skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they're unwilling to shoulder the risk.. so why should they get to keep people's data? Because it's a small operation? Because the owner doesn't have time to secure it?

Yeah, it's extremely easy to not share your data with them.. if you know they don't care about protecting it.. But what about all of the other people on the internet that don't know this guy doesn't care about your privacy?

Convincing businesses to take your personal data seriously is the whole point, and you shouldn't get a free pass just because you only handle people's personal data in your spare time.
There is a documentary on Netflix called "Take your pills" about Aderall (and it's cousin Ritalin). According to it a lot of people under 25 take it, they feature a student, a software developer, a financial analyst.

After watching it my understanding of Aderall is that it makes you capable of intense focus (a sort of anti-procrastinator). It doesn't make you smarter or capable of solving stuff that you couldn't before. They end with saying that it destroys lives and that it's dangerous, but they never quite delivered on that, one guy said that it destroyed his life but he never went into detail and he didn't look like you typical image of a crack-addict (ie: felt to me more of like a thing they did to prevent them being accused of promoting drugs).
I think you nailed it. To me, God is about the question of “why” and science is the question of “how”.

That being said, I think God has to be a programmer - it’s the most efficient way to create something huge (the universe), while being predictable, and therefore knowing “everything”. The universe is just a huge - ok, really, really huge - state machine. And the programmer who wrote it can predict it’s state at any point of time.
The media focus on what is extraordinary. "Granny walks home safely for 2,472th time" is not going to get a front page splash in any newspaper save for The Onion.

Similarly, "many men and women do not take a particular drug" is not going to move copies of Wired.

What brings eyeballs is novelty. Danger. Jealousy. Sex. Power.

What doesn't bring eyeballs are repetitious, unremarkable, properly calibrated statements of reality. Our brain already tunes that signal out.

By way of disclaimer, I take methylphenidate as a treatment for ADHD-PI.
The point of your post was that companies should treat all data like credit numbers. The point of my post is that the need for a large number of parties to keep secrets is indicative of a fundamental design issue, not a caller for stricter secret-keeping standards.
IMO, forums that are large enough to be potential GDPR enforcement targets

GDPR does not discriminate based on the size of the site. My 7 year old niece could start a site, throw Google Analytics code on there, and be fined millions of dollars for not disclosing it if an EU visitor happens to come by. That is the world we now live in.
> The GDPR is about 68 to 90 pages depending on which language you're reading it in [...] I run a small business and I like this. Just about anybody can read it and understand what rights and requirements are being set out in it.

I don't run a small business, I make small things on the internet, this is not why I got into tech, I don't want to read 68 pages of yuk. 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.

FB fucked it up for everyone, ultimately people gota learn that when you give data to someone you implicitly entrust them with it. FB had to go and be evil and now the EU is overreaching demanding everyone spend their time bubble wrapping everything... everyone backing them up are the village people taking to the streets with torches and burning shopkeepers after the king was found doing witchcraft. Go burn the king.
My MIT analog circuits course in 1973 used APL. I dont know what they use now.
If I rightly understand the reply to my sibling comment (which seemed perfectly valid, I don't see why it got nuked into oblivion?) it's that if you 'disagree and commit' and then the thing you committed to fails, you get blamed (either directly for it failing, or for committing to an idea which you knew would fail - which I thought was the point?)
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-assets-make-wealth/

Keep in mind that when referring to real estate the value is often the equity (asset - debt) not the asset value itself. Pretty sure that is the case with SCF data from the Census.
In SV I have yet to run into a tech company that drug tests.

It once came up in a higher up meeting at a company I worked at and someone snickered and said “never gonna happen. I would lose a bunch of my top performers.”

(I am sure there are companies that test but it is the exception here.)
Not a founder but I do want to share some information to act as context for the other responses.

I use modafinil quite regularly.

It is very easy to get.

No one that i don't do drugs with recreationally knows that I use it. If it came up in a discussion with people I know professionally and I needed to contribute an opinion, it'd be slightly negative and dismissive of the idea.
I think what really disturbed people was not the ads, which are pretty obvious, but rather the idea that Facebook shared user data with a company that influenced the outcome of an election.
Unrelated, but I couldn't help but think about this tweet I saw recently https://twitter.com/ChloeCondon/status/988942270891085827
Good question..

I would guess there is no requirement data is wiped.
Your file system doesn't wipe data, it just marks it as deleted. At some point it's a technicality, the important part is that you stop using the data.

I suspect intent matters more than technicality.
A page about hair-splitting on translations of a philosophy whose chapter one paragraph one states the notion isn't possible to convey in words!

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
Collect content feeds and build a big site aggregator, maybe even distributed DB of them, add a search engine, advertising, crowd sourcing, paid feeds. Kickstarter and gofundme are creating their own advanced pateron clones. You could make a wordpress/drupal theme so people dont have to find all plugins and set it up. Have a dedicated site to collect all the RSS "Content" feeds, and you basically out classed facebook and youtube.

Apple seems to control the podcast database, and its just people submitting RSS feeds.

I've been using IFTTT to build sites that are just feeding multiple sites into 1 location, reddit subs, youtube channels, etc.

The tech is out there, but everyone seems to be thinking they need to be facebook/youtube clones.
You're not going to get much meaningful data, this kind of thing is often kept hidden.
That seems incredibly misleading. As per Investopedia, buying on margin requires a margin account which requires a minimum of $2000. That is pennies, but given most Americans have far less than $2000 in their bank accounts, and most are already strapped with significant debt, suggesting the should or even could is wrong.

https://www.investopedia.com/university/margin/margin1.asp
> You know, until someone opportunistically sues you using a legal firm that costs the plaintiff nothing, and then you're out the cost of getting a lawyer and trying to defend

This has always been true, nothing has changed
They tested that already. They can land with two just fine. There is video on their youtube channel https://youtu.be/xYYTuZCjZcE?t=2m10s where they test this.

They also tested an emergency escape from the booster near maximum dynamic pressure https://youtu.be/ESc_0MgmqOA?t=51s
I once switched to T-Mobile from the plan Sprint offered to families of employees.

At one point T-Mobile had better plans for the public than Sprint had as a private perk.

I sometimes wonder what would happen if a Bezos or Walton wandered into telecommunications, seeking the lowest possible margins, what mad havoc it would wreak.
As I said in my edit, this is all subject to the details of a company's posture.
You're being downvoted unfairly. It is what they cost. Those costs can be mitigated though; there's a lot of businesses that make it their goal to solve regulations for small startups.

The question is more on the side of, is the cost worth it? A good and much longer-running example of this is in the medical industry. There are massive regulations around development of new drugs and treatments. Massive regulations around experimentation on humans. This stifles innovation and prevents potentially life-changing drugs from making it to the market faster, or sometimes ever. It also prevents a lot of other things, such as crackpots from entering the mass market and selling poison as an anti-aging drug.

Is it worth it? There's still debate about this today, especially when promising cancer treatments are taking years/decades to reach the market (=> how many lives are lost during that time? What's the tradeoff for someone who is terminally ill anyway? etc). I'm not nearly informed enough to pick a side in that debate, but it goes to show it's not necessarily a bad thing for "fly by night websites" to be heavily impacted by regulations like these.
I don't really understand why. They just should not collect real names or any other personal information and then they would be fine.
"Failing" seems a bit harsh. Lots of people run websites that don't make money, and lots of users get value from such sites. Sometimes the operator still hopes to gain from the site (in publicity or whatever), or sometimes it's just a gift.

The GDPR just made that gift more expensive. If he's not doing anything deliberately shady, then the probability that he'll get fined is small; but a small probability times 20M EUR is still a big number.

Maybe I don't understand the GDPR well enough, but the statutory fines seem insane to me. Why do you think 20M EUR is the right number here? Or am I missing details of the law (the law, not how you expect it will be enforced) that mean his actual maximum liability is smaller? Do you just have extraordinary confidence in the regulators to "do the right thing", and thus no qualms about giving them the legal authority to ruin his life?
I was under the impression that air travel was an extremely competitive market with slim profit margins. Am i wrong?
I am a director of a UK based IT company (MD) I am also the ISO9001 senior worrier and an ISO27001 sponsor. Just in case you are concerned that I might be a PHB (I do not have enough hair anyway): I run Arch Linux on all my PCs and am personally CREST accredited.

The purpose of GDPR is protect individual's right to privacy - I doubt you can fault that. You and I are both individuals ...

Have you actually sat down with a copy of the GDPR a clear mind, and some really good coffee and bothered to read it? If you are arguing the toss with me based on something that someone else has told you then go away.

GDPR is designed to protect people - you and I if you like. I'm a fan of it.
I don’t see anything in your comment that pertains to “... what you bought, how often you went to the bathroom or who you went with”, so yeah, still spouting nonsense.

The police here don’t wear body armor, by the way. Where did you hallucinate that from?

$80k permits — have you seen the goddamn traffic in Novena on a weekend? Oh, never mind, you’ve “spent enough time” here. Obviously.

Air conditioned city — is that supposed to be a jab? It’s as if you’ve forgotten that we’re right at the equator. Look up a map sometime.
That caught my eye while scrolling through Netflix last, but I didn't watch it. Anecdotally, I took adderral 5 or so times in college to help me study. It helped a lot but wasn't habit forming at all. I have considered taking it for interview prep.
I have a theory about this. It's a kind of intentional incompetence. You won't get praised in an organisation for implementing GDPR because it is seen as a cost. In some cases it is even restricting revenue (or at least making it more difficult). By only having a surface understanding of the issue, you can intentionally misunderstand it while later having a plausible excuse. When/if you have a big lawsuit directed at you, you can blame the summary websites, consultants, etc for being insufficient. Indeed, you can blame the GDPR for be "too complicated". "Even the experts got it wrong".

But if you read the law, claim to understand it and don't implement it properly, you are screwed. It's just another case where savy managers are avoiding personal risk at the expense of corporate risk.
> You must not have much experience with government-types. Laws are always used to the furthest extent that they can be. In this case, the EU has declared itself an Internet dictator

Found the vegan^Wlibertarian
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> ridiculous

> insulting

Of course you appealed to emotion.

Also you assumed her gender, big mistake on the internet.
> I'm sure that defense contractors are very careful about where they source components.

I thought that's why military hardware is so expensive. You're not just paying for a radio or whatever, you're paying for an entire hardened supply chain with everything sourced from trusted manufacturers. I guess maybe that's not the case any more...
> All we have to do is be a little vulnerable and ask them out on a date, go for that first kiss, get down on one knee and so on.

It's a lot more complicated than that. Getting down on one knee can be more expensive than a knee replacement.
How did you find that link?

Does this work for other sites?
Most people will never admit it to someone they aren't extremely close with, especially if it pertains to work/business. I certainly wouldn't.
I take ritalin (methylphenidate).

It makes me capable of merely ordinary adult focus (and I still need other tactics in addition). I read these anecdotes about superhuman laser-beam focus and it kinda irks me because I just come up to "able to hold a job" levels.
They're not saying never create subclasses, so much as never start with a base class and then create subclasses from it. The idea presented is that you should instead be starting with the specific classes you need, and if they have common operations, possibly creating a base class out of those.
Another business destroyed due to needless regulations and busy suits.
The law is completely readable by non-lawyers, IMHO. It's one of the better written laws I've seen. But here's a website by the UK government that explains what all the terms mean and exactly what you have to do: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
I don’t understand these kinds of articles. I left Facebook two years ago. My mobile phone battery life has improved.
What you suggest would be way too complicated for ordinary people to deal with. Heck, I'm a software engineer and I wouldn't even want to do it for myself.

Besides, I don't see how your solution would hurt Facebook any more than just using Facebook without clicking on the ads.

The value of Facebook is that it's easy to use and almost everyone you know has an account. Any competing solution needs to get both of those things right.

By the way, getting those things right at the scale of Facebook requires highly skilled people, and some of them are going to make $240k a year or more -- why are you citing the Facebook median salary like it's a bad thing?
I'm probably biased because I spend good part of quarter by designing reasonably secure CSPRNG for smartcard chip without hardware RNG (and ended up exploiting essentially any cross-clockdomain communication as entropy source) and thus I assume that typical smardcard vendors don't care about that (too much work) while HSM vendors simply leverage infrastructure of whatever (RT)OS they use and probably harden that somewhat.
They said, as their primary point "make a C-corp (or equivalent) so you don't have to pay if you are wrong". That solves the risk problem, unless you think they have positive equity.
The last article I saw on it was saying they got tired of playing whack-a-mole so went back and the court gave them a blanket ban.

I'm sure they could challenge it if they wanted to step on to US soil which, in this case, probably isn't such a good idea.
The EU is destroying prosperity and making lives more miserable than they already are.
Well, the EU basically says that if you store data on people who fall under EU law, you're doing business in the EU.

This doesn't sound crazy to me.

If I'm in europe and I sell to an american, I have to adhere to certain US laws just the same. I have to fill in a W8-BEN form or whatnot.

I can elect not to, but next time I'm in the US, things might get awkward at customs. Also, my customers might be fined or more or less 'ordered' not to do business with me. That's within the US's right.

That's just how it works. Everywhere. For all countries.
ergo why big corporations push and even lobby for government regulations
> It doesn't make you smarter or capable of solving stuff that you couldn't before.

Probably the biggest surprise for me since starting my own company has been how little "hard stuff" I've done. I've learned a whole lot of new skills but the hard part is keeping nose to grindstone, not emitting flashes of brilliance. Versatility and average engineering skills applied persistently are more than adequate (in my experience) so something like modafinil would probably be a significant win for me - too bad I can't risk trying it since I'm probably not diagnosably ADHD and my work involves semi-regular drug tests.
My employer, https://shadow.cat/ is offering GDPR compliance consultancy, and so far the take away has been "if you're a non-tech company, it's not honestly that hard" plus "if you're a tech company, it's only hard if your entire business model is built around exploiting your customers' data".

If it costs 7 figures to hire consultants, either your business model was parasitic in the first place or your consultants are attempting to fleece you.

(if you don't believe me, email mdk@shadowcat.co.uk and ask - I run the tech team, I'm not nearly as much of an expert on the rules as he is - and if you're emailing him to ask with no intention to pay us anything, that's fine, just make sure to blame me)
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I was prescribed Aderall for ADHD growing up; 14-25yo. Towards the end doctors were loath to continue my prescription, until finally a doctor refused and I couldn't get it since. Their story has always been: it's an amphetamine, and comes with all those risks and health concerns. Particularly around heart health.

When I took it, it felt like that movie "Limitless". Superpower concentration. I took their word on the health bit though, no free lunch, so I stayed away. I developed A-fib (Atrial Fibrillation) at age 30, which is very rare at that young. Could be any number of things, most notably genetics (though I'd be my family's first); but doctors to whom I mention Aderall all have this "ahhhhh" reaction. "Could be something else, but if I were a betting man..."

Frankly, I've always figured the way Aderall abusers abuse - here and there, for finals or work deadlines - couldn't be that dangerous, unless you get into the habit. I (and many others) was prescribed 1x/d for ~10 years. Seems to have caught up to me, but that's some relative heavy usage. I certainly don't condone, just brain-dumping experience.
Works for WSJ and a few other sites.

javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)

Save that as a bookmarklet and use it anytime you encounter a paywall. Not mine, found it through HN too.
The original reason may have been that k3 was not open source and the free version was limited. But in general people write these things for all sorts of reasons. Just as there are dozens of Scheme interpreters.
Tom Otterness, who made all the bronze sculptures in the 14th street & 8th ave station, first rose to fame with a performance art piece he did where he video taped himself adopting a dog and then shooting it in the head.

If you think the way that startups market themselves is sometimes questionably ethical, in other industries it's apparently even crazier.
Modafinil has weak affinity for the dopamine transporter. Don't take advice from Dave Asprey, Tim Ferriss, or other pseudoscience practitioners. See a doctor if you have problems at work.
The owner is just focusing on their startup, as they should be. It's up to the owner to decide their tolerance of risk against regulations which hold them to account.

A defensive piece you've made completely misunderstands how a business works in terms of the decisions made regarding risk, especially to an individual who lacks bandwidth/resources.

According to your post, you only expect well endowed individuals/large businesses to be compliant, which is precisely the problem.
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If I’m not mistaken it recently received further funds to continue the “slow and steady” research via one of the “crazy Idea” research funding pools.
Is there any kind of blanket CYA waiver that we can put on sign-up pages like "if you're an EU citizen, sorry you can't use this site because GDPR. Definitely don't click 'sign up' below anyway" ? What is the opt-out criteria for a site?
I have read it, as have our lawyers, which is why we have no choice but to block all EU traffic from our services.
All fans of the law think it will only be used to go after "bad" guys. But that just isn't how laws like this are used in practice. They are designed to be easy to violate for a reason - that reason being to generate massive revenue from fines.

You should take a look at this well reasoned blog post about why someone stopped selling their products in the EU - https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selli...

There are just far more issues here than you're acknowledging.
I take modafinil daily to counteract the exhaustion and lethargy of obstructive sleep apnea. I only take 50mg (so I split the pill in quarters) but some days take another 50mg after lunch time.

It's greatly affected my work in a positive way and will continue doing so until I get used to my CPAP and actually get a real night's sleep.
I like this because most social media functionality save for some exceptions (Snapchat, Telegram, etc) can be implemented over email
As someone who has had to try to figure out how to implement GDPR, my takeaway so far is that it might eventually be ok, once the courts have clarified what it actually requires. But, that process will be quite profitable for European governments.
Interesting.

Howany hours are you working per day? I'm doing 12+ so that's probably adding to the exhaustion factor a lot.

Might be interesting to try this without working insane hours haha.
I'm not sure "needless" is the right word here. Even if you think this law is bad, there is clearly a need for data privacy and protection laws.

People's reaction to their data being scooped up by Cambridge Analytica just because a facebook friend did a survey proves the need. What CA did was probably legal, but in most people's minds should not have been legal.
I think the concern about older fuel system components is real.

The engine management system will compensate in milliseconds, so meh on that part.
I put facebook and instagram at about the 5th screen away from my home screen. So if I want to load them I have to swipe past 5 other pages of apps. Went from checking them 4x a day to about 2x a week. Much better!