skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would. I'm doing some GDPR consulting at the moment and most of my conversations are "I don't think it's as complicated as you do". Americans tend to read law very pathologically unless they are familiar with how European legislation works, and every programmer out there thinks they are an armchair lawyer since there are "obvious" skillset similarities between decoding software and decoding law.

"Forget me" is very simple: If someone calls you up and asks you to stop using their data, you stop using it and remember that they've done this.

You do not have to:

- Destroy invoices

- Delete web logs

- Delete the record of them asking you to stop using their data

- Reprocess all of your backups

- Recall any reports you might have sent out

Or anything else that is silly. But your salespeople aren't allowed to see that person's details in your CRM anymore.

"Export data" is also very simple for most companies. If you have a CRM containing information about a person, then that person can ask for that information.

> probably less so for a meme generator startup

What possible "personal information" do you think a meme generator startup actually has to collect on individuals that aren't their customers?

They should have a CRM containing companies who are purchasing advertising space on their meme generator startup, and perhaps leads that they have obtained through various incremental marketing sources. They probably do not have any personal information on their users, or if they do, their business will not be impacted by simply not collecting that personal information.

But maybe I don't understand what a "meme generator startup" would do because I'm not in their target market.
> If any I read started charging I'd find similar content somewhere else.

I'd double down on that, any site that has a free article limit (looking at you NY Times) I don't even bother with.

Or any site that whines about running an ad blocker.

True they need to make some cash to keep the lights on but I have never in my life bought something from seeing an online advertisement and don't really appreciate being tracked all over the interwebs.
> At the most basic conceptual level, the weapon could conceivably reach supersonic speeds, fly at very low altitudes, and have effectively unlimited range thanks to its nuclear powerplant

If the Ruskies have developed a reactionless rocket engine capable of crashing further down range than experimental error, I would keep silent as well /s
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> I think the Copenhagen interpretation is now considered wrong by most physicists.

Recent surveys suggest that most practicing physicists still pick Copenhagen as their default, mainly because that's what they were taught and QM foundations have no implication on their actual work.
The thing is people need certainty. Imagine a guidance from Apple saying they would make $2 per share with 47% probability. Investors will freak out. Which is why most companies sandbag their results. I want to know if any orgs actually use probabilistic decision making in their day to day operations.
The article states it's only been discovered and mitigated in geth, allegedly the most popular ethereum client; whether other clients are vulnerable is unknown.

This statement from ethereum/geth developer Felix Lange even hedges on how completely the vulnerability has been mitigated, which may not bode well for ethereum in general:

>We have done our best to mitigate the attacks within the limits of the protocol. The paper is concerned with 'low-resource' eclipse attacks. As far as we know, the bar has been raised high enough that eclipse attacks are not feasible without more substantial resources...

He did go on to mention his belief alternative ethereum client Parity isn't vulnerable, so there's that at least.
Suppose the gravitational attraction of particles, like spin, was signed, such that like attracts like, and unlike repels unlike? Because of the weakness of gravity, every other force would dominate at the local scale. But the prevalence of one or the other sign in a region (at the galactic scale) would vary - as there would have been a (very gentle, as gravity is weak) "sorting" in the early universe, as like signs attracted and unlike signs repelled. "Dark matter" would be variation in the prevalence of one sign or the other.

How would one test such a model?
Same -- I pay about $5/mo to host a blog. Part of me wishes people would pay to read it, but the rest of me is in touch with reality. People who want to give me money can buy other things.

I am also willing to pay for good reporting and writing, e.g. the New Yorker and my local paper, because they require actual work. I wouldn't pay for Stratechery, which is just an opinion blog.
100% agree.

There's also some sleight of hand in that headline...

Which git repos would you be willing to pay $5/month to clone?
Mark (https://mark.js.org) is a new notation that extends JSON with a type-name, which can be a more structured way to encode type info, instead of using custom string tag.
> Google first changed the Chromecast protocol a few times to prevent Amazon from using it.

How can they do that without also kicking out Netflix, Twitch, Hulu, etc.?
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There are different solutions for that in the works, from sharding to plasma, etc.. and those have their own challenges & tradeoffs (namely in terms of security, etc..)

However engineering decisions 'on genesis' was over 3-4 years ago and at that time doing a blockchain with smart contracts was already challenge on itself. It's not really fair to take the knowledge and lessons from the present day and claim those in the past without that knowledge made horrible decisions. It's a bit like blaming google for not starting angular 1 with the functionality of angular 4, or saying that John Resig should have created Babel and ES7 features instead of creating jQuery.
The arcade game, build mode and bad cars
As someone who builds SaaS sites the shit I build now are miles more elegant and functional than the apps I used to build back in the Visual Basic days, or even earlier when I was writing software for DOS. We may bitch and moan all we like but the fact is that the average web app of today is way more usable than the average windows app some twenty years ago.

I won't argue that the situation with web development is ludicrous, we have a bazillion of js frameworks that last no more than two to three years until the next shinny thing pops-up not to mention changes in pretty much every aspect of the stack, from devops to server-side languages and whatnot.

As a testament, take a look at the available dashboard templates in the major template sites. Some of them are so beautiful they make me droll. We never had so gorgeous interfaces in recent history.

Of course as always YMMV.
The issue is not the risk of adversarial images being used to create mayhem, which was originally a straw man of the 'vehicle automation is infeasible' faction, but is becoming something of a straw man when it is used as the primary target of the 'this is not a problem' side. The issue is firstly the fragility of current image recognition in ways that are not easily bounded, and secondly the fact that humans use aspects of generalized intelligence in recognizing such situations and dealing with them, something that is not yet feasible to the same level in vehicle automation.
> A list of URLs can potentially identify a person's religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political views etc.

But can he be identified ? I believe if its too difficult to identify using even "religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political views etc" then its not personal data. Though I cant seem to find link to the page where I read it.

On similar note, even IP _alone_ appears to be non personal data if since it cannot identify a person [1].

From Case 582/14 – Patrick Breyer v Germany [2]

On appeal, the Regional Court of Berlin (the "Kammergericht") ruled that IP addresses in the hands of website operators could qualify as personal data if the relevant individual provides additional details to the website operator (e.g., name, email address, etc.) in the course of using the website.

Lol even German Govt cant seem to figure out its own laws. They should have gone to one of those consultants.

[1] https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-...

[2] https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
For there to be different cultures, there must be differences between them - by definition. To compare is to examine differences. If such a rudimentary line of inquiry triggers guilt about "stereotyping", then you ought to take time to examine your words more carefully. If by stereotyping you mean assuming that all Jewish people are comedic in an identical way, no one here is saying such a thing. But unless your head is buried deep in the ground, there is a much-celebrated phenomenon called Jewish humor, and interest in it by non-Jewish people is something to be celebrated, not censored.
I don't think I would pay a monthly membership for a website, but what I would be willing to pay for is Google and Facebook to stop watching me and showing advertisements.

If I could pay the online ad companies to pay the content creator like I was a "click" or a "view" I could have an ad-free online experience while the content creator continues to get paid like I had seen the ad.

The opportunity for Google is huge I know a lot of people who would cough up $5-10/mo for an ad-free online experience.
I'm sure they're allowed to do this since the membership agreement is incredibly strict and allows for no room for mistakes, but that doesn't mean they should be. Generally speaking, laws take into account intent and treat cases differently (or not at all) based on what the intent of the action is.

It's pretty clear here that the person didn't intend to import a counterfeit bag (why pay full price for it?)
> what we are witnessing in real time is those forms of journalism evaporate, as the web destroys their business models

The Wall Street Journal and New York Times are doing fine. Smaller publications, too, like The Information seem to do okay. Paywalls work because (a) online ads are crap and (b) most readers are too cheap to pay unless forced to.

> I think that blogging is not the same thing as journalism

I agree. I also think this blurring of the line has caused people to expect both for free, which is clearly untenable. That said, newspapers include op-ed sections and some "thinker" newsletters I subscribe to (e.g. Mike Allen's political daily) have broken legitimate news.
What are some of the key things you've learned along the way? E.g. More community interaction helped grow the newsletter, etc.

I would be curious to know what your roadmap for the "additional features." What are the advantages you've found "slamming together" the system vs. having a custom system built?
Turning web traffic into a Super Computer
First, please read and internalize dsacco's comment.

In the meantime, the following might help. But from experience, if your math is already shaky, you would certainly need to look for resources covering everything listed in a more in depth manner.

Basic calculus refresher - http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~ifischer/calculus.pdf

Learning from Data - http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/fmcs1/readings/matl...

Basic probability theory - http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/sgwater/teaching/general/proba...

Mathematics for Machine Learning - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/910e/3118b50f426e5e840561e1...

Math for Machine Learning - https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/courses/2013S_ML/math4ml.pdf
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You're allowed to log people's IP addresses for diagnostic reasons, to prevent fraud and abuse. You don't have to delete these logs when someone emails you if they're still useful for those purposes. You do need to delete those logs eventually though, and you need to disclose how often that is. It can be ten years if you want.

If you're not using IP addresses for those reasons, you shouldn't collect it. It is good advice to mask off the bottom bits of the IP address since it will still likely be unique enough for you, without being useful to someone who has an unrelated list of IP addresses.

You should probably be doing that anyway: If you get hacked, you're basically giving your attacker a list of targets.

You should be able to delete usernames, passwords and email addresses on request. You should be able to remember that request if you restore from backups. You should not be storing passwords since that puts your users at risk if you get hacked, and you're responsible for keeping their personal data safe.
It uses the Chromecast logo and design.
Ask HN: GDPR. Social instability if the major companies cut their services off?
Is possible that Google, Facebook, Amazon,... cut their services off across Europe?

What could happen with european society?

Could it lead to remove the law?
My IT department got suuuuuper confused just by the "db" in "kdb". It's a database! That means it must have roles and schemas and basically be a clone of Oracle! Here, fill out these 5,000 pages of paperwork!
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Indeed. Society needs the basics of carpentry, plumbing and sanitation, medicine, personal finance, cookery before any basic office automation.

Our grand-grandparents lived just fine without a software word processor but relied on safe water and healthy living conditions.
Almost none, unless it was something I'd read every day + found more than 1/2 articles relevant + useful. Won't even pay for NYT if only 5 or 6 articles/month add significant value.

We need a subscription business model that aggregates content like cable/pay tv, so I can pay a fair price once, and continue grazing across most sites without worrying about individual subscriptions or micropayments. WSJ and Economist are only sources I would pay for (at a reasonable price) that aren't providing specific data points I can use. And, most people wouldn't find those as useful as I do, so it's down to personal preferences and how much of any source you'll get value from.

It's why individual subscriptions to everything is a dead-in-the-water business model that's going to kill off most journals. Most sites will be abandoned if there is a paywall.

Think about it this way -- how many people would pay for The History Channel or HGTV as individual add-on tv channels? Yet a very large number of people will occasionally watch those sources if it's included in general subscription, and they add value to the overall package, even if you rarely watch them. That's the way I view 99% of online content.

And, you have to make it dead easy, and not be constantly harrassing me about subscriptions or micropayments, or I'm gone. And, I also expect sites I'm paying for to be ad-free and not slowing down my browser, or I won't pay.
Could you name the podcast and the translation?
I'd be interested to see a citation for your claim that Google intentionally changed the Cast protocol to prevent Amazon from using it.

Your argument that Cast is hard on unsupported platforms is irrelevant. They are, by definition, unsupported, and Google is under no obligation to support them.

Google provides an SDK that people are free to use on the platforms Google chooses to support.

https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/developers
That is an excellent point!

That is the very reason I believe the current system should be augmented with a new first class financial statement, rather than replaced. This will give investors better information, and managers will gain better decision support.

Those who prefer the old way of doing things remain free to carry on as before. Those who embrace it may compete better.

Of course, the same mechanism may prove useful for governmental organizations.
This would effectively mean that every manufacturer were a retailer, because they would need a direct relationship with the ultimate buyer. Whether you like Amazon or not, that kind of retail model has proven incredibly valuable to shoppers by aggregating sellers that would be too hard to find individually and eliminating the need for a manufacturer-end-buyer relationship.

A solution like this would also limit alienability of property. I buy a DSLR and register it with the manufacturer. Two years later I want to resell it to someone else and discover my manufacturer either refuses to issue the new QR code to the buyer, or wants to charge a "reasonable" or "nominal" fee of 25% of the fair market value of the good to effect the transfer.

This is why a distributed-trust solution like blockchain actually might not be overkill, in spite of its buzzwordiness these days.

Or to return to your idea, instead of the person's name, transfer to an ID that's backed by another keypair. The buyer now has the authority to sign away full ownership without asking the manufacturer for cooperation. Of course, this means the manufacturer and each seller in the chain now has to have a tech-support department for people who lost their private keys or forgot the keychain password....
The French really do not get enough praise these days.

Perhaps because so much of the world do not learn how to read French...
Does anyone else get a sense of de ja vu from the news this week?

- Nuclear weapons development, specifically targeted at the US

- Trade Tariffs

- Improper security classification in the whitehouse

- Israel, Iran threatening war

- China becomes a dictatorship

Feels like we're going backward in time for some reason.
Medicine is an applied science and as with all applied sciences, new knowledge is hard to get into practice among the older crowd.

So, while stent placement in specific cases did not improve the outcomes, getting practitioners comfortable with doing nothing takes time.
I once read an article about the 'sport' of speedwalking that drove this point home to me. This is a sport, where pretty much the only rule is that one foot must always be touching the ground at all times. But in the age of video, it's pretty clear that this one rule is violated by every speedwalker every race. But the ruling body of the sport didn't care about any of the video evidence, and doubled down on using judges with a set of criterium to determine if walkers had both feet in the air.

My other takeaway was that if your sport can't enforce it's only major rule, because physics, they'll find ways to lie to themselves to maintain the status quo. It's probably a profound lesson in politics if I really think about it.
If you're a European citizen, in a couple of months they'll legally have to (assuming they don't want to just ignore any European court judgements, which is possible but risky).

I believe you can already delete your account and comments though?
That loop doesn't release any of the objects that it creates; the pointer v always hangs on to every cons cell that was created. So there is nothing for the garbage collector to do here other than to confirm that everything is reachable and not actually reclaim anything. If we disable garbage collection, it will hit OOM. Die here, die there.

BTW: (setq v (cons v v)) -> (push v v)
I get the sense that there’s something wrong with reviews, too. It’s as if it’s far too restrictive to be able to write a negative review or the seller has far too much freedom to prevent negative ones from posting.

My anecdotal case was buying a lamp for a DLP TV. The seller claimed to provide a 1 year warranty and mine burn out after 11 months. However, there was absolutely no means to contact the seller. I tried reached out to Amazon to get it, but to no avail. Finally, I resorted to leaving a negative review about the product and seller. Within a day I was sent an email saying my review violated some rules that state I’m not allowed to be critical of the seller, only the product. I was flabbergasted. So I rewrote it without any direct mention of the seller and the same thing happened. At that point, I just gave up. The seller is still there, selling non-existing one year warranties.
I was recently introduced to the 3blue1brown youtube channel. Easily worth $5/mo, IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
In my experience people who give brutally honest and harsh commentary tend to be less offended by it and don't tend to hold grudges the way other people do.

It an open source project where the goal is to promote quality work, I can see this being a valuable attribute.
True, but that's useless to the customer, who has no idea of whether commingling happens or not.

The other day I found myself needing printer toner. Amazon has a much better price, even when they sell it themselves, than local stores. But then I see that along with the "sold and shipped by amazon", which is still quite cheap, there are dozens of even cheaper options, some of which are fulfilled by Amazon anyway. So how do I know I am buying a new, original cartridge, an honest, quality refurb, or something that might print badly, or even damage my printer? Even the sold by Amazon merchandise, which I'd hope is original, could be comingled with a refilled knock off that might be indistinguishable out of the box, but will be very different in operations.

For something like this, as a consumer, I absolutely need to know the provenance of what I am purchasing, and the chance that there is commingling means I cannot buy something like this from Amazon, as I won't even be able to tell for a while.
Node/Express, or maybe Django, depending on a project (Django for simpler, standard ones, Node if I want a REST API).

Although recently I'm mostly using Node/Express for almost everything, and I'm really happy with them.
How does a nation of serial voters handle a referendum?
> However engineering decisions 'on genesis' was over 3-4 years ago and at that time doing a blockchain with smart contracts was already challenge on itself. It's not really fair

Sorry when I heard about Ethereum plans 4 years ago, I tough it as a terribly bad idea then (I didn't invest because of this, I should have invested stupid me) in 2013 the increase size of blockchain was already an ongoing problem, I simply tought if a decentelized ledger is already problematic to store, let's put a lot of more information on it, it's madness..
This talks about possible generational GC. Incremeantal/generational was available many years ago with a port to the Boehm collector. I never understood rejecting it and generally spending effort on a bespoke collector. (I don't remember whether the Ravenbrook system was available at the time, or if it was unsuitable for some reason.)
I can't remember the last time I worked with a database that couldn't write out a query log?

That's not to say GDPR isn't a pain, but there's not any significant technical challenges that I know of, it's much more of a challenge in terms of business processes
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How Did Melania Trump Get an Einstein Visa?
Is it just for me the advisor to the deputy prime minister of a EU country does not work?
yes, I would recommend "Algebra 2" published by McGraw-Hill (https://www.amazon.com/Glencoe-Algebra-2-McGraw-Hill-Educati...). I actually had to start there myself, now those many years ago :).

Best of luck!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498013

Just a few days ago this was on the front page, an article by a small business owner selling their product on Amazon complaining both in the article and the comments that even when a product is in the brand registry they are woefully ineffective about dealing with counterfeits.

This not-Chromecast is a really bad example because it's not actually claiming to be a Chromecast, but I have certainly ordered products on Amazon and received knockoffs before. Inventory comingling makes it basically impossible to ensure you're getting what you order because even if you order from a reputable seller it might come from somebody else entirely.