skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think these are just the normal hype cycles for new technologies.

You're not wrong. Remember in the late 90's when everything was all i-this, and cyber-that? Everything was going to be on "the interweb!"

Those big mainframes of yesteryear? We don't need them anymore. We have AOL and thin clients!

Back in the 80's: We don't need rockets anymore, we have space shuttles!

In the 70's: Who needs stereo? We have quadraphonic sound now!

Look at old mainstream magazines from the 1950's. EVERYTHING was going to be solved by being "atomic." Too busy to cook dinner? Let your atomic kitchen do the work for you! Spilled coffee on your tie? Let an atomic washer make it clean for you! Little Johnny put in the dunce corner again? Slap an atomic Think-o-Tron on his head and let radiation smarten him up!

I'm sure there are a brazillion other/better examples. Feel free to add yours.
Is it me or are we asking too much of our relationships? In the past, relationships were based on proximity more than anything else, but now int he world of endless choice, we seem to want more from our friends, our partners, our co-workers, etc.

I think the whole thing is just so tiring. I think almost everyone I know would do something if I were in trouble and if I asked them (to a point, I don't know anyone who would want to take care of me for a month - even myself).

I read recently that marriage is becoming the same thing where we want our partner to be EVERYTHING - the drinking buddy, the confidante, the psychological help, the travel partner... and supposedly that makes everyone unsatisfied with their partner because it's such a stupidly tall order. Do we hire people to do all those things for us too? On the other side though, if you find that person, you get REALLY good marriages. I would suspect the same is true with friendships. Instead of being worried whether a friend is a true friend, just relish that you have friends who can serve different purposes in your life and if you have a close one - enjoy it.
You're not funny.
> They chose to outlaw the keeping of the data

Which is not true. Under the GDPR, you are not allowed to "process" any data unless you have a legal ground for doing it. One such legal ground is consent, but it can be withdrawn and so at that point you need to "stop processing". The thing is, "processing" is a broad term and includes not just storage but basically anything that happens to the data. So even use is not allowed.
Can you flesh that out a bit more? What are those ways?
This is great. Everyone says react is easy and can be learnt in a day, and the docs/tutorials definitely make it feel that way. But then when you actually go to use it there are a bazillion funky patterns using new-ish es6 patterns and operators, and by the time you’ve implemented them they are outdated and no longer best practice because apparently there’s a better way now. So this list is useful.
Needs a hit counter!
LN is already working on the mainnet network, I've used it several times and so far it's working well.

From here, it just has to reach scale, maturity and adaption.
Adtech is a joke. Even targeted ads are so irrelevant to the point where I don't think most people can tell if they're random or not. Except when the creepiness kicks in, because they show you ads for this one thing you googled a week ago.

Google can't get it right. Their ads suck, and their Youtube suggestions aren't much better. Amazon can't get suggestions right in their own store.

The whole ad industry is a joke. Most people I know do not watch TV anymore, not because of the content, but because of ads. I enjoy reading magazines, but I don't bother anymore because they got full of ads. Now I read books instead. Most Youtubers either have some kind of sponsoring directly in the video, or a Patreon because Youtube ads are clearly awful and ineffective.

I think Patreon and Netflix et al. proves quite nicely that enough people are willing to pay for quality content without ads. For the companies who want to market stuff, I don't have a solution (otherwise I'd be rich), but I do know I'll go to great lengths to avoid seeing your shitty ads.
As long as you don't target EU customers, you're fine.
> There is no human right however to be forgotten

I don’t see the connection between what’s a right and what’s a law here. If a majority of people want something they tell their lawmakers to turn it into law. It’s not a fundamental human right it’s a law like any other.
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Sure, I simply kept the large hole in the side of my tooth clean. Used a tooth pick and peroxide. And consistently and regularly swished spit around in my mouth over the tooth.

Also, I don't eat any processed white sugar (including corn syrups and their ilk) and I suspect this helped.
When I saw the link I was hoping it would just redirect to kickstarter.com (like fisteggplant.com), but then I knew that wouldn't be on the HN
> ... but I'm confused as to why this is built with a vue.js static site generator requiring node/npm/yarn and an almost 7,000 line yarn.lock file.

> Shouldn't this literally be a single page, hand-built HTML file with inline CSS? Is this trying to be self-ironic or something?

Yes?

I can't be certain but I think that was the point.
The original contract was for three paintings for album artwork, which he delivered and was paid for - I don't think there is any issue with that. The album could be reprinted billions of time and he wouldn't have a case. The problem he has is with all the collateral reproductions: t-shirts, litographies, and so on. You cannot do that with a manufactured good: if you buy a Tesla, you cannot magically reproduce it identical out of thin air and then sell it bundled with a truck. So please let's stop with the silly imagery that simply does not suit a copyright debate.
I agree with the sentiment of this site. I have an nginx proxy set up for personal stuff, and the home page was done in an homage to GeoCities:

https://brucewillis.sexy/

Eventually I will get midi music playing correctly with mouse-tails.
> Are you really equating women (i.e., humans), with guitars?

Is this really the best you can do?
What brand from Iceland?
Corded Polyester Wrist Arm Tool Hand Belt Hand
Yeah am wondering if the OP means that robinhood is playing privileged market maker?
>Until you can provide a alternative word that only means "literally", "literally" means "literally", not "figuratively".

You're welcome to use the word as you please. The majority of the English speaking world, however, disagrees with you. If you care about clarity and precision, "literally" is a word to avoid.
I am sure I could google how to do this, but I have no clue what it would actually "mean" to tell someone else. I could tell them to read the articles also, but wouldn't they just then argue that the "flat earth sun" just makes the shadows go all wibbly-wobbly because of reasons?
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I'd definitively ask about the tech stack and the replacement rate of the developers to be sure that they have a same tech and human environment.
What, no <marquee>!?
They don't have to. The possibility to opt out from tracking have been available for a while, although it was always pretty hidden in the settings.

After I opted out, I started seeing awful ads: mostly semi-naked bodies of people claiming to lose weight or bald heads.

Of course it's easy for Google to just say that this is what their economically optimized algorythm selects for a perfect stranger, because those are the only advertisers that risk spending ad money on someone they know nothing about.

Long story short: it's a sort of bribe already and you cannot prove it is happening.
halfbakery.com for the millennial generation
Shouldn't this literally be a single page, hand-built HTML file with inline CSS? Is this trying to be self-ironic or something?

Yes, I'm going to assume that is a parody. However, signs of FrontPage or Word as an editor would be cool.
Because it makes doing business with europe illegal. Sanctions are war. GPDR isn't war, but depending on who looks over the laws in europe, giant part of our economy will be illegal to europe also.
I can look up just one night and imagine the sky as a big dome, and mentally play back timelapsed spinning night sky videos and that is enough for me.

Is it worth arguing with flat-earthers though?
Check out Digital Folklore[1] if you're into this aesthetic, it's a good collection of essays on Geocities, the early web, and related topics. One of the authors' web site[2] is also worth a look (warning: there's sound :) ). She also runs a Tumblr blog[3] that posts screenshots of real Geocities sites.

[1]: http://digitalfolklore.org/

[2]: http://art.teleportacia.org/olia.html

[3]: http://blog.geocities.institute/
I'm one of those people, I get why it's great in theory but in practice every thing about it puts me off, the commands all feel weird (again I understand why - I'm aware of the history), the documentation is lack luster in places, the whole thing just feels off.

I'm the same with vim (and against I get why people love it).

Most all of my programming is done in an IDE and when I just want an editor (markdown usually) I tend to use vscode (I use it when I have a lot of frontend stuff to do as well, it's TS mode is better than Intellij's).
> By and large, it doesn't, very well.

I know Twitter isn't known for being the best at advertising, but it was made exceptionally clear to me that online advertising is a massive bunch of lies when I did my GDPR Twitter data export and it included me in a bunch of incorrect, non-sensical and contradictory ad targeting groups.

Twitter claims I:

* Own a cat, dog and other animal (I don't)
* Have between $100k- $999k liquid investible assets (I don't)
* Have a net worth between $1 and $1m (cool - I own *something*)
* Am highly affluent (/shrug)
* Am a high spender (okay...)
* Am a frugal spender (...but how can I be both a high spender AND frugal)
* Own a house (I don't)
* Have multiple families (I don't)

I was very disappointed that the Google and Facebook data exports don't contain this data. Maybe it's for their best.
I mention the GDPR briefly in my Google/DoubleClick essay: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
Nah, that's a legitimate interest (the example given in Recital 47 is preventing fraud, which is similar). You can process it as long as you only use it for that purpose and delete it as soon as possible.
How the Million Dollar Homepage kid created the $250m Calm app
https has ruined everything :-)
Hand-build HTML file with inline CSS, that you edit with $YOURFAVOURITETEXTEDITOR which requires an OS that's 50 million lines of code. And you're complaining about 7000 lines in an auto-generated file, which doesn't even have to be touched nor edited by a human?

The tools we use are insignificant, what's important is the result. If the result is a HTML file with inline CSS, who cares how it was created? You can use punchcards and a 20ton 'computer' for all I care.
This is more like fun old web being reborn as brutalism in web design. Sadly, doesn't have anything to do with hand made html and css, just visuals.

EDIT: An article on brutalism and antidesign: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/brutalism-antidesign/
> This is actually where the term “software engineer” dates from, it was partly a marketing / professionalization attempt.

Nitpick: no.

> [Dr.] Margaret Hamilton promoted the term "software engineering" during her work on the Apollo program. The term "engineering" was used to acknowledge that the work should be taken just as seriously as other contributions toward the advancement of technology. Hamilton details her use of the term:

>> When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. It was a memorable day when one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone in a meeting that he agreed with me that the process of building software should also be considered an engineering discipline, just like with hardware. Not because of his acceptance of the new "term" per se, but because we had earned his and the acceptance of the others in the room as being in an engineering field in its own right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#Origin_of_th...

Emphasis added.
Even though every nearly every enterprise runs on medium data, and can't admit it because that would make them seem inferior to their competitors, who they think have big data.
‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood – and saved 2.4M babies
I am unconvinced that tracking and profit are connected. Google doubleclick was plenty profitable before tracking. Second, the real fraud in ad tech is fraudulent clicks. Privacy is a moral and emotional issue, but I don't think it's related to profit, I think this link is way overstated.
This talk will be presented on Thursday 17th at RIPE76.

I assume that as usual, it will be streamed live and the video recording should appear here:
https://ripe76.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/ipv6-wg/

This upcoming RIPE meeting has so many interesting talks... I invite you to "invest" some time going through the program (not all slides are available yet, as it starts tomorrow)!
What are the odds of someone offical even noticing that you are in violation of GDPR?

Plenty of ordinary people will be actively looking for opportunities to file GDPR complaints. I know I will. This is a crusade. Taking the Internet back from adtech.
Especially if quantum computing develops enough to break modern encryption.

Unless the encryption uses post-quantum crypto, in theory it’ll all be “un-shredded” if quantum computing becomes feasible. We’ll have bigger problems at that point, but still, it’d make you “unforgotten”.
Ha, I noticed that too, I read this is the feedly text extractor because the site was unreadable.
When I see a page like that I remember Mahir's page and its popularity: http://mahir.faithweb.com/original.htm

It's nostalgic and definitely different from what we are used to today, but I don't really miss animated gifs, dozens of font styles and colors smashed together into a html. For me a cherry on the top was changing status message when hovering a link from target url to some custom text.
I think a lot of people/companies have been misled into thinking that the GDPR is just another type of cookie law and the same solution will work - get them to ok it by having an obtrusive message at the top of the site. They are in for a rude and costly awakening.
If someone hits you from an iPhone 6 in turkey you can just incrementally your count of those two values without needing to store that IP 13.157.207.156 is in turkey and has an iPhone 6 and youve correlated that data through Facebook's ad network so that now they having a profile built around them despite not even having a Facebook account.

Everyone's been sucking up all the data they can just in case they need it, and actual people are being harmed by it through data breaches. I get why people are upset about these changes happening to their businesses, but what did everyone expect when the industry has failed to self regulate against their worst excesses? The rest of society isn't just going to let you hurt them so you can make more money
I'm honestly tired of programmers complaining about interviews. I don't think the whiteboard blitz is a good gauge of an employee, either, but I don't know of any good "test" of a potential coworker other than working with them

That's the answer - "you work with them".

I create a simple version of a real world class that we have worked on. Each method has comments on what the code is suppose to do and a bunch of failing unit tests and we pair program.

The first set of unit tests are relatively easy. I then add a second set of requirements with a second set of unit tests. They have to modify the code to pass the 2nd set of unit tests without breaking the first.

But as far as "going down the rabbit hole", I've never gone down that rabbit hole of algorithm type tests. I was drilled on C in an interview in 1999 because they were doing a lot of hard core C work (I stayed on that job until 2008). But since then, most of my interviews have either consisted of the sitting down at a computer and solving problems type or just drawing on the board and explaining architecture.

Even though I'm very much hands on, at this point most companies hire me more to help them with architectural issues than just as another coder. My salary requirements filter the just another developer type roles out.

No, I'm not bragging about how much I make. I'm still only making the median for a senior software Engineer/architect for my market - if the salary surveys and my anecdotal experience is accurate.
I can't help feel that most of that fun was the relative novelty at the time. Without that novelty, it's not so fun any more. Although I miss Usenet more than GeoCities and webrings etc
Well, I guess that answers the questions "how much is my privacy worth to me" and also "how much does the society i live in value privacy" quite succinctly.
It's even harder to take them seriously after they said this about flat Mars to Musk: https://twitter.com/FlatEarthOrg/status/935644892721762305
I feel like your site is better than the OP site at what the OP site tries to do.
For the frugal/high spender conflict, I can kind of see how that might happen.

I try to buy quality goods because cheap stuff doesn't last. That means spending more up front to spend less in the long run. So frugal, but also maybe high spender?

My mom always says: if you're poor, you can't afford to buy cheap.
If you enter into a sales contract selling some gadget, then you are legally required to deliver that gadget, which also means you are required to deliver it without defects (unless those were agreed upon in the contract as properties of the gadget to be sold). If you happen to so far only have delivered a defective gadget, you haven't fulfilled your contractual obligations. You cannot refuse to fulfill that contractual obligation just because the buyer refuses to agree to additional terms that you ask them to accept.

Details obviously depend on the jurisdiction, but the basic principle probably applies just about anywhere.
I love to program just for fun but as I've gotten older other interests have to be balanced against that and I have to stay current with the technology so while I still program for fun I direct it in areas I know will be more useful to me at work.
> So again, explain how it is unethical for me to use information that I have observed from my porch?

I never said that making observations from your porch is unethical. Yet, you think I should explain to you why it is. Classic straw man.

What I say is that collecting/trading/processing of personal data without consent is unethical. And that is the core business of today's ad-networks.
A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create "camps" (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through "towns". A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at /~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town/~camp). I never "launched" it so it's just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute little creative HTML websites without the need for hosting, it's live to use at: https://www.hypertext.town

1. click "Set up camp in www" 2. make an account 3. choose your camp name 3. add your html / images etc.

edit: visit https://hackernews.hypertext.town (by TeMPOraL)
That's a good question, I don't know if it's valid to offer discounts and such in exchange for consent. It goes against the EU principles ("personal information cannot be conceived as a mere economic asset"), but I'm not sure if the law actually prevents it.
Sure, but I (as an advertiser) don't want to buy advertising on cat pages, but to reach people who like cat pages. Google tells me this is their interest; that they have exhibited behaviours that lead them to believe this is their interest, and because they can make self-driving cars, I believe them.

... but: The truth is, it's just a cookie that is held by people who visited pages about cats, and people who like money.
So it's unethical if I am able to personally identify them? So if I have a house party open to everyone in the block but to enter they need to sign their name in a guest book and I have cameras all over my home to prevent property damage, is what I'm doing unethical?
Do you have any references/citations for this?

Would help me out! I'm trying to put together a one-pager for my team.
> the virus whose leftover DNA allows mammals to give live birth

Wow, first time I hear about this. Do you have any links with additional info?
I love to program just for fun but as I've gotten older other interests have to be balanced against that and I have to stay current with the technology so while I still program for fun I direct it in areas I know will be more useful to me at work.

When I was in my 20's it was very different to late 30's I had far fewer responsibilities so I think part of increased responsibility is knowing which problems to tackle.
All that minified JS, fonts from a Google domain. At least playing lip service to the idea counts I guess.
I have fun making stuff like when I made https://goatattack.com/
Not a troll, I commented briefly above on this issue here [0] but a more elaborate discussion thread here [1]. Fair warning it was quite a discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17060569

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16432607
Yes. That's The ICO's position:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1591/pe...
>It's not just that people are exaggerating things, the fundamental beliefs are such that it is considered not possible for a nationalist to not be a racist, if not worse. Rarely are such outrageous and objectively false claims challenged, and frequently any challenge is downvoted to net negative.

It's not like the general public (or even more media / public figures for that matter) are well rooted in the history of ideas, or care to examine most the conventional understanding of ideas of their time.

Once a thing falls out of favor (like nationalism has) it gets reduced to some caricature very quickly and can be associated (falsely) with all kinds of prejudices.

Consider the case of the hippy and the underground movements, how they were all the rage in the 60s and 70s and utterly mocked (and misunderstood) from the 80s onwards.
Customer focus groups. Literally paying customers to spend time with staff to learn their habits and thoughts about the advertising. The big brands have the funds and expertise to directly gather enough data to come up with strong predictors of behavior.
Sure, but by itself, an IP address isn't personal data.
> I was very disappointed that the Google and Facebook data exports don't contain this data.

Facebook has it available, if not in their Download Your Information tool. Go to Settings -> Ads -> Your Information -> Categories.
I personally hate ads, I block them wherever I can and I use a vpn for any traffic I don't want associated with my name. I still understand that people trying to monetize their service is not unethical and that the world would be significantly worse off if we were to ban ads as a way of monetization.

Also I have had the same experience as you, I know people many tech illiterate folk that actually like seeing ads.
Truth is stranger than fiction; With regards to [1] I'm pretty sure drinking "raw" rainwater is now a thing and multiple real companies exist in this space, much to the chagrin of the FDA.

[1] http://flopstarter.com/cloudfallenwater/
For the international part, yes, but still the Me > transferwise and transferwise > friend transfers are "wire transfers" and both of them happen fast enough for the whole transaction to be completed in just a few hours.