skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I encountered this interesting piece in Aaronson's post (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.html), after you read it you might want to read his thoughts, too.
Honestly, laws like this give rise to the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

I am not anti-gdpr. I am quite concerned about the side effects on the small guys. Its obvious that this law was targeted at larger companies. But its also obvious that it massively increases risk profiles for innocuous behavior.

This is a problem. And hey, as a person in the US, I have no representation to help address my concerns over the validity/applicability of the law.

I am not a fan of that.

Then again, I also don't like it when we do this to others. FATCA is an example of this, where US citizens seeking banking services were denied services due to the implied risk to the bank from non-compliance. They generally don't have much recourse either.

Extra territorial impacts are the result of bad laws. I like that GDPR gives control back to the users. I dislike that it opens up such a massive legal attack surface as to make things like running a forum dangerous.
The forum owner wasn't getting "compliance requests" he was receiving "subject data access requests".

Those requests can be:

- Please give me all my data

- Please delete all my data

- Please stop doing things (processing) my data

Or some mix of all the above. A site owner (controller) has 30 days from receiving such a request to respond or the person making the request can report them to their Supervisory Authority (ICO is the UK Supervisory Authority, each country in the EU has their own).
The downside to their head start is that they had to build their system from scratch, and there was a great deal of trial and error.

The upside is that they had the very best, most passionate and talented roboticists in the field working on it, as nobody else was hiring at the time. For every company entering late in the game, securing top tier talent is the biggest hurdle.
I think we understand where you're coming from, but as written this is incredibly ignorant. You're essentially rejecting all international law (copyright, patent, tax, etc).
Skype was horrible. But LinkedIn is doing very well afaik.
And to all the others.
Could/should probably ignore GPDR requests if your business operations are entirely US based, whether or not anyone from the EU uses your site. US national sovereignty doesn't disappear because the EU says jump. We are not bound by the laws of governments other than our own.

You can probably ignore them anyway if you aren't a big company. With millions of these troll letters going around (and probably getting ignored), odds of any corrective action against you seem very low.

In any case, the corrective demands of the EU give you time to comply after they declare that you've violated something? Could probably wait for that point even if you're in the EU.
Who says a laptop needs to have a vertical screen.

Invent a better computing device. Leap Motion + eye tracking + voice input + Google Soli + ...

https://atap.google.com/soli/

Even after the stock buyback, Apple has plenty of remaining cash to invent the future.
Up next:

- Github user account migration/integration with outlook.com

- A much-internally-championed Github/Office/LinkedIn integration effort created by some sharp but inexperieced program manager fresh just out of Washington State, that happens to require Github project descriptions to be authored in .docx format, launched as an improvement from that primitive format made by a certain mac fanboy.

- An effort to migrate the Github infrastructure to Azure cloud on Win 10 that ties up 85% of all development resources for the next five years and ultimately fails.
Some of my pessimism is not just with Microsoft, itself, even though I do have that. I think an argument can be made that we should not want all the decent software companies to be bought up by the same big five giant companies, no matter who it is.
This is where Twitter excels. It's the best way I have found to get local breaking news. Don't bother following any media outlets either, it's counterintuitive but their feeds are mostly marketing garbage with extra click tracking/redirects and excessive dupes. Pick a few local journos whose articles or reporting you like and follow them instead. Those, plus random friends and other local people will give you all the news you need almost instantly. I don't even turn the TV on when something big happens any more, I just check Twitter.
I'm happy that Microsoft has gotten so on board with git recently and made contributions to the project, but this kind of consolidation still makes me nervous, for multiple reasons.
Google is, after all, a company famously hurting for business and business prospects.
we have an overabundance of "green" energy here in California, yet energy prices are through the roof, we are looking at potential, rolling blackouts this summer, and we have to sell excess power to other states each month. why? well none of that green energy is connected to the public grid. with the wealth of energy, consumer prices should be zero. only that's not the goal of energy companies as they're all profit driven companies. meanwhile the CPUC is a corrupt as they come and haven't done anything to lighten the consumer's burden. that Clean PowerSF program? not voluntary in the sense you can opt out of it. you can choose how much more money you will be charged each month with that money going to produce clean energy. see the problem? they want us to pay for energy we can't even use and are hiding behind this clean energy program. as usual the consumer is getting hosed.
I mean the other option is to just not sell and if money is a problem adjust pricing. I find their plans to be incredibly cheap for what they offer so they definitely could have room to grow in that regard.
Fucking what? The shear amount of imbeciles riding these shitty scooters around DC sidewalks should be a warning of how giving idiots tools like these without rules and regulations will end up in a lot of confrontations.

The other day saw a pack of teens wearing sky masks (yes, fucking 80 degrees and wearing sky masks in DC) up to no good around the city, between these morons and the 12 o'clock goons, DC is filled with a sense of "I need to get the fuck out of here, too many low level humans around"

One more stupid toys for the underdeveloped, there are almost 10 bicycle companies now in DC, you can find those shitty bikes all over the sidewalks, some without parts, some just saying there, there is already a problem with lack of police control in DC regarding bicycle traffic, now scooters, electric skateboards, mopads on sidewalks, etc, what a shitshow, then you go to Holland and you see what real infrastructure looks like and you cannot avoid crying at what our nations capital looks like...

But hey, kids get scooters, should be alright brah!
Hardly an uncommon phenomenon, I must say.
boom.

1000% increase in foreigners moving/ starting technology companies in the US.

seriously tho. great idea.
> Being paid less than minimum wage? Illegal, unless you're legally an intern (and the work is not of benefit to the employer).

Are you sure about this?

"If you are an independent contractor as opposed to an employee, then you are not covered by minimum wage laws."

Source: http://nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/right-minimum-w…
The GDPR seems to me to be just another example of nontechnical authorities trying to regulate what they don't understand.

Why don't more technical people become politicians, or at least form lobbying groups or think tanks?
With $210 million for medium and heavy-duty vehicle chargers, whatever they choose may become the de-facto standard.
About 3 minutes.

"Here's the privacy policy. Here's the data export page."
How are the representatives "unelected"? The European Parliament is elected every five years by the citizens of all EU member states and voted on the GDPR in 2016 after long talks. Some even say that the GDPR is not hard enough.
Yeah, for dev tools Microsoft was always very open. Github and Microsoft might make a great combo, boosting dev productivity and open source
I'm not even sure ability is the issue when it comes to grasping things.

I think it is simply he chooses not to understand in favor of gut instinct and even what he last read / saw on TV.

Like you said I don't want to go down the rabbit hole, but I think there's a difference between trying an unable and simply choosing not to try understand a thing (for whatever reason that is).
Web Based 'the Matrix' like scrolling letters
I surrender! End-to-end encrypted cloud storage with client- managed keys...
I wonder what Linus Tovalds is thinking right now. If I remember correctly, he wrote Git because Perforce was forcing him to use Microsoft software licences.

https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23...
For the misers out there (like me) who don't like spending money, the way I avoid this is set X% to be automatically transferred to a savings account that is my fun money. It helps a lot because mentally I've written off the money immediately and I can enjoy spending it without worry.
I came into my example above 5 years in... it was "Enterprise" .Net and not Java, but a lot of the same techniques at play... I hated it all. I'll take today's JS/NPM ecosystem over those days. I rally against ORM, and DI/IOC frameworks to the end, they aren't needed in JS.

That said, I'm not saying no frameworks/libraries/tools, and am okay minimizing. But I'd rather use Vue, React, Redux and other libraries/patterns than not in most cases, and find them better overall than ad-hoc jQuery. And don't get me wrong, I've written a lot of ad-hoc and organized code without modern tooling. I'll take today's module systems, builders and bundlers.

As to Java hello world, frankly every time I've had to touch a Java project, it takes 2-3 days to get a build environment running on a local dev machine... it's nightmarish. I've never even taken to learning Java from scratch my exposure has been so bad. I did learn C# from the command line compiler and a book early on, I didn't have VS to hold my hand. I later did learn VS etc, and that was nicer still.

Getting the pieces together with node/js has been difficult, and painful and a slow process even keeping up with node since it was first announced in 2009. It's taken effort. But anything more than a quick demo, I'd rather have it. I'll leave TypeScript/flow and similar alone though, I don't think they bring more than they take most of the time.
.NET is great and the openness is great, I don't really see why so many people are up in arms about this. Microsoft is a large user of github. Maybe this will push you all to use gitlab ;)
Not a huge issue but... why is the entire page of marketing and examples East Indian? What is a "salwar suit"?

Is this a feature that's coming out globally or just in India?
The painful truth is that it is morally repugnant to donate. I hate saying this, by the way. If you had any experience with outreach, You would understand it is actually quite destructive to give them money, and it is much better to donate to, for example, Union Gospel Mission, a place in Seattle that does excellent homeless outreach. The city in fact contracts out to them for their services.
I share some controversial opinions on here semi-anonymously and wouldn't want my personal positions on certain topics to be confused with an official position held by the companies I contract for. I can say that it's not a huge one, it's a mid sized regional ISP.
If we cannot find better applications for so-called AI than bullshit like sorting photo albums and military applications, maybe we should not do it at all?

I am still sure there are enough industrial, medical and civil applications for Google to work on, no need to resort to "photo albums" immediately.
The idea that the Japanese are uniquely in harmony with nature is questionable too, when you think about their love of covering every square inch of places in concrete and asphalt.
I think you were downvoted for self-promo. FWIW, I appreciate your reply. I peeked. Your product looks very nice.

To better illustrate my challenge, here's an umbrella org to dozens of activities, of varying sizes and prerequisites.

http://www.sustainableballard.org

They need a whitelabel version of volunteermatch.org & meetup.com hybrid.
A quick search reveals that ~35-50% of California's electricity comes from Natural Gas. Basically EVs in California are methane powered ICEs by proxy. I find it quite annoying that government keep subsidizing EVs when the infrastructure to make them actually environmentally friendly is not in place.

The only place owning an EV is actually environmentally friendly in North America is Quebec since 95% is generated by Hydro.
Not all VISA transactions are protected. I had a scammer steal my credit card while watching my pin entered at a restaurant and then withdraw cash. The bank (Lloyds Bank in the UK) recfused to refund the money, even though there was video of the thief withdrawing the money
Prediction: This app is just an A/B test between A = asking the users of the Google Maps app structured questions and B = This app doing so with machine learning & user-powered Q&A.

Depending on how that goes one or the other will be removed within a year.
what makes you think that? they killed off their own code hosting site in codeplex and moved everything to github. they are one of the largest if not the largest open source contributors in the world. and .net core is setting itself up to be a major player in cross-platform application development. it has a chance, if microsoft brings over uwp, wpf, and windows forms to .net core, to take over cross-platform gui development. with the windows subsystem for linux, windows 10 can run most linux-based software. they've developed the hottest ide at the moment on top of github developed technology.

i have a feeling they get it just fine.
From what I've seen of the policies in other forums: If they posted actual personal information, admins will edit it out on request, but in general they don't consider posts that don't contain anything identifying personal information and will keep them.
Sure, it's not black and white - it's a scale. We don't lawyer up for literally everything. But we do lawyer up for a lot of things.

It's sort of like the "never roll your own security" advice that gets brought out when people ask questions about crypto. To a certain extent, yeah, we do have to roll our own security. Of course developers need to roll their own stuff, at least at the integration level.

But as soon as it gets even slightly dangerous, I'm not going to be doing, say, my own XSS filtering. I need a vetted library at that point.

I've been taught to think of the law the same way - you don't roll your own legal advice.
Cool, go off and grab that data.

In the meantime though, obey the laws of the road or stay off it.
Surely it can't be easy to design a reliable system for storing, firing and reloading the nets?
How about designing an extra sticky type of silly string? It could be prayed on the crows until they are unable to fly. All in the form of an aerosol can.
That is why it is hard. Delivery needs to have a definition that doesn't allow that. Probably it needs to be so strict that a delivery driver cannot even buy a soda at the store they are delivering to.
Just put a bunch of Aeron chairs in an airplane! Done! Jokes aside, we've all sat in comfortable chairs and uncomfortable chairs, in airplanes or otherwise. What makes a chair comfortable? What's the most comfortable chair you've used?
Nope.. early on, you could use any local variable... there was a whitelist of html elements... they did a cleanup that required the PascalCase and defaulted to html element render for anything else. It was around 0.10 or so, iirc.
True, I remember looking into that and it was all a bit of a mess.
If you make money from EU users and are US based you need to be GDPR compliant or they will target you through payment processors and ad networks.

If you don't make money from EU users and don't want to be GDPR compliant you should probably just shut them off if you ever want to operate in the EU in the future
Is there a precedent for this? Is it a monopoly if there's nothing preventing you from starting your own competing product collecting the same data? Of course Facebook has a monopoly over Facebook's own product.
Neat

Now who do I have to nag to get laws passed compelling landlords to install charging infrastructure for tenants?

This is my main barrier to replacing my antique with an EV; most of the rentals I'm likely to occupy will not have access to charging.
Yesterday afternoon I had two encounters with driverless cars in SF within a few minutes. Both showed how hilariously far from ready these things are.

First, I came to a 4-way stop here where a Waymo car had arrived and stopped maybe 1-2 seconds prior. Waymo was on 15th heading East, I was on San Bruno heading north. Nobody else was at the intersection: https://goo.gl/maps/S2GmNTuWNDq

I stopped fully and gave it about 2 seconds to start moving since it had right-of-way. It made a one or two false starts, then I just gave up and went through the intersection because it was clearly having issues. Looking back in the rear view I saw it did the same thing with the next car. Maybe it didn't think it was a 4-way stop or something?

A few minutes later, I was on Bryant just past 7th outside the Hall of Justice in dense traffic that was moving quickly (as people do on that street). A Cruise Automation car (I think?) was in one of the right lanes next to me and, for whatever reason, decided it wanted to get over to the left quickly. When it didn't get a good opening after a couple seconds, it more or less stopped in the middle of the road to wait for an opening. Unsafe and almost caused an accident with the cars behind it.

Of course human drivers do stuff like this or worse all the time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's going to be interesting to adjust to all the ways these things behave unpredictably (relative to what we'd expect from human drivers).
Looking at the examples and how the product is spelled (British English) it seems like the product would be restricted to India.
My point is that I, and I suspect lots of people, aren't reliant on being included in party planning of this sort. I just send or receive a message to my friends or family like "barbecue at 6:30 on Friday?" or way more often I don't do that at all and just chill at home. I'm not at all saying that there isn't a very large contingent of people for whom Events is super useful because they do way more stuff that makes sense to plan that way, I know that this contingent definitely does exist. What I'm saying is that there is another contingent of people like me who just don't do that, and people often seem to be in disbelief that such people exist. We do!
You basically just derived the IRS deduction rate for personal vehicles used for business. While not a perfect proxy for costs (which is a complicated question), it's a reasonable back-of-the-envelope estimate for operating a vehicle--including depreciation--without a driver.
Show HN: Home-Assistant image classification using local machine learning
E3 is no longer relevant under Nadella, arguably even before Balmer stepped down.
There are multiple professions where not participating online is quite disadvantage.
I think some of those plans may be for planning's sake (not a bad idea) and less of a case of "might actually need later".... others are somewhere in between.
How three successful startups built their product on the Bubble no-code platform
Visual programming tools like Bubble.is are becoming really powerful. There's a lot of (understandable) resistance and doubt from the coding community, but there’s a lot of evidence that points to how tools like Bubble have made successful startups possible:

1. Impuesto Correcto, YC Backed - https://bit.ly/2HbhVxi

2. Sixty, YC Backed - https://bit.ly/2JbY8zt

3. Dividend Finance, 100s millions in funding - https://bit.ly/2swOVuI
No, I don't believe integers ever promoted on overflow (or at least not since 2012).

If an operation involves two different integer types, they do promote to the larger one (i.e. an Int64 + a BigInt will give a BigInt).
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Tesla does it's own thing, everyone else is pretty much consolidated on CCS (with ChaDeMo thrown in there as an alternative port).

Most fast charging stations have both major standards, and Tesla owners (like Mac owners) gotta dongle.
> While these may seem like trivial issues, they actually negatively impact my typing experience to a high degree.

I don't think these are trivial issues at all. I do the majority of my computing work in a text editor so it's important to me that it's as performant as possible. Imagine if, in real life, there was a slight lag every time you sent a "command" (e.g. pick up coffee). It would drive you crazy. And yet a lot of developers think that lag is acceptable in software. (I say "developers" because a lot of non-developers I meet complain about software being frustrating to use, even if they may not consciously notice it is laggy.)

People think I'm joking when I say this, but I'm so attuned to Emacs, especially when I'm in a flow state, that I can actually feel when the garbage collector kicks in. It totally throws me off. I have a bunch of optimizations set up, like running GC whenever I tab out of Emacs or am idle for 5 seconds, but sometimes I can still feel it. I hope Emacs makes some progress in this area -- I hear there's a Rust rewrite in the works :)

> If VSCode or any other text editor managed to provide a fast yet highly configurable editing experience without draining my laptop battery instantly

This is huge for me. I basically work by grabbing my laptop and sitting, standing, or laying wherever I feel like. I can't stand the idea of having an "office". So I'm acutely aware of when an application is running down my battery. Emacs is awesome in this regard because it has no noticeable energy usage, which boggles the mind when I think about how powerful it is as software. I honestly see no reason whatsoever to use anything else.
That's kinda nifty for advertisers, if Google will allow advertising there (which I assume they will). Hyper-local advertising surely has its perks: low cost/high success I think are quite possible.
And tens of millions out here in the tules who need a car to get around. Otherwise, it’s back to the horse and wagon. There’s no public transportation, and there won’t be any until the tules are gone.