skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more democratic you are as a nation, the more time elected officials spend thinking about ways to improve the lives of ordinary people (not just those in power).

Been considering moving to one of the countries high on the democracy index to work/code and pay taxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
It doesn't apply to personal projects, unless they're commercial.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-18/

> This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity. 2Personal or household activities could include correspondence and the holding of addresses, or social networking and online activity undertaken within the context of such activities. 3However, this Regulation applies to controllers or processors which provide the means for processing personal data for such personal or household activities.
Maybe, and I know this sounds crazy, secure chat clients shouldn't execute user/potential-attacker supplied code at all???
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As is finance. Create wealth, do not appropriate it.
Yup. Ultimately, these products aren't about products and new revenue but keeping their best engineers happy (and out of the hands of anyone else).
Yeah. That's the US version also, not sure how common it is outside US.
They've got an OpenCL SDK for it now, that brings it under the same interface that a lot of folks have been using for the Phi and other many core tech Intel has been pushing for HPC.

It's not really that hard to get rolling at this point.
get the implants if you can. Dentures are tough and the jaw/chin recedes more quickly than you think
Damn it. The Epstein drive is a fusion drive. It's far more plausible than this voodoo quackery, the only thing keeping it out of reality is the fact that nothing that size could handle the wattage without becoming a rapidly expanding cloud of plasma.

Everyone that hopes for a bright future would absolutely love a reactionless drive. I'd love it. But it's not real. We've seen lots of very bad methodology and things like researchers ignoring the fact that a null setup still produces the same thrust even though the drive has been modified not to work. With forces of this tiny order of magnitude it's incredibly hard to get accurate readings, and readings within the margin of error of the instrumentation should not be reported to sensationalist media as promising.

This is just another one of those ufo antigravity quacks you see on youtube, but somehow they got their day in court. I can't explain how much I'd love to be proven wrong, but reactionless drives are physically ludicrous in every single way we understand the universe. Is it possible for us to be wrong? Sure. Is it possible that we're wrong about literally every observation we've ever made in the history of physics? I very much doubt it and it's going to take more than a badly set-up experiment featuring a microwave stuffed into a tuba to convince anyone of that.
> Can you show me one of these blockchain-based mesh networks in production? How many users do they have?

Why does it need to be in production? The technology is 10 years old, and it has been widely known by researchers for less than half that time. Just trying to find any hole you can pick? This is by a respected researcher who has recently shifted his focus to blockchain with the potential it has for IoT and mesh networks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324005919_SENATE_A_...

> As for voting and trade records, how do you deal with the fact that developers can fork the chain and invalidate past transactions like they did with Bitcoin in 2010 and 2013, or like they did with Ethereum in 2016? Why do you trust the developers more than your own government? And if you live in an oppressive regime, what makes you think your government will allow your blockchain to be used for voting?

The credentials you tried showing off made it sound like you would have a good understanding of the various blockchain technologies in play... You should know that proof-of-stake and master nodes allow a semi-centralized network to be created where the transactions are still public and verifiable, but important parties (i.e. the government, in the case of some of the examples I provided) have a significantly stronger influence on the outcomes of the network. Sure, any developers can fork the blockchain or create invalid blocks, but why would you switch your software to use that chain?

> If your government wants transparency, why don't they simply expose a read-only API to their database?

They probably don't want transparency but that's a separate issue. Let's use the example of voting -- an election running on a public blockchain protocol with all of the votes can be verified and summed, and by knowing your private key you can see how your vote was counted without decrypting that vote to anyone else (even the government). With an API and a database, you could authenticate and get the value they stored for how you voted, but obviously it's a violation of privacy to see how everyone else voted so you can't verify the system as a whole. Most prominent example in this space: https://followmyvote.com/online-voting-technology/blockchain...

These are pretty basic examples to be honest and you are allegedly quite involved in the space, so I assume you just don't want it to be true.
you definitely don't sound like majority voice.
Personal projects are exempt.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-18/

> This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity. 2Personal or household activities could include correspondence and the holding of addresses, or social networking and online activity undertaken within the context of such activities.
That agrees exactly with what CNIL said. Obviously you have to keep an index of requested deletes for the same length of time you keep backups in order to re-delete the relevant data in the event of restoring the backups.

Article 63 of the GDPR specifically covers consistency of enforcement across the regulatory agencies.
The author confuses mobile web for mobile app traffic which isn't accounted for. One is the traffic from users using facebook.com via a browser on their phone versus using the installed application. Maybe the drop is real or Facebook has successfully converted more users to the Facebook app, Messenger app, etc.
Damn it, that would have been a great idea. We could have gotten rid of this silly concept for good. Musk, it's time to launch another car!
You just described Cops having legal protection beyond ordinary citizens which is exactly what you asked for. At no point did you separate civil and criminal protection.

In practice prosecutors don't try cops for using reasonable force in arrests. So they don't need protection for that.

What they need protection from is everyone and their brother suing them out of malice for arresting them. And they get that from qualified immunity.

PS: You can think of civil and criminal law as independent, but that's really not how are system operates.
Nitpicking, but can we put some warning if the link will automatically download something? ZIP in this case.

HN seems to cut the link text.
Reach out to me. Contact info in profile.
I find it disturbing when people I don't know ask to be friends, if they don't have any friends in common with me. I can't really understand why FB even allows this as when would they not be bots or scammers?

When it's someone you just recently met.
There has always been hope. Water fasting. Frustrating how something so simple and effective is kept hidden from the public.
Googled it for you. From their github repo... "To date the OpenPGP.js code base has undergone two complete security audits from Cure53. The first audit's report has been published here." https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs
This just makes the password the hash of the user's passphrase.
Nobody is forcing people to do business with the EU. If you don't like the laws in the EU, then you don't have to do business with the EU. Simple as that.

(My whole point is that a lot of people arguing about GDPR want it both ways, and don't see that it's not strange that countries have rules for doing business with their residents.)
> With Merged Patches in Projects of: Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, NASA

I was skimming the site and the meaning of this phrase was unclear to me.
>...between billionaires and Christians.

It was teachers in Oregon, decades ago when this came up there was lots of talk, but very little "discussion". (late 80s early 90s)

This was back in the day when they were calling the internet the "information super highway" and we had been sharing the anarchists cookbook on BBS for years already. The ozone hole was brand new and came and went quickly. Haven't heard anything really about it until now.

It's odd how so many assumptions about people's experience and beliefs cause such harsh reactions.
You're right and this is just the classic walled garden tradeoff - freedom for convenience. Depending who you are, this might be acceptable, and it's good that we have choices.
It helped me cure my cancer too. Highly recommend
I use to get about 2 a week.... then I went very low carb diet (keto) for weightloss.... and found the migraines massively reduced in frequency and intensity....

Dug around and found that this is a commonly reported side benefit of a ketogenic diet.

Sounds off the wall until you realize Keto diets were originally used for managing childhood epilepsy.
So, imagine you're running a free service as a side project. And the state of Idaho introduces a law, that has federal teeth, such that if a resident of Idaho might use your service, you must register with the state of Idaho. Would you be happy about that? Is there any possibility that you might decide to simply block Idaho rather than deal with the hassle?

A better solution would be a webpage, hosted by the state of Idaho saying "Here's what we're after, don't do these things, and you're in no danger." Followed, hopefully, by a list of things that you weren't planning on doing anyway because you're not a jerk, and that are crystal clear so you don't have to speculate about how selective the attorney general of the state of Idaho is in prosecuting these sorts of crimes.
Yeah, I know then open sourced it. But that's not quite the same.

"Too hip"? Early on MySpace was too hip. Twitter, FB, etc. all too hip. That said, eventually such things mainstream. Given how well Wave reflected actual conversation I think it could have caught on. Again, it was better than Slack, and look where Slack is.

No disrespect of Slack. But Wave was actually something special.
Don't spend another second thinking about it or them and move on to better pastures. It could be as simple as someone was ahead of you in the queue and you were a backup interview.
Lector in Codigo or the Role of the Reader [pdf]
The way it's phrased can make it sound like accidental, but there are a large number of such sites all across the southwest. The largest involve very, very big boulders and extensive human modifications. Given the cultural importance and how obvious the production process is, it's likely many or most were intentional.
Broadband speeds 'far slower than in ads'
It looks like i3.metal is also available - seeing them in the console
Interesting. More social sounds good. More writing is good. I'll probably try it and see how it affects me. The up variety will probably be better for me, since caffeine doesn't affect my anxiety if I have a single cup of coffee a day, and if I take downers I definitely feel relaxed but in a way that eventually causes some melancholy and sadness about the lack of work I feel like doing.

I'm always trying to find a way to feel relaxed without taking something that significantly affects other functions. A glass of wine on the beach is great. Two glasses and I can't sleep or do anything meaningful. Pot makes me full-on panic-- yes I've tried CBD oil, and it causes panic attacks of a lesser intensity.

Breathing exercises sometimes work, and maybe I haven't practiced enough (hey! good point, me), but it's not reliable enough so that I can do it anywhere (especially being so busy) and find relief.

There's always this underlying, gnawing anxiety. It's usually low-level enough that I can manage unless something unexpected happens-- which is often. In that case I have a few different things to manage but all of them result in someone being disappointed.
Slider all the way to the right, only hear demonic "Laurie".
Agreed.

By chance do you have references on SimilarWeb paying "Chrome extension owners and later hijack the code to track everyone who installs it"? Curious to learn more about exactly what they're doing here.
> These days it's all semi-spam from pages and random week-old friend's FB activities being surfaced in a poorly targeted fashion

I think putting the spam on facebook on equal footing with its post targeting as to why people aren't using facebook is wrong. I have hundreds of friends and tens of pages on FB, which I'll admit by FB's standards isn't all that much, yet I still find it much harder to browse than other sites with many times the content. Most people simply don't post that often or not at all, and the pages I joined don't post often either.

Despite how little content there is I find the issue of managing it all completely intractable. When I'm on Feedly I go through hundreds of posts worth of content in a few minutes by mashing the j key until I find content I want to read later, save it and then spend maybe 2 hours a week going through content I care about. When I'm on Twitter I skim until I see familiar content and pick out the stuff I care about. When I'm on reddit, I know it takes about 48 hours for my feed to "refresh" so I'll spend some time every other day skimming from top to bottom.

I can't even begin to figure out a workflow for finding content on Facebook. The whole thing is laid out so quickly finding the things I care about is impossible. I can scroll past ten posts I've seen before something new pops up so I have no idea when to stop scrolling. There's no concept of a "read" post and unlike reddit the "hide" button, hidden behind a menu, acts like a downvote. I have no way of creating a single stream of just the things I care about, and if I did there's no way to update myself when things change. Unlike youtube, there's no RSS feeds so I can't just do my browsing from Feedly. Even just getting a feed of my events is impossible since FB has the audacity to suggest events from pages I've never interacted with, have no friends going and thinks those are more important to me than the events created by pages I actually follow. Push notifications are insanely coursely-grained (or at least they do a good job hiding the interface). Cambridge Analytica be damned, the reason I don't use FB is because I can't figure out how. My age, income level and computer-addicted brain should make me prime meat for advertisers, yet I change the oil more often than login to FB simply because the algorithms that generate my feeds are just that bad.
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What happens when that is not possible though? E.g. in the case there is a breach and it is found out because of it that you were not compliant. Do they still write you a letter? Also , is this procedure common for all DPAs or just for the UK?
This is an important point.

Example: Parts of our software run on customer servers and as such they are processing data in their control and not ours, hence can for example used to filter out personal data before they are then sent to our servers, without causing any GDPR related triggering of sending personal information to a third party (our company).
Analytics and from that Ads. That's the trick.

Thiel takes them to task in Zero to One. Worth reading just for that.
I follow everyone from DailyKos to Weekly Standard on Twitter...I don't think I want to "avoid politics" or ones that differ from my own, most people find it very difficult to nail down what my views even are.

I want to avoid circle jerks, nonsensical news items and conspiracies, etc. /r/politics and /r/The_Donald both offer no value to Reddit or society, they are all just echo chambers, and they don't value or encourage diversity in view points. They are the same thing but on opposite ends of the spectrum. /r/Politics will be full of "ShareBlue" links and /r/The_Donald will be full of Breitbart. Not sure where the diversity of thought comes into play, which seems to miss the point of a "forum."

Anyhow, on the Facebook front you have equally uninformed people telling you their opinion on something, usually based on a false premise from a biased source they read...except this time you actually -know- these people.

If you do try to find a middle ground, which is generally where most truth is, in the grey, you are attacked by both sides for not being on their team. Like it's some game.
Unfortunately it would have to be a little further from Earth's magnetosphere to get a good test. Cubesats are kind of atmosphere skimmers.
To stop it becoming a retail item and to fund the software dev.
How a free web demo exposed millions of Americans’ real-time locations
You can even just go by street signs and general directions sometimes. I don't know if I have any paper maps any more. Plus, you know, reading maps while driving is probably as dangerous as texting.

The other day, I left home intending to go to a hospital near where I live. As I usually do, I plugged my phone into my car and tried to tell it to navigate there. But for some reason it hung while trying to contact Google to locate the address.

So I rebooted my phone, and rebooted my car, to no avail. Eventually I gave up, and based on the general knowledge that the hospital was to the south east, took one of the main roads through the city east, until I saw the first of several blue "H" signs directing me to the hospital.

My car has an electronic compass as well, if I didn't know which way was east/south.
Anecdote. I'm very liberal and as upset as anyone about Trump and the aftermath. But I have an aunt who constantly posts anti-Trump stuff, and it is just so tedious. At best this sort of things ends up being a version of the two-minutes-hate. I've taken to telling it "hide posts from XXX political source" just to get rid of it all...
twitter also has an annoying algorithm that thinks it knows what you really want to see. chronological newsfeeds are dearly missed.
That sounds like a caricature on cavemen civilisation. I’ve read sources that suggest some hunter gatherers were extremely violent and others weren’t. But, really, we just don’t know.
Of course they shouldn't, that is the bug, I think? The authors thought they were displaying user-supplied HTML, not executing user-supplied code.

You can say secure chat clients should not display HTML messages, but that's a pretty different thing.
If FB won’t let me, I will get my fake news elsewhere
I think you misunderstand what I was saying. We collect data in our system. We use that data for marketing under legitimate interest. Sometimes marketing would like more analysis done on the data than we have time to implement. They hear about some SaaS business that will take the data and give them a marketing plan (Yay! No work to do!). They ask us to ship over all the data to the SaaS business. Sometimes it's a good idea because the SaaS business is legitimately providing an analysis service. Almost all of the time the SaaS business is providing nothing beneficial and instead just scooping up personal data that they sell. It's difficult for us technical people to explain why we can't just arbitrarily ship data over to some random SaaS. With GDPR it will be much, much, much better. Essentially I think it will shut down the fly by night operations that are just sucking data and offering nothing in return. But on the flip side it will mean that these analysis operations will have to charge a reasonable fee for their services (instead of selling the data they collect). This, in turn, will prompt the marketing people to have to do due diligence because they actually have to spend money out of their budget. No more "It's free, so why not?"

Similarly we sometimes get asked to incorporate silly things into our service because the marketing people think that it will create engagement. Again, these are free SaaS businesses that are scooping up data and selling it. Although I made up the cat emoji thing, it's not that far off what we sometimes get asked to incorporate. With GDPR, those businesses are going to have to charge for their services and that's going to have to come out of our budget. We don't have to argue "We're not shipping our whole customer database over to a SaaS just so we can have cat emojis on the the system". Similarly, it makes our systems simpler because if they really want cat emojis, we can implement them -- it's just not "free" (it never was, but it's hard to have that conversation sometimes).

I probably should have left the SaaS thing out of my explanation because it's confusing and only slightly related to what I was talking about :-). Like I said, we use some great services for marketing and will continue to do so under GDPR.
XMPP does have presence functionality so I'd consider that to be systematic monitoring. I don't know if his service is doing that, but it's one of the most useful aspects and definitely seems to fit the definition to me.
Crazy thought: Hearing loss starts at higher frequencies- so is it possible that we have a large portion of population with hearing issues due to years of abusing technology? (I.e. Loud music in headphones, cars, homes?)
I've learned that one can recommend a book or guide without agreeing with everything in it, and Peter Drucker's MBO concepts (insofar as OKR adheres to them) are one of those things I don't agree with. Grove's book also has some clarifications about how OKR is balanced against long-term objectives, which lessens its ill-effects somewhat.

I agree with much of the rest of the book though.
CFAA probably does bar research like this; your right to test something for security flaws technically ends where someone else's server hardware begins. In reality, the optics of this vulnerability are so bad that you are vanishingly unlikely to take any legal shit for it. But be careful extrapolating from it. If you have questions about the legality of this kind of testing (and you should): consult a lawyer. Small price to pay.

It's a good find. Congrats.
VR/AR is still in its "our users are completely untrained" skeuomorphic UI phase. There's been a tunnel-vision focus on gaming, Virtual Reality, and immersion.

The design space for HMD and body tracking UIs is much larger than skeuomorphic VR. I've liked attaching eyeballs to my hand, to explore graphs without gymnastics or manipulation. Using aphysical kind-of-planar workspaces, to permit subpixel resolution on integrated graphics. Remapping motion, to permit fast ergonomic input from resting hands.

Non-skeuomorphic UIs aren't getting much attention yet. And even awareness of that is not yet widespread. But there's a lot of fun incoming.
Approximately the same thing happened to me with Red Hat.
That's how things were before ubiquitous GPS and electronic maps. Lawn, off, etc.