skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this goes through, it's going to impact users of Atom and VS Code - one of the two has no reason to survive. I wouldn't be surprised if the former is discontinued then.
Free Expression and EU Privacy Regulation: Can the GDPR Reach U.S. Publishers?
Wait a minute, that depends at what level you are. Sure, you have to devise attacks to come up with the relevant mathematical properties. For instance, to protect against snooping, you encrypt, and you formalise the chosen plaintext attack. To protect against forgery, you formalise the chosen ciphertext attack, and we protect against it with authentication. I expect the same happened with man in the middle, forward secrecy, and others.

Me, I don't try to push the state of the art. I just try to protect against known attacks, and I trust we won't come up with new attacks too quickly, the same way I trust we won't break existing crypto too quickly.

From there, I just have to make sure a number of mathematical properties are followed, and voilà I have a secure system according to current standards. It will be guaranteed to hold out as long as no one comes up with some new unforeseen attack. And even then, I suspect everything has been pretty much worked out. The primitives themselves, with few exceptions, are still not proven secure, but the constructions have sound security models.

Which is why now, we don't need to do stuff like the cryptopal challenges to build secure systems. We just need to avoid the relevant pitfalls, which have already been figured out by smarter people.

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Then there are side channels, but those are whole 'nother can of worm (except maybe timings, which are pretty well understood by now).
So it looks like having a script to delete all user's data can get you out of trouble with any of these letters.
> The issue is that this distorted cost structure really doesn't work in a market where there's cost competition on the generation side and customers are being exposed to that competition, as PG&E's cost doesn't go down by nearly as much as customer's bills when cheaper energy sources are used.

That doesn't explain why, if the market is regulated in such a way that PG&E is losing money serving customers to the point of near insolvency, they spend large amounts of money fighting the transfer of those money-losing customers to expansion of municipal utilities.
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Co-living firm Harbour launches US$1.6B fund to build more rental housing
The most comprehensive discussion community has got to be Github. Real people commenting on real issues that crop up in specific software problems.

Probably the second largest community Stack Overflow. Real people commenting on real issues that crop up general programming problems.

Twitter is mostly bots or journalists talking about speculative technology problems that rarely crop in practical programming careers (no, I don't need 240 character advice on how to shut down skynet).
There's no advertising on the forum under discussion.
Wow, ads are getting smarter
> There is also a "foolish woman" and doesn't appear to be an analog for man.

There is Incompetent, Weakling, doormat, wuss all goes to images of men.

ImageNet reflect the unfortunate reality of how our society perceives gender roles. You ask it to produce a image of an antagonist, you get a male picture. A lover and you get a picture of a woman. A foolish woman and you get a woman, a incompetent man and you get a man. A good person and you get a mix of women and men. A bad person and its all men.

If we had a person look at the category titles and just guess based on gender roles what the gender would be, I think we would see a rate of 90% or higher in correct guesses. At this point we have not yet introduced the AI or any potential bias that AI can have.
> Can you send a GDPR letter to a public body

I'm pretty sure you can.

> Can you send a GDPR letter to a public body

You can, for PII. One would hope they store their data anonymized.

> Should they comply or are they waived from GDPR compliance?

I think they'd need to make a pretty strong case for why they cannot anonymize your data for their work to get an exception.
From the several requests I've made already, that seems unlikely.
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GitHub is easy to use, and I’ve found the important features work really well.

I’m all for improvements, but I’m not even sure what I would want. At this point, I’m more worried any attempt at innovation would break the things I like about GitHub now, than I am excited for something new.

I use gitlab for all my private projects and don’t find it to be remarkably better in any way, and the UI always confuses me.
But it's important to remember the GDPR doesn't give users a right to have all data deleted on request. Processors only have to delete data in certain situations.

For example, if you told the user why you collected the data, and you're still using it for that purpose, and you have a legitimate need to continue to do so then you don't need to delete the data. And there's an extra exemption for "exercising the right of freedom of expression and information".

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
Can somebody explain to me why LinkedIn is screwed up? I am genuinely asking ;)
> Seems like a cyclist or motorbike has the right to lanesplit and move up.

Yes, but in this case you filter on the driver's left. You don't filter up in the 10cm between the curb and the car when the driver is signaling right; it's a dick move and eventually you're going to get hurt.

http://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/
Oh I don't deny that the government royal screws up drones strikes sometimes. It is terrible that that occurs.
As a side note, using Brave browser with all protections turned on by default, including Javascript disabled, and re-enabling Javascript (2 clicks) only on the websites you care and trust enough to, has made my Web browsing experience incredibly better, especially on mobile.

Now everything loads in an instant, no more shenanigans that jump around the screen as I scroll, no Facebook/Twitter/Google buttons (that nobody even uses), no pop-up/in/out/over adverts, and even those asinine cookie warnings are gone by default!

I cannot recommend it well enough.
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A Vault containing seeds for virtually every edible plant
Thanks for the comment I had a good read.

My opinion is that if whaling is a tradition held over 500 years, the least they could do is atleast use the same wooden boats and tools from the era, and mantain the tradition as it was, instead of amping it up with modern technologies and motor boats.

I can understand the history of cultures is important, but they should atleast stick to the way it was, especially if it will reduce the number of whale deaths and help if anything improve the accuracy of the tradition.
No bundle but you use Babel? How does that work?
That's restricting the definition of company a lot. (Note that I'm not saying that most companies run debt-free, just that it's a somewhat significant percentage, almost certainly double-digit. Probably mostly smallish companies indeed. Mostly single-owner or family-owned I guess. And, as a nearby comment said, almost all will take on temporary debt to smooth operations when needed. I worked for one with about 80 employees, but not in the financial department.)
Protected intersections are also a good idea, yes.
Navigating my city’s public transport with a stroller also gave me new appreciation of how difficult it must be for people in a wheelchair. There are only a handful of step free stations in my city.
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It's not harder, just less profitable.
Considering that software powers most of the modern economy, it's pretty sad how small the market is for quality software development tools. Programmers get paid high six figures, but balk at paying for quality debugging tools. Visual Studio, despite being a strong debugger and exceptional piece of technology in its own right, is not a real revenue driver for MS, it's just an exceptionally sophisticated way to nudge programmers to Microsoft's libraries and platforms.

Github has generally been platform agnostic (except for git itself), and it would sadden me to see Github start to compromise those values and start favoring one platform or another. (One could easily see Github / Visual Studio plugins, enabled by default, with built-in subtle nudges towards the MS Cloud platform).
My one's gone yellow and the battery lasts about 30 minutes.
A big issue was the usual internal wars between DevTools and WinDev.

.NET used to belong to DevTools, while C and C++ to WinDev.

So from the outside when they won the internal Longhorn wars, and COM emerged as replacement for the .NET ideas, we ended up with WinRT and WinDev idea how .NET on thr new world should look like.

Naturally it wasn't well received, we ended up going through UAP, UWP and now they are merging Win32 and UWP into an common model.

Now that the divisions have been merged, maybe these issues are not happening again.
Do you find it difficult because it suggests you need to deal with JS modules and building? After you get your tooling setup, you can just include a node in your DOM that React will target and mutate.
What if a forum owner receives a DMCA letter, or a letter from NSA? You do not really need to consult a lawyer to remove copyrighted material or something else that is illegal.
Azure team gives a shit about "not invented here". They are exclusively interested in your cpu cycles and bytes in memory. Who organizes the cycles and bytes, they do not care.

Surely, there are preferred stacks (e.g. in the high level PaaS areas), but this includes node, python and .NET.

PS: one save bet: Java will never be on their support list :). But only for legal reasons :)
Scooters require less skill to ride/are easier to maneuver, they're smaller and so can be used on a sidewalk less awkwardly and are easier to park inconspicuously. Also, if you have to suddenly "abandon ship" you're already more or less standing upright, which is probably safer.

These are really only intended for trips of a few miles where battery life isn't really a concern. If you want a longer trip then yes a bike is probably a better idea.
What tablet do you use? I can pinch to zoom the same on my Android tablet as on my Android phone - unsurprisingly, really, as I'm using the same browser (Firefox) on both.
The Danish subsidy is 86 million euros. It's approximately 3% of the annual Faroese GDP.
Of course it has a positive effect, but I think you (and most Danes) are severely over-estimating the impact of that subsidy.
A sinus is a field, deductively reduced to lower dimensions, e.g. a slice cut of a sound wave. Waves on the sea form a wave field, figuratively, and it extends to the bottom of the sea. Whereas a quantum field is a consequence of the Schroedinger Wave equation positing that the potential to observe a particle is distributed in space. As far as I know that's purely virtual, because observation of the particle collapses the potential. The crux is, the observation is not exact; The location of the particle is a probability distribution over a field as well. So ... it's fields all the way down. I'm not an expert, just stipulating.
A bit more information since someone seems to downvote for whatever reason: This is for upcoming UK Government projects, and I'm searching on behalf of the agency I work with.
zero initing is default behavior for static values or structs.

static int x, y; /* x and y are zero */
If you find the risk of hacking your tablets unacceptable to then use for banking/shopping etc can't you just use them (as intended) for youtube, browsing etc? Worst case scenario - you have to create a few new logins for sites such as this. It's not a compelling reason to avoid at £35 tablet if you ask me.
Excuse me? How in the world am I supposed to know if it is sufficient for GDPR without a lawyer?
A single DMCA notice is relatively easy to deal with. Even though a startup owner probably "should" consult with a lawyer, you don't need to if the take-down request is clear and the material is either clearly infringing or not. There are gray areas, but they are rare.

A letter from the NSA is a completely different story. You definitely need to hire a lawyer, probably an expensive one. One NSA letter could easily shut down a small startup.
Why do you think the document needs to be vetted by a lawyer?

The regulation makes repeated reference to proportionality.

> Taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure and to be able to demonstrate that processing is performed in accordance with this Regulation. 2Those measures shall be reviewed and updated where necessary.

For a simple forum this is a simple privacy policy.

And forums should already have something like this if they're complying with EG US COPPA or similar.
I host a standard FluxBB forum on a stock Debian apache server. Can you please spent 5 minutes to answer that letter for me?
TFS is not dead. And the TFS native source management (one small pilar in TFS) is just quite unpopular right now :). But not dead.
Related video (by exurb1a) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psaCM1j9LEM
In Groningen, NL deliveries to inner city shops and restaurants is limited to timeslots ( something like up to 11h00 ).
Can you point out to me where in the article it states that most of the infrastructure comes from Denmark? All I found was an example of a boat that had been built in Denmark and bought from Spain.

The huge subsidy you're talking about accounts for about 3% of the annual Faroese GDP. It's gone down from 11.2% since 2000.

From my perspective, it seems like most Danish people have a very uneducated perspective of the Faroese dependence.
Too slow to be in the bike lane seems an odd complaint; in bike-heavy cities like Copenhagen or Amsterdam, the average bike speed is only like 10mph. 14-15 would put you among the faster cyclists in urban areas (granted, people there probably could go faster, but bike traffic/frequent stops means there not much point).
It doesn't provide any value to the regular user; most people I know receive lots of emails mostly from body shops but rarely get a job from LinkedIn. The UI is designed to make it hard to configure privacy, and to make you casually spill your contact list. They are always trying to sell premium accounts.
To be fair it should provide some value to a junior dev who doesnt have a Network yet but LinkedIn doesn't even try to hide the fact that you are the product (unlike say fb).
Oracle will declare it their code and start sueing :)
What's New in Unicode 11.0
"Microsoft seems like the only company that understands tablets right now. They should be more like computers, not more like phones."

Consumers are yet to get on board with this idea, though, as they're not very popular.

Nobody has anything to learn about hardware or software from Microsoft. Samsung and Amazon are doing fine. I'm going to sell my £150 10inch Amazon tablet and get what? An expensive Surface thing?

"maybe soon the market will be ready for the return of Windows Phone."

Or maybe not.
Having lived in Germany, "Co-founder of a Startup out of Germany" conjures up the image of one of the many economics-degree-holding bros who strut around and "network", bullshitting everyone (themselves included) that they're going to be the next Zuckerberg.

Then again, my remote impression is that Silicon Valley isn't that much different nowadays.
Well, yes, if someone has no idea what's in GDPR they're probably going to be more fearful of all the bullshit being spread about it.
What’s not simple?
Great book.

It was the fourth or third book I had read in my life up until that point.

I read it and realized that in order for me to quit smoking, I had to quit drinking(I was around 19 at the time and a heavy drinker), and in order to do that I needed to change/get away from the circle of friends at the time.
That day, after finishing the book the decisions were obvious and I did exactly what needed to be done.
It was like: 1,2,3 done.
I did it!

I quit drinking for 1,5 years. Moved to a different tow, to get away from all my friends at that time.
Started reading books like mad, because I realized that the info in a book can substantially change my life.

I’m 30 now. I’ve been free from smoking for more than 10 years.
Reading books has led me into having a well paid(by the standards of my country) job in SEO/digital marketing. I have not started, nor finished uni.

I think I need to re-read it, because I’d like to kick my habit of drinking and a few other bad habits.

I could not recommend it enough.
It is somhow understandable, phones keep contacts, call history, smses, emails, gps location,... tablet is mostly the same as workstation. I don't see any reason why they even tryed to have tablets, there is little synergy with their bussines model there.
I am learning to code and a newbe.

I think jQuery != react.

I do not understand, why experienced people like to compare jQuery with react when both the lib have different goal ? And show that jQuery is bad.

React can be used with jQuery for DOM manipulation. Described in react doc (https://reactjs.org/docs/integrating-with-other-libraries.ht...).

Shall I learn jQuery at all ? Please, guide me.
How long until satellites have their own service droids I wonder?
So what you're saying is that all the small businesses feverishly seeking to comply with GDPR are wasting their time, because actually the law doesn't apply to them?
Whilst this is quite interesting, I struggle to see how the animal suffering and the human brainpower + effort + resources required to do this work is justified..
Gbhhh
Even if said foreign companies have EU customers, what can the EU do about it? If I were a foreign company, I would completely ignore GDPR requests. Like > /dev/null, not even bother reading them.

This law will only make things (even) more expensive and cumbersome for EU companies wrt. the rest of the world. This is going to be the asinine Cookie Warning all over again, times a hundred.
I think it's just discourse.drone.io, the rest of the site will stay.
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As the sprint stops: Summer reads for lazy days away from the keyboard
Do you have a link to share? Sounds interesting.
There's a certain value to not managing the thing yourself. My wife bikes to get around Munich, and has to deal with one of her bikes breaking on some way -- flat/leaky tire, spokes broke, etc. -- a handful of times per year.
If the acquisition goes through, VS Code is probably going to kill Atom, which is my go-to editor for many tasks. VS Code may be better overall, but it's not for me, and I'll have to change my workflow.
Does Facebook have EU offices? If they do, this law will simply make it close them. If they don't, what is the class action even being based on?
> Same way mammals keep losing vitamin C synthesis when they settle on a diet that's rich in it.

This is a terrible example; all mammals eat a diet rich in vitamin C, but loss of the ability to synthesize it is quite rare, being restricted to some primates, some rodents, and most bats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#Biosynthesis

It was a breakthrough when scurvy was observed in guinea pigs in 1907. Before that time, it had never been observed outside of humans, though it is known in humans for most of recorded history.
The first thing you said is the reason cyclists do the second.

The biggest risk is a car turning into you at the junction because you were in a blind spot. It's much safer to be at the front of the queue so you are clearly visible, and can clear the danger zone ahead of the traffic.

Also, in general, things you see cyclists doing that you perceive as dangerous very rarely are - almost every serious bike car crash is because the driver didn't see the cyclist and turned into them. The cyclist behaving most dangerously is timidly hugging the curb trying to stay out of your way!
Yup, painted bike lanes are nearly worthless. Nobody would accept having "painted walk lanes" instead of sidewalks everywhere.
Caremark and Reputational Risk Through
Centering is just `display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;` on the parent. Equal height columns is just `display:flex;` on the parent. How is that not simple?
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+ a standard to close session (logout)
They are not that foolish. The only company that stupid was the one behind sourceforge.
Drone.io Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
DMCA is capped at what, $30k per violation? There are obvious ways to avoid it, and the law has settled down.

GDPR is capped at $20+ million, no one knows what a typical fine looks like, the law is much harder to read, and everyone is afraid to be made an example of.
Key discovery is similar to tools such as ssh (i.e. SSH agent, ~/.ssh/id_rsa, etc.), and can be specified with -i if necessary.

Haven't added any way to get all hosts. If it's a reasonably common use case will do.

You can use awscli to retrieve IPs if you prefer. Kitten just makes it all short and straightforward without having to worry about things such as pagination and the inconsistent AWS result format. It also allows you to easily work on a set of IPs with minimum friction. Not trying to replace Ansible, it's more of a simple tool for quick multi-host touches.
It's more than a logical or performance issue, it's a cultural one. In C culture, there's a sense that the programmer has direct control over the hardware. They can literally write or read to any memory address as they see fit, and have very fine-grained control over what the machine is doing.

Modern processors, with their out-of-order execution, complex caching algorithms, deep pipeliens and multi-threaded hardware often render this sense of control more illusory than factual, but the C culture remains wedded to the idea that the programmer is in control.

Accordingly, it's pretty provocative to suggest that a compiler or runtime would zero out memory without you specifically saying so. Any C programmer can overload malloc (doesn't zero memory) to calloc (which does). Whether it's a good or bad idea to do so is up to the programmer. The overall idea is don't do anything unless I say so.
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