skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet Explorer that is so hated was IE6. It wasn't too little, too late. It was frozen in time, with millions of corporate workers unable to upgrade. In 2010 IE6 was already 9 years old, yet we still had to support it for business customers.

I'm sure you don't have to support 9 years old Safari.
This has been linked to and commented on endlessly for years now, on many sites, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3159210

And I've never really understood why; most conference organizers like this kind of detail.

I esp. don't understand the link now -- it has no relevance to the recent news (at least that I can see?) But maybe I'm missing something?
The glass may be strong but it is probably not "tough" in a material science sense. Metals and plastics can absorb more force and impact without fracturing which is probably what you want in a crash: http://www-materials.eng.cam.ac.uk/mpsite/properties/non-IE/...
> Not to mention they are more regulatory compliant

Source?
It's all about marketing and perception. See how credit card companies set rules regarding surcharges and cash. Before credit card companies tried to prevent a discount being offered if a customer paid cash as stipulation for taking credit cards. Durbin Act of 2010 changed that which made it legal in all 50 states.
The Long-Awaited 'Theory of Everything'
It might be a matter of semantics? You can quote a standard price, and then give a discount for allowing data collection, but you can't quote a standard price, and then add a surcharge for disallowing data collection.

I agree that there is no practical difference between the two, but given how deceptive companies can be when disclosing various pricing and hidden fees, this might be an attempt to curb that behavior?
Who cares about the cops? They don't have any role in prosecution.

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."
Cool Earth Solar company unlike normal solar panels, it produces spherical panels, thus producing 400 times more energy than normal panels.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4bf1/d93a9467608c9c1d1536f3...
I think it would make more sense to tie the behaviour to the domain's whois record. If that changes significantly, chances are the domain has changed owners.
I understood the value of LinkExchange in the geocities Era - everyone was online because you "had to be" but there were no clear monetization strategies. With page impressions as sole KPI it didn't hurt to get a few more by joining some ad-ring-system.

Nowadays the line between publishers (many impressions, put stuff online and monetize via ads) and advertisers (fewer impressions, everyone monetizing in some other way, no matter if they actually use online ads or not) seems quite clear cut. So not really seeing who would use this tbh.

Good luck with your project though!
> Each state can choose to be as restrictive as they like in their laws, and each startup can chose to invest in compliance on a wide scale or in the narrow scale as they'd like.

There's a special hell that exists where one state mandates records must be held for at least seven years and another mandates deletion at five. When the two states border one another and you may not have home addresses, how do you determine how to comply for a given user?

You're absolutely right, in every way, that tech companies have brought this regulatory backlash on themselves. Yet, it might still be worth considering the potential costs.
I read the post and it read fairly naturally to me. There are a wide variety of people out there who communicate differently.

Given the date of the post, time to write it up, and time to take the pictures this phone is in the hands of something before the official release date.

I read this like I read something from John Gruber about something Apple.
Germany managed to outlaw glyphosate. That's the government reacting to pressure from voters (especially the massive gains of the Green party).
You are dead wrong.

A completely friction free experience is exactly what you should expect.

Every political obstacle we create for data traveling through wires undermines the entire point of having an internet, and cedes more power to legislating bodies who are clueless about technology.

An individual should be empowered to serve data to another individual anywhere in the globe without barriers, period. If people can’t get behind that idea, then just get the fuck out of the way.
I don't get this argument. How are we going to decide who is trimmed? Who does the trimming? How will they be trimmed? It's a non-starter. Sure we may have too many people but who would actively support killing people? especially when the people causing the most damage are the wealthiest that read sites like this
There is a wide range of professional photography and a good smartphone camera can fill some of those needs. Shooting for a magazine? You’ll want a dslr. Shooting for social media in a professional context? The phone is great.
> There are three physical buttons on the top for the left, right and the middle click. And the bottom of the trackpad can be pressed for the left and the right clicks as well. Overall, a larger trackpad would have been nicer and the physical keys on top of the trackpad just feels like legacy and is the only ugly part of the laptop when it's open.

Regarding the physical keys on top of the trackpad, these are actually for use together with the Trackpoint. I recommend giving it a chance for a couple days, you might like it.
Maybe stop reading deepak chopra, and read something else for a while?
I'd say so too. I somehow tuned out religious fear of ideas, perhaps because I didn't really think of those people as even pretending to pretending to be intellectually honest. But now non-religious people from my own generation and younger are behaving that way too. Even intelligent and supposedly non-nutty people like computer programmers.
But that's the thing. Our behavior, in overshooting global carrying capacity, will lead to increasing death rates. From famine, war, disease, etc.
That's a central thesis of Dawkin's Unweaving the Rainbow. Understanding that a rainbow is caused by the prismatic effect of water droplets in the air makes it more miraculous, not less.
That's not what I got from the quoted paragraph. I'll have to chase the links to be sure.
Artificial Intelligence Takes on Earthquake Prediction
I know Stallman is a topic of controversy at the moment, but I don't get the point of doing this. It feels a bit creepy, to be honest. (I'm talking about this repo as a whole – https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms )

I don't think there is anything out of the ordinary with a speaker having some requests if you want them to come and give a talk.

(It does of course depend on how well-known the speaker is. Some nobody whom you are offering a platform, they aren't really in a position to ask for much if anything. If they are someone well-known, and there is a lot of demand for them to talk, they are more in a position to ask for things.)

I agree that Stallman's is going a bit overboard in length and detail and precision. But, at the end of the day, you want him to come speak at your event, you meet his requirements, and if you consider them too onerous, you just don't invite him.

If everyone found his requirements so onerous that nobody invited him any more, he'd probably compromise by relaxing some of them. The fact that he was still getting invites (at least until the recent controversy erupted) suggests that hasn't been the case.
Ok so what you are saying is that in a 3 country world: US, Lithuania, and Rest, you insist and define 50 Lithuanians and 50 rest is fair, and call out any changes as racist.

By your definition, both a toddler and Arnold Schwarzenegger should both get same 2 slices of bread, because it is 'equal' and 'fair'. Anything else would be ageist?
The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning
The problem is that both views are essentially correct. The business is located in one country, but the customers can be in any country, and customers are not really entering another country and the businesses are kind of, but not really doing business "in" another country, to the extent that they know what country they're doing business in at all. We're still at that stage in the computer of using physical analogies to reason about how things "should be" even though those metaphores don't really work anymore.
> Do you really believe the "coins of today" are going to stand the test of time as hardware gets more powerful in the next decade?

Bitcoin sure, because it actively gets less efficient as computers get more efficient. The only thing that'll stop it getting less efficient is a grey-goo like scenario where it consumes all the world's power. Or, I guess, if we run out of leading zeroes.
Just don't do stupid privacy violating shit and you'll be fine anywhere.

Collect no information. Share no information. You are good - everywhere. And that really ought to be the default behaviour..
> Removed support for Legacy Safari Extensions.

It was in the notes. That's the line.
All I said was that it was claimed that the gut biome for lactose/lactase tolerance was predominately developed over thousands of years by norther European/Scandinavian peoples.

In Asia, they were less prone to eating milk/cheese, thus the propensity for lactose intolerance....

For someone who claims to be so smart you sound fucking uninformed and not able to see these things.

However, if I am wrong, I am happy to be properly educated and change my understanding and view.
Facebook will be just fine and probably come out ahead. Same with google. They have the money and resource to comply. These kind of regulation that don't take reality into account when written are a god send to large corps.
Stripe has made building payments related products fun for me when previously I had suffered through working directly with banks and various poorly designed gateways. Stripe is still the gold standard to me when it comes to developer APIs, documentation, and smart iteration. Kudos to everyone at Stripe!
I definitely consider stripe to be the canonical example when it comes to both API and documentation design. Really an excellent benchmark and point of reference for anyone who's making a published API.
Fun and interesting read. I can see the need for being very specific on tons of stuff when your life essentially becomes traveling the world going from talk to talk likely always organised by someone new and inexperienced at hosting important speakers.
Some of these sound sadly like they are direct results of bad experiences such as:

If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be
very very glad. If you can find someone who has a friendly parrot I
can visit with, that will be nice too.

DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To
acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If
you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally
scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you
buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating
practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it.
Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.
But Christ said to go forth and multiply? :D
In my ponderings on this, I tend to think of a "post-human state." If the influence of homo sapiens on a place or ecosystem were to decrease dramatically, and insofar as any place or ecosystem would tend toward anything resembling equilibrium rather than constant/continued change, most of them will probably stabilize around a discernibly post-human state, rather than the pre-human one that prevailed throughout most of our history until the industrial era. It's just the lowest-energy and most likely outcome. So like, all the kudzu, rats and other wacky species we've introduced here and there, would have a go. Though they might not all make it. Pretty much impossible to predict, because it's a chaotic system, but also because the effects of the heat we've introduced have only started to play out.
I don't understand what you mean? Surely the duck curve just relates to renewable production rather than consumption.
Bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats
Can it play 4K videos on YouTube?
Yeah, in his Turing Award lecture introducing FP Backus made a big deal of the ability to reason about programs mathematically. I've been playing with a functional language Joy that combines (IMO) the best features of Forth and Lisp and one of the neat things about it is that you can derive functions from simple (almost geometric) syntactic manipulations as the whole language is just referentially transparent functions. ( http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/index.html )
Nothing, except soon there will be annoying legalese on every website form. Just like the GDPR. Large businesses will benefit at the expense of smaller ones. Lawyers will make more money selling these legalese templates, and sometimes when a big company doesn’t pay the right bean counter they’ll end up being investigated by regulators, and paying the state money to continue doing the same thing.

But it will be celebrated as a heroic victory because “privacy good. Business bad. I want a banana.”
The way I'm guessing that will be clarified is that if you are charging for your product, you cannot offer a lower price point for allowing data collection. This will probably boil down to professional, paid for services, being allowed to collect only a small amount of information, and what is strictly needed.

The second line would allow companies to pay people to permit them to collect information. I imagine that because of the first statement, a company that is charging for the service cannot take advantage of this statement.
I think 2020 misses the window to strike when the IPO market is bubbly. Lyft and Uber timed it just right -- and those won't be the only four-letter words their investors will be screaming!
Evidence that curtailing proactive policing can reduce major crime (2017)
That is what they said about GDPR...
A wallet isn't the intent. It's almost the opposite!

If you remember the previous version, your customers used their saved card within Checkout. The new version of Checkout lets your customers use whatever payment method is easiest for them, and wherever it is. That's why we're big fans of things like Apple Pay (some have seen a conversion increase of 250%!), local bank payments in Europe, or even saved cards in Chrome (rolling out now).

From its inception, Checkout was designed to be the fastest way to accept payments, and I think it's now faster (and even faster for customers). You can just drop in a single line of code—and that code doesn't have to be server-side. :)
Just a shameless plug here -- we've been building a super developer friendly product to allow your application to comply w/ these laws with minimal (and sometimes NO code changes). You can email me directly mahmoud - @ - verygoodsecurity.com (https://verygoodsecurity.com/) and I can show you how it works.

Our idea is that complying w/ data security & privacy laws should be a devops shift + costs to keep up w/ them shouldn't stop us, as developers, from keeping us just as productive in our application development lifecycle.

We're still trying to figure out the right pricing structure for smaller companies, so if you have any insight there, I'm very interested to hear it.
Well, the further you go, the less likely is it that you can row it back... What is the exact opposite of engineering.

What means that you made a clear point, that I don't think anybody misunderstood, with a clear optimistic message. Still I think it's more pessimist than the reality.
> Don't blindly defend pedo friends...

In the early days of the Lisp Machine, Inc. vs. Symbolics war, there were two AI Lab people who choose not to be employed by either: Richard Stallman and Marvin Minsky.

I guess his action was not surprising.
my only question is, how likely is it that anyone is going to actually be witness to a dogfight at any given time? seems like something that would be pretty rare.
The successful travel portals typically all do well because there is so much value in filling demand so the room doesn’t go empty for the night.
The carrying capacity of the planet is technology dependent.
This hurts to know. I know we are living through an extinction event but having numbers like these really make it sink in.

I feed the birds in my backyard every day, it's a joy to observe the variety that live in just a small grove of trees.

I have a tendency to always look up in the sky and take note of soaring birds of prey, they are awe-spiring to say the least.
Couldn't you argue that this could fit plenty of elected politicians? This doesn't seem to capture any part of what people seem to mean by the term "deep"
Fuschia seems to be non-GPL. Are Google trying to remove GPL entirely from Android?
> Why have whisper network, as one of the quotes I mentioned, if being "fat and ugly" is all that's needed to recognize a creep?

You think people aren't doing it all the time? Gossiping around folks, calling them fat and ugly behind their back? "Creep" is just the next step in the bullying ladder. (Of course, RMS hasn't exactly made things hard for his bullies. But let's not pretend that this sort of dynamic never happens in such cases.)
Excellent specs and cheap compared to the competition.

I am sure some enterprising folks on XDA will come up with a nifty easy utility to "googlyfi" your new Huawei phone.

Also won't surprise me if some phone shops will take the initiative and do it out of the box before selling it to you.
> this world is precious. I would even go so far as to say miraculous.

Here is an attempt at a framework to think about this: we have no proof that life exists anywhere else in the Universe. There is a possibility that life itself arose only once and that we are the only intelligent beings around. We have a sort of grand astronomical duty to not fuck it up and expand to the stars and keep the fire going.
If there was an easily defined definition of "respecting users data" the we wouldn't be in this situation. Plenty of people think putting a clause in the EULA that says user data can be monetized is being respectful of user data, but this is often prohibited by law. Plenty of people don't think having a tool to dump user data is necessary to respect user data.
Lifetime footprint seems like the wrong thing to measure, you want something more along the lines of lifetime footprint divided by distance travelled.

If X vans last 3x longer than Y vans, driving the same number of miles per day, they're an improvement over Y even if there lifetime footprint is twice as big.
Hence the "/s", aka "end sarcasm"
you are reading this blog post like a research paper, which is wrong. This is not a research paper.

this is the writers trying to influence the market so that future start ups they work with accept terms that are more favorable to YC.

they are using data and statistics because their target market would dismiss the information outhand if they did not.
What should young children drink? Mostly milk and water
The solution to this is a culture that regularly participated in mushrooms or DMT.

I mean that seriously. It’s a profound awakening to love and beauty we are surrounded by.

Ayahuasca is almost an alien-like technology.
I am too, but was curious what degree of responsibility is expected of them by the law. i.e., is deferring to whatever sales/legal drafted enough of a defense, or something else.

I work in professional services (although not pentesting), so I curious about what would happen to me if I was in a similar position.
Note that this release (9.x) marks the first to be no longer available under the original permissive NCSA (BSD-like) LLVM license, going forward the LLVM project has moved to an "Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions" for everything. And not just the compiler itself, but also sub-projects like the supporting libc++/libc++abi standard libraries. This change only happened due to corporate pressure, and was done without considering the larger impact towards the open source community.

This will undoubtedly effect many projects and companies alike going forward, but notably the OpenBSD project can no longer merge in new changes, which will ship with 8.0.1 later this year in 6.6. The Apache 2.0 license is not considered permissive enough to be included in the base system of OpenBSD, it muddies the line between Copyright law and US Contract law; adding additional restrictions related to patents that may terminate rights.

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112300....

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html

It is very unfortunate that the LLVM project has ignored the concerns expressed by developers of an open source operating system project that have been eagerly adopting a clang based toolchain, across many platforms (arm64/armv7/i386/amd64/octeon/..) by default, and has been working on new innovative security mitigations (RETGUARD, ROPGadgetFixup framework, register allocator rearranging) along the way.

I will take this opportunity to ask, if you're a current LLVM developer/contributor, please consider making your changes also available under the terms of the original permissive license. For example, explicitly stating publically as such when mailing patchsets or pull requests. This would save having to privately ask permission to backport changes on case-by-case basis.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/release/8.x/clang/...
We haven't come close to solving the environment, whatever that means. If we had that solution on any scale, then almost by tautology, climate change wouldn't be a problem.
I’ve now been at three large multinational companies who have gone through GDPR process. It’s not easy or simple for an established company, but it’s not impossible.

Additionally:

- before GDPR most EU countries already had similar laws (e.g. data protection laws in Sweden). Sometimes for decades

- GDPR gave two years to become compliant

All in all everyone had two to twenty years to become compliant. Those who didn’t? I personally wouldn’t give two shits about them.

Your expense management software? Well, you company chose it. It looks like your company are responsible for making sure that the software you use is GDPR compliant. Someone at your company and at FROSCH screwed up and now you blame GDPR for the screw-up.
Why do you have to respect national norms? Because there will be health and safety implications within their country.

In the case of visiting a website, the customer is the one visiting you, there is no good rational to put the burden on the business. It is much more sound and natural to either put it on the consumer, a business may be visited by nationals from hundreds of juridisction, while a consumer will only visit 1 or 2 businesses.

You can also decide that the laws of the country in which the business is based apply.

You make it sound more difficult than it actually is, every website selling software products already mentions the address of the owner, at the very least to define a party for the contract / terms of service.
Its intended to fuck over Facebook. If you're charging for a service you can simply offer a discount for allowing data collection after bumping prices for everyone by the same amount, Facebook however isn't charging. Facebook can't offer a discount on free, and they can't just force only users who opt-out to go pay (because that falls afoul of the first quote you put).

Basically this puts Facebook in a real tight situation, I honestly wonder how they will survive it.
By that logic, everything tax revenue is spent on is a subsidy for someone. It makes the definition so broad as to be useless.
You could also not track or store PII.