skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link, but I don't think the raw legal document is the most readable form for a layperson. Here's a more structured version: https://gdpr-info.eu/

To elaborate on my original point: the GDPR establishes privacy and data ownership as human rights. The remainder just elaborates on what that means in practice and addresses when and how business interests might outweigh those principles.

If your business model is incompatible with the GDPR, this almost always means you're intentionally or carelessly violating someone's (typically at least your customers') privacy or their rights to own and control their data. Note that there are many cases where those rights can already be limited for business reasons -- we're only talking about cases where not even those exemptions cover your behavior.

That's why I'm calling such business models "abusive". You're intentionally ignoring your users' rights or you're intentionally neglecting to consider their rights.

I call them "defunct" because even if you exist outside the scope of the GDPR right now, you will likely eventually either enter that scope or have to cooperate with companies who do -- at which point your non-compliance will become a defect. If your non-compliance is inherent in your business model, that defect cannot be resolved.
it wouldn’t surprise me if it was a tor service via bridge. the snowden docs showed that gchq uses tor to communicate with assets. a big part of the value of tor is that even if youre detected connecting to it, that doesnt prove youre doing anything in particular on it, only that you’re using the network.
yes, I can relate to this 100%. That's why I have become a huge fan of using Vagrant in (my) tutorials. Just clone and type "vagrant up" and everything is installed and ready to jump right into coding. I love coding, I almost loathe config and admin stuff (especially if installing doesn't work arrr)
I think that's basically every large metro area's view of those that live in a less dense environment. I get the same feeling if talking to someone who lives in San Francisco, as I live and was raised an hour north. Some of that could just be my own perception though.
One third of phishing attacks target financial services
Slightly related, sometimes I just want a new pair of glasses without the hassle of going to/paying the eye doctor. I can still see 20/20 with my current prescription, but since it's "expired", physical retailers won't sell me glasses nor will they use their refractometer to read off the prescription of my current pair. So I instead go online and order a pair from Zenni using my expired prescription that I wrote down.
Murder is targeted at one person and committed by one or a few people. Lynching is used to terrorize groups of people by other groups of people.
This is a totally wild guess, but what if you use a hammock?

Hammocks are kind of popular in Colombia, and we use it a lot when in vacation. To rest on them in sunny days. Or windy, like in my case!

Hammock make almost impossible to sleep against their curve, so this could make the trick.

BTW this kind of hammock is the most confortable:

http://hamacasdedioses.com/

Is made by the indians in the guajira region, and them sleep in them by tradition

https://www.semana.com/especiales/articulo/la-hamaca/79627-3
Along with the article, I get a video where "a top designer explains how to plan the perfect open office".

Color me confused.
Because I live like fifteen minutes away? I literally take the train from the South Shore to Boston every morning and yet people act like I told them I just flew in from Idaho.
It might be how you want a democracy to work, but it's not entirely how you want a Republic to work.
Spies are people that turn against their own country, often for little more than a payoff, and participate in activities that can and have resulted in the death, torture, and worse of countless individuals. For instance Augusto Pinochet, as just one example among many, was the direct and orchestrated product of a CIA "regime change" -- an activity that at it's most fundamental level relies on traitors. Spying is taking a position of trust and using it to intentionally hurt, potentially severely, immense numbers of people - for what is often a token payoff.

We can even see that in this exact case. Earlier this year, there were reports that this issue was not caused by a technological issue but by various spies. One, former CIA agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee [1], allegedly gave away the names of these CIA spies to the Chinese for $25,000. It's ironic that the CIA spies faced death, and probably worse, because of other spies - but that is the very essence of what spies do. Cause death and suffering, generally for small amounts of money. It's despicable.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-cia-officer-jerry-ch...
While we're pointing out dumb fads, how about the video player and other pointless crap that popped up on the screen and blocked part of the article. A purposely user-hostile fad in web design.
> For comparison, the average new grad offer in Silicon Valley at a FAANG company here is $160k. If you play your cards right, you can negotiate this to $190k+.

OP is implying that IBM is going for the same caliber of talent as FAANG, then lowballing at the end of the process, after you spent 3 days on site.

I had that happen to me with a different company in the valley so I know how frustrating it is.

Personally I'd expect IBM to try to compete with FAANG, so I also understand the surprise there.

Finally, OP apparently did get his $160k+ offer eventually, so he was right that IBM lowballed him.
Looking forward to the React Native SDK. I don't do mobile development, but I definitely would like to play with incorporating this into web apps.
Video game crash of 1983
Dataspace 0: Those Memex dreams again
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17774698
Gum Ice cream like Booza (iirc the oldest "ice-cream" in the world) or Dondurma Maras is prevelant all around the region it's common in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and the entire Levant and Aegean region.
Because the states were complicit and Federal action was required. The Federal government lacks jurisdiction without specific laws. In one case, the Federal government was able to prosecute a Florida policeman. He was fined $1000.

From President Truman's Commission on Civil Rights, about two of the "less brutal" lynchings in 1946:

"On July 20, 1946, a white farmer, Loy Harrison, posted bond for the release of Roger Malcolm from the jail at Monroe, Georgia. Malcolm, a young Negro, had been involved in a fight with his white employer during the course of which the latter had been stabbed. It is reported that there was talk of lynching Malcolm at the time of the incident and while he was in jail. Upon Malcolm's release, Harrison started to drive Malcolm, Malcolm's wife, and a Negro overseas veteran, George Dorsey, and his wife, out of Monroe. At a bridge along the way a large group of unmasked white men, armed with. pistols and shotguns, was waiting. They stopped Harrison's car and removed Malcolm and Dorsey. As they were leading the two men away, Harrison later stated, one of the women called out the name of a member of the mob. Thereupon the lynchers returned and removed the two women from the car. Three volleys of shots were fired as if by a squad of professional executioners. The coroner's report said that at least 66 bullets were found in the scarcely recognizable bodies. Harrison consistently denied that he could identify any of the unmasked murderers. State and federal grand juries reviewed the evidence in the case, but no person has yet been indicted for the crime.

Later that summer, in Minden, Louisiana, a young Negro named John Jones was arrested on suspicion of housebreaking. Another Negro youth, Albert Harris, was arrested at about the same time, and beaten in an effort to implicate Jones. He was then released, only to be rearrested after a few days. On August 6th, early in the evening, and before there had been any trial of the charges against them, Jones and Harris were released by a deputy sheriff. Waiting in the jail yard was a group of white men. There was evidence that, with the aid of the deputy sheriff, the young men were put into a car. They were then driven into the country. Jones was beaten to death. Harris, left for dead, revived and escaped. Five persons, including two deputy sheriffs, were indicted and brought to trial in a federal court for this crime. All were acquitted.

These are two of the less brutal lynchings of the past years. The victims in these cases were not mutilated or burned."
>Time inconsistency refers to the tendency of the human brain to value immediate rewards more highly than future rewards.

To me it seems this sort of reasoning suffers from the homuncular fallacy. Who is placing value on the rewards: are some rewards 'rewarded' more highly than others? What about those rewards, etc.

>When you make plans for yourself — like setting a goal to lose weight or write a book or learn a language — you are actually making plans for your future self.

Yes, you're making a prediction on the basis of imperfect self-knowledge. And that's before even considering creativity, which by definition is unpredictable. So for example booking a plane flight is one thing and writing a novel is another. It isn't merely a matter of blinkered self-control: one has to be distractable to go in new directions.
One suspects the point was that a federal crime would be prosecuted by federal prosecutors, who would be less likely than the local county guy to be drinking buddies with local Klansmen.
The same would happen with the Tesla Gigafactory in NV, the closest "city" is sparks(Reno), which is where all the wrokers live. So a link from there to sparks would make sense. The downside is a bunch of that land is all BLM, so it would take dealing with the feds to make it happen, which might be difficult and delay things crazily.
And it's been getting worse as the population concentrates into fewer states, giving those people relatively less and less representation in the Senate.
I wrote about this last year:

https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...

It's easy to side with CloudFlair when they go against a site like The Daily Stormer (Which is so out there it might just fall into Poe's Law).

The fact is that most decent hosting is only available in a handful of industries. Even the CF CEO has had misgivings of his decision and it gets us into a really questionable space.

Platforms should be free to do what they want right? They should be able to deny customers .. just like an airplane company should be allowed to keep people who crazy political opinions from boarding plans right? .. oh and black people too. Oh wait..what?

The freedom of speech in the US is pretty limited to government censorship. But we don't let businesses do whatever they want. They can't keep a certain ethnic group from eating at their restaurant, and in many states they can't choose if their venue allows smoking. The big question is, does speech need to fit into this same framework?

With the recent child protection act that gutted craigslist and took down backpage (an act that is leading to more violence against sex workers in the US and an act that the EFF and ACLU are actively fighting as being unconstitutional), we see the US government holding content hosting companies liable for the criminal actions of their user base. That is disturbing and already a form of government control over what customers a business is allowed to have.

It'd be one thing if censored sites could just go to another provider, but there are only a couple of big providers and their mass has the ability to crush anything they find questionable.
I think so, yes. Music, more than any other form of art has the potential to touch so many people.

Also, there have been news items about the deaths of other great musicians on HN before, so there is ample precedent.
Summary: "Economic failures cause us serious problems. We need to build simulations of the economy at a much more fine-grained level that take advantage of all the data that computer technologies and the Internet provide us with. "

I would whole heartily agree with this vision however the reason I think this doesnt happen is political. Currently there is always debate about the economic result of policy change (eg. change in minimum wage). If economic outcomes were "known" it would remove the political power of economists.
If it's a forgotten feature, it's a potential security risk. It'll go away.
That's for the community to decide.
Not surprised at all, especially since the news site has only recently made the switch to https https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering/bbc-news-on-https-...
Free speech is a principle that transcends law. They might have no legal requirement to uphold it, as our government does, but these moves were absolutely censorship and absolutely counter to the principle of free speech.

The odiousness of the words in question don't factor into it.
It sounds like you just have no regard for a formal education -- which is fine. However, for many, it's still a great indicator that you have had at least some training on the fundamentals of your practice area.

The job market for GT grads is the same as everyone else, yes, because it's unlikely a job is going to magically open just for a GT grad. However, I guarantee saying you hold a GT BSCS catches the eye of recruiters more than a certificate from Udemy or no education but some experience.
Show HN: MacOS Mojave Dynamic Wallpapers on Linux and Windows
Just as a casual reader of this comment, a few tips:

- The rhetoric about the world grinding to a halt isn't really pertinent and makes you look unreliable. Also, no, not "literally." I think what you're getting at is that it's chosen for high-reliability systems, with the implication being that it's chosen for its superior reliability(?)

- But I say this because it sounds like you have some knowledge as to how this obscure microkernal is used and sharing that is valuable to the community. It's just a shame if the message gets lost in the delivery.
My vote for dumbest fad would be using business tropes on rank and file employees and, worse, clients.

No rank and file employee wants to be a 'brand ambassador' and clients don't want to rate your 'sense of urgency'.

Keep the jargon with the specialists in the back room.

The trick is to do important things that might be described by cringeworthy jargon without letting on that is what you are doing!

It's like announcing at a singles bar that you are there to get laid when you walk in the door. Everybody knows but its a terrible thing to call direct attention to.
Respect in Peace, Aretha.
Anything that hackers care about. Aretha Franklin is big time hacker news.
why not? hn thrives on variety, and aretha was such a beautiful and influential performer, I'm sure people here will have thoughtful things to share about her
Ask HN: Best practices for ML services/app metrics
Hey all,

I have a web application that has gotten to a level where I want to start collecting metrics about various parts of the system, specifically to improve various machine learning models I have built and which are currently running. As one example, I would like to be able to record the ML models suggestion and then the actual selection by the user. A lot of times monitoring the interactions is a complex chain process involving multiple steps and stages at various times.

My question is: does anyone who has experience deploying and building / monitoring metrics in production services have any recommendations of software stack and/or best practices? How would you go about collecting the information so you could use it to build better models or answer various questions such as how is a user behaving over time, given condition X, etc.?

many thanks in advance :)
Apparently the same is true of their "fully homegrown" 3G cellular network standard. According to this [1] TD-SCDMA, is really an implementation of a failed European standards proposal by Siemens.

[1] https://www.samizdata.net/2012/06/here-is-the-rac/
It's not exactly a misrepresentation since the "wrong turn" happens fairly often, usually the Palestinian Police would stop the mob and escort them out, but there have been fatalities.

And assigning violence to the occupation is simply naive considering the past 150 years, when the west bank was under Jordanian control there was still plenty of violence, before the formation of Israel there was plenty of violence and pogroms in the area even before the end of WWI and the British Mandate like those during the multiple Arab revolts under Turkish rule.
Useful things for those in the struggle...

Deep Work, by Cal Newport. An excellent book on how to work on really big ideas/projects effectively, without losing your humanity in the process. This is a must-read for anyone serious about work.

Pomodoro Technique. This is well-documented with lots of apps and tools online, but it's pretty simple. Set a 25 minute timer. Work, without interruption, for 25 minutes. When the timer goes off, do not-work for 5 minutes - exercise, web surf, whatever. When that timer goes off, set another 25. It's nice because it does the boundary stuff this article talks about in a manageable way. It's not "I'm going to work hard all week", but rather "I'm going to work hard for 25 minutes".
Do you see doctors for memorizing vocab? No. Do you see them for pregnancy issues? Yes.
Does anyone have any advice on how to get started doing something productive at work when you've got no tasks?

I feel so guilty spending endless time on reddit an HN.
we've had really great results with TD tops into madmapper (via syphon/spout) on some installs 6000+ too.
Using FAANG salaries for the market value of engineers is like using Big Law salaries for the market value of lawyers. They represent a pinnacle, not a typical.
It was, but when it became clear that Wayland was winning they changed gears and started developing it into a generic Wayland compositor instead.
Can't really call it an "interview", though, when there is only one participant.

For what it's worth, I find that approach humiliating to the interviewee. It's a subtle way to tell him that they do not value his time as highly as their own.
I wonder what this looks like if you break it down by industry and firm size. It seems odd that this sort of thing can persist (and increase) over time since you'd expect competition within industries to drive this down over time.
According to my favorite Armenian language-researcher[1] it descends from the so-called Proto-Indo-European language. Greek "mastíχi μαστίχη" meaning "gum plant" (?) comes from the same theoretical root. Turkish then apparently took it from the Greek as "mastika", which is a natural gum. There are various deserts made in Turkey with "sakız". Most famous of which is "Sakızlı Muhallebi" [2].

[1]: (Turkish) http://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=mastika&lnk=1

[2]: https://ozlemsturkishtable.com/2012/09/milk-pudding-with-mas...
If by "also tends" you mean "once, as a bug", then yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409

That's a disingenuous phrasing, though.
New law went into effect July 1.
The experts in opsec forgot to apply their common sense rules (compartmentalization) to their own software
Presence of 'mean' robot found to improve human concentration
If I was looking for a job, no open-office policy and ,,private spaces for teams of 3-6'' would be a great benefit.

Hopefully at some point companies will use this benefit in their recruitment practices (though I'm not keeping my hopes up, as office space is expensive).
This was one of the slowest to load pages that I've seen in a while (no ad block). I usually use a bookmarklet to kill dumb popups that scroll with you[1], and I actually had to update it[2] for this page, since this page used `position: sticky` instead of `position: fixed` for one thing.

[1]:

javascript:(function(){(function () {var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed') {elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})()})()

[2]:

javascript:(function(){(function () {var i, elements = document.querySelectorAll('body *');for (i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {if (getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position === 'sticky') {elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})()})()
Type open office into their search bar. Nearly every other article contradicts the one adjacent to it.

It's actually pretty funny
That's quite the accusation for one of the oldest domain registrars.

They are a horrible registrar, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't claim it was either fraud or hacking. Most likely a technical error.
The problem with Spaces as static hosting is it doesn't handle index.html/index.htm correctly so you need a CDN with edge rules.
Yes, the block data is directly inserted into the database.

This has worked fine, but I don't think it is optimal. I think we might get some performance increases if we just used seqlite for keeping block offsets into a flat file. But then there are a bunch of other problems to solve.

Data is compressed, do we would have to handle free hole allocations for variable sized data. Or simply waste free space. Not that sqlite does does any better with those things, just things we would have to solve in general.
They function more efficiently, sure - but longevity remains to be seen. Our system is by design not the most efficient one.
The point is that this app is 500 lines of C but it'd be two lines of Python:

from wayland import solution_to_the_problem
solution_to_the_problem()

In this case, wlroots is literally a library for writing a compositor.

("A small demonstration of the wlroots API" would have been a fine title for this post. Pretending it's a small amount of code is silly.)

"I made a tiny webserver using only the Linux kernel" is impressive. "I made a tiny webserver using only the Golang webserver API" is not as impressive. "I made a tiny social networking website using the Golang webserver API" is heading back towards impressive.
I think until their browser really establishes some recognition ... you sort of have to follow in the wake of the primary browsers. Nobody wants to be the browser of "oh man why does it work this weird way" where "weird way" is "not like everyone else".
ReasonML Fundamentals Part 3
Testing whether cannabis can treat autism is about to get easier
I completed this online MS InfoSec program in 2013 back when it cost $40k (out of state). Who do I talk to in order to get a refund for the difference since now Georgia Tech are effectively admitting they were price gouging me by $30k?
Long and arduous? It's not like he had to find a blue flower on the slopes of a mountain and deliver it to Ra's Al Ghul. He had two phone/video interviews and then an in-person competition.
> Who is placing value on the rewards: are some rewards 'rewarded' more highly than others?

I guess your own brain by means of producing dopamine?

And to the second question, obviously would depend on the amount of dopamine that gets generated (if that's at all how the rewarding effect of that substance works on the brain)
It can happen if you happen to install a recent compiler and that package manager has not done the work(probably changing the bounds) to update in opam repo.

> I don't understand how language developers don't prioritize package management in 2018

As you already know, Ocaml already has a decent package manager opam, this same situation will happen in any language where the packages get stale(e.g. in rust you installed something used nightly features that didn't make it mainstream).
Isn't that the way Windows handles decorations? I know if an app freezes on Windows sometimes I can't even move it around.
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