skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stripe is one of many services I would like to use but can't because they simply don't work in my country. I understand it can get somewhat complicated due to legalities I probably don't understand (or maybe the market is too small to even bother). But if your Navy can go through the country I live in, could you folks (in general and not directed at anyone) please try a little harder?
Not OP, but I think they're referring to: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

Though I hesitate to draw strong conclusions from fiction.
Yes, if you log personal information like IP addresses you need to have a plan to delete it. Maybe storing it long term is a liability not a benefit.

Don't bring complexity theory into it.
Does Mun have ice at its poles?
> In 2016, 20 of 716 were in category 4, i.e., those who aren't currently holding office as a result of having been voted in. The rest are currently holding an office for which they were voted in. In other words, democratically elected.

That's actually a pretty convincing argument, I think I'll have to concede victory.
Not really sure how - just posing that as an ideal for not punishing those who do not have that business model.

I suppose the regulation could be on the subsequent sharing/sale of user data upon capturing it, rather than the initial data collection?
Ask HN: Photos of the Dynamicland's Realtalk OS Code?
I'm looking for photos with readable source code of this board: https://twitter.com/seanwhite/status/991742705192468480

On the board there is also a big poster titled "Realtalk from the ground up" that appears to be explaining inner workings of the system. Does anyone have access to these resources? Unfortunately I cannot visit Oakland any time soon, but I am very excited about how it all operates.
There's a set of projects in an adjacent work group that does not use version control. Instead, they create snapshots at various stages of development (before certain formal reviews). These snapshots are fine, actually they're useful, but they don't replace version control. I had a chance to explain and demo git to one of them, who'd written some 10k lines of code between snapshots, to explain how git could help him manage his work better (easier to try things and roll them back, as the primary one). This helped, he had started to use it though I don't know if it's spread yet.

Fortunately there is no opposition to version control in their group, it's just momentum keeping them from changing.
> Are there reasons outside of costs to choose Adyen or Braintree over Stripe?

IMO costs are the worst reason to pick one of these providers at scale. They're all operating with a very similar cost basis, so you know they can each more or less match eachother, and if you come in with sufficient scale they'll offer custom pricing. Their costs are determined by the payment networks and their ability to mitigate risk and fraud. Stripe got a rep for being willing to match anyone even if they lost money in the process.
I'm surprised to see this misunderstanding persist today, though it was one I frequently saw in 2010/2011.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty automatically adapts both up and down to keep blocks at roughly 10 minutes, whatever the offered resources are. It doesn't monotonically become more difficult.
Namso CCGen – credit card bin generator using cc gen – namso-gen.net
I used Airbnb for the first time a few months ago, and I was surprised they were able to stay in business with the current interface.

I the prices kept changing at different views, I couldnt save a search, even active searches would just go away if i tapped back, they pushed me to link to a third party auth, but when I did they created a separate account and i could no longer reach the one that had my reservations. It was a mess all the way around.

The only thing I did like was all the weird places to stay.
In Europe, we have GDPR which is broadly similar. And the answer to your question about logs is basically "Tough shit. Personal data is important and if you've been leaving it in logs all over the place then you're going to have to sort that shit out".

The Backups question is a bit more complex. One source I've seen: "According to France’s GDPR supervisory authority, CNIL, organisations don’t have to delete backups when complying with the right to erasure. Nonetheless, they must clearly explain to the data subject that backups will be kept for a specified length of time (outlined in your retention policy)."

Paired with that is that if you're keeping data (or backups) for any length of time beyond the immediate needs of the customer then you need to be able to justify it.
right? wanting to get recognized by passing the test is as absurd as wanting to be recognized by cleaning your room or something.
My experience has been that I need to pay VAT, as well as any specific duties for the category of item I’m bringing in. This can be a lot, as VAT is currently 20%. I’m okay with it though. Any item I buy locally have VAT, and I think it’s unfair if you don’t charge that on imports. It’s the beauty of a VAT that it won’t hurt production if you’re reselling the goods anyway.
> How do you even know all the permutations of personal data that came be stored in the logs. There are possibly infinite possible ways personal information can manifest in logs.

Nonsense. You write the log statements. You know what data structures you are logging.

If you're using some server's built in logging, or some logging library or middleware you don't understand, turn that off until you understand what it's logging.
There's another category:

5. The culture generally has no concept of placing monetary value upon intellectual property.

I'm from a "third world" country, and throughout my life, I have almost never known or seen anyone pay for original software, movies or music. Originals were never easy to get here (few companies have official distribution here) to begin with, but even after widespread internet access (since the mid 2000s) and millions of smartphone (mostly Android) users, there's still virtually nobody who spends a dime on software or media.
Those aren't the only two options. Duckduckgo shows you ads based on your search terms.
Ask HN: What are the advantages of unanimous website tracking for sales
leadreplay.com tracks users on website after sending email.What are the advantages of doing this from sales perspective ?
This is a terrible line of reasoning. GDPR came AFTER the expense software, so blaming the company for not forwardly thinking about an non-existant regulation is ridiculous.
Or seeking liquidity. They can be related but I wouldn't say they're synonymous.
The issue is that with the internet, the default option is “available everywhere” whereas basically any other commercial thing is only available in a physical location, because that’s where the good is being sold/ the service is being offered. The main thing similar to tech is media, but even if someone in a country where some media content is banned is caught consuming that media, the consumer is punished rather than the producer.

I am actually in favor of privacy regulations. But there are two major issues that most people don’t understand

- Compliance is not easy if you do anything much more complicated than serve a static website. Basically anything business related will have PII. And you can introduce PII accidentally with things like logging, putting it in places it shouldn’t be

- Because the internet is open by default you need to comply with basically every single regulation on the planet, and the burden is fully on you to know how and why you comply with those regulations. (Some places will just firewall you, which in many ways is better, but others just want to make money off you)
In the modern world, the paramount desire of society is to grow the capitalist economy. For this purpose we are pressured to excel at things that will make this economy grow, and relegate everything else to a secondary status. That's why society views taking care of nature as non important. Many companies, such as oil and mining companies, are directly interested in destroying as much of earth as possible, just for the sake of making an extra buck. We need to create a new economy where these companies and others are directly controlled to produce only the minimum necessary in order to maintain what remains of this planet.
This. Defaults matter.
the point of the parent comment was that the # of cameras doesn't matter. New york is small but dense. a single camera on a busy corner will see more people in a day than multiple cameras somewhere else.
I guess the question is: will it silently optimize them away or will it be a compile error to use such expressions?
Wouldn't MIR be more portable to the future as well? Building on Rust's own equity and all that, because future Rust will probably still use MIR but could replace LLVM(?)
Fibonacci is usually introduced as "the next term is the sum of the two previous terms" (sometimes with the story about rabbits or whatever). There's two obvious ways to implement this:

1. Direct recursion
2. Keep track of the two previous terms

If you start with (1), you run it and it takes exponential time, and so you should instead remember the two previous terms, leading you to (2). When you go with (2), you either use 2 mutable variables and a loop in the imperative version, or you have 2 accumulators and tail recursion in the functional version... which is the same thing, since a tail recursive function is just a named loop.

There's nothing about laziness or self-referencing an incomplete structure here, which is just a Haskell thing. Taking the tail of an incomplete structure, in particular, is indirect and hard to understand.

If you want to demonstrate laziness, you can still do it directly by doing something like:

fibs a b = a : fibs b (a + b)
fib n = fibs 0 1 !! n
> Someone not familiar or comfortable with "map" should not be working as a professional programmer today.

I completely disagree - you are measuring the quality of a programmer on a single dimension.

I have worked with very weak programmers that produce gold e.g. great at pulling a team together, great at producing outcomes that clients love, great at focusing on features that sell.

I have also worked with great programmers that just stick to what they know - they don't know map() because they concentrate on being productive rather than continually chasing the next greatest language or library.

I have also worked with technically awesome programmers that produce absolute crap e.g. struggle to communicate, struggle to make good engineering compromises, struggle to understand requirements. One smart guy was so creepy no women could work with him which meant he was actually pretty useless - I saw one friend who worked as a consultant there hide under her desk to avoid him!
It is not about trading - customer's funds are deposited into a bank account of a US financial institution partner under under a name of a trust created by their service provider. Until those funds are "spent" they sit in that account. That account is FDIC ensured to $250k.

Compare this to you depositing money with your brokerage to trade stocks. The account is opened at clearing broker in your name, which means that the SPIC coverage limit is just yours.
this is unachievable
Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us
The goal of the sheriff and the prosecutor is to stand tall in their ongoing conflict with the state institution, of which this pentest is just the latest event.

It's empathically not "we contracted with these people to do security work for us", it's that "our enemies from the Iowa state contracted these people to try and screw us".

They succeeded in getting some of these enemies caught, so they will make a point to their local voters as "we sure showed those bastards from the state agencies that they have no right to come here and shove their noses in our business" (which they've already explicitly stated to local press in pretty much the same words), that's a win already for a certain class of the local voters.

Their goals explictly include making it harder for 'enemy agents' to operate. If they use every technicality within the bounds of the law to make it as prolonged and difficult as possible, they're making a statement that attempting to attack them in this manner will result in retailiation - if it makes it hard for Iowa state to employ other pentesters in the future, excellent, mission accomplished, that fits the goals of these local agencies very well. They treat this mission as an explicit attack against them, and they want to deter attacks like these with whatever power they've got - which includes the ability to arrest people.
The car takes care of that by keeping track of when you fuel. It will burn some of the gas to keep it from going bad, to keep the engine oiled, and occasionally to keep the vehicle warm.

The gas tank is pretty small (9 gallons), so it's not a big issue and only a tiny amount of fuel is used for these things. I normally keep about a quarter to half a tank in there, which is enough to be more than comfortable but not enough that I'm burning a lot of gas to keep it from going bad. It automatically keeps the average age of gas in the tank from going over 6 months.
"UAV" has stronger military connotations for me. I'm not sure it's inherently better. Maybe something entirely new is better? "AAV" Autonomous Ariel Vehicle, or something similar?
> (4) Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.

Well, thanks for the link. For example, informing people that a user is located in a dormitory in The Netherlands sounds like free speech to me. So is location tracking information exempt from deletion?
At the time of this comment, Xcode 11 is not available for downloads on the App Store, nor on the dev website.
The default xcode dev page also shows the XCode 11 as the main Xcode: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/ so hopefully it's just a matter of hours now, cheers!
Sounds like they could have all the pieces of a moon mission lofted to LEO commercially years before they will be ready to start testing their own upper stage, and for less money than they will spend on the first test.

Somebody should be indicted. What is the FBI busy with, lately?
Bayer knowingly sold antihemopheliac factor contaminated with HIV.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24785997/
I live in Washington and this is the last year I'll have to do emissions testing for my vehicle registration. I'm still kind of amazed (my default is pessimism) that this was put into motion in 2005 and nothing seems to be in the way of stopping the removal of the requirement next year: https://ecology.wa.gov/Air-Climate/Air-quality/Vehicle-emiss...

My only point is to support your case that it's not always idealistic to believe that some regulations, even ones that have been in place for decades, even with today's questionably functional government, can go away.
My experience with WooCommerce is that it's probably the best of a poor bunch if you need a somewhat customised ecommerce site but don't have the funds/resources/expertise to build one on something like Magento.

Because as questionable as it may be resources wise, well it compares pretty well to the likes of OpenCart or OS Commerce, and significantly better than other WordPress shop plugins I've seen in the past (like Shopp). At least you can take your WordPress development knowledge and apply it to templates/plugins, have some decent documentation lying around to fall back on, and don't have plugin developers trying to nickle and dime you for every little thing.

There's probably a market in there somewhere, if someone wanted to actually create a decent ecommerce system that doesn't require a ton of resources, doesn't rely on another system to function and whose community actually knows what the hell they're doing.
Depends on the search engine, of course, but I am not opposed to the notion.

That said, I am also not arguing against advertising as a funding model. I'm arguing against business models that rely on invading people's privacy.
> I don't see why "Object Orientated Programming" requires for loops

Yeah, I think he (and most people who talk about FP vs. OOP) actually use OOP as a short-hand for "not FP": Scala is actually very object-oriented and very functional at the same time; they're not mutually exclusive.
Right so it's like SDA - a software defined antenna
A Deep Learning Approach to Data Compression
I can understand that Overstock might claim that the market manipulation issue has been resolved by getting rid of the trade restriction. But I don't understand why anyone else would think so too.
It means a 1-argument lambda, where that one argument is named x
Communication pains and always missing out on certain information that might help with developing features, projects and your career in general.
View Controller Presentation Changes in iOS 13
There’s one more important point: if you include externalities in your subsidy calculation you shouldn’t only count negative externalities. Maybe there are none but taxes on fossil fuels usually end up being very regressive taxes on people with older cars who can’t afford to upgrade. Just as one example of a potential positive externality of cheap fossil fuels.

And a negative externality of education might be forcing older workers out of jobs. (Admittedly a stretch, but making this just for the sake of argument.)

The point is once you start including externalities in your subsidy calculations things get super fuzzy fast.
Has this translated to me as a consumer being able to buy rooftop solar for cheaper? I live in FL and am considering it.
There are plenty of non-Europeans that can digest lactose. Think middle-easterners and Mediterraneans and their consumption of sheep and goat milk. Central and East africans too. The trait has incomplete (variable) penetrance.

Lactose tolerance is estimated at 30-45 percent.. So it's a substantial non-European population. The intolerance is heavily skewed toward East and South Asia -- though a lot of South Asians consume milk and paneer.
heh heh 'pilot program'
A town that you can't drive into without showing ID or getting a security once-over is not a normal town.
So I need to trust

1.AnchorUSD

2.Their trust company where escrow is held

3.Zap for lightning network wallet

4.Abacus for identity verification

5.and you (sparkswap)

I'd say this is neither direct nor instant (just abacus verification adds crazy friction). And the trust issue is real, I'd personally feel better with one large custodial institution than a number of startups in this chain that I know nothing about (or their security practices).

If you can solve that there is market for sure.
> I still don't get the point of immutability

If you're the sole developer, it's probably not a big deal. If you're working with a group of people, immutability is the only way to maintain your sanity.
Support told me that our business could not continue to use Stripe 2 years ago, we've been with Payment.ninja since (and pay a little under half what we used to pay Stripe).

I took what Stripe Support told us very literally, and we ceased using DigitalOcean and one other service since their only recurring billing options were Stripe.

We don't want to break Stripes ToS or do wrong by our clients, hence our contract-less, B2B only, monthly prepaid business model. Apparently this is too high risk for your company?
Besides the tremendous onus laws like this may place on small startups and side projects:

Does anyone know how companies are supposed to comply if “user data” literally cannot be deleted? I’m thinking in the case of blockchain type applications, where one users’ actions feed into another users’ actions, and you can’t deleted user A’s actions without deleting potentially tons of other stuff and destroying the application.

Like does this law basically ban GitHub and code collaboration too?
Did you think my post was smug? Because I'm saying what you're saying. I agree with you. My post was just to say it's a tough pill to swallow. Bitter medicine is still medicine.

Except I wouldn't say data science is destroying our society. Maybe data science done the blind lazy way is, but shitty science isn't representative of good science.
Probably, not definitely. Mainstream news covers plenty of stories which would be relevant here.

If you don't believe me, talk to the admin and the guy who made the site[0]. The problem here is not the mainstream nature of articles being posted, but the low effort being put in by commenters. Plenty of tech-related stories have plenty of garbage comments as well. Most of the discussion around RMS has been a dumpster fire.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869
Proof You Should Compress Your Images Before Converting to WebP
>I've always wondered what long term issues one might encounter with a Volt.

It's a Chevy...so expect some pretty bad engineering defects with everything but the engine/drivetrain.
You don't need ice to get oxygen; don't know if Mun has ice.
sounds like a realistic hypothesis; in VERY controlled amounts, the delirium that results from consuming tropane alkaloids could definitely be a lot like a single-minded state that one might associate with berserkergang. the only problem I would have with that is the fact that deliriants seem to have a propensity for reducing muscle tone (at least high dose diphenhydramine does and i assume that may go for the tropanes as well). but the detachment from reality and the rage that a berserk state would imply certainly rings true for what one might go through in delirium, especially if the intent going in is to cause damage
Thanks for commenting. My current job involves working (though in a minimal way) with a heavily modified install of Rocked U2 which has its own version control, kind of its own BASIC dialect and I can only agree with what you say. It also forces you to use a special in-house terminal and text editor for ALL programs in BASIC. No vi or anything.

They have discussed of doing away with it for years (decades?) and it has never happened.

The biggest argument against migrating is "performance" (that a RDBMS or even Mongo will be slower).
There was also this "hot inmate" meme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Meeks

Speaks volumes in how pretty people are treated vs how fat and ugly people are treated.
In the absence of evidence of the extraordinary, it seems most prudent to fall back to the ordinary in the vein of Occam’s razor. If you see a bright flash and then a tree catches fire, do you assume it’s lightning or a deep state conspiracy?
I love how these "failed" efforts did produce a quarter of germanys energy in 2018 [0] and heavily accelerated R&D of those technologies when they were far from profitable. The original article this discussion is about states pretty explicitly how this only changed due to such subsidies. Afaik, the german one was one of the first / biggest at the time. (edit and yes, solar is less optimal in germany and was subsequently scaled back)

Btw, storage tech will never be developed unless there is significant demand to shift load and thus a significant financial incentive. As such it naturally can only happen after a lot of "unreliable" solar/wind has been deployed.

More nuclear would not have made germanys grid that much cleaner. Laying off all those strip mine workers from otherwise underdeveloped areas is a political issue, according to our current news landscape. Doing it is kind of hard, thanks to the rise of populism, among others.

By the way, nuclear is a political issue as well. If the US doesn't allow e.g. Iran to meet their energy needs with nuclear, then this isn't a suitable solution to power the world. R&D subsidies should benefit the whole world, not just politically stable first world countries, if you care about CO2.

[0] https://energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&perio...
This happens with brick-and-mortar banks already. They will ask "Are you an American citizen?" and then follow up with "Sorry FATCA is too complicated, can't serve you".