am for my body size. And I know I’ve gotten stronger, because the increased reps and weights I can do. There was some research on fasting and how your muscles become more efficient, so I’m not sure if that’s playing a factor or my increased stamina has allowed me to workout longer and that resulted in increased strength.
The other factor helping me here I think it’s reduced inflammation. It feels like my muscles recover faster and I have less inflammation problems because of my diet.

Some interesting anecdotes. One of the guys who works for the gym commented at my transformation and said I look like a “jock” now and asked details of my diet.
My former boxing instructor who initially told me for best recovery I needed to eat after a hard workout instead of fasting, now has changed his diet as well. So there is something to all these and I’m never going back, but I think we’re still far from knowing the longer term effects of it and also learning about any genetic variability. But I recommend everyone trying it for themselves, it’s easy after the first 7-10 days.
Yeah, good luck enforcing that natural rights w/o any entity to protect you from those who are stronger than you and keen on violating your "rights" for their own good. If I have a gun and you don't, and nobody can enforce your right to life, the chances are that I can kill you and your right to life with a single movement of a finger any time I want. And because not everybody can become warlords, w/o any organisation to enforce those natural rights, they'll only belong to those with more guns. And such organisation, in one form or another, is some sort of government. Calling some rights "natural rights" and believing that they "exist before and outside of government" are just naivety in the least, if you don't have nobody to make sure nobody violates them. We don't live in philosophical wonderlands, unfortunately. In our lands some A. Nix guy can easily acquire data of 50million people in a country and put that to use of unlawful, evil organisations. And just like everybody will kill everybody if you don't have jails to put killers in, these companies will continue on forming and exploiting until there are grave consequences to doing so.
One of the reason I'd prefer WebDAV to FTP from an operational perspective is that WEBDAV needs just one port open whereas FTP needs either connection tracking, which does not work with TLS, or an open port range for its passive connections.
You can run this on pre-commit. While you can set PyCharm to run on file save, it is not guaranteed to run on all files. By using a command line tool, you can enforce that all files across your project are formatted this specific way and never let someone check in something that doesn't conform to it. If you have newbie developers, it can be a lifesaver.
> Regulations tend to favor incumbents, decreasing competition

Except in Europe where it has done the exact opposite for telecom, especially compared to the unregulated US.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/
I think you've got it backwards, in a way: Borders is the taking-away of a right, in order to provide other "rights".

The US, specifically, did not have a very restrictive immigration policy in the 19th century, and while international travel wasn't routine, millions and millions migrated from Europe to the US in that century.
Yep. When people say calories in nutrition, they usually mean "kcal".
> Are there exemptions for very small companies? If you can prove you don't process any user data, at all, does this exempt you from having to appoint a DPO?

From the site:

> Under the GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:

> * you are a public authority (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity);

> * your core activities require large scale, regular and systematic monitoring of individuals (for example, online behaviour tracking); or

> * your core activities consist of large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.

So as far as I can see, yes, for small companies or side projects (i.e. not a public authorities, not working with large scale monitoring of individuals, not dealing with criminal convictions) you don't need a DPO.
Try uMatrix: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

Super simple web connection switchboard by Gorhill (person behind uBlock Origin).

It allows you to assign certain addresses and elements to block calls from/to. For example 'www.google-analytics.com'. I use it as a catch-all when loading a web page, then release elements that I want to load.
Reminds me of the Rocky 4 Robot, here's an article about it (scroll passed the oversized icons):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/creed/rocky-iv-robot-butler...
Yes, but the body needs 2000-2500 kcal per day, not cal.
Android has the ability to push updates to phones that haven't been set up yet; when you first turn on a new phone the first thing it does is ask for wifi so it can check for updates. Google has the ability to update the phone before literally any other part of setup occurs. You do not need to consent to the ToS first; the setup steps on Android are really carefully thought through from a legal perspective.

(I know this because I worked both on the setup system and on one of these "zero-day updates", where we fixed some bugs between when we sent the "final" image to the manufacturer and when we actually shipped devices)
Because the US will strong-arm the NZ govt into arresting you for piracy.
The short answer is Yes.

WebDAV provides a foundation that many things are built on. As others have noted there is CalDAV and CardDAV that many use all the time.

But, it goes beyond that. WebDAV has many of the features we regularly use in object storage. Yet, object storage provides often have their own proprietary API or clone someone elses proprietary API. WebDAV is an open spec.

Because WebDAV has been around for so long, there are integration's with just so many things which make it easy to get something going out of the gate. For example, all the major OS support working with it.

Not only is it relevant for this but with all the discussions on reviving more of the open web... this is a piece worth looking at.
>> "The argument that the West should let in refugees is predicated on the West's history of colonialism and military adventures in the third world."

Most of the time in the public discourse near me, under no circumstances is there any argument at all made in favor of the claims "borders should be open" and "let's bring third world immigrants here" and similar.

Instead these claims are widely accepted as unexamined premises that are self evidently and foundationally true, and that to deny them for any reason is the mark of dangerous lunacy.

Personally I find this situation ridiculous in both the epistemological and practical sense, but there you have it.

I leave it to the reader as an exercise to determine why these claims occupy such a privileged position in our public discourse.
So, SSIS?

Where I work we're currently replacing everything that's SSIS with .NET services. I get the idea that taking the code out of it seems easier, but I've found it usually just leads to frustrating limitations. For our latest data migration we're moving things out of some SQL-based ticketing system, online accounting services, and FileMaker into Dynamics 365. Sure, it's not pretty to look at, but we can do some deep manipulation and mapping to existing entities in Dynamics that is frankly a chore in any sort of other migration tool.

Ninja Edit:
To handle stuff like scheduling, endpoints, etc we use Azure functions.
mmm I got the link wrong...
Is there anyway to delete my submission or change the link?
Have you read "The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development" by
Donald G. Reinertsen?
Well, as it turns out, it's your problem. Like, literally :)

Only if the EU can enforce it, which they can’t. I don’t pay attention to laws from other countries that don’t apply to me and have no teeth, and I’ll ignore this one as well, until there’s some enforcement mechanism. At that point I’ll evaluate. I’d probably just block the EU though; not worth the hassle.
They were not remotely thinking about this 2 years ago.
Not an expert or anything, but this was linked on the page.

"Does my organisation need a data protection officer (DPO)?"

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/does-my-organisation-ne...

1. Are you a public authority? (not sure what this is)

2. Do your organisation's core activities involve tracking and monitoring people's behaviour (for example on the internet, or on CCTV) on a large scale?

3. Do your organisation's core activities involve processing on a large scale 'special categories' of personal data, or large scale criminal convictions or offences data?

(By 'special categories' we mean personal data relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, data concerning health or data about a person's sex life or sexual orientation, or genetic or biometric data where it woiuld [sic] identify a living person.)
I was in kindergarten in 1990, and my school had robotics books describing some of these home robots, but they were never very realistic about their actual capabilities. Being a young child, my imagination ran wild.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View actually has a number of home robots on display, which was cool because it was the first (and last?) time that I could see them in person.
It actually does seem farfetched. You know how famous quotes get assigned to various other people than those documented to have said them? Half of the claims that a given historical figure carried out this experiment are probably just misattributions of the Herodotus story.
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Liars who hold the attention of millions are few and far between. Skew and bias is ubiquitous and allows small groups with an agenda to direct people away from the raw truth and towards their sanitized or corrupted version of it.
You do know that GDPR is not the first regulation that has ever been written correct? There is a huge body of economic literature already dedicated to the subject.
I agree with you and my response to another comment elaborates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154679

I'm all for doing away with the "it's gotta ship yesterday" mentality, what your thoughts are on how developers can help stop it?
> Is it a statistically significant number

It's non-zero and happens quite frequently where I live. Not all of us are privileged.

> How many of those are improved by the introduction of another firearm vs. allowing the situation to run its course and catching the perpetrators after the fact (which is how most of the developed world does, in fact, handle it

Meanwhile, the victim is raped or not alive to see this possible "justice."

What a fucking joke - I'll take my chances with a firearm instead. "Justice after the fact" isn't acceptable to me, I'd rather stop the crime being committed against me from happening.

> That is, household guns for defensive purposes are like driving an SUV— it's mostly about the feeling of safety, but the reality is that it's basically worse in every way than the alternative.

Just a moment ago you were a citizen of the "developed world," where firearms apparently don't exist and violence doesn't happen, and now you understand how "hard" it is to utilize and use firearms for one's protection? Really curious as to where your knowledge comes from!

You never answered my question, either. You presupposed that these "situations don't happen" as your argument. Should I just take this to mean the default of: "I cannot protect myself or my family from violent individuals?"
I’m not sure I follow your argument here. You switched to a system where the data was downloaded continuously. You could have, with the shell script, easily:

* downloaded the files daily

* sorted and removed the intraday duplication in each new file.

* sorted and removed intraweek duplication each week and on the first of the month.

* You could give your customers a weekly estimate of their bill.

All of this would spread the work out and tell you when the system had glitched out weeks before the results were due.
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I don't think a gzipped header with some hundreds of bytes of JSON (or BSON) for preferences is that much bigger than one with a session id string in a cookie.
> VW haven't even been fined for cheating on their emissions test.

Exec has been fined and sentenced to 7 years[0]
VW have been fined $2.8B[1]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/judge-sentences-...

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/judge-approves-larges...
Forge (python) signatures for fun and profit
> I don't know of any other protocol which is replacing this

JMAP: https://jmap.io/spec.html.

The core and mail specifications are where the focus is, and they’re what’s currently approaching standardisation in the IETF, but there are also the calendar and contact specifications in progress, which are designed to replace CalDAV and CardDAV. I don’t think they’re getting a great deal of attention now, while core and mail are finalised, but once those are done I expect more attention will come to them. (In the mean time, I believe we’ll be speaking the calendar and contact JMAP drafts in FastMail when we switch over to JMAP.)

The ability to do everything over one protocol instead of at least four—IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV and CardDAV—is one of the nice things about JMAP.
Agreed that it’s most plausible, but still not very. I don’t think the US is going to stand for letting the EU squeeze these companies to enforce their laws on every small business with a website in the US.
Firefox (and Chrom{e,ium} AFAIK) can sync up your cookies, among other things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting#Eastern_Orthodoxy

and on friday.
I must have imagined the apology then.
I just listened to The Obesity Code by Jason Fung and my mind is kinda blown. Everyone you've said matches what the book covers.

The takeaway points are:

- Raised insulin is the key driver in weight by preventing the burning of fat and triggers the storage to fat. Insulin is the hormone that tells allows cells to absorb glucose

- Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance, which happens over years of prolonged periods of raised insulin without periods of lowered insulin. Carbohydrates and sugar convert to glucose, insulin resistance prevents it being used by cells, triggering the ask for more glucose by those cells to be available, by way of asking for more insulin. Raised insulin and glucose contribute to more fat being stored.

- The western lifestyle is based around eating evenly throughout the day reducing our fasted state. This means our insulin levels don't have a chance to lower.

- Fasting is a way to give your body a break from raised insulin, use up the glucose energy first, then switch to fat burning (Ketosis).

- Sugars and carbohydrates do not trigger the hormone that says we're full when compared.

If this is of interest to you, I highly recommend the book. I'm still learning all the specifics so some of the above may be incorrect.

I very much plan to start reducing my sugar and carbohydrate intake and introduce intermittent fasting.
Incredibly naive? I work for Pornhub, the last thing we want to handle is PII, it brings no value and has security risks.
I was frustrated by the trade-off between writing repetitive function signatures, and writing function signatures that have no meaning. So I wrote `forge`.

It's 100% tested, well documented, Python 3.5+, and is available on PyPI as `python-forge`.

As far as I can tell, it's the only Python package that provides a toolkit for re-writing signatures. Docs: https://python-forge.readthedocs.io/
The editorial additions are just lipstick on a pig. The most important feature (decent search functionality) continues to be absent.
Show HN: ID Respect – Automated GDPR Requests for People (EU Residents)
And the other part of that failure is people don't want to pay for content, games, etc. They want it all to be free.
> I argue that we live in an anti-philosophy era.

Francis Schaeffer said that most (formal) philosophy today is really anti-philosophy - either it doesn't tackle the big questions, or it gives non-rational answers. He said that the real philosophy today is being done by people like film-makers and musicians.
I think what a lot of people fail to take into account is the amount of effort it can take to "estimate" tasks. From my experience, the more pressure there is to give an estimate the less time they want you to spend researching the work. To increase the accuracy of an estimate, you need to do more research and if you take that to its logical conclusion then the best estimate is given after the work is completed. So there is some area in between of extremely inaccurate guess with little effort to actually doing the work and knowing the time it took. It's best to accept that estimates are near useless (unless you want to spend a lot of time basically doing waterfall to come up with requirements/design/etc...) and instead just try to find out how to chop up the work into smaller pieces that each deliver value and plan how the feature will be delivered. This way the team can be focused on actually getting value out the door instead of spending time doing a futile exercise (estimating).
Do I have to state the obvious? This is an open source effort. Not all attempts at persuasion bear fruit. If you feel you are being ignored (by what would appear is a group of maintainers you absolutely despise), I guess the other option would be to fork the repo. This would not be the first time in history people split code over disagreements.
Yeah, I read through most of the paper, and by their description I can say i've been doing TRF (Time Restricted Fasting) for most of my adult life, and occasionally IF (Infrequent Fasting) i.e the odd day.

I never had time for breakfast, and when I rarely have lunch I usually don't much feel like dinner afterwards. I've never had weight problems (yes i'm >30) but I wonder how one can self determine any of the suggested benefits beyond that... I'm tempted to buy one of those keytone measurement thingies just to see if this is really the case for someone who has never done any different.

[edit]...Thinking back, I do a lot of climbing, and I am surprised some days when I perform really well in spite of skipping eating up until that point in the day - maybe it was actually always an advantage after all as this paper is suggesting. Curious to see if my sends correlate with high keytone levels now :P
Track the fact that a journey took place, but not who took it.
The EU tried that. Google and friends gave a shit. Then result was creating a regulation more painful to them. These companies apply their US based understanding of right and wrong to the globe. You see China, EU and Russia are reacting and applying their local rules. With different methods, but they do.
I've said it before, but this solidifies it for me - I'm never installing a internet enabled hot mic in my home. I'd rather spend the 2 seconds finding the song on my phone.
Linux Kernel, Nginx - both written in C. Readable and well designed are subjective, but number of contributors proves they are maintainable.
> Read Article 27(2). There's a good chance that you don't need an EU representative unless your product is based around the processing of personal data.

To fall under that, the processing has to be "occasional". I've not been able to find any authoritative guidance on what that means.
Absolutely! Nextcloud and Owncloud both use WebDAV. I have a couple of TB on one Netxcloud with a few dozen users and a few 100GB on another with >600 users.
> Cosmology describes the big bang but it does not answer the question "why is it so?". Maybe there is no answer. Maybe it is not knowable. Maybe theoretical physics cannot have the total picture. These are all metaphysical questions that seem perfectly legitimate to me. If you are not allowed to ask or talk about these questions, I would say that you just accepted a religious faith. I am not trying to sell you anything except doubt and curiosity :)

I see no reason to assume that question is beyond the reach of empiricism, which has been (both by its own standard and by naive common sense) effective in a way that alternatives have not. Non-empirical approaches may be able to construct self-consistent theories, but there is an infinitude of self-consistent theories, the overwhelming majority of which are useless under naive common sense. I trust empiricism because I was able to get there in Neurath's boat fashion from the everyday naive common sense that we all live by in practice.

> You are implicitly making the strong claim that knowledge can only be attained through empiricism. This is clearly not the case. I know that I am conscious and I assume that you are, but I cannot use empiricism to test this hypothesis, not can you use it to verify that I am, indeed, conscious.

I don't accept your claim. To the extent that "consciousness" refers to something meaningful, it refers to something empirical. (At least, my experience - under formal empiricism, naive common sense, and along the path between them - is that theories that involved entities detached from empirical consequences were misleading, and less effective than theories that did without such entities).
All three of your last points are a non-issue if you have the right bank. DKB allows you to use your Visa to withdraw from any ATM, worldwide, without any fees. I'm sure there are other German banks with similar offers.

No more wondering if an ATM is part of your network and end up with outrageous fees. I see an ATM, any ATM, I can use it to withdraw cash, simple as that.