skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All legal questions can be answered with "It Depends." The lack of clarity form the courts is to be expected, but isn't that different than any other legal grey area. And yes, there are concerns. And yes, if a company wants to skip out of the EU and wait for the dust to settle, that is a valid business choice.

But people are arguing with you because you are all over this thread acting like it is the only business choice. Or that we all need to spend millions to make that choice. In truth, it is a risk management decision, not a legal one, because the legal answers are unknowns. You clearly are drawing this into the quadrant of both high likelihood and high consequences... which is fine, for you. But different organizations may have different answers, putting GDPR compliance into a different risk quadrant, and those are their own decisions to make.
Considering their quarterly profit per employee, they still have room to go up from here: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=google+profit+per+empl...
> I was going full American here with American football fields (standard 300x160 feet)

American football fields are 360×160 feet.
Hi my name Lori. I'm having some problems with my email I got one last Thursday of return@external.telus.com saying on it ( hey Loribeth28lloyd) I still love you I want to talk and fix this mess and I'm hurt) I replayed back to it but got nothing back?Please help me
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From what I understand by reading and listening an interview with this guy, the issue is the damages were inflated so he can then be put in prison. IMO this case feels similar with cases where music/movie industry hyper-inflates the damages caused by someone that shared a file, because the companies have infinite budgets they can get away wit it.
> GDPR requires restructuring of applications to keep data on a temporary basis with the consent of the users

The GDPR requires mostly that you document what data is stored and how, and that you have a legitimate reason for doing it this way. Consent is not necessarily required.

> to selectively restore, and to allow users access to their own data.

So, you get a takedown/access notice, and then you take down/show that data. Compliance solved.
the gambling industry pioneered a lot of the techniques now used for web sites, far earlier.

“time on device” is something they coined and started optimizing for decades ago.
The problem is to track a real organic food.

You can be paying 30% more for your food and still be eating pesticides. There is no fool proof way to do this validation in most countries.
"...then you are likely covered."
"it's looking unlikely..."
"...run this site from a limited company..."

I can understand why a small project that isn't immediately profitable can take a look at the uncertainty and say, "no thanks."
> PR cannot write this type of stuff.

They can and do, typically working closely with the credited author. It's common.
The quote is over the top, but this vision pushed Apple beyond merely "predictable and efficient" products. If they'd stuck to predictable and efficient, there's no way they'd be an $800+B company today, so it seems to have worked out for them.
I don't live in an area where the sun can wake me up regularly, and I have a spouse to boot, but I do wake up without alarms. It took a bit of doing, but after shifting my schedule so as to be a morning person about 18 years ago, after a couple years of waking up to an alarm, I found I was waking up 1-2 minutes before my alarm. So one day I stopped setting it, and for the last 15+ years I've found my body naturally wakes me up at the same 5:30am (+/- 5 minutes) every day.
Neat! I used this API to live-code a mini-portfolio-manager SaaS a couple of months ago: https://anvil.works/blog/live-coding-stock-portfolio

It let you pick the stocks yourself, and showed you historical graphs too. It was a bit more complex than this, but still only took an hour.
Can you prove that?
According to his own appeal, he was selling them for $4 (he argued that was the right price, instead of $25, that should be used to calculate the infringement amount).
Absolutely, companies face extreme government coercion in China.
The GDPR requires users to be able to say no, and not lose any functionality except that which absolutely requires this data.

If I refuse tracking for ads, then a newspaper can’t refuse me access to their articles.
If you fear death, dying will certainly cure you of that fear.
>> PDFs can, and typically do, contain postscript.

> No, they don’t. That’s like saying PNG files can contain postscript code because tools exist that convert postscript to .png.

It's clear you know the difference between PS and PDF, so don't you think your straw man example is a bit exaggerated? PDF is originally based on PS, and it has 1:1 correspondence for almost all it's rendering features with PS. PNG is completely different, since it's a raster format, it doesn't share any drawing operations with PS.

You could have offered a gentle nitpick that PDF is interpreted PS rather than source PS, but claiming @pletnes' comment is completely wrong, when it isn't, makes your comment seem both unnecessarily snarky and somewhat off base, FWIW.

"PDF contains tokenized and interpreted results of the PostScript source code, for direct correspondence between changes to items in the PDF page description and changes to the resulting page appearance."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF
That's only for personal use. Microsoft literally sells the exact product this was pretending to be for $25 ($20 for the crappy Home version, which they told the court was the appropriate comparison, the court disagreed and picked $25).

My local supermarket sometimes has little pieces of cheese on cocktail sticks to sample. Those are free too. If you eat six, and then run out of the supermarket, you're a dick, but they won't try to prosecute you for theft.

But if you say "Aha, cheese is free", reach over the counter and steal a whole wheel, expect to get prosecuted and don't expect a magistrate to buy your story about how clearly since individual pieces of cheese were given away therefore "cheese is free".
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> And Mormons, while they have a bunch of kids, are still a very small portion of the overall population.

If they keep having a bunch of kids, and the rest of America doesn’t, they won’t stay a very small portion of the overall population forever.
But he was charged and convicted based upon unauthorised selling of licensed software, which he wasn't as he didn't sell licenses. What he did and what he was charged with are two separate things, which is what the entire article is about.
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I'm guessing the critical piece of information you're missing is the FDA, like most government agencies that aren't the military, suffers from chronic underfunding and lobby-funded political agendas.
There's an enormous amount of evidence of racism in the criminal justice system. It's not at all controversial to say there are widespread patterns of racism.

Arguing the opposite puts one in the same league as climate change deniers - you're more concerned with what you want to believe than what the evidence supports.
For anyone interested in the topic I suggest reading Norman Doidge's books, like "The Brain That Changes Itself" .
http://www.normandoidge.com/
I for one welcome games that don't require me to sacrifice hours and hours to be enjoyed. I have job and familly and while I like games, they have only limited time and effort box available. Any more then that and they get deleted, as a strategy.

You don't have to like them. Not every customer wants to dedicate whole life to games.

I am thankful to mobile games creators that they did not rejected my demographics and interest group and started to make games that I can enjoy.
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I would like to find something like this that is usable by Libreoffice Calc.
It is the case. Almost all of their scaled support is from overseas most of which are not Google employees. They pay other companies to manage these folks. That 85K employee headcount is only the FTE count. The number of non-FTEs is crazy.
Haha glad I was able to teach you something new! Yeah, hopefully iOS 12 has more complex notification triggers.
I moved to a highrise cos I had the same problem. Plus something about having a doorman made it easier to fall asleep.

I can totally relate to ppl not taking it seriously.
I'm not into stocks, but like the way you coded it. We don't see this sort of good examples that combines the old school simplicity and new JS / DOM API features.
If the customer is choosing to display his data on his screen while under risk of Van Eck phreaking, it's on him.

If you choose to display customer data on your screen while raising funds for launching a new cryptocurrency in the Sultanate of Kinakuta from sketchy Chinese generals, it's on you.
It is useful in showing us how alien the original is.
No, this is just a search for old posts with the word 'checklist' in it. The actual quality and timeliness of any given list is something you'll need to judge for yourself.
it sums up the objection to equality very well. is there a "socialists' response" to this?
This feels like the issue with reproducing research in the softer sciences.

From my understanding businesses operate by optimizing over some gradient similar to gradient decent. Correlation or causation is really not the objective (but can be helpful to optimize over).
You probably slept more than you think. I have the same issue and for a while after changing cities I was sleeping awfully. Yet I was still functional, my gym performance barely suffered, and the problem has almost entirely gone away now, mostly through telling myself "whatever, I'll be fine".
From Yegge's "The Pinocchio Problem":

> Great systems also have advice. There's no universally accepted name for this feature. Sometimes it's called hooks, or filters, or aspect-oriented programming. As far as I know, Lisp had it first, and it's called advice in Lisp. Advice is a mini-framework that provides before, around, and after hooks by which you can programmatically modify the behavior of some action or function call in the system. Not all advice systems are created equal. The more scope that is given to an advice system — that is, the more reach it has in the system it's advising — the more powerful the parent system will be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advice_(programming)
> That's the nature of law.

Not all laws, nor all legal systems, are equally vague. It would be really helpful if the regulations had been accompanied with a large set of 'example applications' demonstrating how EU members should be expected (or required) to implement the law in specific scenarios.

Uncertainty is a real cost too.
I have a similar problem. Luckily the combination of ear plugs, a room fan, and a dose of melatonin usually works on restless nights. I think it will end up forcing me out of the city life eventually, though.
Came here wondering why the hell HN was discussing a mockumentary about vampires...
This is referred to as the singularity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)
Fitbit bets on Google Cloud in bid to gain appeal with health systems
I am no expert, but isn't this stuff supposed to degrade quickly in soil? Isn't that the whole reason why we're using it in the first place? If it behaves differently than expected, the implications are enormous--this stuff is even sprayed, as one commenter also noted, over the entire crop before harvest. Can anyone trust Monsanto?
cannot wait to see this adopted in my community. The pressure of maintaining clean tidy lawns is simply not necessary
well, the ecosystem is usually the answer, Go is a simple language, which attracted many developers, which resulted in a large ecosystem

but there is also the issue of complexity developer used Go to create complex systems, because it is a simple language, it allowed them to focus on the solution

while, complex systems, might be simpler if they were built using complex languages, it seems most developer prefer to build complex systems using simple languages, rather than build simple systems using complex languages

complexity doesn't disappear you can only spread it around, to make it more manageable .. using a simple language and moving complexity to the solution, seems like a trade off many are willing to make .. so this is not necessarily a bad thing .. its a preference

if Go starts adding complex features, many developers will move or chose another language ..
>Yes, I should be omniscient. Thanks for clearing that up.

Not omniscient but being able to plan ahead does help a lot, yes.

> It's not about looking at what they have.

Yes, because they only collect what's necessary and if they don't have that they ask if it's necessary and collect it.

>I can't figure out what my company will be doing in a year, and waiting another year to collect the data I already have could see me hemorrhaging money.

Then simply ask your customers to hand over data with consent to use it for analytics, problem solved, no?

>Which is an absolutely silly notion. It is the company's data, not the users.

No. Under GDPR this is no longer the case. The data belongs to the user now because corporations have shown time and time again that owning the user data is too much responsibility for them.

You do not own the customer data anymore, the customers own it. And they can decide what you're allowed to do with it.

End of story.
Books have been around for quite a while, yet we still generally say we've been reading about coral reefs rather than exploring them.
How many stories have you read about people who tried to become self-made billionaires and ended up broke?

The idea that predicting the future, humble beginnings, and strong beliefs are key to getting rich is pretty funny. It also sounds like a recipe for being a penniless misanthrope left wondering where everything went wrong.

You’re really buying into the PR effort of these billionaires.
Yes the worst thing yon can do to fall asleep is to trying to fall asleep.
To counter this in fresh produce, is it possible to just do a thorough rinsing in the sink before preparation/consumption?
That can be true even without unions when the industry is dominated by handful of large companies and their is demand for labor.
I can totally relate.

If I could "do it again", I would respect myself first, and realize that until I got myself out of such circumstances, the rest of my life was not going to advance.

I had years, decades of people telling me I "just need to get used to it". And I tried. And tried. And tried.

And tore myself up more and more, inside. And missed out on many things.

Work. Social life. Everything. Find comfortable, dare I say "nurturing" circumstances for yourself. That's the only way, I now believe, that the rest improves.

Look at other people's reactions. If they see you stressed, uncomfortable, etc. If they think you aren't taking care of yourself. You may get a moment's expressed "sympathy", but then they will avoid you.

Wishing you better circumstances -- or rather, the presence and coherence of mind and emotion to get yourself to them.
Affiliate links could be between the user and amazon. I’m not super familiar with affiliate marketing, but you’re right it probably depends on if the cookie is set when the page loads or when the user clicks on the link.
Why is this getting downvoted? Under present American law, it's factually true. That doesn't make the valuation used for sentencing here correct, but counterfeit commercial goods in the USA really can be a criminal matter.

http://www.wafb.com/story/35675651/man-arrested-for-reported...
Well we had that Boy Scout once... not sure it turned into an EPA Superfund site though
>- Certain industries have actually become deautomated over time. As an example: coffee. It used to be exclusively made by automated machines. Now hand-making coffees is one of the largest businesses in America.

Isn't that a bad thing?
Did he have the rights to distribute the recovery media?

Im guessing the terms and conditions on the official downloads include language preventing an individual from cracking the copy. I doubt he included that language with his distribution.
Bezos famously declined to be interviewed for the Everything Store because of the narrative fallacy. Ironically in avoiding it he is probably letting it happen.
I read an article a few years ago but I cannot for the live of me remember even the larger context, so I don't even know what to ask Google to find it again. Might have been in the context of "The omnivores Dilemma" and the "grass farmer" he visited and described? Don't know if I got it form that book itself or something else I read.

It mentioned that when they (don't remember who "they" was either) studied the productivity of rice production somewhere in Asia they found that traditionally worked land was much less productive than industrial-style rice agriculture. BUT - and there was a huge "but": They studied only rice, and that is how they came to that conclusion. Turned out they completely ignored that the traditional method produced not just rice but a long list of other stuff too. So yes, it was "inefficient in producing "just rice".

Nature is a huge complex system. How about instead of continuing on a path that surely is not just sub-optimal, but probably even dangerous because it is counter to how nature works and you have to brute-force your way to "success" we give up the idea of gigantic monocultures, and instead go for complexity? That means fields that don't actually look like fields. Where lots of very different kinds of plants all grow together.

Yes, that won't work with our current machinery, and not with current knowledge. But I think that you can create biological systems that are far more productive than anything we can get from monocultures, plus none of the dangers. That requires huge amounts of research, experiments - and IT!! Because all that knowledge is too complex to give to every farmer. We need to put that knowledge into systems that then are easy to use.

I think trying to force our way to food victory won't work, over time you have to add more and more fixes for all the shortcomings that slowly accumulate in that system, from soil quality to side effects such as the wide distribution of poisons.

With enough knowledge we might truly create the Garden of Eden on earth: We let nature do all the work (#) and only go in to grab our food. Like it used to be in hunter/gatherer times, but now managed by us based on the vast amounts of knowledge and "magic tools" (that contain lots of that accumulated knowledge and free the user from having to know even a fraction of it) we created so that it scales to the billions of people. It will also help us when we think about terraforming new planets :-)

(#) Nature has trillions and trillions of little machines powered by sun energy working in unison. This is not far-fetched. We already know quite a bit about biological systems, and we have successfully created reasonably complex and large biological systems in some areas.
The original announcement is here:
https://caddyserver.com/blog/caddy-0_11-telemetry

And forum discussion here:
https://caddy.community/t/caddy-0-11-will-have-telemetry-dis...

I thought some of the ideas in the "middle ground" section discussing opt-in versus opt-out being the default depending on how you obtained the software were sort of interesting, hadn't heard that compromise suggested before.
this doesn't work in Chromium 66.0.3359.117.

I imagine it must be something wrong with the underlying emulator, but there's no audio output. visuals work, but not much else, which is sad for this bit of interesting code!
Go is my favorite language; it started out seeming unimpressive, but the more I used it the more I came to appreciate it. For me the charm is it's a very simple yet well-chosen set of features, combined with a very high level of engineering quality. I find myself spending more time solving the problem at hand when using Go than ecosystem or language BS.

My 2-most used languages prior to Go were C++ and Python, for reference. I've played with things like Haskell, but never to a high degree of proficiency. I imagine if you are a fan of fancier, stronger type systems you might find Go unimpressive. (I've also done a lot of personal elisp, as an emacs addict....)
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You should really read "The Radioactive Boy Scout", about a teenager who attempts to build a nuclear reactor. The EPA ends up dismantling his shed in moon suits.

https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou...
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Sorry, I did misunderstand your use of "Confederacy" although you are right that the USA started off as a Confederacy.

But the point still holds. The notion that a loose collection of small states could survive had been brought into contempt when Britain defeated the Dutch states. Many people argued that the North American colonies were making a mistake by imitating the loose structure that had already failed in the Netherlands. And it also failed in North America. A better organized Britain was able to defeat the Dutch. A badly organized Confederacy almost collapsed because it was unable to manage its debt. A better organized nation under the Constitution was able to pay its debts and start the process of building a cohesive society.

I'm generally critical of anyone who wants to generalize much from history, since history is full of so many contradictory trends, which play out simultaneously, and what actually happens tends to be like the waves we see at the surface of the ocean, which are always the coincidence of several waves crossing the same point at the same time, and often going in opposite directions. But that process-oriented societies have tended to beat less organized societies seems to be a thesis that can withstand a lot of scrutiny.
Facebook is shrinking fake news posts in the News Feed
$200k is not low anywhere in the US for any job (except maybe certain types of specialist doctor).
Lying to customs was the wrongdoing that initially saw him indicted.

The easy way to not have any issues with customs of course, would be to send disks without decoration as "blank CDs". Ockham's razor suggests this approach is the one you'd take if you meant to ship people a helpful installation CD at cost price.

Instead, he pays a lot of attention to whether they can pass for the real thing to customers, and then notes that for some product lines them looking like the real thing is forcing him to pay extra to send them airmail because customs check anything that looks like shipped software CDs with the licence holder...
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I don’t “understand” it because it’s not true (controls need not be technical; they can be regulatory, policy, or other methods). Save your apologies, regulation is coming to fix the deficiencies in data rights and protection. Looking forward to more of if it the same fashion.
What "gatekeeping"? The whole fascinating point is that there isn't any "gatekeeping" on SO. The demographics may be remarkably skewed, yes ... not for any categorical exclusion, but for self-selected choice to not engage.

If people choose to avoid a group, while that group in no way excludes them, why keep blaming the group?
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>I also disagree with this. The GDPR doesn't do anything to make companies handle my data more carefully or responsibly.

Please actually the read the GDPR before commenting on it. Specifically read this for guidance on how companies should be handling data: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-25-gdpr/ and its suitable recital: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-78/
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