skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, when looking deeper into objective comments all kinds of things will be revealed, the more you look, the more that "objective" can often seem linguistically superficial.

I think it's an important thing to recognise especially in the worst case when some people exploit this to convincingly present opinion as fact... anyway i'm way off topic, my point was in response to wufufufu: I don't wonder if posts on HN have some kind of psychological biases, I am confident they do, in spite of perceived objectivity.
We're not discussing what you think would be right and fair, we're discussing what the legislature decided to enact into law.

You may argue against the GDPR, but it doesn't change the law as it stands today.
> Not to mention the gargantuan bloat that are JEE and system like maven or ant. It feels really different and foreign compared to the simplicity of unix many devs are used to.

You can crap on Java all you like, but it takes a real weirdo to prefer autotools over maven.
Objective-C with a reasonable Foundation is such a great language for this...

It has essentially the predictability and simplicity of C, just with a minimal amount of dynamic binding to make it comfortable. And NSString variants tend to take care of string handling and encodings.
You didn't answer the question. Were these studies done on people who were self directed? "here's the book, have fun, we'll follow up in a year."

As far as I understand most people receiving CBT who have been studied have received it in a professional setting with weekly meetings.
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It's blocked in Germany.
Rick Perry probably wanted to keep the coal industry from being shutdown regardless, but the facts (2014 Polar Vortex) are on his side. The need to reimburse coal for the value it provides is well understood by all the experts at the DOE, FERC, and the ISO/RTOs. ISO-NE is deeply concerned with the upcoming retirement of several large coal units and has run into hot water for considering subsidizing them. These organizations run reliability studies to determine the impact from these retirements. They KNOW this is a problem and are trying to determine possible market solutions.

Just saying we don't need any coal shows a definite lack of understanding of the industry and the problem. I work in power system transmission, but have zero connections to either coal or nuclear. My only "skin" in the game is a deep concern for premature coal retirements based off of all the public studies which have been run.

Edit: My memory is a little foggy, but I just double-checked myself and the coal plants in ISO-NE I was thinking about were actually natural gas plants that wouldn't be impacted by loss of pipeline as they were served by a local source. If they had enough of those, you wouldn't need to keep nearly as much coal around. However, I bet they're fairly rare.
There is much confusion. Cookies are governed by the ePrivacy Directive, not GDPR. ePrivacy regulates email, phone, text and other communications – not personal data per se. It prohibits setting a third party cookie on a device without first getting consent. It also requires consent for email marketing, which, when collected in the context of a sale to a customer (and some other restrictions) may be opt-out (this is often called a “soft opt-in”). Otherwise, the consent must be opt in. This is getting confused with the GDPR.
Marijuana prohibition was never constitutional in the first place. In Gonzalez vs Raich SCOTUS narrowly ruled the commerce clause ('the fed's constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce') gave the feds jurisdiction over personal consumption of plants. As Thomas noted: this case had nothing to do with the commerce clause and gave the fed unlimited power.

Every single civil liberty from gay rights to privacy to prohibition of plants and drinks has to somehow go through a political movement rather than just be acknowledged as already constitutionally granted: the federal government was just never intended to have that power.
An experiment demonstrating "rapid social change" wasn't competing with anything substantial - it was temporary belief sets vs temporary belief sets.

Social change that is against a dominant narrative, mainstream culture or religion will be much harder.
You'll have to remember the time when it was created. The idea of "write once, run anywhere" was considered a huge net positive. It can run on your Big Iron, and it can run on your watch. The fact that it was quickly adopted into education at the time led to it being used by many post grads. It's firmly entrenched in many enterprises due to Oracle (which perhaps rightly deserves a place in the enterprise) TELLING everyone "if you're serious about enterprise, if you're serious about scale, you'll use Java". This has led to the "no one has ever gotten fired for recommending we use Java" attitude in large corporations. While it was completely painful to use in the early days, it actually has gotten much better. But I'll agree, people were calling it "enterprise" when it was just a huge bloated XML nightmare.
Didn't even need to read the article.

When I saw the title I knew it was blown out of proportion:)
>It's my understanding (which could be wrong, is constantly evolving, and desperately needs test cases) that being able opt out of unnecessary PII collection or processing is a legal right, and phooey to the ToS that claims otherwise.

That’s actually a great point. Collecting PII is NOT illegal, as far as I can see. Nor can it be illegal. Same for personalized ads.

Consider a real estate agent. To show you the right kinds of houses to buy and finally make the contract, they have to have enough PII about you. If they know nothing about you, they’ll end up showing 1-bedroom studios for a family of five and a three bedroom suite for a bachelor living alone. Similar arguments can be made for all kinds of service providers.

Now onto the issue of FB, the only service they offer is “communication tools with built in personalized ads”. PII is necesary to provide that service.
I can imagine an even more weird one: DOS, ASM, dBase... (;,;)

> C is a straightforward

Indeed, what can be more straightforward than manual memory management and pointer arithmetic...
Many like Java for the write once run anywhere concept combined with memory safety. These can be achieved with C++ (std and RAII respectively) but it's less likely a less experienced developer will do that correctly in C++ and enterprises like solutions where you can throw more man hours at a problem with the lowest common denominator.
When sentiments like this [1] are floating around, it's an easy argument to make that companies aren't interested in fundamental research, and at most tweaking off the shelf parts.

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[1] https://www.ft.com/content/869b514c-727d-11db-a5f5-0000779e2...
> Interesting that even the most naive methods still have >50% accuracy.

All methods that you'll ever see have >50% accuracy, because if you find a signal with <50% accuracy you'll just flip the sign in the sginal and call it >50% accuracy.

Here's a bit relevant to this conversation:

> Previous work on predicting the directionality of Bitcoin prices has shown that significant signal exists in the price of the cryptocurrency. Hegazy and Mumford (2016) compute an exponentially-smoothed Bitcoin price every eight minutes; using the first five left derivatives of this price as features in a decision-tree based algorithm, they predict thedirection of the next change in Bitcoin price with 57.11% accuracy.

> Their results substantiate earlier research done by Madan, Saluja, and Zhao (2014), who found that by using the Bitcoin price sampled every 10 minutes as the primary feature for a random-forest model, they could predict the direction of the next
change in Bitcoin price with 57.4% accuracy.

> An alternative model was used by Sebastian, Katabarwa, and Li (2014), who use the Bitcoin price sampled every minute as the primary feature for a forward-feed neural network. Their results suggest that this system predicts future Bitcoin price directionality with 60% accuracy.

The most glaring evidence that this entire paper is garbage is the fact that zero time is spent on putting these numbers (57.11%, 57.4%, 60%) in context. What do I mean by context? For example, observations like the fact that for the same dataset if you use a daily resolution and your prediction is always "up", you'll beat those accuracies. Obviously, the reason why this discussion is absent is because it's a lot harder than just dumping a dataset into sklearn.
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Is there a guide to science for people like me who have barely grasped Special Relativity. I am a full century out of date and I do wonder if I should be worried before we throw the stuff I don't know out and replace it with other stuff I don't know
Just to be clear, he said he is willing to sign a bipartisan bill to that effect. Congress is doing the work and he's just not overruling them.
It's nice, save would be great also a link to the documentation for your flavor of Markdown.
What he would perhaps support was a bill to ensure that each state has the right to determine for itself the best approach to marijuana within its borders [1]. To me, this sounds different from ending the ban on a federal level, which is what the title would suggest.

[1] https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/STATES%20Act%20O... (PDF)
Is there a consistant opinion from Democrats on this at a federal level? This is one of the interesting topics that wasn't largely discussed much in the past presidential elections.
Under what grounds? Sure, GDPR and all, but what specifically triggered this?
This article mentions that but doesn't give any details. Annoying since that's the interesting bit.
Hell legalize it. Give them zero dollars to work with. Balloon the DEAs budget to new heights. Slow down research initiatives.

Am I the only one who's noticed a huge come back of herion since he's been elected?
If I had it to do over again, I'd probably switched to Erlang or something. There just was no REALLY good solution in the early days of the web. (Not that Erlang is a good choice for e-commerce)
I've been using touch screen laptops for so long now that when I use a mac I instinctively touch the screen to do certain things (usually scrolling) and am surprised / disappointed when nothing happens.

I'm really surprised that Apple haven't combined the mac and the ipad yet.
BSD 4.3 introduced inetd along with TCP/IP to mainstream Unix. Quoting from [1]:

> When a TCP packet or UDP packet arrives with a particular destination port number, inetd launches the appropriate server program to handle the connection. For services that are not expected to run with high loads, this method uses memory more efficiently, since the specific servers run only when needed. Furthermore, no network code is required in the service-specific programs, as inetd hooks the sockets directly to stdin, stdout and stderr of the spawned process.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd
I made an identical submission yesterday, which was flagged.
Laziness. Some sites are just blocking all European visitors on the mistaken assumption that that complies with GDPR. They're not willing to undertake any further dev work.
Razer something similar about 5 years ago.[1] I personally really like the idea. Feels more functional than a bar and should be easily dropped into "dumb touchpad" functionality if the user wants to save battery life or just doesn't need it. Would be nice to see this migrate across the entire laptop pc segment.

[1]https://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/laptops-portable-pc...
I'll believe it when he puts a bill to Congress, and actively works towards getting it passed. Till then, it's just another thing Trump says he's going to do.
Facebook auto generates “alt” attribute for our profile picture's img element.
I found something really interesting !

1) Visit your own profile page.
2) Right click your profile picture and select inspect element to get hold of the the image element.
3) Check the text in the "alt" attribute.

We never specify this to FB while uploading our profile picture. It seems to be FB's intelligent algorithms determining what the image contains. Amazing !

The privacy protected images have right click disabled.
Facebook collects data about non users as well, so your claim that people who never opted in can somehow opt out is bullshit.
That is an amazing story I have never read earlier and we are talking about Steele and Stallman.

Between, I want to read more. Source of this story please?
Thanks for that info. I do need to learn C still.
http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/guitar_scales.php

I prefer this one, they have a ton of other scales, chords, theory, and other great information too.
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In the article it’s mentioned that Trump has already maintained Obama’s policy on this issue by ordering the DoJ not to prosecute anyone in states where it is legal. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that he would support this measure as well.
What is sqlite written in?
Implementation question: does it re-render the entire content on every keystroke? Or is it smarter, and does it re-render only the changed bits?
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The cookie banners are required by the ePrivacy Directive, not the GDPR or its predecessor, the Data Protection Directive. ePrivacy has been around for years. Directives are EU-wide “directives” to each member state (country) to enact their own version of it. Therefore, both ePrivacy Directive and the old Data Protection Directive resulted in varied laws from country to country making compliance a challenge. Part of the purpose of the GDPR was to create consistency by replacing a directive with an EU-wide regulation. They have the same plan for ePrivacy and already have published an ePrivacy Regulation for review and comment. The ePrivacy Regulation was supposed to be passed at the same time as the GDPR, but they’re behind so people are expecting it in 2019. There is a recognition that the cookie banners have been a failure, and it is expected the ePrivacy Regulation will get rid of them (but there will still be TBD consent requirements around use of cookies).
I think Jeff Sessions is a great political tool here. Have him start strictly enforcing the law, shutting down dispensaries all over the place. Then say you're just enforcing the law as your swore to, forcing the legislature to act.
Its from here https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.html
This is what happens when things are built to sell, not built to use.
This page makes the case that Boeing's large commercial aircraft division is subsidized in some detail: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/html/146484.htm
I would be shocked if Apple didn't prototype this while working on design for the Touch Bar.
From: http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/latimes.com/ ( hmmm, that is where I get redirected to ).

"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. We continue to identify technical compliance solutions that will provide all readers with our award-winning journalism."
My close colleges and family don't do X in my presence is hardly proof of X don't exist. Making that observation and then extrapolating it to state of world is equally fallacious.
Not sure where you’re located but where I’m from there’s been a growing heroin problem since the last recession. Crackdowns on prescription opioids (under Obama I believe) seem to have pushed even more people to heroin. No noticeable change in the last couple years honestly.
It should be left up to the states, as O'Connor noted in Gonzalez vs Raich and as Thomas noted in the same case: the Federal Government arguably does not even have the constitutional right to do this. In other words, there is a distinct federal ban on marijuana and ending it should have been done a long time ago.
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I think it matters whether someone is joking.

Pogo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQuqeLBTetA etc) recently answered the question "Why is your Youtube name Fagottron?"

https://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

In a moment of somewhat poor judgement, he said, essentially, "I've always hated gay people." But he was joking.

The joke was that gay haters are often so over the top that they will sound completely ridiculous -- like, say, naming their Youtube channel Fagottron as a way to rub in the gay hate.

The original video has been removed, but here's a part: https://youtu.be/-8y553PV0Gg?t=52

The internet of course exploded at this, and soon the hornet's nest came out at him. The general mindset was apparently "I know you were joking, I don't care that you were joking, enjoy your ruined career."

Now, to be clear, if you watch the original video, there's probably no way for you to tell it was a joke. He sounded dead serious. But he was in fact joking, and I think that's an important distinction.

It's... getting unsettling unsettling that people can lose their careers over this sort of thing. Pogo will probably be ok, but it's strange that it was even an issue.

Part of the problem is the culture of outrage. Outrage = clicks, and media knows this. That's why it's so easy to write articles like these: https://i.imgur.com/oVvsN3q.png

Another name for this type of joke is trolling, and that would be a fair description this case. But to mark someone for life -- to discount their hard work and to try to ruin them over something that was satire, is strange to me.
Pogo wasn't joking though
I've also been thinking about this. Media literacy is a form of privilege. Not everyone has had the luxury of growing up reading the satire sections of the newspaper.

We have to accept that lots of people simply won't get the joke. That's fine when it's an article in an obscure magazine, or by a known humorist - but social media strips away that context.

Perhaps the web needs a laugh-track.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/04/what-do-we-do-about-people-...
I actually track this (roughly), and the percentage of people asking for help hasn't decreased over time. It increased in January of this year and has stayed relatively steady since.

That said, one thing I may investigate is either removing link-only posts altogether, or limiting them to users who pass some minimum standard. Link-only posts are generally easier to abuse and less useful on IH than they are on a site like HN, where people come to discuss news.
I understood the money is divided up corresponding to the number of votes: If you get 10% of the votes, you get 10% of the money.

There is a 'kiesdrempel' declaring you need 5% of a district's votes before you can function as a party. There are I think 11 districts, so the theoretical maximum is (100/5)*11=220 political parties.

New parties create a document, the 'voordrachtsacte' which needs a minimal number of signatures. When you get enough people to sign it (again apercentage of the inhabitants of the region that's holding an election), you have managed to start a new party.

In practice there are about 3-5 big ones for each half of the country, plus a lot of small parties which are mostly ignored as background noise and are mostly dead at the next election.

Some background noise parties I remember because of their humoristic values were WOW (Gething older with grace), and BANAAN (banana, who had a slogan like: dont be a pear, vote banana)
Where do you get the impression I am arguing against the GDPR? I quite support it in fact. The discussion was about whether the complaints of the type mentioned in the article are valid under the GDPR.
exactly that. I prefer using javascript than inventing a template DSL
I don't think it's useful to use laziness to describe this, as it's needlessly perjorative. It may be that they've decided that the ROI is not there for complying with GDPR, or that the risk of an inadvertant fail is too high and expensive. Laziness may be the case, but it's unwise to assume.
At that level, you can just switch to the clang compiler based Swift language, which is much nicer/modern. And look, there are already Swift web frameworks like https://vapor.codes
If the site is the only business they have in Europe, it ought to be GDPR compliant. They’re essentially just pulling out of Europe rather than changing their product. It’s not like GDPR says every website on the internet is forced to serve the European market.
Wow, I had read a first generation of that piece a long while back. It ended right after the call to the guy with the same job code. It has grown!
> By the way, I'm not sure if something like a blockchain is necessary here. You could use a simple public key cryptosystem.

I think you're right public crypto is enough... i'm just applying blockchain unnecessarily.

I can see this working in a really nice way: right now people are dealing with "migrating" and having to choose to loose PR/issues starts etc that these platforms provide, all of that could be implicit to the repo with zero effort to use a different platform.

- Public crypto for repo authority (who can commit, who can merge PRs, who can manage issues etc - preferably more granularity than current platforms)

- A common Issues/PRs etc format is saved into the repo

- Hosts are networked, they sync repos with each other allong with any platform data... anyone can add (sync) a repo from github to gitlab without being the author (ownership is done by crypto not platform accounts, each platform/host would verify the repo content when syncing from some other host).

In other words, platforms like github and gitlab etc just become a viewport and a node in the network, like there are GUIs for git, github would be just another GUI for the collaboration protocols... at this point you could even do it offline with a headless server, the purpose of github/gitlab is to provide hosting and good UX etc. This would mean that a repo can simultaneously exist on any platform, there is no platform boundary, you could accept a PR from a user using gitlab on github... it wouldn't matter where they came from. Or if you hate all these platforms you can just use the cli and accept a PR from someone using these platforms (you would just need a public git host that the other host/platforms can sync with).

How the crypto integrates with the repo would have to be well thought out as it's essentially completely independent of platform accounts, anyone could locally clone the repo and attempt to push something to your public server (or a hosting platforms server on your behalf).
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I've no idea why anyone tries to communicate using satire or sarcasm today. It's absolutely begging to be misunderstood, and then it's impossible correct because yes that is literally what you wrote and it's there in black and white. It must be the least clear and most risky way to communicate possible.