skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not what I'm suggesting. More what I am suggesting is that we REALLY need to get away from teaching software products, and start teaching how to use computers.

Example:

Teaching fundamental abstractions before basing education on one set or another.

Teaching fundamental program sets/basics of toolchains (Think scripts, text editors, and intro to program compilation.)

Teaching fundamental protocols.

Teaching about infrastructure.

Teaching how to do X in Windows/Mac/Linux.

IN THAT ORDER. Notice that that curriculum, while it would likely have to choose one OS or another based on circumstances, focuses on what you can DO with a computer, and lays a foundation through which the neophyte user can begin to understand what a computer and the NET really are.

The NET isn't a pretty screen. It isn't one company's search engine, it's the means by which info goes from HERE to THERE. A computer isn't some mere calculator. It is an extension of our minds (and should be civically treated as such, but that's another post).

I can die happy if within my lifetime, my occupation in the tech industry becomes "unskilled" labor. For I will have contributed to finding a way to elevate mankind to a me level.
One of my favourite short stories. Short, punchy, and it makes a poignant observation.
> No one that i don't do drugs with recreationally knows that I use it.

This is the key, I think. If you're not close enough with your co-workers that they'd offer you weed after the office Christmas party/do lines off the table in front of you/tell you about the time they bought ketamine in Slovenia[0], why would you know about their non-recreational drug use?

[0] hypothetical examples - all my office Christmas parties have been staid and family-friendly - but examples based to some degree on reality
YouTube: Official Artist Channels
I just received this e-mail from YouTube:

Hi music fans,

When you want to follow an artist on YouTube, sometimes you’ll find that they have multiple channels. So, which one should you subscribe to?

To make things simpler for fans, we worked with artists to unify their songs, albums and videos under one Official Artist Channel. Your artist subscriptions and notifications will soon move to Official Artist Channels and you'll be able to manage Official Artist Channel subscriptions like any other channel subscription. Your current secondary artist channel subscriptions will become inactive.

By giving you one artist channel to subscribe to, it will be easier for you to keep up with your favorite artists and their music! Learn more

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which, of course, is the case in "nearly every Western democracy other than the United States". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_fee...
Running Arch Linux Over Windows 10
>If you're storing usernames, passwords and the like then you have nothing to worry about.

Absolutely false. Anything pertaining to a person in any way is personal data. All default web server installations are GDPR violations, unless nginx grew an "edit the access.log entries pertaining to you" endpoint recently. (Although you can maybe argue "legitimate interest" for web access logging if you invest the time, and implement the right to erasure).
I found this quote quite amusing from your article:

> I moved from staying in AirBnB’s to hostels and learned so much from travelers living outside of our money-culture

I generally prefer to stay in hostels, and even lived in one in Wellington for a year. I find it strange to be descried as "living outside money-culture". I guess a lot of people in the working holiday/backpacker community are though; working to live, rather than living to work.
> The solution is to create a company

Single member LLCs allow piercing of corporate veil pretty easily.
I think the root of the problem is that US political decisions can be bought to a larger extent than in most countries by giving money to campaigns, lobbyists, PACs and the like. Then for some billionaires it's a simple calculation - why not give $100m to get taxes lowered on themselves if they'll get $500m back in tax breaks. The recent 2017 tax bill is a typical example which slashes corporate tax while adding $1.5tn to the deficit which will be paid by normal working people down the line.
Article 79, "Right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor," seems to say that individuals can sue controllers or processors. This may be limited to cases where the regulatory agency does not find in the data subject's favor? https://gdpr-info.eu/art-79-gdpr/

Article 82, "Right to compensation and liability," begins with the text "Any person who has suffered material or non-material damage as a result of an infringement of this Regulation shall have the right to receive compensation from the controller or processor for the damage suffered." https://gdpr-info.eu/art-82-gdpr/
It actually finished adding the i's pretty quickly (a few seconds), it was navigation afterward that was a challenge. Probably because emacs is optimized to navigate with reasonable sized lines. A one megabyte buffer isn't a big deal, but I think a one megabyte line was. Anyway, I hit C-a, C-k and then did something else. It completed at some point, probably within a minute or something.
> even if your lack of sleep kills you at 70 rather than 80

If only it were that simple.

There's lifespan, and there's quality of life. Diabetes attacks both.

So, not only will you likely die earlier, you're at far greater risk for developing a degenerative disease - possibly cognitive in nature. Or organ failure. Or amputation. Or blindness. Or all of the above.

And if you don't, you'll still spend your remaining days worrying about it.
I'm a small business owner and this is my concern at all. What stops a competitor to just pay a lawyer to sue you or report you to GDPR authorities. Even if you are 100% compliant(which I doubt), you'll still have lots of issues, stress and wasted time with the audit.
>Unfortunately, there's a catch - microG only works with custom ROMs that support signature spoofing. The LineageOS project is against adding support for that feature, citing security concerns, so microG offers its own ROM called 'LineageOS for microG.'

Jesus - this is what the patch does:

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/blob...

So this allows other applications to appear in the com.google namespace?

This can't be good.

Can't I have this kind of feature and still be secure?

Edit: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/issu... is a slightly better solution - I wonder why it hasn't been implemented.
I just removed the app altogether and created a link to the URL on my home screen. I really feel this is the best way to use FB for me. I don't have to worry about it tracking my location, notifications, or any other nonsense. I only ever used FB to share and view photos from family that doesn't live locally, and FB is still the best platform for that due to its network effect. Depending on your use of FB, I definitely recommend considering going app-less. It's the way the new web was supposed to be anyways.

The only nuisance is that FB constantly nags me to install the app. Well, it started nagging me to install the app. Then it gave up on that and suggested the "FB Lite" app. No thanks...
Write a software product whose binary will have some popular appeal.

It's doesn't have to be a Killer App - it's OK if that appeal is popular only among a certain demographic.

I got my break as a coder by applying for a QA job that expected me only to execute scripts that someone else wrote.

But one day my manager walked into my cube to find it completely wallpapered with what looked like flowcharts.

"Those are actually dataflow diagrams," I explained. "I can't quality MacTCP 1.0.1 because the test tool always crashes."

"I know how to code on the Macintosh. Any chance you could get approval to have me fix all the bugs in strm_echo?"

I knew and he knew and my manager's manager all knew that I was offering to do software engineering for the pay I received as a script monkey.

I fixed strm_echo, qualified 1.0.1, 1.1 and wrote a new tool and a test plan for 1.2. In the process I got really good at debugging with the MacsBug machine debugger.

My next job I was the Product Development Manager for a company whose flagship product was incompetently written by a con artists. I stayed at Working Software for 3 1/2 years, during which I learned everything else - other than MacsBug - that I needed to know to be a commercial Mac developer.

If you want a mobile app development job you have to have at least one app in either Apple's App Store or in Google Play.

If you want to be a web developer you need to create a useful website - not for other coders to look at your source, but for end-users to find useful and appealing.
This would be cool

http://superdupercollider.blogspot.com/2009/05/crushing-bits...
On a thread with 40+ comments I see 4 people saying they take modafanil, so we have differing definitions of either the word "literally" or the word "everyone".
Nice! Thank you.
Maybe it’s time to not make them us only. France.gov would make way more sense.
I hadn't seen that yet. Annoying limitation, and you're right.
I describe modafinil as one of the best cups of coffees you'll ever have, but it doesn't leave much more of an effect than that; imo it is mostly mental. Things can become very clear in your head and you will often be very awake for a long period if you take 100+ mg. I've had friends bring me back wakalert, modafinil, modvigil, from India and I've ordered them online. I've taken them off and on for about three years. At first I tried a quarter of of a pill, about 50 mg of modafinil, every couple of days. I started to crash very hard about 6 hours and stopped. I eventually figured out I could get a similar effect with about 20 or 10 mg and not crash. I currently take about 10 mg every other day just to stimulate my brain. My advice to anyone interested with this is start small and go slowly. Like all drugs it isn't for everyone and it isn't cool. Be safe. :)
Not really. The GDPR covers "personal data," which is much broader than the category of "personally identifiable information" that other legislation covers. A user identifier, even if opaque and not related to any personal information, counts as personal data.
In particular, to guarantee a devastating response to a Soviet first nuclear strike. As I recall.
(Posting on throwaway for obvious reasons).

I was on Adderall for mild ADHD for 10 months in 2016. Software Engineers in my late 20s. I found that I was not finishing any of my side projects. Was working (and still do) for a FAANG. Consulted a real doc i.e Psychiatrist in San Francisco and he diagnosed me with very mild ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)

Apparently this is quite common in adults these days, esp. in high intensity brain-work related professions like Software Engineering, Finance / Wall Street and such.

My prescribed dosage was 5 mg / day of Adderall, the lowest possible dose. I was very concerned about long term side-effects and the doc assured me that it was perefectly safe. He said that it's not the same as crystal meth like the media would have you believe. In my last outing , I mentioned the "Take my Pills" netflix documentary and his take was that the documentary featured extremes cases of very high dosages (the 3 people featuered were on atleast 50 mg / day, = 10x my dosage) and also that 2 of the 3 didn't have any ADHD or ADD symtoms - the football player and the girls in school.

Now for the effects, I can say it's incredible. The first day I felt lazor like focus. I walked into work, and finished a javascript library that I'd been stuck on for days, in like 4 hours. I even helped a super-star Russian coder fix a nagging complex multi-threaded bug. I didn't (and still don't feel) "high" from it. What I feel is extremely sharp focus, like I notice very small things out of order and correct them, in codebase and outside in my daily life. In the first month or so, I also got lot of "life-things" that I'd be procrastinating on done, like I did my TRUST, Living Will etc.
Exactly. Even if you win, you won't win anything of much value -- most (if not all) of the money will likely go to your lawyer. And you have a lot to lose, mostly wasted nerves and time you could have spent improving your business -- or simply living your life stress-free.

Defending even from bogus lawsuits is a huge expense of human energy for the non-experts (I'd wager that's 99% of the world's population).
"Computer Employers" because I am listing hardware companies, not just software.

However I don't know where to go looking for hardware companies. You could really help a brother out where you to either reply with the names of some small- to medium-sized hardware companies, or email those names to incoming@soggy.jobs.

I am specifically looking for a list of all of Intel's fabs. Fabs are labor intensive so listing them would work really well for me but I don't really know where to go to find such a list. (I need such a list to state the city that each fab is located in.)

Intel's Fab 20 is in Hillsboro Oregon so there must have at least nineteen others. :-/
Americans looking for travel information don't type any domain name at all.

They type "france travel information" into Google.
Oracle owns MySQL so they probably don't like MariaDB, but have not shut it down.
Everybody is mad that airlines are temporarily making profits during the lag between fuel prices dropping from peaks and ticket prices catching up.
We (people who operate online services) are exposed to legal action already, but we aren’t worried about it because realistically there’s such little risk of being targeted. The same is true of the GDPR, the organisations responsible for ensuring GDPR compliance are going to have their hands full for years and years to come, by the time the little guys have anything to worry about the situation will be much better defined. I cannot see a scenario in which I’m going to be pursued because of accidental non-compliance with my revenueless service when there are so many large companies that can afford million dollar fines who can’t even store passwords properly.

if you’re so risk averse that any minuscule chance of GDPR noncompliance precludes you from running an online service... aren’t you already not running anything because of existing legal risk?
Everybody else does. Not doing so just puts you behind the rest of the pack. Work out what your own personal line-in-the-sand between "exaggeration" and "outright lying" is, work out what you can plausibly exaggerate - and whether your references will support those exaggerations. You (probably) need to make at least _some_ of your Github or side project work sound on your resume like "commercial experience", and ideally have someone as a reference for that bit of work who'll back that claim up.

Everybody exaggerates on their resume - the line between that and lying is up to you and your own personal ethics.

You 100% wouldn't be the first person to land your job (first or not) based on a lie. Make sure you can back the lie up though, and try to make it a small enough lie that the next resume doesn't need to perpetuate it (you don't want to be the CTO trying to explain away why the company about us page lists you as graduating from Harvard...).
https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-top...

Websites offer services to all countries by default; all websites are subject to GDPR, regardless of where their owners live, unless they do something like GeoIP restrictions to exclude EU citizens.
Start by reading the actual regulation, provided here in a easy online format without the extraneous formatting: https://gdpr-info.eu/

If you want a shortcut, you can try the EnterpriseReady site which has a great overview specific to SaaS companies: https://www.enterpriseready.io/gdpr/

As always though, your best resource is to talk to a lawyer. Do not trust any internet comments about legal decisions for your business.
See this doesn't work me. Even when I sleep 7 to 8 hours every night with alarm, when I put off alarm (say, in long holidays) I naturally sleep 7 to 8 hours a few days then suddenly I sleep very long (>= 10 hours) which completely screws my Circadian rhythm since it makes me harder to fall asleep.
Pardon me for the stupid question, but how is bringing the speed down to 0 milliseconds before landing by firing the rocket thrusters different from just letting the capsule hit the ground? I thought the thrusters were there to make the passengers not feel the inertia due to sudden arrest of speed from 16-17mph to 0mph. Firing the thrusters milliseconds before landing seems to have the same effect as just letting the capsule hit the ground? Or is it to protect the capsule itself?
Block all European IPs. It's just not worth the risk.
> Small tech owners can't fight such litigations. I am kind of baffled how this point evades so many people in this thread.

Even if they could fight, why would they want to? There are lots of us with tiny things on the internet where the burden of maintenance is only slightly below the enjoyment we get making it available. Increase that burden and the costs are negative and things get shuttered.

Question, if I have a small thing and don't want to preemptively concern myself with GDPR, as a non-EU site operator can I tell an information requester "no"? Might I harm my ability as a person to travel to the EU? Ignoring the standard "if you do nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" and "the GDPR is really easy to understand" arguments, and assuming I'm not wanting to do any real work, would it be wise for me to just add known EU subnets to my firewall?
> Small tech owners can't fight such litigations.

Yes. This I think is a downside of the law. Some small owners are going to have a more difficult time.

But this is true for any regulation like food safety regulations, construction regulations, etc. They hurt more a small restaurant than a big chain. But in the end, these regulations are there to protect the customers. Small restaurants have closed and will continue closing for not following food safety regulations. But what is the alternative? Is business creation the final goal of our society? Or there are things more important?

In summary, small businesses are going to have to extend their insurances to also cover risks related to GDPR. But it's the price to pay for having safer data.
90% of the objections here seem to be "I can't use Google's online services very easily without using Google Play", which is precisely why Google's spent the past few years piping as much of Android's runtime as possible through Google Play. The rest are mainly just that the main streaming and social media companies don't have open source clients.
If you think you can understand the GDPR by reading it, that's merely proof you haven't read it.

Questions without answers in the GDPR:

* how to carry out a legitimate interest balancing test

* who is your lead regulator (do you have a lead regulator?)

* When do you need a DPO (large scale is left undefined, as is systematic)

* How reasonable will any particular regulator be towards inadvertent violations

* what precisely counts as the required technical and organizational measures in art24

* how do you define what is one purpose and what is two purposes?
To answer both of your points, fast was implied by virtue of it being a communication network.

The open part can be pedantically removed in the case of ARPAnet, but I've not met anyone who confuses the Internet with ARPAnet. The Internet, as it came to be called in the 90's with the rise of the World Wide Web, WAS at it's core 'open'. Pretty much everyone I've met who was around and working on the ARPAnet saw it as a foregone conclusion it (a network based on the lessons learned through ARPAnet) would be going public in one way or another.
I don't dispute the goal of GDPR -- I support it fully. My worry is that it could be abused by legal trolls. They are a fact of life.
I might have been a bit unclear there, sorry: if he built it as a side project five years ago, he either knows that stack pretty well by now, or has decided that it wasn't very good, and either way wouldn't care to work with it solely for the tech.

Five years ago I was messing around with Fortran 2008. Having done so, it's not as interesting anymore. That's not a function of Fortran, which was created when my grandparents were 20-somethings, but of the time spent with it.
You are incorrect. Even an IP address that dynamically changes with your ISP is considered personal data and is under strict guidelines. You have absolutely have a lot to worry about if you want to be in compliance.

Something as simple as running Google Analytics without a processing agreement in place is a liability.
From what I've seen, I wouldn't be too surprised if some practices make this hard for some companies. In particular, mixing customer data with company data and having a practice of tomb stoning rows.
Fantastic! Great job faking faking!
Confused - the change log includes "don't show the old level when you die going down the stairs because of an iron ball"
That article on rental friends makes me so mad. I'd rather know that my dad wasn't around than be completely lied to like that. Jeez.
Unfortunately for you, the ICO was directly asked about this and responded that they do not envision a grace period

> Steve Wood, ICO Deputy Commissioner: Will there be a grace period? No. You will not hear talk of grace periods from people at the ICO. That's not part of our regulatory strategy.
GPDR explicitly lets organizations keep data if they need to. Do you think it just turned into a magical get-out-of-your-past switch that means "my employer will have to delete records of firing me!"?
If her scone business started accepting payments by card then I think it should be held to the similar standards as larger businesses when it comes to securing card details.

Which is kind of what GDPR wants to do for personal data: if you want to collect it from me, there are a minimum set of standards that you need to adhere to because it’s my data.
Why's it useless if it's only for internal govt communication?

If anything, that'd be a feature, no?
In the spirit of my original comment I'd answer "yes" to your last question. If I wanted a legal career I'd pursue that -- but I don't. So I'll cut my loses. That doesn't mean I am a shady operator, it means I don't want to risk being sued for money I don't have and likely end up in jail; in EU you can't just declare bankruptcy and run free afterwards.

Hobby or goodwill projects (==not turning a profit) just aren't worth that risk.
'course, that might just be a translation artifact.
> But what is the alternative?

Status quo? Baby steps? Enforcement of existing statutes? Consumer education? Promotion/support of preferred alternatives? Codified small business leniency? Objective enforcement clarity?
Having engineers read and interpret regulation personally is not a remotely sane legal risk management strategy. Read the thing on your own time if you're curious, but the engineering work should start with specialized outside counsel/consultants and percolate down to engineers as company policy via the CTO.

You're onto something, though: in a corporate environment, the word "compliance" is a magic spell that disables all critical thinking skills within earshot.
Why do your non-geek friends have to verify? None of mine do.
I didn't really understand the implications of GDPR until I read this. Now I understand the paranoia.

Basically, in good faith, everyone is happy: website owners take measures to protect their users' data, and ask for consent. But 1 unsatisfied user, or heck a slimy competitor, can bring you down (I assume €20 million fine is business-killing for most startups).

The key is "targeted". If you're targeted, since it's ambiguous, your chance of losing is higher.

On the brighter side: Some people make extra income! /snark