skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this a political statement protesting regulation. It expresses a real ignorance of the legal process, culture and mindset in Europe that looks to actually protect the public from abuses of power, position and exploitation.
GDPR discussions: Americans trying to interpret European Law and European way of enforcing laws

That describes most of it
Why did this submission jump from 265 votes to 15 votes?
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I'd liken it to Repblicanism vs Monarchism. The differences between the positions are pretty extreme; to the point where it is hard for normal people to educate themselves.

It looks like something I'd be in favour of. Not because I don't understand monetary policy but because I disagree with its goals, methods and outcomes.
Yes! now I can ditch my full-fat-vm vsts build agents! Thanks to your team.
Because the articles was 9 days old by the time it was posted. By the time the post was made, there were far more up-to-date articles about this topic.
Those tools use what are known as heuristics. You can't reliably detect such a thing except by the return of an X-Powered-By header that denotes php specifically. Anything else is just guesswork.
This is an example of what I mean:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3698...

I'm sure the moderator feels entirely justified by closing this question, and going by the rules they are perfectly right, but it still feels wrong to me to turn this user away instead of working with them to figure out a way to make their questions fit the website's format.

But, that takes a lot of work, and moderators are volunteers whose time is entirely on their own dime. I suspect that if the stackexchange network had paid moderators the outcome would be very different, but they probably don't have the funding model to support that. I myself also don't do moderator duties on the SE network, so I really shouldn't be blaming the moderators. I merely want to point out the frustration and the non-optimal outcome, not lay blame at the moderators' feet.
Also from Colin :)
http://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/sews.py?NumericallyStableS...
> CD4049 is an inverter. If you do the trick above then you indeed get an amplifier, nonlinear and with poorly-controlled gain but an amplifier nonetheless.

The CD4049 hex inverter chip is a popular amplifier chip in some guitar distortion pedals due to all the reasons you mentioned (non-linear and poorly controlled gain). There were a few designs based on connecting several of the inverter stages in series.

The wiring of the MOSFETs inside has superficial similarity to an AB class dual pentode push-pull tube power amplifier and has similar qualities in the sound it produces.

Here's one article on such a design:
http://pedalprojects.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-does-red-llama...
Yeah you're right... We can't really make people not picky.

So we have to limit something for men, because it's easier to become picky.

What if you could sort people by the ratio of messages to answers?
E.g. as a man you would show up more easily in results if you don't shotgun. And as a woman you will stay more hidden if your postbox is already overflowing.

However I strongly assume that most women on those site just are picky. Looking for something they can't find in real life... So the system is just broken anyway, at least for "normal" men.
I read the farwell-post as "My start-up failed, and I am shutting it down because I am sick of it", but instead of owning up, I blame the GDPR...

As a Brit, he would most likely already have to comply with most of the stuff already. And he should know that most government bodies use dialogue instead of fines initially..
And that is wrong. The west is backwards in this regard. In the UK, Australia, NZ, you can get paid with tax payers money for choosing to not work... So someone works hard to fund your life. Someone works hard to pay your bills for your choice to smoke. Someone works hard to pay your bills for your choice to do drugs and get addicted.
Someone really needs to do a write up looking at all the times race has altered the public discourse.

Theres a consistent theme here in portraying culprits who are white as victims or sympathetic. Whether its contrasting breivik to jihadists, or incels to african american victims of police shootings or white nationalists to BLM protesters.

I think a bit more intellectual honesty might have a dramatic effect on the level of social engagement.
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I discovered this recently too. Even in the instances when I still don't get to sleep (eg my 1 year old coming into bed and wriggling in her sleep waking me) I've still felt more refreshed when I've relaxed rather than laid in bed wound up. I'm not into new age / whatever stuff but I like to think of it as night time meditation as while it's still not as good as sleep it's still a great deal better than full blown insomnia! And best of all, sometimes it clears your mind enough to actually sleep.

> It's like a trap that closes tighter about you the more you struggle, and releases if you allow yourself to relax

That is a beautiful analogy. Both in terms of accuracy and imagery.
There seems to be some confusion in this thread between ferroelectric vs ferromagnetic.

These are two distinct physical phenomena. FRAM is based on the former whereas magnetic core memory is based on the latter.

With this in mind, I’m not sure it is really accurate to regard FRAM as a successor to magnetic core memory.
I don't think it's prevalent or universal but at the same time, how many people come up to their consultant (triply so for a security-related one) and say 'I just crushed and snorted a couple of adderall'. It seems like an even worse way to get such data than openly asking pseudonymous strangers on a message board.
Dr. Walker has actually stated that very few people can operate with 5 hours of sleep due to genetics. Most of us need between 7 to 9 hours of sleep.
> The weird thing about this to me is that phone numbers always take you to the same phone

Actually no, the whole point of number portability in the north american numbering plan is that they don't, allowing the end-user of a phone number to move it from one service provider to another as they please.

For example from an MVNO riding on AT&T to T-Mobile, or from a Telus landline POTS number to a pure-voip SIP trunking/DID-termination provider.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_number_portability

this would be logically similar to transferring a domain from one registrar to another, while the ownership info remains the same. It's hard to make an exact analogy, but what carrier a number goes to in the number portability system is not extremely dissimilar from what authoritative nameservers are entered for the ns1/ns2/ns3 for a typical .com domain.
Any prediction on what this merger might mean for a T-Mobile MVNO customer like myself? (MintSIM)
Numerical Recipes says to find q=-1/2[b+sgn(b)sqrt(b^2-4ac)] and then find x1=q/a and x2=c/q - is that better?

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/sews.py?NumericallyStableS...
The article here is not about that less sleep is okay, but that worrying about it is counterproductive because it keeps you awake even longer.

I thought the headline alone already pretty much shows the core of the argument. It does not say "It's not a big deal", but "Tell yourself it’s not a big deal". It's about your mental state, not about the sleep duration.
Same here - works perfectly on my S5 with LineageOS installed
There is absolutely no proof flux or night mode works. Night mode is not a substitute for less screen time.
Don't force yourself to sleep. Worst that can happen is that you are tired the next day.
Maybe It's time for people to realise they don't 'deserve' sex and that they should get counselling, seek help and form constructive relationships that improve their lives rather than kill people.
That's great! Are we anywhere near to making homebrew ICs on silicon at home? Yes, apparently we are! But it seems we are still far away from DIY kits, or even complete prototyping devices (like 3D printers).
> And according to that clarification, having paypal as a payment processor might make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the union. That's what I said. Or it might not. Its not fully defined

This is not true. Using a payment processor or accepting credit cards in no way constitutes targeting of EU customers. In that scenario you are neither data controller nor processor, in fact. I think, like a lot of posters in this thread, you've spent virtually zero time understanding the law and are just echoing FUD.
Sure. How about your votes and your favorites?
This option has been largely stigmatized in modern society.
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All that matters is which side has the superior platform. Ever seen hornets raid a hive of honey bees?
I'm sure he did write such a tribute. Did you read the one mentioned in the article? It doesn't mention the engineers at all, it only says "we do complicated stuff to make you money". I'm sure he has similarly well-penned quotes about their efficient operations.
A blue water Navy, not proximity, is what is required to invade and control Australia. India and Indonesia are a non-starter given that prerequisite, and China is probably 10-20 years away from being able to accomplish this (if they chose to do it). Plus the Chinese are more concerned with the South China Sea and regional naval superiority when compared to invading continents.

Also, Pine Gap. All of the China is coming and the US is going to leave us hanging out to dry hubbub conveniently ignores this fact.
If Lundgren was counterfeiting software that you could "download for free", then why did he and Bob Wolff go around buying genuine Dell recovery discs in order to produce their own copies?
> Where in the actual text of the law does it say that they will never impose the maximum fine for a trivial or minor offence?

Article 83 (including related recitals)
I don't find it easy either though, it was a huge pain and I could only pull it off for a tow years because I obsessed over it: I lived and breathed fitness until I could find a new weight to maintain. I spent my free time reading fitness forums, watching fitness channels for fun, etc.

With that same amount of time I could have put serious work into my other hobbies like electronics or made more career moves. I probably sacrificed that for fitness, but I don't regret it.

These days I've dropped the obsession to work on other things. I still go to the gym twice a week for maintenance, and my weight fluctuates more around my new goal weight, but I've gotten used to my metabolism.

All-in-all I'm very thankful to be healthier, and I hope others find a similar joy in strength training or physical exercise. It's a lot of work, but it's so worth it! No matter where you start, you can make progress.
I didn’t conclude anything! I’m just suggesting alternatives to the status quo.
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Yes, making things _arbitrarily_ difficult would probably go against the spirit of the law, even if it technically complied with it. But as Alex3917 pointed out, as long as a company responded to GDPR requests by email in a timeline in accordance with the law, they would be safe.
That's only because he got caught before he managed to start selling his discs.
Would this imply end user having to have a SAML server on the public internet? I'd guess big companies would be wary about this
How does one revoke consent from an immutable interaction log, like a blockchain or distributed version control system?

You don't.
> Falcon 9 would be better off shorter and thicker to reduce surface area

Can you show me some references to this?

My understanding is that there is a tension between two goals.

The first goal is to maximize aerodynamic efficiency, which means minimizing frontal surface area.

The second goal is to minimize non-fuel weight, which means minimizing the surface area to volume ratio.

It's not obvious to me that the Falcon 9 would be better off shorter and wider.
What I mean is: should I be able to stop my identical twin from uploading his DNA to a genealogy site without my consent because we have identical DNA?

Legally, the answer is pretty much "no" right now, and I think it's morally also "no."
I think the more important chunk of his argument was the downstream dependency; you now aren't testing your interfaces against all expected usage in the code you're writing, you're now building it against the expected usage of any and all arbitrary code now and in the future.

As well as, as soon as you unseal it, then you have to assume it's being used somewhere, and you're suddenly dealing with a much more exposed and expansive API to maintain.
The medical industry is a decent analogy though. Highly regulated, high barrier to entry. Which is bad. Overall though, probably better than a free-for-all (e.g. Theranos), as we've learned from several millennia of humans being awful or incompetent.

God forbid we try and apply some of those ethics to IT. (Europe is big on privacy, again a somewhat hard-learned lesson.)
Might be apples to oranges, if one tool is internal and the other isn't.
> I just removed it from any country that fell under "Europe" in the app store.

I'm afraid that in your overreacting rush, you might have removed your app from European countries that are not within the European Union.

Though if you are collecting more data on your users than you need (why would you need personal data at all for this app?), you might have been doing them a favour anyway.
Why try to implement SAML yourself when you could more simply integrate with something like Office 365 with OAuth and let them do the SAML integration with the customers Idm system?
He was not selling the discs for 25 cents each. That's the story he's spinning in the media to look like the good guy. You can see in the appeals document that his price was not near 25 cents.

>Lundgren objected to the PSR infringement amount. He argued that the Sentencing Guidelines required the court to use an infringement amount of about $4 per disk, which was the price for which Lundgren and Wolff were selling their copies.
I understand why it's necessary, but I was shocked that he uses piranha in his home garage. I cannot echo the above sentiment enough.
Geeze, I though you needed a clean room to do this kind of work. I guess, being a hobby, with less concern for effort, loss of product, or cost versus profit, one might summon the will to try, try again, when confronted with botched fabrication runs.

Even with millimeter-scale components, I'd still think dust and debris could be a real problem. Is it just that 12 hour runs are short enough to just accept an imperfect production output, since it's a personal project, or is dust not as big a deal at this scale as I'd imagine?
>Because speed limits are not enforced

and yet

> But catch a pissy cop, or one in a town that uses speed traps as a revenue source, and you can get pinched for hundreds of dollars arbitrarily.

Sounds like enforcement to me.

The solution is also simple. Don't drive over. I don't do it. If the sign says "50 kph", I drive "50 kph" and not more.

Driving over is entirely voluntarily ignoring the limitation set by the law so don't go and be all surprised when somebody CAN FINE YOU FOR THAT.
Apparently, existing treaties that the US has allow for the domestication of EU civil judgments in US courts. The prevailing logic right now is that nothing new would need to be passed to allow for that to include judgments issued under the GDPR. Here is one article, there are many more:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2007530-how-the-eu-ca...
Except that if professional refurbishers had computers with a valid Certificate of Authenticity, but a disc that said "Eric's restore disc", they would've had to buy new Windows licenses for the computers because the license is not valid without the original restore media. Otherwise they would have been guilty of copyright infringement and subject to possible legal action by Microsoft for selling unlicensed copies of Windows.
What I understand is while semiconductor machines live in clean rooms, the wafers never leave the hyper clean environment inside the machines. And when wafers move from machine to machine it's via sealed enclosures.

Using long plastic box with a 3 axis gantry inside might be doable.
I'm not a lawyer but I've read it fairly thoroughly. From the ico, the exceptions to the right to erasure are below (none of them cover your example):

The right to erasure does not apply if processing is necessary for one of the following reasons:

to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information;

to comply with a legal obligation;

for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority;

for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific research historical research or statistical purposes where erasure is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of that processing;

or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
I thought that was interesting, and I think I agree. Specifically with the section about printing your own decks at home to play with friends.

To me, that sounds like the optimal way to play trading card games.
Good for you if it doesn’t cause you any problems, but if I don’t get enough sleep I really notice my mood and productivity dips. Everyone is different, so just don’t enforce the same regime on others.
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It's worth noting that in the .NET world, there is a useful extension point provided by Roslyn compiler that can be used for shipping analyzers and codefixes using the standard packaging tools (NuGet). Static analysis distributed in such way is automatically integrated into both IDE and CI workflows -- as its directly supported by compilers.

This means that you can static analysis checks besides your library. For example, you have unit testing library that expects to be used in a certain way that cannot be completely described using type system -- it expects that test methods marked by some test attribute has to be public. Such library can include analyzer that would check usages of types from the library and report warnings. User of the library don't have to do a thing to register such analyzer, it will just work.
That and privacy shield (or equivalent). The EU courts could simply go the the US courts and tell them that under privacy shield, the company violated the EU law. Then the US court could decide that, yes, the company did indeed violate EU privacy law and enforce the fine on their side.

If the US court doesn't decide that, the EU will have to resort to indirect measures (Google AdSense will probably stop working since Google doesn't want the EU courts on their butts for making business with someone who violates the EU law and other measures)
There are no rules in what you linked to that would prevent or even deter maximum fines in every single case. The only limits imposed are $10 million for lower level fines and $20 million for upper level (or percentages of revenue, whichever is higher - the static amount will always be higher for smaller businesses).

Edit: to those downvoting this (and all of my other comments) - this comment contains only facts. So please show me where it says that there are circumstances under which they must fine you less than the maximum. Otherwise there is nothing to downvote.
And when Eric talks about how he was planning on selling the discs for $0.25, he's conveniently leaving out how he was selling the discs for $4.00. This is directly from the appeals document.

"Lundgren objected to the PSR infringement amount. He argued that the Sentencing Guidelines required the court to use an infringement amount of about $4 per disk, which was the price for which Lundgren and Wolff were selling their copies."
Same power the US has over enforcing its global laws (DMCA etc)
They might as well have chosen to journey to an application, that print "Hello World" on the screen, but it would probably have been too obvious a marketing piece.
And it's very courageous of you that you're willing to risk other people's money to that effect :)

It's quite odd that you're calling a statement that amounts to "in the presence of untested law, caution is warranted" FUD.

That's like not even controversial. You're entire argument is predicated on you understanding the law better than everyone else. And well, I'm not particularly confident in a person whose most used word is "FUD" and who began a conversation by misunderstanding what I was saying. What reason do I have believe you?
Seconding LeGuin's translation. It has a poetic quality to it.
Check this other thread that someone posted above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671944

It talks exactly about what you are saying in your 2nd paragraph. Similarly, sometimes it works for me, sometimes I focus too much on checking if I'm relaxed and I cannot sleep..
This is usually how laws work. They specify minimum and maximum punishments for various offenses.

What part of this is a problem for you?
If there are too many false-positives, it just becomes an annoyance. If the false-positives are too high, it can have the opposite effect, that code detected to have bugs is more likely to not have a bug. The false-positive max is around 5% I think. Anything above that - it would be more effective showing warnings at random locations.
In our case, it was the opposite: the SaaS (for that client) was not on the public Internet. The client reserved some machines on their DC and we set up a private installation there.
You do not need a cleanroom, just some laminar airflow to prevent dust contamination. That is easy to achieve with a bunch of fans and lab clothing.

Static electricity damage is prevented by grounding everything. (Important during lithography.)

The hard part is getting a reliable plasma oven and the requisite chemicals plus running the process to reliability.
Why are you assuming that everything on the internet must be a revenue producing business?

Someone doing it for love or passion is now faced with GDPR compliance and the risks and hassle that come with it.
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Run your VPS servers in Switzerland to be protected by the law data protection
You have a valid point, but to be fair, this article is about the broader movement of so-called incels.
I believe it's EU residents, so if you reside somewhere outside the EU, sadly it doesn't apply.

(It's possible decent companies will not limit GDPR provisions though.)
The original license carries over if the computer-to-be-refurbished has the Certificate of Authenticity and the original restore media. This is per Microsoft's refurbishing guidelines.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/5/5/F5549310-DBCE-4...

If either one of those is missing, the computer needs to be relicensed for $25, which is the special price that Microsoft makes available for refurbishers and which Microsoft used to value the damages for Lundgren, as he was selling the discs for refurbishers.
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I meant quantity. That's moving some to a different time.
Most server/frame works log ip address, but do not tie them to an account. If the account is deleted and the ip addresses are not than that seems like a potential violation as long as ip addresses are considered personal information. As a result the most common configuration is potentially in violation.

How about asking and recording a persons birthday when really all you need to know is if they are the age of majority? A birthday is more information than needed which seems like a violation GDPR when interpreted strictly with my cursory knowledge. Seems unlikely though that any regulator would enforce such a distinction though.
Can someone compare Spinnacle to GitLab's CI/CD pipeline feature?
my point is, it's hard to relax and not worry about it when you read another article that says, you are gonna die early :)