skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Now, who is the sole legitimate representative of that sovereignty?

(Background info for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Chinas ).
Cold emails to EU region recipients aren’t allowed unless they give you consent to receive your email (you as a company or marketer can do this by mentioning or using check-boxes in the web form’s popup template)

Email list needs to be updated - Only consented customer data needs to be stored, and erase the other unless you want a fine of 20 million euros or so. (remove data of those who have unsubscribed to your service immediately).
Data erasure - Remove data of those who have unsubscribed to your service.
Check for the Unsubscribe button everywhere - It’s mandatory that each and every mail of yours needs to contain an unsubscribe button with updated privacy policy given below.
Update the privacy policy & terms of service - these need to contain what and how you are going to use the user’s data. For more info, read from the links given below in this answer.
Double opt-in- for both entry and exit needs to be mentioned.
Permission for profiling - Sales people can get prospective customer’s data through gated content(whitepapers, e-books) etc and they shouldn’t get this data from any other source like email hunters etc. (without their consent you can’t even breathe!)
Employee data handling - You need to mention how and where is the data used and stored and for which purpose too. If you are using the data for multiple purposes, then you need to mention each purpose every time.
Referral Program - You can’t process the referral email ids/data gained through offers/discounts etc. Yes, even they have to be GDPR compliant.
Data usage policy - already mentioned in this answer(this is just to remind its importance in this context)
Right to forget - option to be provided if the user wants you to erase(forget) their data from your databases.
Usage of cookies - to track email opens etc you need to mention you are using cookies to the user.
Some notes you would want to keep for GDPR compliance:

GDPR: Key Points and Steps to Prepare (https://www.agilecrm.com/blog/gdpr-key-points-steps-prepare/)
https://www.superoffice.com/blog/gdpr-marketing/ (https://www.superoffice.com/blog/gdpr-marketing/)
Salesforce PDF on GDPR(fiction vs fact) (https://www.salesforce.com/content/dam/web/en_us/www/documen...)
GDPR Regulation (https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html)
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This completely ignores the fact that climate change is not local problem, as well as the difficulty that has preceded all previous attempts at multilateral action.

Good luck convincing the manfucaturing lobby that they should have to pay additional carbon taxes when their foreign competitors already enjoy significantly lower regulatory costs. All that a carbon tax would acheive is carbon leakage, with production eventually being shifted abroad. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_leakage
What if the software we interact with causes stress? Stress kills, just not in the same visible way as a bridge falling down.
It's not "pay someone else not to burn", it's "pay someone else to eat all the carbon you are spitting out". It would totally work, and it's the only way to get to zero emission.
Ok, that is pretty slow.
The guy is not innocent because he used those logos/brands but there was some weird issues in this case,like emails getting lost by the government, then finding them after 2 years but some of them did not match, also the CDs very evaluated to 25$ a piece which is weird since there was no license included. Microsoft did not lose any money in this particular case but for some reason they wanted to make an example .
Even centralized logs can have rotation and retention.

The company will have to decide for themselves, primarly, if some interest is legitimate.

This means you weigh the data you collect by the single user against the continued function of the company, the great good and all other users. The company should then be able to demonstrate this process to the regulatory body.

There is no nailed process but keeping logs for a short amount of time to ensure network security and keeping some logs longer for legal compliance will most certainly pass as legitimate interest.

Network security benefits the user themself, the company and all other users by ensuring their data is secured against breaches. It goes beyond simple self-interest of the company and protects the users too.

Similarly having an email address to contact a user can be legitimate interest. If you only send them informative mail, ie "Someone changed your password" and "We had a databreach" or even "Someone tried to login from Uganda using your password, check if that's alright please" it serves primarly to protect you, the customer and the relationship you build up.

IMO that means it's legitimate.

On the other hand, of course an adcorp could claim their personal tracking data is legitimate. The data collected does not benefit the user other than showing them ads and selling it to others. Of the three groups, only one benefits.

Or keeping a webserver log for 20 years including usernames and emails.

IMO that would mean it's not legitimate.

If you are wrong in what you think is legitimate, you get a sternly worded letter from your favorite regulatory body asking you to fix it.

If you think they are wrong about that, the best option is to write them back and explain why you think it's legitimate. You can work out a solution with them that satisfies both sides.
Sounds like someone needs to install a trash wheel. [0]

[0] http://baltimorewaterfront.com/healthy-harbor/water-wheel/
The title on the original is "How Microsoft helped imprison a man for ‘counterfeiting’ software it gives away for free". Even that title is misleading, but the shortened title here is wrong because "Free Software" has a specific meaning.

Referring to Microsoft Windows as "free software" is just wrong. Microsoft Windows is not Free Software. Even if you leave out the caps intending to refer to price only, the title is wrong. Windows is not for free. You can only get unlicensed copies for free. Which is what the article is about.
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Or that more than a couple million could possibly survive and repopulate the Earth.
Everyone massively overestimates the actual cost of offsetting carbon. $50B more tax per annum on the US economy is jack shit. It's like 1% of the current US federal tax. It's barely gonna affect any industry. No-one will change their ways. And yet it will get us to carbon zero.
Also, it runs for function definition only. It's not used for running code on-the-fly.
> The point is that users should be in control of their data, and when they give it to someone they have the right to know what it is used for and to be able to retract consent for its usage.

See, I disagree with this very premise. Why is it true? It's _not_ my data; it's data about me. Even things like pictures, once shared, are no longer under my control. I actually feel it's fundamentally dangerous to make users think they actually control data they don't.

> If you care about your users privacy (which is what GDPR is trying to enforce)

I also disagree with this. The GDPR doesn't do anything to make companies handle my data more carefully or responsibly.
Will they put it back?

I mean I can't imagine them holding 7 million gallons of water per day for very long before they run out of storage space.

My guess is that they will process stuff with the water, then filter and send the water back into the lake.
Normally I agree that people don't know what they are talking about when they are talking about AI. But this is Sergei Brin, he knows what he's talking about.
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For those who don't want to download the 15.0 MB presskit zip file at the end, but still want to know what it contains:

.
├── ~$fefaker.docx
├── lifefaker-pressrelease.docx
├── lifefaker-pressrelease.pdf
└── Screenshots : Banners
├── lifefaker site 1.jpg
├── lifefaker site 2.jpg
├── lifefaker site 3.jpg
├── lifefaker site 4.jpg
├── lifefaker site 5.jpg
├── lifefaker site 6.jpg
├── lifefaker site 7.jpg
├── lifefaker site 8.jpg
├── lifefaker site 9.jpg
├── longbanner-lifefaker-1.jpg
├── longbanner-lifefaker-2.jpg
├── longbanner-lifefaker-3.jpg
├── squarebanner-lifefaker-1.jpg
└── squarebanner-lifefaker-2.jpg

The pdf gives a basic overview of what the site pretends to do, then says:

> "However, anyone who tries to use Lifefaker.com will learn the real purpose of the project. They’ll receive a message from Sanctus, a mental health start-up. The site reminds us that we’ve all felt the pressures of social media – with 62% of people feeling inadequate comparing their lives to those online. The site users can click through to Sanctus.io for a film exploring the unhealthy behaviours on social media that impact our mental health, and what we can do to change them.

> Download Stills | Download Film "
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Oh, I get it. So Google's AI only "advises" the Pentagon who its targets should be, and then the Pentagon takes the huge engineering role of implementing "if Google advice = true, then launch missiles."

This way Google is completely "guilt-free" and can still pretend it's "making the world a better place" wink wink nudge nudge.
Yeah, that's more of my point, you're right. If we're considering the endgame of the AI singularity, only one AI can win. If there are multiple, they'll each keep getting better, and they'll each keep warring against the other one until only one is left (or none are left). That's the doomsday scenario for AI when people warn that this is coming.

But out of all the people warning about it, I haven't yet seen anyone say "this is how we prevent it".
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Who said anything about admin on a dev machine? I don’t give a flying shit about dev environments - they’re polluted with chaos.

We are talking about root in prod being granted and yet you seem to be intentionally misrepresenting this.
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Yes but that is just the compiler offloading some of the static analysis to the IDE. The difference might not matter if you are always in an IDE anyway, but the language would be safer if this was an actual compiler error.
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Both the US and EU regulations were widely flouted; it was easy to get incandescent bulbs in practice. There's actually one in the room I'm in now for the simple reason that getting any other kind of bulb to work with dimmers was a nightmare; until a year or so ago, nearly all the dimmers sold in the UK were designed for incandescent bulbs only. The EU had, and still has, no interest in actually fixing this. Instead of making LED bulbs more practical to use they plan to crack down even more strictly on the alternatives, including new efficiency restrictions that effectively ban most stage lighting used by theatres and concerts.
Exactly, and there's "outrage". Imagine if it was 100 Olympic size swimming pools... The American public can't handle the biproducts of modern manufacturing.
You know, same could be said for the US, but look how that turned out for Kim Dotcom. Extradition and humongous expenses for him - all because people in a country that was unrelated to the site decided to break their copyright rules and use it :).
> in the real world, hardly anyone clicks on a banner ad ever

In our world. Let’s be honest, there has to be a category of people that still falls for them, otherwise people wouldn’t keep investing billions into this bullshit industry.

The tech-illiterate are still very much prey for ads, I’ve had first hand evidence of this a few days ago from my flatmate (the typical idiot who “logs in with Facebook” everywhere, has 50k+ unread email on a Yahoo address and reuses the same password everywhere) when she fell for some weight loss pill scam ad on Facebook. I had to help her chargeback the transactions with her credit card provider.
Was there ever other sources for the second sleep, other than "At Day's Close"?
True, but the real danger is in governments believing that smarter-than-human AI already exists, and going full-bore on implementing it everywhere. And of course the companies selling "AI services" have all the incentive to aid the government in thinking that, too, consequences be damned.
> if he does engineering

Does he, though? He's CEO if 4 companies IIRC. I would be very surprised if that leaves you any time at all to do stuff that qualifies as engineering (in the traditional sense; not in the bullshit uptitling sense; "software engineer" is only one step from "ninja rockstar").
That should read "people who don't know what GAFAM means" instead of "people like you".
> As long as they aren't actively harming other nations, it's their prerogative.

They are.
Have a login system? You're likely storing email addresses, which are considered personal data.
I've worked with the author of streetland, and he's probably the most anti-EU person I know. I'd caution taking the analysis of GPDR too seriously from someone with such a strong bias against it.
> Not to worry just yet as AI still hasn't been realized.

If it is a genuine threat then the time to 'worry' is before it eventuates.
At least that link has a fairly clear definition for AGI as "successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can." Estimates seem to be in the 10-100 year range. It may not be all that long. https://medium.com/ai-revolution/when-will-the-first-machine...
EU law says that it's only legal to transfer personal data to companies that have adequate level of protection for personal data. Certain countries are considered to meet the adequacy requirement, but Australia is not one of them[1], so you probably need to meet the requirement using a contract[2]. You should probably consult a lawyer.

[1]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...

> The European Commission has so far recognised Andorra, Argentina, Canada (commercial organisations), Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Israel, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland, Uruguay and the US (limited to the Privacy Shield framework) as providing adequate protection.

[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data...
I imagine AI would be helpful in research and business. In research people generally struggle with the creative issues most, those critical decisions at the edge of their work. This decision making is a tiny fraction of the work at hand, but is mentally and emotionally stressful sometimes demanding of deep focus and periods of concentration.

That sort of creative thinking is stressful because it is often an exercise in planning or problem solving that deals with the relationships of many moving pieces simultaneously and results in qualifying or validating activities that demand large amounts of time or resources. I often wish I were better at writing software so that I could write automation routines to more quickly validate my decision making, and so I typically end up writing validation routines instead of solving for the core problem. It would be nice if there were an AI available that help limit that distraction.
Unfortunately the European Union's new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), introduced on 25th May 2018, creates uncertainty and risk that I can't justify taking.

GDPR threatens website owners with fines of 4% of turnover or €20 million (whichever is higher) if they do not jump through a number of ambiguously-defined hoops. The law, combined with parasitic no-win-no-fee legal firms, puts website owners at risk of vindictive reporting. Young websites and non-profits cannot afford legal teams. Therefore the risk posed by GDPR is unacceptably high.

Perversely, this new EU law hurts small and ethical startups, but helps reinforce the dominance of Facebook, Google and Twitter, who are able to prepare and defend themselves using established legal teams and cash reserves, and who now face less competition from startups. The EU Cookie Law, EU VAT regulation and now the EU GDPR are all examples of poorly-implemented laws that add complexity and unintended side-effects for businesses within the EU.

Can anyone in the EU actually comment on the content here? This seems completely out of proportion with everything I have heard about the GDPR.

Given the authors stance on data privacy and accessibility, I am somewhat glad that he is shutting the site down.
Current AI can do (very, very, very advanced) pattern recognition and mimicry. Turns out this is enough for a surprisingly large set of problems, but it isn't making "original" decisions or spontaneously solving new problems.
Alternative title: Building single screen casual games.
It's all well and good to know the fundamentals of photolithography, but in a societal boot-strapping scenario it's not enough to get you out of the technological subbasement.

For example, I don't know where or how to derive the necessary chemistry. Or how to construct a building and fans to achieve a clean enough room to do this in. Nor do I know how to build a UV lamp. Hell, I don't know enough about metalworking to reliably manufacture enough wire to build a basic generator to power all this.
What is the effect of one bee sting? A minor pain and a bit of swelling.

What is the effect of 10,000 bee stings?

What's at issue is the perceived violation of the Great Lakes Compact. That is, the Foxconn side says they went through the proper procedures while those opposed argue that it uses a false front to make it seem like a legitimate use of lake water.

If this is judged to be legitimate then what will likely happen is about 10-20 years of companies using this method to get access to lake water, while a new compact is eventually put into place to disallow it.
What conclusion are we meant to draw from that exercise?
That trash is from private citizens dumping garbage into waterways, not from industry.
If North Korea makes a verifiable commitment to end its nuclear weapons program, I think he does deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.
The first GDPR draft was released January 2012 so it wasn't really a surprise move
> What can you be sure will "never happen"

Because there are ~25 existing sets of laws on the same topic [based on GDPR's predecessor framework, but evolved in different ways] that GDPR normalized into a single, common modern framework. Nothing horrible happened with those old laws.
It's clear to me that if AI exists it will be used irresponsibly and by bad actors. So the only way to be safe is prevent all research along those lines for as long as possible†.

The focus for now should be on getting humanity to work together and getting a firm grasp on ethics/morality to see how AI could be convinced to be good, instead of enforced.

† As in the background story of Dune.
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What a bullshit article. Why is it here?
Darn, I was hoping to buy some of these and create a fake account to see how many followers I could accumulate, kind of like "Ultra superficial".
No, but at night color becomes difficult to distinguish. It's not exactly black and white but really muted colors.
I interpreted that as a deliberate and sassy way to write. It's as if I said with Python et al. eating its lunch, Clojure better light a fire under its own ass.
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His punishment seems disproportionate and stupid (like, why are we spending money to lock him up instead of fining him more?); but he clearly intended to make disks that buyers would think were factory originals, and knew that he was breaking the law. From his email:

> I can look in to the missing boxes - Usually in my history - Customs just ships them to you 3 weeks later.

> If they call you - play stupid and just tell them that you ordered from an asset management overseas.

> Tell him that the product was guaranteed to be real and that you paid a very high price for it. Act upset as to why you had not received your product yet.

Obviously cherry-picked by the prosecutors; but there's a lot more, and it makes him look much worse than the press coverage does.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/2LU...

ETA: And why do the media keep repeating the $0.25/disk? There's a PO where he sold some for $3 or $4 each. Less than the stupid $25, but not charity.
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> Note: If you are on Microsoft Windows without a UNIX like environment you might want to re-evaluate your life choices at this moment.

Great sentence! However, Powershell got quite mature. `cat -n` is definetly something you will be able to do in Powershell with a similarly lengthy command.
And the US, as with most of the world, doesn't officially recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. But I guess we can spend the day arguing semantics rather than the subject of conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Taiwan#Un...
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This quote is so uncanny in its relevance to investors/entrepreneurs and the topic at hand. At first I couldn't believe it was not satire. The character continues:

"But I'm cleverer than some; I don't mind dropping a little money to start the process. I took your father's measure. I saw that he had a sound idea, and that he would work himself silly for it if he got the chance. I saw that he was a child in business, and was dead certain to outrun his expenses and be in too great a hurry to wait for his market. I knew that the surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. I explained my idea to some friends in the city, and they found the money; for I take no risks in ideas, even when they're my own. Your father, and the friends that ventured their money with him were no more to me than a heap of squeezed lemons."
So he's not a true Scotsman.. err.. engineer?
I really wish people would actively avoid the fancy JavaScript SPA approach. (And I work on such an SPA.) There’s a place for them, but this is not a good demo of that place.

Or just have a button somewhere for a "basic HTML" version.

Why are modern developers and UX designers so averse to giving users control over their experience?
>You know Europeans can build software too right?

As a European it sure doesn't seem to be that way. I'm using Windows, Google, Wikipedia, Youtube, ycombinator, Reddit etc. Very little European stuff in sight, despite the fact that the EU has a much higher population than the US.

This kind of extra regulation is one of the reasons why Europe is so much weaker in digital technology. It's not the only piece either.
It's going to be a combination of asking people to get in touch with you over another service and letting go of some people who aren't willing to do that. This would also mean getting fewer updates, but depending on you, your age and circumstances, it may not be a big deal not getting to know certain things. You could also ask a few trusted people who continue to stay in touch to pass on anything important from Facebook and its services.

I'd recommend Telegram because of its superior UX, though normal chats are not end-to-end encrypted. I wouldn't recommend Signal for anything other than voice calls (mainly because it purposely prevents backing up information, thus preventing moving conversations from one device to another). If you prefer a free and decentralized option, Matrix (matrix.org), with the Riot (riot.im) client on multiple platforms, is something to try.