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Back in the days, when I started Python, I didn't use external libraries. It was all the included batteries and docs, and it was great to start.

I was thinking about a new high-level module in the standard, you would just (pseudo python code) :

import ai.vision
guesses = ai.vision.guess(open('myimage.png'))
print(guesses)
# ["cat","person","boat"]

Three lines, everything else is abstracted. You would have ai.vision and ai.text for a start, with some accessors to other state-of-the-art models (like ai.vision.imagenet if you know better what your are doing)

The underlying models would be shipped and updated with newer versions of Python.
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Report: Obama’s Spying On The Press Was More Extensive Than Previously Thought
It counts as personal data, and as such, under the GDPR you have a duty to handle that data sensibly and responsibly.
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> Here you have a large group of Linux app developers undersigning a plea to stop breaking their software and all they get is scorn and dismissal.

Their letter is titled "Please don't theme our apps", not "Please don't break our apps".
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/243142/20190510/flightles...
I wrote answers for a number of these questions for Stripe Atlas; c.f. https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/incorporation , https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-taxes, and the https://stripe.com/atlas/guides more generally.

If there are holes after reading them, we'd love to hear about them.
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> Unfortunately, this is ultimately the problem with free software. Either you publish with zero support, and users end up using your software badly (via poor blog posts telling them what to do) or they don't use it at all;

You can have it on a website where users can talk to other users. And if you like, you can chime in. Say some code sharing platform. My experience is that people will help each other out usefully. You can even nudge them in this direction.

> How do you solve the social problem of a large majority who feel entitled to everything for free?

You don't. Why would you? You don't need to react to what you judge being an entitlement. You can misjudge though.

I've had reactions when contributing bug reports that I felt other person thought of me as being entitled, after I've spent considerable time identifying the root issue and suggesting a code change.

I've also thought of someone being entitled initially, when in the end the person ended up contributing useful service to other users of my program.
And if you end up close to the end of the year before filing, hold off until January to form the LLC if you can. Otherwise they’ll expect the annual fees ($800 in California!) for the partial year. And if you end up paying late, they’ll come for the penalty as well.
> you're okay with someone following you 24/7/365 every moment that you step outside your house?

One problem with the current state of the privacy debate is this sort of hyperbole.

No, I’m not. I delineate between information people intentionally cast publicly—even if they don’t understand the consequences of doing so—and information that occurs in public. My location, tracked by my phone and router to various apps’ servers, occurs in public. My tweets, on the other hand, are intentionally broadcast. There is a lot of grey area between these poles, but intent broadly inspires my thinking.
Hire an attorney to write them a nice letter; the money you spend on that is like an assurance of sincerity. A good rule of thumb is to allocate 10% of your operating budget to legal resources over the long term.
Oh no worries at all. I was just curious why your comments were flagged, as they seemed perfectly fine.
The reason is that there's a big difference between an exploit and a fully weaponized utility that gives you a root shell for a given IP address.

You almost never see these lying around the Internet. There is a lot of work involved in creating a tool that'll successfully identify and exploit every single build of an executable, with 99.9% reliability. There is lots of testing to be done, lots of tweaks required. Things that random individuals just don't do by themselves.
Indeed. The level of anatomical detail is something generally only find on the shadier parts of liveleak or a medical journal.
I thought the big deal with EternalBlue is that the Shadow Brokers released the NSA's hacking trove as open-source, thus opening it up to all sorts of people with minimal technical skills. There's a big difference between having a zero-day but requiring the technical chops to turn it into a working exploit, and downloading a file off the Internet and running it.

There's this huge pandora's box about opening up state-level weaponry to the general public. Ultimately, it undermines the nation state as an organizing principle. And that's the world we live in now.

(For that matter, all these attacks are credited to Russia or North Korea or Iran - but do we actually have any evidence that that's who's behind them? Couldn't it just as easily be a teenager in his bed in upstate NY who has compromised a server in Russia? $100K in Bitcoin ransom is peanuts for a nation-state and would even be peanuts for a number of Silicon Valley techies on this site, but it's a lot of money to a high school kid.)
>I never understood how anyone thinks being forgotten is a right. Wrong, false, liable, limited set of privacy related information should be correctable, removable

It becomes a right when enough people in a democratic society want it to be one, it's that simple. People in Europe believe that the right of individuals to control information about themselves and to not be stigmatized for actions in the past is to be valued higher than public access to it.

I perceive the US attitude simply as a sort of voyeurism. We already know it well from celebrity culture where people's entire lives are picked apart and put on a platter for the public to drool over, I have no interest of seeing it expanded to everyone, so I'm thankful for legislation to give me at least some control over information about me.

The biggest beneficiaries of this might very well be children who have had their entire lives put on the net by their parents without even having the slightest say in it.
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> IMHO even the ideas of "block" and "chain" are implementation details in the same way as the journal of a traditional database is an implementation detail.

The internals of a database are one thing, but the semantics of the language builtins seem like another. It almost feels akin to someone suggesting we change the underlying implementation of "println" (or whatever language builtin outputs to stdout) to automatically write to a new row in a database. I mean, I could adjust to such a weird idea but my initial impression would be we are forcing an existing abstraction onto a problem rather than choosing a truly suitable abstraction.

> Exposing these details as a library means that the program is tied to not only the blockchain, but a particular blockchain runtime.

Not necessarily, I'm considering something more like Go's cloud API: https://github.com/google/go-cloud
You could easily have a "blockchain" API with any number of runtime backends.

I understand what the proposer was suggesting: a single semantic meaning for "print" across all programming languages that will map onto blockchain. I just don't agree that it is a good idea.
In the rush to be offended and angered by Trump many are blinding themselves to the problems and grievous oversteps of the previous administration.
> if you are a narrow type thinker

This is a completely personal opinion but I think this is key. Most people _are_ narrow type thinkers. They have certain perspectives of the world that they're convinced about and unwilling to see things differently.

If you're the kind of person who genuinely listens and tries to understand the situation of the other party, ironically, its much easier to get what you want. Most people seem to desire intensely a feeling of being understood, if your actions demonstrate to them that you do, they're willing to meet you halfway.

^ Also something that's probably in a book somewhere. The problem with book-based learning at its core is that if you're trying to do the "techniques" in the book, you're already not listening as much as you should be and missing out on a whole lot of cues which might be very very useful.
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Ah ok, I see what you mean. Thanks.
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> The contribution of the shared environment is negligible

Typical. As with most things, parenting doesn't matter.
Kept waiting to delve into the theory... and waiting...

It feels like a whole article made up of first paragraphs!
> is there actually more than one competing implementation out there?

Yes, there are many software decoders out there, usually specialized for certain architectures (the team I worked with wrote a decoder for Texas Instruments DSPs, for example). Then there are hardware implementations, which are rarely just "hardware", it's usually hardware-assisted software that does the decoding.
Millions of Exposed RDP on the Internet
Smallest Mini-ITX cases that fit a full size GPU (2017)
There is MIDI competition, more open and some say better, it just never caught on outside open-source/hacker/maker circles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control
Expecting distro maintainers to test every GUI feature on every piece of software on Linux is a tad unrealistic don’t you think?

You’d expect (hope) core applications would be tested but what about stuff that’s not in the official repos? Or stuff that is but had a new feature unbeknown to the distro maintainers?

On HN last week there was a GUI bug in a core OSX utility being discussed that slipped through Apples testing. If they managed to overlook something in their own OS, then a smaller team of people, likely working for free in their spare time (remember a lot of the distros that ship non-standard themes as a default are spin offs) is unlikely to test every GUI form and dialog that can be rendered o. Linux.
this story doesn't add up - it suggests the birds were there 10,000 years apart while it was submerged for 36,000 years?
I used this for a demo (that took about 30 minutes to build) and my stakeholders loved it. Thanks!
I volunteer a lot for a large charity thrift shop. I strongly caution against this idea.

Old electronics are absolutely the most difficult thing for us to sell, and they take up considerable space. A 10 year old computer is essentially worthless, because at the very least it's pretty easy to get a 5 year old computer for free or nearly free. The idea that "it is still usable" is not the right way to think about it. The right way to think about it is "are there any people who would want this computer, even for free", and I can tell you with a lot of evidence that the answer is basically "no".

The simple fact is we are just swimming in too much obsolete e-waste. IMO sales of electronic devices should be appropriately taxed with a "cleanup" tax to pay for their eventual responsible disposal/recycling.
A propos Email address obfuscation: the only way to avoid spamming is not to post an human readable email address in the web. You can safely assume anything human readable as being machine readable. Form mailers with strong captchas are the solution to avoid spam.

Having said that, does anybody know a strong captcha code which does not require Google dependencies?
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interesting.. i was able to understand each of those without any sort of intellectual discomfort.
There is already a feature request about markdown support. You can follow that issue on github. At the moment I'm not sure if this will land in tiptap.
At any kind of scale that is 100% not the case.

The orchestration of a data extract from even a midsized corporation is a significant endeavour.

Someone in the company knowing what data we have on an entity is a significant step away from the entire company being able to access that, because, you know, we take data privacy seriously, so we don’t make it easy to access all data on a single entity.

If your approach to privacy is putting all the eggs in a basket, allowing easy extraction of everything from that basket, and hoping the basket can be kept secure I’d argue your model is weird to begin with.
Along these lines, I would recommend this lecture about the Iliad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD0FEcK9smE

The speaker (I believe a professor) makes some very compelling connections between the Iliad and gang culture. It gave me a new way (but certainly not definitive) way think about the Iliad. If I recall, he may also discuss PTSD towards the end.
I have a Dell laptop from 2009 and one built in 2018. I very much care about the difference in size and weight between the two.

This was my work laptop in 2009 that I wrote about in another post. I still own it. I know how unwieldy it is compared to what you can get today.

http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/dell-latitude-e...
I will look into this. What should the letter entail? Something like, this user made a mistake and needs a Stripe account for a new business? Thanks for your help.
If I were being truthful, I might say that I get maybe one actually helpful morsel every few days, some of which end up on a reading/reference queue that I might not actually get to but I think might indeed come in handy sometime in the future. The rest is essentially intellectual puffcorn.
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It sounds that way - but they also say that connections over 5-pin DIN is/will be MIDI 1.0 only.
It has been named BlueKeep.

Track its progress at https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueKeep/ or #BlueKeep on Twitter.
The garage mythos borders on capitalist propaganda.

Here's Steve Wozniak debunking the Apple garage myth:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/05/steve-woz...

And an entire thread debunking the "started in a garage" for the market dominators of today:

https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1119980086420299777

These founders have always had some access to resources above and beyond what is considered "standard issue." It's about time we get realistic about the necessary conditions that were required to start these radically successful companies, because we shouldn't design economies or social policies around myths.
A) learn enough accounting so educated and motivated crooks couldn't take you for a ride so easy.
B) Check point A
C) Check point B
D) Try to find reasonable person that can do payroll,taxes etc for you,as otherwise you'll be a full time accountant for your own business in no time..
> how would an investor react when given the choice of "we could spend some more money now, or we could do nothing and be significantly limited once we grow to a certain size, basically unable to do anything significant in one of the largest economies of the world"

The simplest solution would be ignore GDPR, dominate the American market (which is easier to scale across than the EU), and then use that momentum to launch a simplified version in Europe. (Or buy a competitor.) The scale advantage will almost always outweigh being prepared for multi-market growth from the beginning.
I agree that old computers, or for the matter of fact several old electronic devices can re-purposed to serve some task; but one main conflict of interest I find against it is 'power-efficiency'.

If we're aiming for planet friendly activity, we should consider saving power as well & A cheap 7th Gen intel U series CPU or AMD G series APU is much more power efficient than the intel Core 2 Duo.

Apart from huge leaps in performance, the associated ecosystem of electronics with it is power efficient as well.
Haven't used it, but Forestry.io seems to be about helping end users with a good UI on top of git commits.
Yeah, I guess you're right. I was thinking of a situation where one spouse has a high income and the other one is very spendy, but that's a pathological case, and not what's happening with me personally, so what you say makes sense, thank you.
Sorry if my original post wasn't clear. I'm running with Jekyll + Jekyll admin for one of them and I use Netlify Admin for another. So, they can still use a WYSIWYG interface to edit their content without having to deal with code.
i love the fact that they posted their jupyter notebooks on github ie, https://github.com/jdechalendar/why100renewable-suppl/blob/m...

but there's nothing there to _read_ other than code - it may as well have been a txt file. i'm not trying to be mean to the author, i'm just pointing out that notebooks are a good fit for a style of literate programming and if you aren't into writing the narrative, then why use a notebook?
They did tell the vendors about this, and the vendors actually released a patch too, all this before the tools were leaked.
That’s super cool. Lua’s footprint has always been enticing to me because of that. Which game did you work on?
As a frontend dev, this is really, really nice and I wish more libraries followed the renderless principles. So many manhours are wasted, daily, just because a library is a tad too specific about it's preferences. It would be nice to see it standardized in some shape or form so that it's both easier to write for newcomers as well as test.
Neither has which school I attended, or has ever asked. An insurer has employers, but only those whilst insuring with that company. I suppose my bank could have told the credit rating agency, but they'd have to infer it from the monthly wages deposit. Is that required in the US?

If they are only weighting on the last 5 years they no longer have a business case under GDPR to retain it[1]. Essentially it crystalises in law what should already have been the case.

> it is much easier to implement a policy where no data can be retained after X years than on-demand wipeout

Not sure how when all that changes is the clock.

[1] If my account was fraudulent in some way, or there's a law requiring some retention, there is a business case for retaining longer, and it is permitted.
The state of Delaware will continue assessing your LLC franchise taxes until it puts your LLC in a "void" status after 3 years of non-filing of the annual report / payment of the tax.

https://delcode.delaware.gov/title6/c018/sc11/

If you need to make a decision based on this information I'd recommend calling up any practicing business attorney; it's a question they will likely be able to answer even in the free consultation.
The joke about Mazzola is that people who know enough about music to see through his theories are bamboozled by his maths, and vice versa.

If you want to explore that space, Tymoczko's A Geometry of Music is more rewarding.

But this misses the point. Music isn't just mathematical consonance and dissonance. Music is the practice of using consonance, dissonance, timbre, rhythm, form, and historic and cultural references, with aesthetic intent - i.e. creating metaphors and other complex cognitive experiences out of musical material.

The difference between a composer and a dabbler is that composers either work at this level consciously and deliberately, or they have unusually effective musical instincts and use them to decide if something "sounds right" or "works."

Any naive mathematical description - which includes all of the work on ML in music - misses this ability of musical material to create those extra levels of expression and meaning.
I didn’t say “donate it for sell”. Every example I listed was someone had a need for a computer and give it to them. There are charities that need computers to use. Talk to them first and see if they actually have a use for them, clean them up, install the software they need and give them training and support.

Don’t just give an old desktop with no cords, without a mouse, monitor etc.
Exactly. Unroll.me continues to operate outside the EU and continues to sell access to people's emails. "We don't charge you for this amazing service" they claim, at no point making it clear what their business model is. They prey on the ignorance of consumers, exactly what regulations (like GDPR) should be protecting consumers against.

I suppose a similar article could be published about the pharmaceutical industry, crying about the cost and consequences of FDA regulation. Doesn't mean we should scrap FDA regulation and "let consumers decide" whether drugs are safe or not.
These aren’t traditional cell phones, think more GPS units with a cellular chip so they can report back their location.

One issue with these is they have batteries, and are placed in devices like printers that no e-scrap processor ever checks for batteries. Many US domestic processors use large shredding systems to liberate the materials. Batteries and shredders don’t mix!
> I missed the Wordpress plugins too much to switch to Hugo entirely.

Do you mind if I ask which plugins?

Also, if you're missing plugins, it sounds like keeping the wordpress editing experience alone isn't going to be enough. The question then becomes, are you missing plugins themselves or what those specific plugins do for you that doesn't appear to be available in hugo.
...standardized tests are terrible proxies for iq
it's HN. that's why :)
It's pure money grabbing. They could just as well avoid collisions by specifying a UUID for the SysEx ID, and then everybody could generate their own independently.
My own personal breakthrough was going through the course "Complete Python Bootcamp"[0] on Udemy.

I've tried books, boring stuff, and many online tutorials. But taking an actual course was what helped me.

[0](https://www.udemy.com/complete-python-bootcamp/)
but his point is that we're not talking about individuals. The article breathlessly goes on about foreign states, you know the bad ones, who have used this to attack all over the world. Except as tptacek points out, these states can do this kind of work on a slow day, in office. I actually disagree with tptacek, I don't think its partially, or even at all because of the name. I strikes me as more fear mongering, part of a narrative thats meant to drive more defense spending. "Look at all these breaches, can't have this stuff happening, be afraid lowly citizen, and support your security state".
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As in the title of the article, the title of the submission should use "may be," not "maybe."
This is a very interesting take on the road we should have taken with respect to cybersecurity. I agree with what you said, but I think there's still scope for this sort of thinking in current nation states. It's a strategic mistake, but one that a generation more in touch with technology would probably not make as easily, so I expect that there's already people thinking this way in most governments, and that will only increase in the future.
True? Elon Musk 2018 pay was more than next 65 highest-paid CEOs combined
I honestly cannot say if this comment is satire or not.
interesting! thanks for linking that
The regulation is very ambiguous.

Try to understand what is even personal data from this:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

It is all about risk, ambiguity and individual circumstances. I dont think that is bad, but there is no clear record of what it even is we are meant to protect.
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It isn’t hyperbole. Your existence outside of your private home is “occurring in public.” This is why the concept of paparazzi exists. The only difference is that normal people don’t have an army of photographers following them.
Unfortunately there's diminishing marginal returns for "named" vulnerabilities.

There's nothing stopping people assigning scary names to quite mundane issues, and after a couple of "boy who cried wolf" episodes, people stop paying as much attention...