skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say opportunity + curiosity + propensity is the formula and we know what curiosity and propensity are not chosen things. The other caveat is just anomalous ability and although rare we have strong evidence of these people existing. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't have the baggage that you speak but understandable. What you mean is applicable for the average folks, me included.
Can you cite an example of one of these requirements that you wouldn't be confident in being able to comply with? Also: how much do you think a legal consult costs? For any one item, I think we're talking a couple hundred bucks.

Almost all of the language in the section we're referring to applies to just one requirement, which is to make data tech companies retain about consumers available upon request to those consumers. That's something responsible companies already do, many because they're already by regulation required to do so.
excuse my French but I applaud the Swedes for not selling the soul of their city to corporate interests. End of the day apple is a company. It was nothing 20 years ago and is a trillion dollar company today - but so what? it is just another corporation. It doesn't give back and only takes. That is a misalignment of incentive structures. Apple does not care for the well being of Swedes. It cares about its shareholders. So excuse my French but Fahhk (lets see the deep learning profanity filter catch this!) Apple.
Because it's effective. If you're advertising specs like "grams of sugar in your cola", someone else can swoop in and make a competing product that surpasses you in whatever concrete metrics you advertised. If you can associate your cola with "warm fuzzy childhood memories of Christmas", it's game over for other competitors. They not only have to match specs, but now also displace feelings. People identify as Coke people, or Pepsi people.

Also for some products, you literally can't advertise the features; the most precise mechanical watch in the world is completely dominated by a 30 cent happy meal Casio digital watch. That's why advertising for luxury watches is all centered around a "you made it [to graduation, to financial stability, to the upper class, to retirement]" theme.
The problematic aspect of regulation is that you don't just need to comply, you need to _convince the regulators_ that you've complied. A better approach is to create liability for certain specific failures if the company didn't follow reasonable best practices, which means you might get sued, but in that case it would be on the plaintiff to show that you didn't follow best practices, rather than the regulatory approach which makes it a burden on the company to prove to regulators (who have no incentive to keep costs of compliance down, or even limit themselves to cases where customers are in some sense harmed).
If I had to test that hypothesis I would consider the comments section on the NYT (a website that requires a subscription to access more than 10 articles a month). Just checking the comments section there shows that people are just as vitriolic there _even_ if they've posted on more than 10 articles that month.

I'm comfortable saying that paid networks won't in-and-of-themselves improve conversation.
You're not wrong. But what people tend to mean is that for an event that killed so many people in the not really dim past, people as a whole are relatively unaware of it. It probably killed fewer than the Black Death (of a significantly larger population) but the number of victims was of the same order of magnitude.
It is quite a thing to blame a dead man for failing to protect himself from something he obviously would have objected to if he could review and understand the result.
I'm always surprised how few identified Superfund sites there are.
Was some claim to a new concept made somewhere? I haven't seen this.

A new realization of an existing concept can be notable.
You always create heat. That’s where the energy goes. Google “reversible computing” for theoretical approaches for computations that release zero heat.

Look, I can come up with a terrible sorting algorithm and get everyone using it as a requirement to participate a network protocol that will never change and then say look, it’s useful, it’s sorting stuff.

People have long invented far better things than PoW to secure distributed BFT systems. The transcations they can handle even scale with the number of machines, which is the case with the vast majority of applications on the Internet. If there was no alternative then MAYBE it wouldn’t be a waste (I think it would still be a bad trade-off). But you can literally just have a coin on another protocol which doesn’t use PoW arms race.
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So where might the average American learn about a significant 20th century event like this? One might think, having been significant in terms of number of deaths or role in public health, that it would be covered in say, high school social studies or history class. But I suspect it gets at most a brief mention as a "Thing that happened in 1918." Much of what gets taught in public high schools is really with a theme of Manifest Destiny: the pioneers came and conquered, threw off the yolk of foreign royalty, sought to create freedom from sea to shining sea. Under that theme, the flu isn't something that could be beaten or conquered. It isn't some foreign menace that we can beat back with bombs. So, it doesn't get any coverage, it's really that simple.
> (d) its search is horrible

This one caught me by surprise a few months ago when I helped out someone using Windows. I knew the files were there, but couldn't for the life of me find them. Turns out there was some search setting that prevented search to traverse all dirs... Wasted hours. In the end I googled how to search in Windows. Absolutely awful UX.
> Java has been gradually eating all the good parts of Scala.

Horray! I remember the first time I poked at Java, back in 2007, and I hated it, in large part because it was missing these. It's fantastic it's eaten these good things.

> So what does Scala have left?

Style/syntax and community?

I don't know enough about either language to debate on the points you've brought up; what I do know is that Scala feels a lot more like writing Ruby/JS/Python than writing C++/C#/Java.

I've only just started writing real class definitions in Scala, and the way that "constructors" work really drives home this similarity and difference; the kind of code you write to define the class looks to be the exact same kind of code you write to define everything else.

I also haven't poked into the larger Scala community, but I can't imagine it's all that similar to the larger Java community. Even if Java reaches some kind of feature parity with Scala, I bet this difference remains, and it'll come across in the libraries, common usage patterns, help on the internet, and conventions.

Again comparing to Ruby, the effect that "Matz is nice" and (when you add in Rails) "convention over configuration" have goes beyond code features into what it's actually like to use and work with the language day in and day out.
If you want to be GDPR compliant I don't think you can do that. If you offer the "usage data gets sold" option you also have to make that full opt-in _and_ not deny the service if they don't opt-in.
Very interesting, thanks for the write up!

>I decided to leave and return to the midwest.

I’m actually in the Midwest right now and has Austin at the top of my places to move to. However, I do want to buy a house in the next 5 years, so this is making me have second thoughts.
Only the guys at the top are allowed to operate things like a business. For the people in the business itself, they are not allowed to operate like that silly
They make quiet and peaceful neighbors in all seriousness - aside from desire to visit having the land set aside, undeveloped, and more noise than the occasional sobbing and crying of a funeral being viewed as taboo is itself contributes to things that some people want in residential areas. People differ in preferences of course.
Software engineers tend to assume that (a) they are the smartest in the room, (b) legislation is exactly like code, (c) caselaw doesn't exist and (d) nobody has ever had to write complex rules before software was invented. All of which, we feel, qualifies us to poke holes in any legislation we happen to stumble across.

But, of course, it doesn't. Not even close.

By way of analogy, if someone looked at a link to a github repo and said "yeah well I can't see any GOTO 10 lines, I bet this will crash when the IP trace becomes Apache'd" I hope someone would be patient and polite in explaining the several levels of wrongness involved.
Yeah, that'd be the ticket.
Most competent lawyers cost $400+/hr. For them to review your internal compliance policies and procedures (including your opt-in/out procedures. etc), privacy policy, etc. you could easily be looking at a few hundred hours. That doesn't include the external auditors that the bill wants you to have.

As you said in one of your comments, fortunately this bill as written will never come into law, both due to its implications, and the fact that its author is a single member of a minority party. This is one instance in which I am happy with our system of government.
Communism killed the same number, even more than the Nazis, and yet communism is openly embraced in our society. If causes of mass death should be a concern, why aren't we concerned about communism, especially since the father-in-law of our president is a card carrying communist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...
You'd have a point if the deodorant in question here was scentless, but it's not. It heavily markets its fragrance, like its ability to supposedly attract hot women.

It's absolutely a deodorant + perfume combo, and primarily the latter from my experience as a niño. Go smell some Axe next time you're in Walmart and see for yourself. Or smell a junior high boy's locker room.
I think your question is answered here: https://eventstore.org/docs/event-sourcing-basics/event-stor...
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I recently started using this and love it. It may sound silly, but I've found that the most effective way to stick to my budget is using a checking account for expenses that is separate from my direct-deposit account. Simple tells you how much money you have left (that isn't earmarked for something else), and that's it.
I too thought of this campaign. Fwiw, I do think Apple and Google are different today in how they handle consumer privacy. That includes how information collected on minors or new adults is used.

I also do not think Apple would use historical figures in this way anymore.
stderr is not for errors! (at least, not necessarily) It's for messaging things to the user. These are often errors, but there are some examples like curl that use stderr for progress.

Leave it up to the CLI to decide what colors to use.
This is part of why the concept of the free market economy makes little sense to me.

The free market revolves around the idea that eventually bad players lose and good players selling what's best for the consumer win. Rational buyers buy what's best, so producers have to adapt to that.

But if the sale of your product depends not on its quality, or its benefit, and is so influenced by a "gut feeling" and irrational association of your brand to an idea, then what gives? The whole thing devolves into "who can advertise best" instead of "who can build the best thing".

Which is actually largely what we are seeing is happening. Both in industry and in politics.

In industry some of the biggest companies in the world live off of ads. This is crazy if you think about it. So much of the internet, TV, radio-- these huge infrastructure and production projects employing thousands upon thousands, producing billions of dollars. Google, Facebook, other SV companies employing some of the brightest minds solving some of the biggest SW engineering challenges-- exist off of the value people put to ads.

In politics, it's all increasingly about advertising a feeling and less about the product (policy). Is it that strange that the guy who had the most air-time, shook people the most, and has most experience with being a screen personality won the last US presidential elections, when the population has, thought the years, learned to be susceptible to gut-advertising via constant, steady bombardment from the advertising industry?

I've concluded this is what a free market economy gets you, because as a company or producer optimizing for survival doesn't mean optimizing for being the best out there, just "seeming" the best.
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One of the reasons, I suspect, is that there is a lack of feedback. If you recommend something to a friend, later on you can ask them about it and they'll tell you whether they liked it or not and why. Whereas these recommendation engines keep recommending things but have no way of knowing whether the recommendations they make are any good.
Oh yeah there are plenty of workarounds, just an annoyance when it catches you out. Not much of an issue if you are on Windows 10 as you can enable Microsoft's long path setting. I don't often use Windows these days though so it is even less of an issue :)
Space launching is very expensive and rockets are about as explosive and volatile as constructing giant towers of fuel sounds like. While radiation is often exaggerated in its danger there are legitimate reasons why one doesn't want high energy radioactives to possibly wind up released in the atmosphere.

The boring and saner approach is just to do traditional funerary options and use the money left over to help fund space research.
The decisions of game giants like Activision, EA, and Ubisoft have real, tangible impacts on my life. They obviously do not have such an impact on yours. Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot care about and how deeply I should care about it?
You have the CIA, FBI, and NSA in the area...
Standard Notes’ cryptography was audited by a third party security firm: https://listed.standardnotes.org/@sn/821/announcing-our-secu...
You should probably live in a planned economy for at least ten years to be able to tell the difference. I've experienced both. You've got corrupt politicians, bread and circus in both of them. If there are other experiments like the USSR I just hope they don't drag other countries into their mess.
Look don't take my word for it, okay? You can still buy a house there, if your personal finances allow and still really, thoroughly enjoy yourself. Austin is great for that, I will definitely go back for ACL Fest and sxsw (becoming one of THOSE people heh) because at its heart it is a very fun city. My personal priorities just changed as I grew older.

I was someone who got to Austin in the very early 2000's after leaving the military up the road at Ft. Hood, enjoyed it for a few years, and slowly watched it evolve into something that just didn't excite me anymore. My experience shouldn't sour yours.

(But seriously, if you're gonna buy a house, and want to actually enjoy having a bit of land, but still be close enough to Austin to do Austin-y things, Pflugerville, Round Rock and Georgetown to the North are blowing up, as are Buda, Kyle and San Marcos to the south, with Bastrop to the east. To the west is where Michael Dell and probably Lance Armstrong lives. That's all I'll say about that)

p.s. if you absolutely feel like you have to have Franklin BBQ, don't be a rube and stand in line for 4 hours. Get some friends over, pool your money together and call in, they'll do pick up orders for anything over $40 I think and you can skip the line-or call my buddy Mark, his brisket is better anyway :P
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My friend Guilherme (@gvrizzo on Twitter) is going to live in Thai for a year and he is searching for indie hacker/nomad interested in sharing a place with him for a week.

To help Digital Nomads find their couches (like a couch surfing app), we've created Nomad Couch, a online spreadsheet to find your next nomad family to stay with and enjoy new moments together.

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Again, you're essentially saying that because games aren't something you care about that it's wrong for anyone to care deeply about them.
Perhaps you could take some personal responsibility, and, you know, not give your email address to sites/apps that you don't want to have it?
While I have as much disrespect for Windows and MS in general as any web developer who had to deal with IE, I think this issue is a bug in Git.

Windows git executable should be aware of OS limitations and should be able to work around them. Of course, Windows API should also fail to create invalid fs objects, so there's that...
This proposal doesn't require companies to do formal internal compliance reviews. It's not SOX or GLBA. For most startups, the legal overhead here would probably amount to a few phone calls with a lawyer.

My read is that it's less onerous than the California privacy statute that already covers a huge fraction of tech startups.

We do both security and privacy engineering work for our clients, most of whom are encumbered in one way or another by regs, and it is not the norm for legal to do line-item review of policies and procedures. SOC2 Type 1 audits are much closer to a mainstream practice, would almost certainly satisfy the "data protection" requirements in any rule the FTC would come up with, and certainly do not involve "a few hundred hours" of legal.
Fair point. Maybe we should use this technique to protect software. Software engineers should go to jail for exposing vulnerabilities that are known. SQL Injection possible? You go to jail for ten years. Get root on your webserver? Fifteen years.

Data leak? Death.

In this way, all software will be secure.
Allergies to casein are also becoming much more common.
What does functional mean here?
If you like learning about low power or messy signal stuff, there's some research at UW several years back about using e.g. a combination of em interference from human bodies and normal house electrical wiring/lightbulbs as motion detectors.

That sort of stuff is really cool, and I'm very impressed by people like Jeri who can actually make it work.
If the ad is engaging, that's enough for consumers.
I remember on Deep Freeze for Windows, I was able to find the password in plaintext by searching win386.swp for the deepfreeze copyright string.
They don’t need to anymore.
(I'm the author of the post - just woke up and saw this discussion. Hi!)

Definitely wasn't meaning this post's title to be clickbait-y. The intention wasn't to hold out Spanner as a purpose-built graph database, but rather to talk about using it for a graph-y database use case. Will put together a follow-up with some more information, but in summary:
* yeah, no built-ins other than relational SQL for graphs
* the key thing that make this work are the ability to easily construct global indexes that aren't sharded by the primary key and reasonably fast joins between them
* it's also helpful that Spanner does a reasonable job of parallelizing queries (e.g. a lot of times we'll get a 15x increase in speed vs. a sequential plan)
* we then do the fan-out across the graph in our Java client
People should have a chance to speak their mind but in an ideal world decency would prohibit some things from being said. It's dangerous when certain platforms who coordinate with government agencies decide what is acceptable and what is not. I'm not ready for a ministry of truth like snoopes.
(I'm the author of the post - just woke up and saw this discussion. Hi!)

The intention wasn't to hold out Spanner as a purpose-built graph database, but rather to talk about using it for a graph-y database use case. Will put together a follow-up with some more information, but in summary:
* yeah, no built-ins other than relational SQL for graphs
* the key thing that make this work are the ability to easily construct global indexes that aren't sharded by the primary key and reasonably fast joins between them
* it's also helpful that Spanner does a reasonable job of parallelizing queries (e.g. a lot of times we'll get a 15x increase in speed vs. a sequential plan)
* we then do the fan-out across the graph in our Java client
Or even before you die: https://www.newsweek.com/carrie-fisher-george-lucas-star-war...
That's just not accurate. You should read pages 26-33 in detail. It wants external auditors to come in, and while consultation with a lawyer isn't required, companies would offensively have to use them to review everything they do, lest they be found non-compliant. That could easily range into hundreds of hours of legal work.
That's analogous to a construction already in place in California privacy law, which is more prescriptive and onerous than this law is, so it's hard to make the argument that this federal act would wreck the startup ecosystem.
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Most people can't be Jeri any more than they could be Michael Jordan. 10,000 hours of practice wouldn't be enough. A million might, if you somehow managed to combine it with a foolproof nootropics regimen or something equally fictional.

You might not like it, but that's the way it is. All (wo)men are not created equal. Whoever told you they were was lying, or at best misinformed.
Thank you for engaging here!

With respect, the title is wrong as that's not a graph database. "How Streak built a graph on Cloud Spanner" would be more accurate (and even then, it needs the follow-up post with some actual details).
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As a small business owner in a state that recently passed minimum wage hikes up to 50% higher than 5 years early let me share my experience. We have raised wages pretty dramatically but realistically it has absolutely nothing to do with the minimum wage hike. Since unemployment is so low in our state we actively need to compete with other businesses to hire people and the strongest selling point is offering better wages. Now obviously the hike has forced us to pay more than we regularly would.

The results of this is that we have raised the amount we charge customers. Those customers then complain that their having to pay more for the same service. At the same time every single apartment in this area has had its rent increased by a large margin. Cost of goods have gone up. Cost of services has gone up. House prices has gone up as labor cost has as well. The people making 15 per hour before are now getting paid the same as the entry level workers. Any employee that has been loyal to the company has not had the same wage increase as the other workers yet they are paying more for everything they purchase.

In my opinion minimum wage hike is “working” simply because of the low unemployment rate and the booming economy. The statistics don’t really paint an accurate picture. Ask any of my employees if they are better off today than they were 5 years ago and most would say no. The employees we have had for 5+ years would say they are worse off today.
I hope it passes. If there are significant problems, updates and changes can always be made. As for your comparison with the GDPR, I think it's way too early to start drawing conclusions.
A study released this week in the Journal of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics found that 95% of the most downloaded apps designated as “designed for families” in the Google Play Store contain some form of embedded advertising.

Because of this. Because some line has to be drawn.