skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ursula LeGuin has also published a nonliteral interpretation of the Tao Te Ching (derived from the work of several Chinese-to-English translations) that is absolutely wonderful.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C2WJQNM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
That's not a popular viewpoint around here. :D
Again. That's the whole point of science. Leaving interpretations out.

Neither you nor anybody here can know if the author meant "There are around 600,000 stars" or "There are around 5,000 stars". Also, exactly who tracked the geneaology to make sure those 600,000 men were direct descendants of the 70 people? Is that sentence possibly false? Was the author aware of the census? etc, etc.

I don't think there is any point discussing it when there are actual star catalogues produced as early as 1800 BC by early astronomers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_astronomical_maps,...
With a nearly "zero inbox" (only a few mail items, not enough to fill the page), scrollbar is visible for me in Firefox, whilst neatly hidden in Chrome.
I probably didn't clarify enough, just alluded to 'everyone would need to use it'.... and should have added... "but I know that will never happen".
Or use both units of measure. Is there a reason not to?
According to The Power Broker, Moses liked grand visions and held poor people in contempt, because he thought he knew what was good for them.

Rehabilitating the subway is not a new, grand project. It also would‘ve primarily benefitted the poor people in a way contrary to his visions. Finally, it would‘ve competed for federal money with his precious highway projects since the federal government would be reluctant to allocate too much money to one region. So the subway had all the things going against it, in Moses‘ opinion.
> (Shrug) It's a public response to abuses by private actors.

I disagree, I think it's a political move and won't have the kind of positive impact that we want it to.

GDPR, as it is written, should put Facebook and Google out of business. Invading people's privacy is a huge part of their revenue stream. I'm all in favor of protecting privacy of individuals but I'm cynical that we'll see any real progress as a result of this and the negative consequences are real, and possibly more significant than any positive effects. Time will tell.
The website is broken both on layout and some links. How can one reach the author to offer some help?
The person you're replying to doesn't have any problem with certs. Their problem is that they (or their employer) hijack a TLD for whatever ludicrous reason, and HSTS pre-loading applies to their hijacked names the same as it would to real names.
I run a site targeting north americans. I get a tiny number of european visitors. Should I be cutting them off? It’s not a market I target in any way.
Have there been any exemptions for smaller businesses? If not, it seems pretty clear the GDPR is targeted at them too.

The online ad-tech industry is pretty fragmented [1] and widespread data-sharing would certainly be a problem even without the larger companies. It's not like Google or Facebook invented it; this goes back to nearly the beginning of the web. And the offline component goes back even further.

[1] http://static.adweek.com/adweek.com-prod/wp-content/uploads/...
Bridging an air gap could also be possible by simply producing a device that looks to x-ray to be a capacitor but is crafted of materials specifically selected for their ability to physically change in some dimension that the attacker is able to measure remotely.

Change physical size when charged/discharged, measure sound pressure via lasers on windows or microwaves sensing cavities in concrete walls.

The victim doesn’t even need to be specifically targeted if they use commodity components whose design is known. Just arrange for the company producing parts to select a specific recipe.
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I've graduated college (Philosophy, 3.2 GPA), done some various projects on Github (Using Go, JS, & Python), networked with friends, but the problem I keep finding is my resume. People express interest in hiring me, check out my Github, but then give me the fade once they see my resume. I feel like it's a catch-22: I can't get experience until I've gotten experience. I thought my Github would close the gap, but alas it hasn't! I've read lots of posts on HN discussing this, and all opinions are welcome in response to this query, but specifically let me ask, should I really just lie and claim more experience? (I've had friends wanting to hire me suggest this subtly)
anyone with a grateful dead logo on a piece of clothing can get you lsd
> so why should they get to keep people's data?

Because people voluntarily provide it to them.

> But what about all of the other people on the internet that don't know this guy doesn't care about your privacy?

Governments confront problems with this general shape all the time... the result is usually labeling requirements. Sure, this guy should not be allowed to claim he has a crack team of elite cybersecurity engineers when he doesn't. Regardless, no one is asking him keep secrets for them. It's a niche Craigslist.

>Because it's a small operation?

You're actively campaigning to degrade privacy (and also user freedom, competition, and choice) to a much greater degree by displacing these activities onto large, centralized platforms. Especially those which are monetizing your data to a high enough degree that it's worthwhile to staff a compliance team for the privilege of continuing to do so.
Having been at the tail end of the age group that missed the normalization of 'likes' as a legitimate asset to accumulate, I'm curious what the turning point was when people no longer felt self conscious to openly admitting to collecting these virtual assets? Startups, media campaigns etc, we understood why they were doing it, money. But for most social-media users, that's obviously not the case.

I'll admit, when I had a facebook account I felt vulnerable when a post of mine didn't get too many likes but it was considered 'lame' to worry about it. Just a few years ago, it was considered a personality flaw to be preoccupied with likes and follower counts. Now it seems it's a primary and openly admitted pre-occupation of many users if not a whole generation, from average Joe's to celebrities.

Were there a set of key events that led to this normalization of what used to be a frowned upon behavior? Or was it merely a grinding away of cultural norms through persistent gamification mechanics?
I understand the sentiment, however I think you’re vastly underestimating the impact it will have on your life.

Diabetes gets joked about a lot - only those that have it understand how utterly shit it is. I assure you the trade off isn’t worth it.
> The compiler was never the problem; the API was.

I'm aware, that's the crux of the case. I was asking you to prove the statement:

> This happened before Java went open-source.

Which you have disproved now. We have no argument there - Java was open source at the time.

> Sun offered a licensing deal of between US$30 and 50 million.

> The parties were unable to reach an agreement, in part because Google wanted device manufacturers to be able to use Oracle’s APIs in Android for free with no limits on modifying the code, which would jeopardize the “write once, run anywhere” philosophy.

They also required Google not extend the API, which is where the deal failed.

> In other words, API were not exactly free (for an outwardly noble purpose), and Google reused them before they were GPL-ed.

So far, all juries and all but one court case has found that an API is not copyright-able. We'll see, but a compatible interface doesn't appear to be something you can license.
I doubt he’ll get anywhere by suing the French government. They’ll either just ignore him, or assert sovereign immunity.

He’d probably have better luck suing web.com or the new registrar in a US court and forcing them to hand it back.
Well you can stick your /s up your bum (what ever that means)
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Actually partially burning the wood and creating charcoal is a better means of carbon sequestration. Terra preta, also known as biochar, is thought to last about 10,000 years in the soil.
IIUC building Singularity containers still requires root.
> [...] If I made a small site that saves some user data i'd just pull it down too, I don't want the burden of worrying about being sued for some small thing I created, you just wont have it anymore.

Actually I think that's a good thing then.
What good would that do?

In what sense is that any degree of meaningful openness?
Um...yes it does.
"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."

This bit is true. If the startup I work for had not turned profitable in the years leading up to GDPR, we would not be able to compete in this space anymore.
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This is very cool, please make it happen.
>I'm probably not diagnosably ADHD

it's so easy to fake it
I think that a renaming is something that will happen. The current DNS mutual hallucination has an insane network effect, but I think something else (fuck knows what, could be a toy, could be a tool, could be a protocol), with it's own naming convention will eventually become wildly popular and then make DNS obsolete.
You’re putting Facebook and small websites in the same bucket.
I work in tv and we have a reputation for liberal drug use but I didn't really see it that much for it a few years. Now that I've moved up and know people the transpo guys are like a fucking candy store catering to any needs.
> Because people voluntarily provide it to them.

Voluntary or not, there are some rights that you cannot give up to someone else. In Europe, one of those rights is control over your own personal information.

There's also the issue of information symmetry. Just because I voluntarily bought your product doesn't mean that you should be 100% free from any liability that it may cause.
As far as I'm aware, you cannot be privately sued for breach of GDPR. You can only send complaints to the regulatory agency, who then take action. The fines levied then go to the government.

There is no incentive for lawyers to troll around trying to sue for breach of GDPR, because there's no money to be made by them.
> The weird thing about this to me is that phone numbers always take you to the same phone, but domain names just involve me trusting some table I use to look things up.

Not if I take my sim card and put it in another phone, or call my service provider to cancel my service and then they reuse the number for a new client.

Maybe I'm missing the point, but phone numbers, domain names, and ip addresses are all references that requiere looking up in some table (think routing tables for ip addresses and, I imagine, phone numbers).
Reminds me how I like to ramble on to friends about how light pollution is a serious matter, and also of Paul Bogard's The End of Night (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131044-the-end-of-nigh...).
No offense to your father, but where would anyone get the idea that this is a good thing to do?
What many posters here miss is that there is a big group of tech people that have no interest in dealing with legal matters more than the bare minimum, and overall deem them risky. I am one of them. People like me are well-aware of the fact that if we are not experts then we're absolutely gonna lose because a dedicated lawyer can and will dig up material you couldn't prepare yourself to defend from.

Thus, complying with something somewhat ambiguous like the GDPR is still an expense -- of time, money and risk -- that many small website owners won't be willing to spare.

Look, it's not hard to encrypt all personally identifiable information; there are ready-made frameworks that let you choose which DB columns you encrypt and how. You can generate a key for each user on creation and have their data encrypted with it. The problem is NOT that.

The problem is what happens if a legal firm or an agency targets you. Even if you adhered to the spirit of the law, they can dig up evidence that you didn't obey the letter of the law (since GDPR is quite loose and ambiguous).

Small tech owners can't fight such litigations. I am kind of baffled how this point evades so many people in this thread.
>They're not saying never create subclasses, so much as never start with a base class and then create subclasses from it.

Well, whatever they said, they started off with "OOP theory essentially says that..."

So, if it's OO theory, I'd appreciate if someone could provide me a reference that shows that it's OO theory, and not just someone's personal opinion.
Me too :)

But generally, how would we know?
They do sue for "this kind of thing". A legal team is a necessity to stay in this space nowadays.
Why not produce electricity, hot water and hot air by gasifying the wood, and then burying the biochar that is left over after the gasification process?

All Power Labs (allpowerlabs.com) produces small scale reactors that can do just that.
Do we know that for a fact? Sounds good but I have the bad feeling some legal groups will find a way around it. I hope I am wrong though. Really.

Time will tell best, I guess.
Yes, in the extreme case, Microsoft would be able to issue an urgent security update whose only purpose was to remove this CA from the Schannel trust store. The effect would be that IE, Edge, Chrome and most other SSL/TLS applications on Windows ceased to trust those certs. That's obviously really drastic, but they could certainly do it. (Firefox and various Free things wouldn't be affected because even on Windows they don't use Microsoft's trust store)
I take it as applying to expats too living in non EU countries and their natural or adopted children, depending on how they inherit citizenship and maybe their grandchildren.
This is a bit offtopic and I apologise in advance for that.

However, I felt the need to comment on the assumption that an application that is only 5 years old would imply that it uses a tech stack that no one would care about.

How is it that after a quarter of a century of web development, that the state of the software used is so bad that people still assume that something that is a few years old is assumed to be useless?
The Internet was a United States Department of Defense project to create a communications network that could still function despite damage. It had nothing to do with fast, nor open, communication. That was just a by-product during the 90s.
Yeah it's Sprint the one being bought out and taken over by the looks of it. Sprint has been improving their network recently, so you'll wind up with nice technology and strong leadership. Hopefully it kind of goes through and doesn't get screwed up.
I guess most of the problems are relatively small, but for Advent of Code¹, the "competitive" people are finishing most of their solutions in a minute or two.

1. http://adventofcode.com/
The shareholders have the power to vote people on to or off of the board of directors, who can then fire the management so they have some control to choose people they like, who are often those who maximise the shareholders share values. This hasn't changed for the last century and I don't know if you can blame it for recent changes.
That's not remotely how this works.

The fines are imposed by the government; in the UK that means the ICO. They cannot be levied as the result of a lawsuit brought by private parties. The ICO also has discretion when levying fines, and they've stressed repeatedly they will not be reaching for maximum penalties.

GDPR offers the prospect of big fines if you screw up badly enough. It also is likely to lead to a lot of lawsuits. But there are totally separate issues, and cannot be conflated as you are doing.

OP might get sued. And he might get fined for €20 million (although realistically...no, of course not). But he won't get sued for €20 million.

> The fine is the bait that draws the true threat.

That's simply incorrect. You're looking at a normal civil case, with normal damages.
Friend works in data law and says that it's ambiguous. One of the problems is that people use personal information in their email. Also, you have no idea if it's actually personal information or just a nickname they've given themselves. For these reasons it looks unlikely that emails will be considered personally identifiable information.
Yeah, if you're a bodybuilder or marathon runner carrying a single digit body fat percentage - which is not something the average person is going to "accidentally" do.

Everyone else is probably safe trying to get as lean as possible so long as they're not malnourished.
Personally, I've seen companies holding back waiting to see how GDPR actually pans out in courts before investing in fixing things, albeit my view is pretty anecdotal. Where have you seen companies being proactive?
Medicine seems to be mostly concerned with more tangible problems. Good luck going to your doctor and complaining of poor cognition as your only symptom. I've done this before and SSRIs were the only thing offered.

I didn't take SSRIs. I used nutrition / exercise / stress management that I learned all on the internet and it worked.

I think the correct approach is to verify every single piece of information, like how you just pointed out your parent comments megadosing is misleading advice.

I also don't believe blindly trusting your doctor is a good idea either. There seems to be a huge framentation on nutritional science concenus for example. Sometimes it's really hard to know what to believe when it comes to our biologys.
Interested in finding this out as well. So far, not a single thread discussing GDPR on HN made this explicitly clear.
It's fairly marginal, which is why it's switched off in Chrome. To get acceptable performance in the real world they have to soft fail. But that means most bad guys would just force it to fail and then it treats that as OK. So it's a seat-belt that snaps if there's a sudden impact. Not great.
I get the impression the GDPR expects you to not keep data around forever, as a general best practice.

When you collect data, you have to tell your users at collection what your retention policy is (this is part of Right to Transparency). So, right there, you should probably have a retention policy, and "forever, always" isn't really a well-thought-out policy.

The Right to Erasure is not as far-reaching as some people seem to think it is. If the Legal Basis of the data collection is Consent, then that consent is revocable and processing (including storage) pretty much has to end as soon as consent is revoked. But if the Legal Basis of collecting the data is something else, and I really feel like 90% of the time in practice it's going to be Legitimate Interest, then the Data Controller gets to balance their own needs against the rights of the Data Subject when handling a Right to Erasure or Right to Object request. And you can probably make a good argument that you don't need to modify back-ups. Your argument is stronger if a) your restore-from-back-up procedure can ignore or delete the user's data during/after restore b) your data retention policy eventually deletes the back-up.
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People talking about 'my dad' makes doubt anyone understands statistics or Scientific method ?
Or China if they could improve your 'social credit' rating. I am a little disappointed though. From the title I thought the service would be for faking profiles in order to trick the data vacuuming companies. Filling their databases with fake useless garbage has been my desire for awhile.
I took modafinil for a while because a crypto SV nerd told me it was hip. We both ordered some and tried it. The stimulant effects basically stopped affecting me after a week, and i had the bizarre side effect of crying very regularly. My father, who has adhd, also tried modafinil and also found himself crying a lot at his work.

I gave my extra pills to another friend who was interested; both my friends stopped using them after a while, saying they made them feel different but not more focused or anything.

It was a mildly interesting waste of time and money for all four of us.
Damn, I wanted to do this for Australia (or at least NSW) for gadgets/electronics/computer parts etc. I wonder if I put geoblocking in place if I'd be covered.
Phone numbers take you to the same phone until...

- that person gets a new phone
- a hacker politely calls customer support and asks to have a new phone activated on that number
- the area code is split and someone else ends up getting the number

The phone system has a lookup table too.
"I'm not saying _all_ developers should have unfettered access", but I'm an exception.

And then add, "otherwise I'll leave for a company that gives me that access".

See how that sounds?
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So the answer is a blanket law that affects all startups big and small. Think Google & Facebook are going to go out of business because of this? No. Think it’s going to be more difficult and risky for startups?
>In Europe, one of those rights is control over your own personal information.

If that were true, you would not be able to post this comment (the most highly sensitive category of personal data, political views) in a public forum.
The solution still stands. In a non-threatening way you make it known you know an activity or accusation is unfounded and, if pressed, you may take further action. And you do this in writing, clearly stating it is for documentation purposes. Nothing will make HR/legal stop in their tracks faster (unless you really are in the wrong)
> This is built on the premise that the modern 8 hour night is settled science.

What do you mean by this? Urging people to sleep enough is not really a new and untested concept.

Is there a strong reason to think that frequently sleeping <8 hours is unlikely to cause harm? I think it would still be prudent to give all the studies in the article some consideration.
When did you work with me? I have in fact no idea who you are; I assume: under a different name?

(I assume lots of people take adderall, for what it's worth).
And one chicago firm with APL in its name since its founding: https://www.manta.com/c/mm2mvtr/security-apl
GDPR is a sham. It's a ham-fisted attempt to protect citizens data (which is mostly unimportant even if leaked) due to the transgressions of a few corporate behemoths. In the end it only serves to solidify the market position of said behemoths as it adds another barrier to entry for small innovative startups that are already difficult enough to start without this bs. My main worry related to GDPR is that once implemented it will be near impossible to reverse once we see what a total clusterfuck it actually is.
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Well, the Supreme Court just reinforced the difference between types of property, and upheld the idea that a government-granted artificial privilege doesn't have the same set of rights and due process attached to it that other types of property do.

Trademarks, being in the same boat, could in theory be revoked with less due process.
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