skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does anyone know if GDPR (or similar law in the future) will actually force HN and other sites that don't have this feature, to remove accounts, at least EU ones, upon request?

As far as I know, the GDPR is more of a clarification (along with some explicit guidelines for fines), than it is new legislation - so hn and similar sites would already be in breach, if they didn't allow the deletion of all profile data. I'm not certain that having to email someone at hn to do it, would be in breach of current data protection regulation. It may be that not clearly stating: "to get a record of all data hn has stored on you, make correction or delete all data - please email (...)" will be in breach of GDPR.

But afaik hn does no business in the EU - so it's not clear what sanctions would be applicable.

It's different for companies that does business in the EU / EEC.
Rip cable and socket out of the wall? Anytime there is a Facebook share icon on the web your unnamed ghost account is on Facebook.
> I feel like you may have a bit of an axe to grind about local real estate prices

Absolutely. Due primarily to record low interest rates, negative gearing and capital gains tax reductions.

> "I'm sure many can agree it's disgraceful" is a particularly choice piece of rhetoric that I am still trying to unpack

Thanks for pulling me up on that, I acknowledge the comment does not contribute to a healthy discussion.

> You can see some of this in the nationalism of Trump and Brexit.

Your spot on. As the gap widens people will be looking for others to blame for their misfortune. This is what we need to avoid at all costs. Nationalism has no place in society. I hope I did not come across as blaming a specific nationality. The blame goes directly onto government policy. Let's ensure Australia doesn't regress into the rhetoric we are seeing in other places.

> I just want people to watch out for situations like this and not think that "whoah, this is clearly disgracefully wrong".

Let me be very specific, what i'm implying is disgraceful is real estate agents and government regulatory bodies ignoring the "The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006" [1].

"AUSTRAC has identified that laundering illicit funds through real estate is an established money laundering method in Australia," said a spokesperson. "Criminals are drawn to real estate investment in Australia because it is possible to purchase in cash, it offers reliable returns and it is possible to disguise ownership." [2]

Example - "A senior Chinese policeman has been jailed for 17 years for embezzling money to buy two Australian homes for his two daughters." [3]

[1] http://www.austrac.gov.au/businesses/legislation/amlctf-act

[2] http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-neverending-money-launder...

[3] http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-police-chief-wang-jun-re...
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Whilst I would usually agree with you, your comments about being a conspiracy theorist are IMO entirely wrong, look at the history of the account, the lifespan of it, and the threads it posts on. I agree that ad hominem is incorrect and pretty much always a bad way to argue, but you need to have some idea of context and the active measures that have recently been taken in this scaling "debate", there is straight up disinformation being circulated.

As far as I'm concerned, I did give facts, the segwit facts are correct. The loss of business is fact. The comment about chain rewards decreasing is fact.
I feel pretty fortunate to have been a gamer during the transition from 2.5D graphics, through the evolution of 3D graphics and the various levels of generational advancement over the years. The characters became better looking and more detailed over time, from sprites to models whose mouths would move in a Kermit the Frog sort of fashion, but they were still hollow and unconvincing puppets. It wasn't until Half-Life 2 that characters in games could properly convey emotion through sophisticated facial animation and sufficient detail. That, for me, was the first time I could emotionally connect with a character in a game, and it was such a fundamental shift in my understanding of what a game could be.

The evolution in rendering here is nothing short of amazing. For the most part I've fallen out of love with gaming, just as a function of getting older or getting burned out on it (or both), but new generations of gamers really are very lucky to be able to have some of their first gaming experiences with characters like this.
If you have left a lot of personal information on Facebook, it is kind of the nature of the beast. They require your real name. They ask lots of personal details upon sign up. The profile grills you about your entire life, from where you were born to where you went to school to where you live and work.

HN does none of that. So, to me, it seems like a really different situation.
That was in 2010. As someone pointed out, this is likely meant to comply with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

The law goes into effect in May 2018.
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From their terms (https://www.facebook.com/terms.php):

"This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

"When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others)."

This sounds like they properly delete it but only so long as you haven't given another user a copy of it (such as sending a message perhaps).

Also while the US has essentially no privacy protections whatsoever, I don't think a "deleted=true" would fly under EU regulations.
That is a tautology/ syllogism. How do you know what works (and if something else would have been better)?
The essential problem with film is that it consists of many things off stool images blinking in and out of existence. Deciphering still images flashing at a rate of 24 per second is something that or brains have never had to contend with in millions of years of evolution. Film simply cannot work!
My personal favourite is /r/DepthHub

> DepthHub gathers the best in-depth submissions and discussion on Reddit. You can use the DepthHub as an alternative front page with high quality discussion and inquiry. For more on the theory of DepthHub

Follow this multi. You can also create copy and remove sub you don't want

https://www.reddit.com/user/redtaboo/m/depthhub/

List of all sub in this multi

/r/AcademicPhilosophy

/r/Anthropology

/r/Ask_Politics

/r/AskAnthropology

/r/AskHistorians

/r/askphilosophy

/r/askscience

/r/AskSocialScience

/r/badhistory

/r/changemyview

/r/cogsci

/r/CredibleDefense

/r/DaystromInstitute

/r/DepthHub

/r/Foodforthought

/r/geopolitics

/r/LetsTalkMusic

/r/linguistics

/r/moderatepolitics

/r/neutralnews

/r/NeutralPolitics

/r/philosophy

/r/PhilosophyofScience

/r/Scholar

/r/slatestarcodex

/r/TheoryOfReddit

/r/TrueAskReddit

/r/TrueFilm

/r/truegaming

/r/TrueReddit

/r/WarCollege
Wechat is way ahead on this gang.
For small amounts of cash, it's not a problem. But any cash transaction over $10k must be reported. [1] (Structuring your transactions so as to sneak under the limit is illegal.) The same goes for traveling across a US border with over $10k in cash or cash equivalent.

Even under that level, though, some level of suspicion attaches to large wads of cash. I've had vendors ask for cash payment for things in the $1-5k range, and it was pretty clear to me that they had tax evasion in mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_transaction_report
And in response to his fallacious proclamations that Blockstream controls core.

git shortlog -sn
4982 Wladimir J. van der Laan = Non-Blockstream
1446 Pieter Wuille = Blockstream
1101 Gavin Andresen = Non-Blockstream
639 Philip Kaufmann - Unsure
633 MarcoFalke - Non-Blockstream
559 Matt Corallo - Non-Blockstream
551 Cory Fields - Unsure
533 Jeff Garzik - Non-Blockstream
520 Jonas Schnelli - Non-Blockstream
330 Luke Dashjr - Blockstream
261 Gregory Maxwell - Blockstream
245 s_nakamoto - lol
208 Alex Morcos - Non-Blockstream
208 John Newbery - Non-Blockstream
197 Suhas Daftuar
131 practicalswift
113 Russell Yanofsky
113 fanquake
102 Peter Todd
95 Pavel Janík
86 Jorge Timón
74 Michael Ford
74 jtimon
70 Cozz Lovan
50 Patrick Strateman
40 Andrew Chow
36 João Barbosa
35 R E Broadley
34 Giel van Schijndel
32 BtcDrak
32 Eric Lombrozo
31 Daniel Kraft
30 Jeremy Rubin
29 Karl-Johan Alm
29 Nils Schneider
28 Gregory Sanders
27 Chris Moore
26 Satoshi Nakamoto
26 sirius-m
23 Johnson Lau
23 MeshCollider
23 instagibbs
21 Micha
20 dexX7
19 Warren Togami
19 gavinandresen
19 tcatm

Sorry if I didn't do them all, you're getting the idea, as you go further down the list the impact of the organisation backing them inevitably goes down.
A stolen painting appears for sale on the dark web
I deleted my fb account more then 2 years ago. Quality of life went up 10x. I highly recommend it, fb's value is hugely overrated.
I think what's also interesting is that some sites/apps have purposely made their UI/UX flow for account deletion very frustrating for the user. They do this to lower the probability of user completing account deletion
Not defending facebook, but almost every social site these days, and even SaaS applications, make it impossible to DELETE your account out of their systems.

Unless laws are passed in the US to force their hand, this sort of behaviour will continue.

Anything and everything you post on the internet, is FOREVER.

Because chances are some dev somewhere has simply flipped an IsDeleted bit to true / 1 in the site's database :)
The FOIA doesn’t encode a “shall release upon production” edict, it instead is a limited “shall respond upon request for permission to release”. The former creates an atmosphere where information is automatically released when created. That is freedom. The latter creates bureaucratic and legalistic discretion, an impediment to freedom. The latter is still needed for gray areas, but there is no bright line test that unequivocally states if you don’t cross the bright line, then automatically publish with no registration for access, much less petitioning.
> And how does this apply to logs? It's common for web servers by default to record urls visited and IP addresses. Would that be legal without explicit consent?

I'm not certain on the details, but in eg Norway that is already much in line with the GDPR ip addresses are considered personal data, and as such regulated. However, there are provisions for storing such information for auditing purposes (both security, technical and financial/invoicing) - but would likely require explicit consent. ("i accept"/"i will not use this service" - more of an informational confirmation - like signs stating a shop is under camera surveillance - and you could choose not to shop the (even if: good luck finding a shop w/o surveillance cameras)).

In general "personal data" is anything that can significantly help identify a single individual (time/place, ip, phone number/date, address, full name, email, etc).

Ed: regarding logging ips for auditing - there's usually a fixed time limit. It's longest afaik for financial purposes (and the data storage directive explicitly states/stated minimum duration - effectively being lobbied into a tool to go after amateur copyright infringement by forcing isps to keep records longer than before). But from a data protection viewpoint, you can't say/get consent for "we log for auditing" and then keep the data indefinitely . More like 6 or 12 months.
HN will not delete your account via email or any other means.

I was told — via email — this functionality would be coming in the future, but it’s been about six months and nothing yet.
It’s funny because a lot of those synths are considered best in class..

Massive was the first widely popular wavetable synth and was considered quite usable.. until Serum came out. I personally think despite the knobs, it’s one of easiest to use and understand synths out there. It shows you visually how the filters, wave tables, and various parameters are being modulated in real time, and you can easily add new modulations and customize the LFOs to whatever shape you want.

Sylenth was and still is a go to subtractive synth, and Spire is considered a spiritual successor to it..

Diva itself is a virtual analog synth intended to accurately replicate the sound of actual hardware synths, so it of all the synths pictured there should look like them.

I suppose that maybe I’m just used to the way softsynths look and feel, but I see nothing inherently wrong with using knobs and a metallic look. The main problem I have is when synths give you no indication as to how things are being modulated in real time, which is why Serum is my favorite synth - it does a fantastic job of that, knobs or not
A platform for automated validation of startup projects/ideas
It depends on whether or not you are operating under their jurisdiction or not.

If you are, they can drag you to court. End of story.

If you aren't then they will first rely on your cooperation and if that doesn't work, probably issue arrest orders which will make it a bit inconvenient to enter the EU for a while. And they'll probably tell ISPs to block you, yeah.
Scaling Your Business? Be Sure You Determine Customer Value
I don't think that document is entirely accurate. The apps "re-download" immediately, suggesting (to me at least) that they are still on-disk, somewhere. I believe that they delete associated user-data, though.

EDIT: Apparently things are different in iOS 11? Huh. TIL —
will have to try it out!
I’m so tired of hearing about Algebra in this context. The notion that Algebra was discovered uniquely in one place is absurd. There can be no doubt Algebra was discovered repeatedly all over the world, and if or when civilization collapses it’ll be discovered again in no time because: it’s Algebra. People are going to discover it and will create notations that make it easy to perform. People like Gauss and Newton arise from all civilizations. So please enough with Algebra. It’s also like almost a thousand years old at this point if you want to point out valuable contributions from the Middle East please refer to something more current and less cliched than Algebra it really just devalues your point.
Pollution is probably a price that a country needs to pay in its early stages of modernization.

Militarily, China is checked by Vietnam, South Korea, Japan....and drum roll...INDIA. No large country like India wants a military monster next door, so India will have to get strong. Plus the counties in the South China sea have beef with China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea#Territorial_cl...

On the other hand, India might have to deal with Pakistan and South Korea with North Korea. Russia is also not a fan of China, Siberia once was Chinese and it's virtually free of people. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/07/03/where-do-bo...
I like the app but am offended by the idea of stars being made from cosmic dust. Can you add a divine intervention option?
> These are solids where all the sides are equal and all the faces are the same regular polygon.

There is, for instance, rhombic triacontahedron[1] which fulfil the above definition while not being a platonic solid.

By wiki[2] ,

> It is constructed by congruent (identical in shape and size) regular (all angles equal and all sides equal) polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each vertex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_triacontahedron

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
It's sad that entertainment by violence and combat are the drivers for things like this.

I wonder what far reaching higher order effects come from this selection bias. Is it just a feedback cycle that could be broken? The makers of high budget world-building projects are self-selected for this kind of content, leading to consumers acclimating and demanding more of this, etc.
It's already leaking out of the games world: there's a major shift in Hollywood movies to superhero movies centered around video game-style combat.
Not sure how up to date, but there are some results in that direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Mo... .
With few exceptions, you cannot get a loan in the US to do anything productive. Most of the loans given to business nowadays are to buy back stocks, private equity (M&A), or to speculate on real estate.
I agree that some people have reasons for keeping blockchain transactions private. But criminals have much stronger reasons to keep them private.

The most useful cryptocurrency is not as broadly useful as other means of moving money around. So if it has advantages for criminals, criminals will use it disproportionately. Ransomware generally doesn't take Visa and Mastercard. The Silk Road was Bitcoin's most prominent early adopter. And the early Bitcoin market was also rife with scams, fraud, Ponzi schemes, and all manner of other criminal idiocy: https://www.amazon.com/Attack-50-Foot-Blockchain-Contracts-e...
How accurate is this test? The .edu address lends credibility but that's all I have to go on. What do the results mean, specifically?
How rude to someone who has difficulties to see because of age.
It's almost as if the website was aimed at a different target audience
AlphaGo Zero method applied to Reversi
They are not computer generated, instead they use something called compositing
Depends on the keyboard I suppose; if you want to remap keys I recommend Karabiner: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

I use it with my WASD custom and it works great.
You missed the key fact here: Zuckerberg wants to do more for the community but his initiatives are being blocked by the city. I say that there is a disconnect because this is being presented by the author as a failure of Zuckerberg's rather than of the city.
If you can work strong anti-crime controls into a digital currency while still maintaining privacy, I encourage you to do so. Otherwise, anything allowing secret movements of large sums of money will be hugely appealing to criminals, exactly as we saw with Bitcoin.
As somebody who’s debugged and inspected machine code generated by expanded templates I can tell you this is not really a problem. At -O2 or -O3 optimization level with GCC or Clang almost all of that get unlined, removed, remerged and just optimized away. At -O0 god help you with single stepping any template code (like unique_ptr) in gdb.
Dozens of polar bears pictured eating together
So that’s two more things than you can get a loan for from a Chinese bank if you aren’t an SOE (they only support real estate speculation).
My preference is all of them: municipal, state, and federal.
There's so much spam that Spamnesty can't keep up :/ It regularly gets rate-limited by MailGun for some reason.
The faces there are rhombuses, which are not regular polygons, right? The definition of a regular polygon includes equality of angles, not just of sides.
Some futurist sit together to discuss AI in a social perspective
You try it one way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-newark-schools-p...

If or when that fails, you try another. This is another.
Your point is a decade out of date.

Templates are a prime mechanism for achieving efficiency in C++ code and do not produce code-bloat like those early compilers.

http://articles.emptycrate.com/2008/05/06/nobody_understands...

When templates are used to remove indirection, very good efficiency results with zero-overhead, which is a major reason why C++ sort can be quicker than qsort.
(http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/c-qsort-vs-c-sort/)
I'd say that highly targeted ads are harmful, as it's more likely to undermine the viewer (eg: political ads tweaked based on current family situation/emergencies derived from data mining). Eg: target people who recently lost loved ones to an attack by one of our times typical "lone gunmen" by ads advertising increased surveillance as a way to mitigate "terrorist" attacks.

Or substituting in first names of friends in paid content ("<person with same name as your friend> give the following reasons to vote x!/buy this").

Not to mention that if advertising works - then it undermines the idea of a free marked where purchases are made by informed independent agents (I think that's a fantasy anyway, but it seems to be a somewhat popular idea).
I just tried setting up a Glowstone server on a Linode instance. It was a very quick experience. However, I ended up switching to the official Minecraft server jar provided by Mojang when I realized that Glowstone doesn't support the "allow-flight" option for flying in creative mode :/
In Praise of Rust's Structopt for Command Line Parsing
Add in the Terminator 2 ride/show footage. If I remember correctly there's the film on one of the bluray releases but not in 3D.
I still have the T-shirt that came with it.
I'm guessing that this extra-legal money is quite happily parked in legal low-tax economies earning interest.

I'm certain that even if they're losing 2% they are quite happy to have it out of China. This is not a Chinese farmer taking his money out of China, most likely you're talking about corrupt politicians that make $20 million with the stroke of a pen.
Sad that Apple does not allow you to delete your account. Even Facebook does?
PS; if you think I am wrong post a direct link how to delete within Apple's domain. Trust me it does not exist.
> And how would modern medicine and western science have faired without Arabic math and the Arabic preservation of Greek medical texts?

Probably just fine. I’ve read my share of Aristotle and let me tell you, it doesn’t seem to have been a boon to Europe that people kept reading that crap. I mean the guy advocated for slavery as a good/natural thing. And was literally anti-empricical. His philosophy of science boiled down into a sentence was basically “if you think it, it must be true.” God knows how long his work kept the Scientific Method from the mainstream. Galileo was persecuted because the church coopted Aristotelian thinking as dogma. It’s great the Arabs saved all that stuff, but imo it’s great for historical reasons. Very little of it was actually useful legit stuff in the way we think of things today.
Coming in 2018: GCP’s Hong Kong region
Not to reduce this to one thing, but

> Coding for a couple of hours a day in your spare time isn’t the same as coding for 8+ hours a day. Over the past decade it has worn me down. I have regular painful migraines triggered by working long hours. I have the beginnings of arthritis in my neck.

I don't recommend anyone does 8+ programming days because
of deadlines. It's different if you're "in the zone" of course.

Normal good programming jobs are fine with 8 hours days consisting of much less than 8 hours of actual programming.

That's why you are in a salaried job: you do your best but you you're not responsible for getting things done "at any cost".