skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A business that operate in, say, Germany, reports to the German authority.
A business that operates in 10 EU countries, can declare which one is the major country for them, and they have to deal only with the authority in that one country.
As the GP said, there are people who are drunk, high, smelling of bodily fluids, etc. There are people who are rude, loud, etc. If this were stopped, then it might be better than being in a car.
Normally, software functions are only tested against what is considered to be the universally correct outcome. The wiggle room - i.e., undefined aspects of the behavior - within that definition of "correct" is not tested. It would be interesting for testing of scientific software to incorporate a second metric: "how close is it to what it was last time (assuming last time was also 'correct')?" For the sake of reproducibility, maybe it's meaningful whether or not the current version of correctness is in line with the previous version of correctness.

There's virtually no other domain in which you'd want to test software this way, which is what makes it novel and interesting.

For example, maybe a floating point operation rounds the very last digit down. Then through code changes, it starts truncating the very last digit instead. Your tests may still consider this result "correct", but it might be worth considering the fact that it differed from the previous "correct" result.
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Because that's what most of these offerings are offered in terms of?
If you listen to the experts that are economically invested in the complexity of the law, you risk having more work.
Mostly on car in front is not exclusively on car in front.

The car in front of you is by far the greatest risk to your safety that you can control. the car in back is a large risk but you have minimal control.
> MS isn't stupid, and they know that futzing with Github would mean generations of developers never trusting them with anything again.

Have you forgotten about how Microsoft destroyed Nokia? MS bought Nokia in 2014, and then sold it in 2016 for pennies on the dollar for what it paid in 2014 [1] [2]. Meanwhile MS completely wiped out Nokia's brand and technology to push Windows Mobile down everyone's throat.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/18/nokia-phones-are-back-after-...

[2] 5 pennies on the dollar to be exact.
Oh lord speaking of copyright law, trying to rationally discuss Copyright law during the Oracle vs Google case on this site was basically an exercise in how much mental pain you were wiling to take. Comments that only contained direct quotes from the case to negate what the OP was stating were downvoted. The Google fanaticism was insane.

I'm going to guess what's happening here is a good amount of developers work for companies where GDPR would directly impact their revenue directly or indirectly (and most likely jobs as a whole). This is especially true for smaller "middle man" analytic firms and general web agencies. It pays to be anti-GDPR.
You clearly haven't read the bill. Guess how I can tell?

tip: company has to either

(1) make more than $25m/year, or

(2) buy or sell personal information of 50k+ consumers/devices;

(3) make 50% of rev from selling personal data

to be subject.

ps -- passing laws popular with constituents is not exactly a reasonable definition of "blackmail."
It already is better than a car. It has a higher throughput and lower cost. If you value luxury, pay more for private transit. This isn’t contrary to a city that invests in public transit. SF is practically undrivable during the week rush hour because people prioritize comfort over economy. So the only knob a city has is to increase expense of driving, or to make public transit more comfortable. I don’t see any humanitarian route to the latter, so I am emphatically for the former.
yes. Added friction is still typically good in an adversarial problem like this one. This won't fix the problem forever but will weed out certain actors due to extra effort.

In other words, it's a step in the right direction, good for twitter.
I mean, they put people to work. Considering many startups, "living wages" can be quite a stretch.
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This is a disingenuous stance to take. You could hardly be employed, pay rent, buy food, and live a modern life in any sort of comfortable way with this perspective.
As a programmer, I absolutely hate SPA's. I've never used a good SPA, they're always slow, and behave strangely. I much prefer the traditional way. It's the same with Electron apps.

I think it's just web developers who like SPA's
Like me, many people I know started out believing what you wrote. But now that I'm a bit older, most that I know who have actually worked to alleviate homelessness would agree that a large portion of the visible homeless have severe mental health or addiction issues. That is not to say the they are undeserving of compassion, rather they are deserving and in need.

But to say that simply providing resources will fix the problem is naive. It's hard, and heartbreaking. I believe there are solutions that we can and will work toward, but they're not simple.
There is no externality here because the costs fall entirely on the person who takes the decision. People, myself and quite possibly yourself included, really do want to sign up with 30 marketing companies to save 5% on a car.
> I'm pretty sure that pot is not an addictive substance.

That's exactly what they said about coke. You're wrong. If it's not an addictive substance, this is news to me. It's about half way through the year and I've probably tried to quit about 90 times or roughly every other day. It most certainly is addictive in every sense of the word and even has mild physical withdrawal symptoms. Yes, it's not like withdrawing from heroin, and it probably won't make one sell everything to get it, but to say it's not addictive is simply false. I'm not against daily use and I'm not saying it's necessarily negative, but it most certainly is addictive for some people. As the Luniz song goes, "THC ain't no joke."
Looks like Jeff Bezos was on to something about that "Two Pizza Rule"[0]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-two-pizza-rule-for...
do scooters require more juice for a short trip, or more current draw, than a portable usb-c battery pack can provide?

if not, scooters should have external ports for BYO power.
SST Committee Approves the National Quantum Initiative Act
Why it's as if it's in Facebook's interest to get this information too.
I'm not saying it never happens. Although Nokia doesn't surprise me because nobody has cared about Nokia for some time now. Microsoft was basically beating a dead horse. Yeah, they could have resurrected it, but Microsoft had less to lose by destroying Nokia than it does by destroying Github. (although this is really my gut talking without solid figures)
This problem/market is very interesting and strange to me. In my country, you're able to open a bank account in 15 minutes, the only requirement is to have a parent present if you're under 15, of course you have to present your identity, and you have to deposit just 200 to 1000 CZK (7.5 to 50 dollars, or 5 to ±30 beers). No credit checks, no solvency requirements, no debt-free only policy, nothing like that, you literally walk out with a working bank account (and a debit card will arrive by mail shortly after) that is completely free for everyone and for all use cases that an average person has.

Bank accounts are treated as marketing for other financial services so you will even get free money if you open it in a bank that currently has a promotion (usually around 200 to 500 CZK - 7.5 to 20 dollars, or 5 to 12 beers).
Saying that you live in Lehi, a small town, without mentioning that it's near the geographic center of a region of nearly 2 million is a little disingenuous. You're talking like you live in Logan, a similar sized town that's geographically and economically distant. Lehi is, in all ways but politically, a subdivided neighborhood of SLC-Provo. Given the businesses around I-15 and the train stations, it would definitely benefit from allowing (not mandating) denser development in and around the central areas. But those can't be built regardless of whether people want them or not, due to zoning.

40% of the US population lives in the 48 largest metro areas, and 80% live in "urban areas" - https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w.... Just because your municipality has a low population doesn't mean you live in a small town.
Or, maybe your "equals" function, when given two floats (floats are typically considered not-comparable in most languages), happens to return true in a particular case, then later on through code changes, it ends up returning false for the same two numbers. Since <float> == <float> is undefined, neither behavior is "incorrect", but it might be worthwhile to at least keep the behavior consistent.
Nonsense, Baltimore is perfectly nice and it's bad parts are easy to avoid.
"The motive is to hamstring some of our most innovative companies"

What's innovative about sucking up user data and selling it to advertisers?

Wouldn't it be far more innovative to come up with something new, something that respects user privacy?
Congratulations to Team Bytes!
It would be great if we can know the hurdles that came during the incorporation!
dammit. i knew i should have gotten a job when they were just at $1bn cap ...
Switch to DDG as your default, and you can search using Google semi-anonymously in even fewer keystrokes by just typing "g! <search query here>" (or just using DDG as-is).
Is Venmo Making You Less Likable?
"California ballot initiatives like all referendums must be eradicated"

Both medicinal and recreational marijuana were passed via ballot initiative.
Instantly licensed to sell/ship pharmaceuticals in the entire USA @ 20 million per state, not bad...
> where credible crypto business logic will start having an impact in mainstream financial markets, exchanges and MTF's as the space matures

Yeah, the only missing part is the "credible crypto business logic". Everyone is waiting for it...
This only applies to overt ads which are hardly the problem. It does nothing to mitigate the armies of astroturfers influencing public opinion.
You're basing this off a 3yr old security review of a 2yr old startup (at the time: founded in 2013, reviewed in 2015)? Got anything more recent? 3yrs is a lifetime in startup years.

Plus they now have plenty of money to hire the best security firms to pen test their systems, plug holes, and run a serious monitoring operation.
In 99% of America (including many dense cities), it's illegal to build dense urban environments. So you cannot claim that the built environment reflects how most people want to live.
I came to this same conclusion while working at Intel in the late 90s. To Intel's credit every incoming employee had to take a class on effective meetings which covered having an agenda and a clear purpose for the meeting, but I don't remember a suggested limit on headcount. My personal experience was that once a meeting gets to 8 people it either became a lecture with one person doing all the talking or it was effectively a smaller meeting with several attendees just waiting for it to end.
For tourists?
Very nice. The previously recommended implementation, IIRC, involved having a lambda basically polling SQS and invoking other lambdas to handle the messages. Very clunky. It's weird, because SQS as an event source is probably the first service you would have expected this behavior out of. Not that I'm complaining, better late than never.

On an unrelated note, does anybody else think that there is a very large/poorly defined behavioral umbrella shared by SQS, Kinesis, and Amazon MQ?
My favorite Harlan Ellison cameo, from Gay Talese's famous "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (someone alludes to it in TFA's comments):

Frank Sinatra, leaning against the stool, sniffling a bit from his cold, could not take his eyes off the Game Warden boots. Once, after gazing at them for a few moments, he turned away; but now he was focused on them again. The owner of the boots, who was just standing in them watching the pool game, was named Harlan Ellison, a writer who had just completed work on a screenplay, The Oscar.

Finally Sinatra could not contain himself.

"Hey," he yelled in his slightly harsh voice that still had a soft, sharp edge. "Those Italian boots?"

"No," Ellison said.

"Spanish?"

"No."

"Are they English boots?"

"Look, I donno, man," Ellison shot back, frowning at Sinatra, then turning away again.

You can find out how it ends here:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has...
They could at least try it! They never try anything!
The shooting of the journalist at the rally or the shooting at the newspaper? It’s so hard to keep track of American shootings!
Thanks for the correction! :) I wouldn't have known, but then again, I do block ads on my own computer. I've never knowingly seen Bing ads on other people's computers, though I must have seen them.

Looking up revenue pie charts suggests that the amount Microsoft makes from Bing ads is miniscule in contrast to Google and Adsense. In fact, it looks like Google would have serious trouble if Adsense became unprofitable, whereas Microsoft could probably walk away from Bing Ads.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-apple-and-google-whe... (note the date of this article is February 2, 2012)
Not really.

1. You can always get wheeled carts to carry your groceries. I take transit everyday and see a lot of senior citizens doing their groceries this way. If those frail 80 year olds who need sometimes a minute to get off the bus because they are so slow are happily doing it, it shouldn't be a problem for most other people.

2. In a walkable city, your shopping habits and life change. I live in the walkable (not downtown) part of my city. Usually I get off the train back from work, walk 5 min to the grocery store, buy 2-3 days of groceries easily carried in resuable bag and walk 10 min back to my home. This has been an excellent change over my past life because I am always able to cook with fresh ingredients and barely have to freeze anything or eat processed foods.
Here is one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17303861

Since you insisted, I clicked through, and read until I got to this gem:

Google has never said they're going to deprecate HTTP, the only things that have been said are around changing visual indicators for HTTP and HTTPS in the browser...

Perhaps the word "deprecate" has some idiosyncratic personal meaning for this yokel. I've seen the over-the-top warnings Google came up with for valid self-signed certificates, and their warnings for no certificate at all won't be much relaxed in comparison. The most popular browser loudly insisting that users never go to non-TLS sites would certainly be a deprecation.

Kudos for keeping the thread alive, though...
This is going to give away a huge competitive advantage for good marketers.

If I know my political ads are most effective with Women, 45-65, who are Hispanic, and that's where I'm focusing my spend....

Is it fair for the opponent to have that information? If they give that level of detail for political ads, I hope they at least spare startup businesses who are still researching to find their ideal audience.
In a walkable city you don't need to go from one end of the city to the other. 10 mi. is insanity. You should be able to go a maximum of 2 mi. and find what you're looking for. I'm in a biking-density neighborhood, and have multiple grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants, and furniture stores within 1 mi. of me. In a walking density neighborhood, I would expect that to all be available within 0.5 mi. of me.
Yes, opam is a mess to work with.
Also, real people or organizations have "lost" this money, right?
why are you on Hacker News if you cant get around a basic paywall

are kids these days so basic that they dont know shit about computers, only the hottest JS framework?
I don't know about Asian males. But, call me crazy, salary is something that I would bring up. I does not make sense to interview for a position that pays far below your current salary. There is really no need to interview if you are not on the same page. This does not only save my time, it also saves yours.

By the way, the guy the was the most pushy ever about my references was a guy I insisted on doing a phone interview first. After the interview and the offer he have, I had to kindly decline to proceed on the matter.
Breaking LTE Security on Layer Two
If that's the case, I wonder if Bitcoin or Monero is affecting the black market for art.
How do they define what "selling personal data" means? Does that mean the the law affects equifax and not facebook for example? and what if a company which collects data is sold to another company or its assets were sold during bankruptcy does that count as selling personal data?
I wonder how does the math of this stack up against using space-filling curves in Google's S2?
For some pills, not even close. This is why you can't just split any old pill and expect a partial dose.
Mirrored my thoughts exactly. Maybe some take to the role more naturally but I've found it quite a struggle. These rosy eyed pieces certainly don't help.
OPAM and Dune (jbuilder) work very nicely IME. You don't need to touch a Makefile, you don't need to build anything by hand outside of the package manager.
> niches like AI or physics simulations or protein folding
These are 99% of HPC workloads. Nothing `niche` about them.
Good point, thanks for that - there is a lot error handling I haven't shown but hadn't taken into account memory leaks.
The easiest way around a paywall is to pay for whatever it is. That’s not something that everyone wants to do all the time.
Still, it's certainly a welcome change, and a step in the right direction.

I wonder what the best way to combat large-scale astroturfing on a platform like twitter would be; My first thought would be a rep system akin to those of StackOverflow or HN, but I'm not sure how you would implement it such that there's not a large impact on legitimate new users - there's no system like upvotes Twitter could use to stratify.
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> I'm surprised Amazon wasn't in the running, do they have their own VCS/Git yet?

Amazon Code Commit, but you have to sign up for it to try it. Apparently it's a great tool if you want to build AMI's with it, because the AMI's can be built securely and completely inside AWS.
It'd be funny if the borderguard would insist on you showing the wine bottle or glass to prove it's you.
The reason you don't like infinite scroll is the exact reason website owners love it.
You can pretty much expect clickbait bordering on fake news from Bloomberg these days. There has been a pattern of it.
No company should be as big as Amazon is getting. I hope American regulators look seriously at breaking this company up.
Actually, some pharmacies do have counting robots now which count out their most commonly filled prescriptions, like norco. They’re not perfect though.
yes good for twitter, it is a positive change. not sufficient by a country mile, like it or not there will have to be some legislative remedies if we are to avoid dire consequences.
Is it somehow easier to acquire Swiss citizenship in Romansh vs more popular Swiss languages? Or somehow immigrating to Graubünden is easier than other areas of Switzerland? I don't get how this 'loophole' would work.
How to detect mouse clicks from any where on your screen with a C# console app
XMPP was what I first thought of while reading https://joinmastodon.org/ . My thought before that was "Why will this time be different than that time that ~everyone thought XMPP federation would be the future?"
You should post to the comp-neuro mailing list. I used it to find a postdoc in computational neuroscience. That should give you access to a lot of neuroengineering types.

http://www.tnb.ua.ac.be/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro
That's dramatically overblown and incorrect (and rather insulting to trained professionals whom you apparently know nothing about). Many perscription drigs do come in blister packs in the US, but you may not have seen them because it's generally only the ones that are nearly always perscribed in the same amount - a Zithromax Z-Pack for example.

Any other medication coming in blister packs wouldn't change a darned thing, unless you expect pharmacies to carry large quantities of sealed 5,10,15,20 etc etc dose packs. If they didn't, they'd still be breaking the sealed packs up and counting to match the perscribed amount.
California Passes Sweeping Data-Privacy Bill
This was a concern for me as well. Brand new relationship with a company: now here's all my most precious banking credentials. There needs to be a lot more assurances around this.

In our case, I used bank creds, and immediately changed them to something else.

One other point of feedback. The AWS rewards is a big draw, but you learn new conditions only after you sign up. I don't think it was intentional but it felt a little bit like false advertising. Be sure to state all the conditions upfront that are required to win the rewards.
Sure. This article talks about “cleaning”, not “cleaning excessively”.
Not necessarily. Twitter has the power to deny anyone they want from purchasing ads from them. WHOIS is not centrally controlled in the same way. Twitter could easily block "laundering" platforms from functioning simply by not allowing them to purchase advertisements.
http://www.basic256.org/index_en

Install it ask him to type:

say "hello"
Would recommend!

Used PDFBox a couple of projects ago. It was great! Very nice API, works like a charm.
In a larger organization, "knowing what's important and what's not" at all times can be practically a full time job in and of itself. A lot of engineering teams like to protect individual developers from meetings and conference calls so they can focus on development, but that necessarily means developers will be missing context.
Most if these systems looks similar to meccano, so anyone w/ access to a drill and measure could actually make stronger parts.

And the strength concern is all the holes weakening the very spindly looking frames. I'm not bored enough to do the stress calcs, but it doesn't look sturdy enough that I'd trust a kid on that bed.
Start explaining what's unethical about each? I'm drawing a blank here.
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Google, Facebook, and the Rest of the Silicon Valley Crowd Need More Physicists
>Ironically, totalitarianism is itself a product of modernism: the idea that you can premeditate a "perfect" society and then bring it about at scale, by force.

That is quite true. However, in the modern era we also have more pragmatic, moderate forms of liberalism that recognize that striving for perfection actually makes things worse than settling for imperfect but workable solutions.
Not just the FDA, but also the DEA and the states Board of Pharmacy.
Varies a lot depending on the type of product you're on. If you have a B2B product, you're probably talking to the customer a lot, charting out plans with sales and marketing. On the other hand, if you have a B2C product you're looking at engagement numbers (which would hopefully in the order of thousands/millions), running experiments and doing surveys etc.

It also depends on what phase of the product lifecycle your feature is in. Early on, you're writing a lot of strategy docs putting together vision decks to convince people. During active development, you're keeping track on day-to-day activities, prioritizing features and putting out fires. You're also hopefully figuring out a GTM plan. If your product is already launched, you're thinking of v2, listening for feedback etc.
It sounds to me like this poster is straightforwardly asking for coins that can be pumped and dumped one last time.