skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should hope it shows Canadian bias since that's where most of my experience has been! I mean it affectionately and with no implied comparison.

I know it's dodgy to post occasional personal comments with a moderator account, but it's also dodgy if the moderators aren't community members too. And we were community members long before we became moderators. So I make a point of doing it sometimes.
That would be a fun position for Obama to take; would he spurn Zuckerberg before or after giving Kissinger the Distinguished Public Service Award?

I rail against Facebook, and think it's a dangerous system, but Zuckerberg is a damn saint compared to many of the people Obama and Bill Gates have shown themselves with. And the two are themselves far from .
I see the point but government and the legal framework is exactly what could help swimming against the waterfall. It's hard to say what will happen and how easily it is going to be to loophole this, it might even have just negative results in the end such that large companies would find way to bypass it but smaller ones will be hit disproportionally but I think it is better than not even trying at all.

> We define a narrow range of places that really are private, and assume that anything that happens outside of those spaces is public.

I think it is hard for the average person to even understand what public and private means in various contexts. If government can see everything is it private (even if it is called a "private" chat). If company that is providing the channel can see the conversation, is the conversation really private.

It is a bit like the the FDA and food safety. It would be nice if we didn't need the FDA and everyone could carry their chemical and biological assay kits with them, inspect and test the products and drugs they consume. But most people don't know how, or can't afford to do it. So however imperfect it is nice to have at least some entity, even if it is corrupt and has a revolving door with the industries it is trying to regulate, to set some standards. GDPR is a bit the same, it is not perfect but I still see it as a positive step forward.
Thanks. "Can you imagine Trump having that power and not using it because of his belief in free speech?"

Whua? Yes of course. That's about as anti-conservative as it gets. His base would revolt. Free speech is right up there with property rights. Maybe you are confusing hitting back against (mockingbird) propaganda with a desire to do that, but I assure you, nobody is going to be closing newspapers, and he wouldn't want to if he could. Note is's not the conservatives trying to shut down speakers on college campuses, or remove YT chans they disagree with, or axe FB accounts (like Diamond and Silk) because they don't like what they say.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452924/donald-trump-co...
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I can’t emphasize this more. The first show I watched without subtitles (CC) was Dr House. I watched 6 seasons and it was painful as hell but after watching 100s of episodes it starts becoming easier.

Also, I would write every single word I did not understand and google it.
So, as a good parent, how do you personally teach your kids self control?

As a parent myself, screen-based devices are a class all to themselves. While earlier generations were worried about kids overconsuming things like radio, comic books, television, arcade videogames, etc... devices like the iPad are way more addicting. Perhaps exponentially so.

Talk to any parent and you'll hear stories about how they put their kids to bed and discovered, later on, that the kid woke back up and stayed up until 4am watching videos and playing games.

One way to fix that is to remove the device. But we're teaching self-control and trust, right? So what do you do?
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I'd love to have a better hardware quality build than my current Macbook Air, but my problem is that I've become quite fond of MacOS over the last few years. I don't miss the days when I was running Xubuntu and trying to tinker out everything to get the basics working. Windows hasn't been to my taste lately either.

Are the current generation of Linux desktop environments as user friendly as MacOS?
It's hard to blame an 18 year old for their parents advice.
> I have yet to see any publisher who is actually changing what they are doing. Every single media site that I visit is still loading tons of 3rd party trackers. They are still not asking people for consent...

I’m pretty sure the reason for this is that they know that the day they switch over to GDPR compliance, their ad revenue from EU will take a nosedive, and they don’t want to throw away that revenue for the sake of being early.
Why wouldn't advertising still work without pervasive tracking? If targeting ads based just on content works for TV, radio and print media, why wouldn't it work for online advertising?
Interesting analysis! I wonder how this would affect AMP articles. What happens when a one-time visitor (from the publisher's perspective, but not from Google's perspective) looks at the cached AMP version of the page on Google's servers and Google's domain? Ads and tracking could hosted by Google as well (AdSense + Analytics), so everything is technically 1st party.

Wouldn't Google be the data-controller in that case?

Google might still be allowed to do the personal tracking if they ever obtained consent from that user. Another reason why the AMP caching is bad for the web, I guess.

And from the user's perspective AMP articles would become even more appealing because they would never be bothered with consent popups.
what is cool about this? Animation is not smooth (big jump between views) and code is not pretty either (css in js instead of classes for states)
I vaguely recall having read some article or other about a pre-computer plan someone had for a "database of everything".

I suspect the idea hinged on edge notched cards or something similar.
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What are your pain points with macOS? I am a long time Linux user and running it on many servers but I actually like using macOS. You have pretty much everything you need, including the great Homebrew. Also probably the best hardware support of any Unix on laptop. I always had so many problems with Linux on various notebooks (WiFi etc.) that I am glad that it just works and I can focus on other stuff.
Be careful with hiding everything behind "consent", because consent cannot be a precondition for providing a service. Put differently: if a user does not consent, you cannot refuse them the service if the data you wanted to collect is not strictly necessary to provide the service.

The alternative is to only collect data that is strictly necessary to provide the service. In that case GDPR allows you to collect the data even without explicitly given consent – according to GDPR in that case the user can reasonably expect the data to be necessary to provide the service. (This does not apply to sensitive personal data and biometric/genetic data – then you always need consent.)

Quoting GDPR:

"Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s agreement." [1]

"Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance." [2]

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/
[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/
Such an oddly phrased headline.
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I don’t really understand how people overlook the whole Chinese government thing with regard to Lenovo. Can someone shed light on this? I would be very uncomfortable using Lenovo, and I’m not even a huge privacy person. But Lenovos must be bugged by the Chinese. How could they not be?
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK?
Quoting GDPR:

"Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s agreement [...]" [1]

"Consent is presumed not to be freely given [...] if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance." [2]

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/
[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-43/
One of my chief complaints about social media once we entered the age of Facebook was "I miss being able to use the platform on my terms". Stop telling me I should check out this, or react to that, or signal my approval to the other just because my friends did. Remember on Myspace how if you wanted the world's ugliest page with marquee animated gifs of a 3D baby dancing across the banner...YOU COULD. Nobody was stopping you. Myspace gave you the canvass, and said "go have fun, add a few friends, talk about concerts".

If myspace gave us the canvas and an unlimited selection of paint colors, Facebook gave us a color by numbers coloring book and four pre-approved shades of blue, along with a small static shock whenever a color went over the line.

And you know what? As a guy with no kids If it takes parents getting mad at YouTube to finally get some sort of critical mass on giving more control to the end user how they interact with the platform (aside from obvious outliers like malicious/offensive/illegal content), I'm all about it.

I wish platforms would realize this. We're glad to use the platforms, just stop trying to herd us into doing it the way you want.

Maybe I'm looking at too rosy of an ideal, here though.
Yup, title has been changed now.
IIRC it applies to EU citizens wherever they are, not just people who are on EU territory.
although this is Netflix's fault, gmail should have an account feature to toggle "dots don't matter" on and off.
I'm not sure this is true, you can only do so much with a camera small enough to fit into a general purpose device.
Can you elaborate on the "fix"? It's not in IMDb's list of alternate versions.
Facebook isn’t getting anything out of me using their open-source JavaScript library that they couldn’t get anyway.
The bad news: There's no unified HiDPI solution on Linux that works well end-to-end.

The good news: You don't really need one.

Bumping the font configuration fixes 80% of the scenarios, and the rest I tweak on a case-by-case basis. The good standards-conforming apps (e.g. modern terminals, browsers, etc) automatically multiply the font sizes by your screen DPI. Most desktop managers have a scale sliders for the GUI size, if you're into that. Some stragglers include Steam which recently added support for a 2x size multiplier (it's something, but not the best).

You kinda get exposed to how the sausage is made, but the sausage still tastes great.

Linux desktop is better than it ever was, but the road to perfection is long and eternal.
It's not a question of the particular ideas, but of the class of ideas. The opposite ideas would be just as problematic because they belong to the same class—in this case, generic ideological discussion. The problem is that those only lead to the same recycled tangents over and over, usually with a downward spiral into incivility. They're closed systems that admit no new information. That makes them off topic here.
You can run VS Code and all the plugins from Windows. The terminal pane will actually let you choose Powershell or Bash from the drop-down.
I have a Huawei Matebook X. It's closer to the Apple MacBook, being fanless with only a dual core CPU. It works for what I do (C# compile times are not bad at all). It was $750 when I bought it and I really like it. There's a new model, the Matebook X Pro, which would be closer to your needs with a quad core CPU but it looks like it'll be more expensive.

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/tablets/matebook-x/

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/tablets/matebook-x-pro/
You should see how I file my personal income tax, or my quarterly business tax account, in Australia. Completely responsive and accessible.
I think you hit the nail here with "poaching someone's turf" and the "tribalism" inside a company. I didn't mean to say that leadership considers engineers stupid. They hire them and trust them with solving complex technical problems. It just bothers me, they would often rather take a vague, generic management advice from a third party, who could not care less, over well intentioned, well reasoned, concrete advice, backed by concrete evidence from an engineer (or just do not act at all). This is just my colorful imagination, but I could almost 'hear' some managers thinking while dismissing an idea without giving reason: "I am supposed to manage you, no way you are going to tell me how to do my job". I've seen such behavior and I have no other explanation for it other than ego, office politics and 'cover my ass strategy'. This creates toxic environments and not just for the people working there. Productivity, quality and I'm 100% convinced that ultimately revenue and the ability to compete suffers from this as well.
Mark Erikson (dev on React) explains this very well: http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/03/redux-not-dead-yet/.

"If you're only using Redux to avoid passing down props, context could replace Redux - but then you probably didn't need Redux in the first place. Context also doesn't give you anything like the Redux DevTools, the ability to trace your state updates, middleware to add centralized application logic, and other powerful capabilities that Redux enables."
You should note that lots of what that letter suggest it has rights to, are not rights granted under GDPR. Or at least would be subject to legal clarification.

If you send that letter, expect to receive a standard response/report of data with a form response that politely & legally amounts to “piss off”.

Large organizations have considerable resources set aside to make sure their “piss off” letter is legally defensible & GDPR compliant.

That letter is likely only a problem when selectively used by a malicious actor against a small organization. Frankly not the kind of org that is systematically tracking personal data.
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After reading many answers, I'll add one step I didn't see fully stressed: after getting used to read and listen to English, find a way to start speaking it. You can't become fluent without actually speaking it.

For me, what did the trick was actually going to a advanced spoken English course where I lived (I was already very proficient with written English): what we were doing most of the time was just discussing things in English, with the supervision and help of our teacher. Among my best "investments".

Today, you could probably find something online, but I'm not sure if it would be as useful.
Look at the IPFS Pubsub and Y.js integration, that e.g. PeerPad uses to build distributed text editing: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peer-pad/blob/master/docs/A...
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We are using BT for 2 years now, and we are very happy about its api, support etc.
How would you make the code prettier then? Pls put on codepen / git. I'd love to see how you make the code more pretty. What do you mean by classes for states? I had to use jquery bc of the functionality (toggle between states - I wanted to do w/ classes but I had to use jquery).
Looking forward to see the prettier code!
Google would have to provide it to you.

The way to achieve radical transparency is simply a law that says that if you hold (some kinds of) personal data, you must make it publicly available for free.

There's of course the issue that some things must be kept private (e.g. authentication data, but maybe also things like web searches that are personal but essential to use a service) and drawing the line can be hard.

The issue that this tries to solve is not really "privacy" per se, but rather the existence of entities monopolizing data.
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Lawyer up if the risk is 4% of global revenues, and the opposing party has the means to lawyer up, too? (The opposing party would not be some John Doe, but a national supervisory authority that decided to bring a case)

And ”enforcement will be nonexistent”, from a EU that has a history of taking on big companies on, say, cartel cases (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/cases/cases.html) or antitrust cases (http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/cases/)? Would you take that bet, again at percents of your global revenue?
nvALT is one I like. It's fast and geared towards adding new notes quickly. You can type text to a combined search / create bar and either select a previous note or create a new note by pressing enter. All notes are just text files.

That said, I still like to use actual index cards especially because they are slower. Writing text by hands gives time to think what needs to be done and how best to express it. And doodling is fun.
Sorry to hear you had move to something else -- my guess is these crashes were from WebRTC, which isn't very performant in browsers yet. Especially with more than a handful of WebRTC connections, we've seen it crash regularly.

We've switched the default browser-to-browser transport in js-libp2p to a websockets relay recently, so you should give it another try.
"If you look at what is happening around us, you can see very clear signals that the public has had enough."

No, outside of a few echo chambers, no one cares about privacy or knows what GDPR is. Until GDPR shows everyday on the evening news for weeks it will not be well-known, and there are many things more important to most people than online privacy. Heck, Cambridge Analytica was only a scandal because the "bad guy won".
I use a System76 Serval laptop at work. Up til then I had worked almost exclusively on Macs. It's the best computer I've ever had.
> Anyone in the EU can send you such a letter, and you have 30 days to reply.

What's the process for authenticating who sent the letter? Seems like a potential new attack vector.
I think the fact this doesn't exist, and that hacker news, the techy portal is talking about index cards is pretty telling. I think its more of a statement of the state of our software and devices. For example, I use a notepad for tracking to dos rather than wunderlist just because even if wunderlist is blazingly fast, there is still some level of delay that is cognitively frustrating enough that I like notebooks better. Mostly is not even wunderlists fault, the delay of getting my iphone to wake up and start working effectively in those couple of seconds makes me not want to use it. Its like my phone is drunk for about 20 seconds after I bring it up. Ive gotten to the point where ive stopped using even more common features of my phone like SMS, camera, calling people for the same reason. Something about my phone puts me in a negative frame of mind I think.
Isn't that in Facebook's court though?

They acquired your name, birthdate, address, etc. And they didn't aquire it through your website.

Calling IP address or screen size "person" identifying information seems a stretch to me.
I have a Dell Precision 15", and it works great, as far as I can tell. I do ML stuff in docker Jupyter notebooks without a problem. Docker builds seem fast, definitely as fast as my previous laptop (a macbook pro retina from ...2014?).
Best i understand, the problem child is Gnome. The devs involved there basically ignore xorg provided DPI information, resulting in all kinds of problems.
While I agree with the Economist, the idea that the US look outside its borders for advice is laughable. American exceptionalism and all that.
Sound is really bad in the Lenovo t4xx(s) series as well. Had multiple, sound always was bad. The resonating was always there as well, some models better, some worse. Dampening with foam inside the casing sometimes did the trick. But it is not recommended because it might produce heat problems. Oh and yes, foam loves to burn (although there would be enough materials that won't).
GPL license is probably a non-starter.
America should have data privacy laws too begin with and a way too completely opt out of Equifax etc
Discussed a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16632364.
Probably you should keep your current laptop as long as it makes you happy or consider some high spec retina mpb 15”. Recent models with touchbars don’t have big performance improvement compared to previous generation (can search for benchmarks). For non-apple alternatives, there is a big chance to end up with tick square price of plastic (that shows square, plastic-looking windows), more elegant models with such specs will cost you more then 2k...

I would recommend you to look at iMac’s. IMO it’s a very good choice for software development and design tasks. I’m using iMac 27” ‘11 at work and it has same performance as latest mpb 13” (mid spec). You can choose old version with upgradable ram or new one with cool screen and slimmer body (non-upgradable ram)
It's data about me being shared with someone I didn't want it to be shared with without my consent. As such, it's a really big deal to me.

It's also a really big deal that one can't protect (him|her)self from such data being shared with Facebook. That's why I've compared them with Equifax from a moral standpoint, since the parent comment specifically mentioned Facebook and LinkedIn as an opposition to what Equifax was doing.

Whether or not they do provide some benefit to actual Facebook users is completely irrelevant.
Not true; GDPR explicitly grants a large number of rights to the data subject. [1]

These rights include:

* the right to be informed about what data is processed

* the right to access all data gathered about them

* the right to rectification of incorrect data

* the right to receive an export of the data in a common format

* the right to object, to have all data removed, and to restrict processing until further notice

GDPR also requires a data controller to respond within a month, and not charge any fee for this unless the requests are excessive (because they are repetitive). [2]

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3/

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-12-gdpr/
There is na nice, related blog post (part of a series about switching form macOS to Linux):
http://bitcannon.net/post/replacing-a-macbook-pro/
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linux desktop is isn’t dead.
To improve my english I listened to a lot of Country and Rap music. This way I kinda learn a lot of slang words and expression.

First job in the states my coworkers weren’t really talkative. I used to go to a stripclub during the weekends. Trust me your brain will be more than motivated to learn english when you need to talk to half nudes girls haha.
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