skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that since the issue is GDPR compliance, this should only be a problem for registrants who are natural persons. So if Whois data were only collected and published for corporations, there shouldn't be a problem.

I always felt uncomfortable having to submit my personal data, specifically: my address and phone number, and for it to be published like that (regarding domains where Whois protection services are not allowed). I can understand the motivation for this with regards to corporations and organizations, but what benefit is there with regards to natural persons?
This would need patching the OS at runtime, but yes, it's also possible.
Hacker News is part of YC's lead generation funnel (deal flow), so the part about shovel merchant is correct.
>No, you’re just a run-of-the-mill conspiracist, and cynic.

May be those are not really bad. We are living in a time where stuff that conspiracist, and cynics have been saying for years turning out to be true...

Also, while you accuse them, are you sure you are just not being a true believer of the cult of Elon Musk
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China is winning the 5G race
Yes, this can be a very good topic for an episode on Black Mirror TV series [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror
I wonder if we could somehow use the work done in prepack to generate similar tests for javascript.

BTW: I don't want to oversimplify it, but it basically just looks at each branch and generates data which would pass the branch, right?
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We have a non-insignificant number of engineers as politicians in Portugal. E.g. the current Secretary-General of the UN is one of our ex-PMs, and is an ex-assistant professor of Telecommunication Signals after having graduated in Physics and Electrical Engineering.

Considering our political panorama, I don't think this has helped much, though.
I'm curious about atmosphere cycle in thus "greenhouses". Where do they get carbon dioxide from? If they constantly replace produced oxygen with outside air it's probably not very energy effective in cold season.

PS: not specifically said about this technology but about greenhouses in general.
There was a BeOS alike OS project called Cosmoe, but it is defunct. It was based on the same AtheOS code as SyllableOS, but tried to rework the interfaces tot he libraries to be more like the BeAPI. All ASM/C/C++ though, no managed code.
That's nice for techies, but I'd love to see you explain that to my mom...
"Digesting" enzymes? "Boost recycling"? That sound like a typical click bait.

It's actually an artificially engineered enzyme formerly discovered in certain bacteria which is able to break PET molecules. Lots of potential, moving on.
Whois is no longer such a good idea in this age of doxing anyway. I don’t know anyone who isn’t hiding their whois details and writing fake names and addresses.

I had the misfortune of using namecheap and entered my real details once. Their whois privacy didn’t apply to the particular gtld and I only found out once the spam arrived. Never putting any real details ever again.
I think it's more complicated than that. At least in my (rich, western) country there aren't any actual concequences for that kind of piracy. I believe there is a system in place for sending emails, but not threatening ones, and not ones with any teeth at all.

The bigger factor might be that for a more well off audience, the cost of these services is low enough that it isn't meaningfully more expensive than piracy anyway, and can be much more convenient. `Search -> Stream` is a much smoother workflow than `Search -> Select well seeded torrent -> Initiate download -> Wait -> Play`.
This is somewhat analogous to film industry, isn't it? It attracts lot of potential actors. Lot of stories about their struggles and how unforgiving the industry can be. All they see are super-famous and super-rich actors and they all want to like that.
To have IP lawyers go after you. Of course there are no benefits and only downsides for natural persons.

I have little sympathy for ICANN with this. Malevolent persons can always go to registrars which do not publish personal information and even accept anonymous registration. The current policy harms only lawful citizens.
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I had the idea for this newsletter last week and on Sunday I sat down and bought the domain name, signed up for https://getrevue.co and https://carrd.co and built the first version of dataletter.com in less than 2 hours.

Now it's time to get some subscribers before the first issue will be sent this Friday, April 20th.

What do you think? Do you have any feedback or questions?
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Whois can perfectly have only technical data.

- domain expiry

- domain registration date

- nameservers

Everything else is not needed and as such would comply with GDPR.
Yes but given the current state of the App store, with the minor obstacle that is the $99/year, I hasten to imagine what the state of it would be without it!
Yep. Malware is constantly repacked/encrypted. It is impractical/impossible to write static unpacking engines for every type of malware packing technique, so behavioral analysis engine is a must (btw, behavioral engines still detect malware using signatures).
Youtube is just another "get rich quick" scheme if done irresponsibly.

Most non-professional YouTube channels start as a side project. Someone thinks of something they'd like to make videos about, starts in their spare time, and grows a following. Then the money starts to come in, and eventually it's enough for them to quit their day job and work on their YouTube channel full time. Sometimes they start a business and employ people to help along the way.

If that was a SaaS app instead of a video channel there'd be no question about whether or not it's entrepreneurial. The fact they're making videos instead of code doesn't change anything.
Which means you already have conducted a nation-wide poll on the question?
I have to take issue with your example. I don't buy into the Musk hype and I even have a big short position in Tesla, but that landing was one of the coolest tech demos I've seen.

Do you have examples of equally sci-fi looking control systems?
You need to if your product is a macOS or iOS/watchOS/tvOS app.
It costs about 0.5 cents per book to "print" 3,000 books to a retail-priced SD card, so paper books are still expensive by comparison. The only way paper is close to competitive is if the kids only get access to a couple of books, which is dumb if we're ignoring licensing.
By the way, is there a list of things that Windows collects about computer/user activity?
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A real-world example:

交大不如复旦 [jiāodà bùrú fùdàn] gets translated as "Jiaotong University is not as good as Fudan University" by Google https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/%E4%BA%A4%E5%A4%...

复旦不如交大 [fùdàn bùrú jiāodà] (just swapping the word order) is translated into "Fudan is better than Jiaotong University" https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/%E5%A4%8D%E6%97%...

The literal translation of 不如 would be "is unlike", but usually it implies a value judgment. In the translation, Google seems to be consistently sure that Fudan is simply better.

But when you specify that you're talking about the Jiaotong University in Shanghai and not one of the others, it suddenly changes its mind:

上海交大不如复旦 [shànghǎi jiāodà bùrú fùdàn] "Shanghai Jiaotong University is better than Fudan University" https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%...

复旦不如上海交大 [fùdàn bùrú shànghǎi jiāodà] "Fudan is not as good as Shanghai Jiaotong University" https://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/%E5%A4%8D%E6%97%...

I'm at SJTU and everyone here seems to agree that this is the objective truth, but the people at Fudan are probably not so happy about it.
>I could never get something I was happy with

You sound like a writer! Keep going
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> Nuclear weapons simulations, drone AI, smart bombs - all good.

Recent history continually shows that advances in military technology causes improvements in combatant/non-combatant casualty ratio. The smarter the bombs and missiles are, the less civilians they kill. Also, operators who only risk drones and not their own lives aren't nearly as trigger happy as pilots. And finally, a conflict between two countries is always more prolonged and bloody when the gap between their technological development and military prowess is smaller. Not to mention that MAD doctrine have prevented cold war from going hot.

So yes, working on all these technologies helps you mention helps humanity and saves lives.
Maybe the solution to this is the ghostery extension.
If a reputation for asshole owners was a problem, how would BMW still be in business?
I'd say more appropriate for a TV series, where each episode the hero finds something else more depressing about this future. Maybe like the TV show
"Silicon Valley" but with much darker humour.
It is if the grandparent meant to disparage government IT projects (compared to corporate IT projects) -- which is a possible reading.

(It's also relevant because because we pay corporations with subsidies, tax cuts, tax evasion, research grants, public procurement, specialty laws favoring them, etc -- sometimes even more than we pay governments).
> There’s no CEO on the planet

FYI other countries exist on this planet outside of the United States. In Australia a fresh-from-uni undergrad could expect to make 30k on their first posting.
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Interesting the authors Facebook profile does not use default security settings I.e Friends, Photos and Videos require a Facebook login to view.
You can't. It still phones home a lot, even at the lowest telemetry settings. The only edition where you can disable it is LTSB and even there it is hidden in Local Group Policy Editor.
We would for sure, though I'm not sure about the corporate world.
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Why does WHOIS need someone's phone number anyway? I didn't have a phone number between 1993 and 1998 and I would have liked to have had a domain back then. (I almost did buy one, except they were too expensive back then.)
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> It would become like the old joke of the 'acid that can dissolve anything', at which point the question becomes, "So what do you use to contain the acid?" :-)

Tangential: not an acid, but antimatter has similar properties, and you contain it in a magnetic trap ;).
Or it could bring up pictures of Tim Cook, Anderson Cooper, or any other gay men.
What's your point? This project is a massive failure.

For a good short documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhjxp_CZng
In the hypothetical case where my AI assistant doesn't have any more information than just the name, has to make a binary decision, and the data showed that doctors called Shaniqua Lopez are worse doctors on average, I'd honestly want it to say "no" to the question.
https://pastebin.com/NJqLg1Pm
Ray tracing explained: The future of hyper-realistic graphics
More than 2 years working and not knowing or having used any version control.
>What would happen if a microbe evolved that could feed itself from plastic?

it did.

also plastic degrades in UV light and due to weather so it probably wouldn't be that much different to now.
Not one mention of Adobe here after 12 hours. Y'all ain't seen nothing yet.

https://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud.html
The thought of Microsoft still paying for that domain name is funny. I like to imagine they don't dare to stop doing it or they'll risk opening this whole can of worms again.
But you can’t negotiate with a website, and it won’t tell you you’re seeing a custom price. It’s not like a store (or actually most car dealerships) where there is a price displayed in the open

I’m OK with being shown different products. But not with generic items being marked up.
What I mean is that perhaps they already have.
That's just shy of the cost of building (drilling?) the longest road tunnel in the world, in Norway, which has really high labour costs. So I'd guess it goes a long way (pun intended).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lærdal_Tunnel
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Goa to be developed as cargo hub
HN is single core.
The trust issue is whether to trust the French government to care about the privacy of individual citizens over its own surveillance capability towards those citizens, when it made the opposite tradeoff in the past.

Though I agree it's not as bad as if they had been caught lying on the topic. Still, are they specifically saying the tool will protect people from the government itself?
And the ridiculous thing is that European* law mandates that you have an "impressum" on all but the most basic sites. You can hide your personal adress in the WHOIS info by putting a neutral third party. The registry I use, inwx.de, offers this service for a few euros. But you cannot (easily) hide your identity in the impressum - you might be able to use a shell company or find a natural person willing to put their name there, but it is much harder.

How can they claim "data protection" in one case and make it mandatory to put your name and phone number their in another?

It makes me very uncomfortable to host a website, when I know I will get spam, unwanted telefone calls, maybe even unwanted visits at my home, etc.. And it deters me from posting something even a bit controversial on my own domain - this is probably an intended side-effect of the "impressum" policy.

(* well, German law, but there is likely something similar in other countries)
All the way down to the hardware manufactured in China. Life sucks for paranoid intelligence services.
> Can you please send me a copy of your last 3 tax returns?

Options:

A) Sure, here you go. Oh wait! I didn't mean to send you those. You tricked me and stole my information. I'm going to send 15 police officers round to arrest you and then you're going to prison for years.

B) No, that's confidential.

^^ Which option do you think is more reasonable?
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> I think most people would assume that documents that can only be accessed by editing an ID were not meant to be accessed. And that really is the end of the analysis.

You do realize HN provides an API that allows you to request any item by using an ID? [1]

Stories, comments, jobs, Ask HNs and even polls are just items.
They're identified by their ids, which are unique integers, and
live under /v0/item/<id>.

If you really know better than everyone else who has replied to you on this story, why don't you point out the exact law that states accessing resources over HTTP is forbidden if not initiated from another resource originating from the target server? Otherwise, I'll assume your "analysis" is simply a subjective view on how you would like the web to work. A pretty limited and unrealistic view that wouldn't work in the real world.

For example: here is the link to the first story posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

1. I don't think you can access that story by starting from the front page, because scrolling for more stories only gets you to page 25. Does that mean the intention is the story is private?

2. You can now access it by using the DOM element generated for my comment. Does that mean it's public?

[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API
The best way to unleash it in our system without doing harm to the ecosystem is to be patient. There is energy content in the plastic and over 100-200 million years the chance is extremely high Earth’s ecosystem will adapt to the abundance of plastic.
There is support up to atleast llvm 3.8 now. See: http://klee.github.io/build-llvm38/
You asked for an example, then moved goalposts once given one.
There is no option to pay them to not see the ads.
There is no option to pay them so they don't gather information about You.
THEY OWN YOU.
Even if Facebook gets out of business, other will do it. Your phone, your TV, watch, fucking juicer whatever connected to internet is collecting information.
THERE IS NO WAY TO OPT-OUT.
It may sound creepy and disconnected from reality, but in the core that's exactly what it is. You may not like it, You can disagree, but it happens anyway.
i also like them, especially how well he documents his findings and their implications.

Before anyone dismisses one of his tested databases, I'd however like caution against trusting his work fully at this point. Some of the documents are 5+ years old, thats a lot of time for the database developers to resolve issues.

thankfully, the tests are all replicable, so if you're evaluating cassandra for example, please repeat his tests before dismissing the database.
I am saying you could not anticipate which company's share will rise above the rest.
I agree that if your hobby starts making more money than your actual job it's really attractive to think of a media startup then. It doesn't mean though that you just switch. You have to know how volatile it might be. You have to consider possibilities of outcomes. You have to calculate risks. If you want to let your hobby make money for you then you have to do it professionally. And for that you need major investments and a business model. Completely relying on views count is a bad business model. Being paid for writing actual code is different to talking about writing code in videos and being paid eventually.
> who want to wish them a good day

I see what you did there.
They had a good relation with Linux . in the business of shaking down conpanies with bogus patents. Nadella is no different.
If I'm not mistaken, businesses are EU-wide required to have contact data on their pages. And German courts tend to use a very wide definition of commerce – the best compromise is probably to keep commerce and private opinion on strictly separated domains, even if that means no advertising income from the private page.
This is something really important to consider: Should Facebook be allowed only for 18+ people? If I remember correctly they allow 13yo and up to sign up and I don't think they have the legal abiliy to consent to this level of data sharing
They won't be just not working, they also won't have to work, for life. That might cause change of behavior.
One of the contributors wrote a memoir of his time spent working on this project as a PhD student and gives an interesting perspective on the challenges encountered:

http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
Thing is, you either get massive battery life degradation or your messages won't get through, there isn't much of a choice there unless you use push messaging. Google Cloud Messaging allows Signal's servers to send a "Hey, wake up and connect to us!" message to your phone, and every other app uses GCM for this as Google has spent a ton of time trying to optimize both reachability and battery life with GCM.

Maybe something will come along to supplant this, but for now push messaging is how we deal with terrible state table problems at the cell network operator level without wrecking battery life.
I don’t think Russia sees China as a model.
I did and honestly never felt better - now I'm just waiting to find out if through GDPR i'll be able to force them to remove every last bit of data they have about me.
Or a tablet for a similar price. This basically serves the same purpose as an OLPC but with a much bigger ecosystem and economies of scale.
This is a boring middlebrow dismissal. Please provide some evidence, or shut the hell up.
It’s not quite the same though because all/most plastics are relatively simple organic polymers that have similarities in their chemical structure, which might in principle be exploited by an enzyme (or, more realistically, a class of enzymes) to digest them all. — So, what do you use to contain this enzyme? A glass bottle. ;-)
Why would people not trust the current government's endeavours because of the state of things about twenty years and ten governments ago?
Question: Will I be able to force Facebook to remove my shadow profile once GDPR goes live?
UBI should be there to fight exactly that, those pointless jobs. It increases value of people's time, so even if there will be a doormen, they will be paid very good and that will be choice of the people.
First ... they came for ICANN, and I did not speak out.
Are those numbers real? As in, does (did?) Amazon really do $400,000 in stock grants for routine (I don't mean that to sound harsh, I just mean "not as a super-exceptional process to land a world-famous developer") software engineer hires?

If they are, holy shit. I thought the meteoric rise in housing prices around here was almost entirely due to the influx of people compounded by this region's seeming inhospitable allergy to building housing stock at anywhere near a reasonable rate.

But, damn, if your table is even within 80% of reality, I am floored. No wonder it's virtually impossible to rent or buy anything for a "realistic" (for me, and I make a pretty good income, or so I thought) price anywhere between Edmonds and Auburn. The rest of us, even those employed in the technology industry, simply cannot compete with that kind of cash on the barrel.
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The issue has never been whether the ecosystem will adapt. It has been how well we will.

If plastic in the ocean kills/renders toxic all the fish, that will be an issue for us. The ecosystem? It will be fine.
Curiously, I had the same thought reading this. I found the bolded/italicized sentences particularly telling. I would expect this from an undergrad, but not someone who has worked on a large production system:

> Why did data durability matter when building a payments system? For many parts of the system, no data could be lost, given this being something critical, like payments.

I wish the author had shared more first-hand experience, especially those little anecdotes you can never find in textbooks...
EdX has a course on this https://www.edx.org/course/ethics-law-analytics-ai-microsoft...
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The HackerNews shovels costs me nothing but leisure time
Also, been a fun chat. But I think these things could be so much more civil if folks (on any side of any issue) would lay off the straw men. There's no need for that nonsense. It may make debate easier, but we should really be able to defend either side of any issue, within reason. Failing to be able to do so probably means you're not really considering the other person's point of view. And if you don't do this how would you ever expect to convince anybody of anything?
> This isn’t a case of NIH

Makes sense as the title says "due to surveillance risk".
Advertising is also for services and websites and political campaigns, universities, clubs, schools and charities not just consumer goods. Many of these actors benefit from having targeted advertising, just because you are not buying consumer goods does not mean a profile of your online activity is not being created and sold to advertisers used by these various groups.
> there were lots of drugs in Bruce Sterling's 'Schismatrix'

Like.... [see my username & profile]

# "Life moves in clades."
Man tests to see if Google is listening through microphone, result unexpected