skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also not a lawyer, but....

I believe generally the US courts have decided that the person who triggers the action is the pertinent party.

Something similar has come up in the firearm fabrication community. There are companies that sell things that are legally paperweights, but are 80% of the way towards being a firearm (e.g. [1]). There are CNC mills that come with programming to take one of these "80% lowers" and finish it, making a fully functional firearm, or at least the part that is considered a firearm by the BATF; other parts can be ordered and shipped online (e.g. [2]).

In this case it's not the builder of the machine or the writer of the code that instructs it that is the "manufacturer" of the gun. It's not even the person who placed the unfinished lower in the enclosure and bolted it down. Instead it's the person who pushed that button.

I'm going to guess that this will be similar. The user who pushes the button (or asks assistant to make an appointment on their behalf) is likely to be the one giving consent.

[1]: https://www.80percentarms.com/

[2]: https://ghostgunner.net/products/ghost-gunner
Even if there aren't any rival tribes around, worry about other creatures (lions, tigers, bears!) and unpredictable natural events (flooding &c.) could be a bit stressful.
I didn't really realise it until the GDPR got into full swing but I'd much rather pay with money than with data.

What you're describing is a good thing. If you're going to treat my data like an almost stale slice of pie selling it off cheap to anyone who will buy it - Please do block my access!
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I keep telling people - the thing that changes with GDPR is that personal data you handle is now still owned by the person and only in your custody as long as they explicitly allow it.

That person doesn't own those bits on that hard drive.
OpenCL support is different from this.
It wasn't four years of a consistent labor situation without any expectation of change. It was four years of ups and downs with changing politics. It would be reasonable for a farmer to expect that there will be a massive amnesty, and then that doesn't happen. Some farmers simply have four years worth of emergency funds and a whole lot of stubbornness.

Also, I should have said "crops MOSTLY don't rot on the vine" because:

Even if the labor supply is stable, some crops will still be left to rot. The production of the land and the demands of the consumers are both subject to change. This affects the price. Given the current price, some farms may decide to not bother harvesting.

Farms aren't always 100% serious. Lots of them are almost a hobby, or for tax reasons. (if you can claim your home is a farm, you may pay lower property taxes, and there are even income tax advantages)
It's also sounds like a model I've recently advocated for and implemented in software I'm working on. And AFAICT it also lines up with the IPv6 model of the internet. It's great to know there's support for this style of identity management and I hope it proliferates. Looking forward to the blog!
Yes, that's the root of the problem. A deceptively simple sounding result.
But the usual requirement for piercing the corporate veil is that the owner/operator of the business is using the business with the sole reason of insulation from having their private assets in the line of fire. If the business is otherwise legit and a fine were levied against the business there would be a fairly strong barrier before the assets of the shareholder become part of the story. A good precaution against this is to have more than one shareholder (preferably more than a token percentage for the second shareholder).
Having to rely so much on the discretion of the courts is not a good thing. Generally, it is better if all people who agree on what happened agree about the legality of that.

When instead it is up for interpretation, that comes with issues. The first is selective enforcement, there is also the chilling effect on both sides. Those who ought to be protected worry about the slack given to their potential predators. Meanwhile those who are 'potential predators' need to worry about the slightest move that is illegal under some interpretation.

The end result of this chilling effect is fewer willing customers, fever willing companies, and less mutual trust. Notably, this lack of trust persists even if you presume everyone still follows the law. At that point it seems to me a law has failed.
Arria 10 FPGA is kind of mid range, I think they go around for 500 bucks , you can buy the dev board for 5K (https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/alt...)
I've actually thought that something like this could be a fairly useful product. May I ask what your inspiration for such an idea was? Perhaps personal or anecdotal experience? Genuinely curious.
This is already quite possible! There are even multiple libraries to help you get started. Extending languages like this is a huge use case for Rust; one of the first production Rust uses was extending Ruby like this.
Maybe secure chat clients shouldn't be written in JavaScript or other languages that have excessive dynamicness? Signal seems to be written mostly in languages that are bad for security (significantly worse than the best alternatives). Maybe I'm just a language nerd without any clue about the trade-offs, but I trust the Wire software more. Note that this just applies to mobile clients and server - Wire, like Signal, chose to build their desktop+webapp in JavaScript :(
This would, of course, eliminate 90% or so of the entire dental industry in a single blow.

This overstates the case. The prevalence of caries really depends on the patient population. There are some populations for whom most dental work is caries-related: e.g. poor children in USA [0]. Even so, fillings are not the biggest moneymakers for any dentist here. There is far more money to be made on e.g. implants, prosthodontics, orthodontics, etc. Other nations probably would have a bigger focus on caries.

[0] Incidentally, dentists deserve much of the credit for the fact that we can't leave out the adjective "poor". They have encouraged pediatric oral health at every opportunity. Apparently they weren't too worried about losing this important demand for their services.
Physicists make first 3D measurements of proton’s internal structure
As a webmaster, I have an absolute right to carve '192.0.2.7 requested /foo.html from me' into stone and store it for posterity.

The GDPR prohibits me from doing that, and in fact requires that I have the ability to rewrite history by removing that fact if the user who had 192.0.2.7 ever requests it.

Some people, on hearing this, say, 'well, that's fine, you can just store 192.0.2 or 192.0 instead.' That seems pretty silly to me, since the whole point of logs is that they contain full information.

The GDPR tries to do the right thing, but it's broken. Immutable logs are a fundamental right.
> And yes, I'm arguing it's anyone's moral right to profit off information voluntarily entered into their website unless a specific agreement was made on the website to the contrary

Views like this are exactly why we need the GDPR.

I find it utterly ridiculous - disgusting even - that you really believe you have the right to do whatever you want with someone else's personal information. When you provide an email address, physical address, name or other PI, it's with the expectation of it being used for a specific purpose - you should absolutely not give you the right to sell that information to the highest bidder.
How can we be sure this is really Tesla sponsoring this? It looks like the sole person is a Tesla employee but maybe they're working unilaterally? It is probably them but just wanted to add some healthy skepticism...
In Germany the law has been that you only need a DPO if a) you are a public authority, b) at least 10 people in your organization/company handle or have access to personal data or c) you handle sensitive data (e.g. health records).

As far as I know the GDPR doesn't change these requirements here. So even if you're a company of 5 people and just handling some email addresses or similar data you certainly don't need a DPO.
Another nativist who displays his/her prejudice under the guise of Illegal vs legal immigrant.Go spend a year outside of United States and come tell us how your experience looks like.
> I can think of one.... not being used at all!

You seem to be missing my entire point. There is nothing bad about consuming clean, renewable energy.
I was delighted to find that the site named unfortunately.tech served me up an error message. :D

I look forward to reading the rejection letters at a later date.
If anyone is interested in using C# on a FPGA to learn take a look at https://hastlayer.com/project
Of course it was a fake. Responding party was conveniently using sentences with all the keywords needed, otherwise that whole conversation would go wrong almost immediately.
Additionally - I have multiple google homes at my place. If you want to know how that demo would go in real life it would be something like this:

- (G) Hello, I want to make appointment for my client.

- Sure, what would you like and when?

- (G) Sorry, I don't understand

- What service would you like to set an appointment for and on which date?

- (G) I can't help you with this yet..

- ?? What the hell are you talking about?

- (G) Playing Katy Perry station on Spotify

Not really joking :(
The pressure distribution inside the proton – Nature
Passwords should be hashed client-side anyway, so the real issue there is how to encode the password hash in a way that satisfies the legacy system. But this is usually plausible, e.g. by base64 or hex encoding the hash to avoid disallowed characters and then appending specific characters that satisfy the set of required characters.
> Meaning, why aren't our people studying what works in other industries and figuring out how to apply it to our industry?

Some are: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Characterizing+people+as+non-lin...

From the abstract:
We methodologists and process designers have been designing complex systems without characterizing the active components of our systems, known to be highly non-linear and variable (people). This paper outlines theories and projects I reviewed on the way to making this stupendously obvious but notable discovery and four characteristics of people that most affect methodology design and project outcome. I find these characteristics of people to be better predictors of project behavior and methodology success than other methodological factors.
So for example, if dreadful foreign hackers would establish a fake marketing company, sign agreement with LocationSmart (or telecoms directly) and spy on government and military officials to gather compromising information for the next election cycle, this would be legal too? Sounds nice for foreign hackers.
That seems like a request from a data subject. I was responding to a comment that said you will only be sued by a regulator if you ignored them. There are multiple blog posts and articles that regulators have posted about what they will and wont do that is not codified.
A designated DPO is a ROLE not a person, that's a huge difference. Just like a security officer in a small company is a role assigned to someone who most likely has other duties too in a large company it will be a dedicated person (and in a really large company there might even be more people working in a team under a CISO or something to that effect). So 'designated' means that the role has to be assigned to a person, it does not say 'dedicated' where you'd have to have a person whose exclusive job is DPO.

So, DPO is not necessarily a person with no other duties. In most smaller organizations that deal with sensitive data the DPO role will be shared with the CCO (Chief Compliance Officer), only at a certain scale of processing and with certain data would you need to budget for a dedicated DPO from day one, but presumably your business plan will also foresee in other things such as office space, computers and so on. Certain businesses come with implied costs.
If a company doesn't hire you, then by definition they have determined that your time is of no value to them, so it would literally be a waste of their resources to interact with you further.
Well there you go. So GP's concerns are largely addressed. Intel can just work on this tooling, and people who are going to use HDL are going to continue using them.
LinkedIn, too...
> A real custom home is typically visited and inspected regularly by the future home owner during construction. An improvement for waterfall would be a periodic delivery to the user of intermediate builds of the product – no matter how incomplete.

May I suggest you look into this agile thing?
If you didn't want visitors to your site you shouldn't have put it on the web. If you want visitors to your site without any strings attached you should serve the content without grabbing and storing anything about the clients.

This is called the "technician's responsibility" where I come from. To only track/store/process what is absolutlely necessary, in order to not be liable for the consequences when someone you cannot feasibly stop wants to do something untoward with the date (i.e. unconcented analysis, government extraction of data, breaches)
The comparison is quite appropriate, since the block reward that miners compete for is mostly the fixed new emission (currently 12.5 BTC), with transaction fees making up a much smaller amount.
In other words, the huge energy costs of Bitcoin should be attributed more to coin distribution than to transaction processing, although this balance will tip in the coming decades.
> it's key IP, you'd be stupid to outsource that

That doesn't usually stop companies. At best it creates an opening for new companies to recapture some high-value markets once the dust from the off-shoring stampede settles.
I intend to retire from my current successful company (founded in 2011) and design a range of personal health & wellbeing items for people on the Autism spectrum (more for people with mild-to-moderate ASD, Aspergers, or other similar disability, as opposed to for severe cases - i.e. this isn't a medtech company but a health and wellbeing product line). I stumbled on this by creating a few prototypes at home for my personal use that really contribute to my quality of life as someone with mild ASD traits.

Also, a social enterprise-based reforestation project – I'll be using same savings to buy a piece of deforested ex-farmland (one in particular) and working with friends and local community to return it to its former forested glory. The goal is really to give back but also to learn a heap about land management and permaculture.

For-profit and non-profit, respectively.

So it's really businesses that scratch my own itch.
I think everyone that hopes for a bright future wishes the EM drive worked--an Epstein Drive in our own time! Alas, wishes do not make it so...
What products use this that expose me to this?

Per the LocationSmart website: "95% of all wireless devices" so basically the entire population's location can be tracked in real-time by anyone willing to pay for this service. Insurance companies, your boss, etc.
Would you like to share how does one get into this line of work?

I don't suppose there's an appropriate tutorial on egghead.io.
Please watch Gattaca, very relevant to your comment.
Given that reactionless thrust is even less plausible on a theoretical basis than superluminal neutrinos, I really hope this doesn't come as much of a surprise to anyone.
Because although HDL doesn't look difficult syntax wise, it requires a very good understanding of logic gates. People need to pretty much take a course in digital design to be able to write something meaningful.

It took me a while to grok HDL and write working code (good, maintainable code aside) even though I took digital design courses.
It goes both ways (in astronomy and particle physics) but I think the difference is there's more bang for the computational buck in astronomy. It takes trillions of collisions to collect enough data to make a discovery about a single particle, for example.

Interestingly, one way that computational resources have recently had an impact is with the GAIA astrometry survey mission. There's a concept in optics of an image being "diffraction limited" meaning that there is a characteristic resolution limit for a particular wavelength of light and optical instrument size. Meaning that there isn't an advantage to having pixels that are smaller than that limit, since you'll just have a blurry blob that is smeared across multiple pixels anyway, you won't actually be able to increase the resolution of what you can see. However, this isn't entirely true. What actually happens is that the light from a point-like source is spread out over an area in a characteristic pattern called the "point spread function". If you were to resolve a distant star over multiple pixels (beyond the diffraction resolution limit) then if you were able to model the point spread function to fit the data for those pixels you could potentially locate the position of the star to a precision that was higher than the diffraction limits of your optical assembly. And this is precisely what GAIA does. It uses a telescope that is much smaller than the Hubble but it has an enormous (gigapixel) CCD imager which enables it to map the point spread functions for huge numbers of stars simultaneously. Before the advent of ubiquitous high performance computing this wouldn't have been possible.
Wow, someone managed to make something even worse than the "compile your C to an FPGA" tools you see occasionally.

The model is just too different for these things to make sense 99% of the time. It's like trying to run general purpose code on a GPU, but even worse.
Although for a product like this, having it work in less than ideal conditions is showcasing their product in the best possible light. I'd agree with you if they were doing a live demo.
I would think of scenario:

"I received unsolicited marketing information from company X, with contact information which was obtained from company Y. I did not agree on sharing my information by company Y. My wife noticed I receive 'grow my manly parts' advertisements from company X. Because of this she concluded I am cheating on her and requested divorce. For such humiliation I request company Y to reimburse damages. Noted by protection authority AU, company Y did not comply to GDPR."
If I get nude picutures of you, or your mother, daughter etc. is it then "my data"?
Am I therefore allowed to do with that data as I wish?

I think most people agree that unless those pictures are gathered with very specific consent, subject to many restrictions, they are not "my data". This is obviously an extreme example, but the reasoning extends to more data that is considered sensitive. The point being that "data ownership" is a complicated issue.
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These posts should come with a disclaimer: If you don't have a) significant traction or b) "elite" connections, then it's unreasonable to expect to raise a seed round in Silicon Valley at all.

The author has Yale and YC connections, among the most "elite" there are. It's virtually certain he could not have raised funding without these connections. If you don't have a similar background (i.e. 99.9% of people), then the advice is more harmful than helpful.

From the Atrium Scale web site:

"The Scale Program is a 1:1 mentorship program that helps founders craft their Series A pitch and get exclusive intros to our network of investors and partners."

The business model of organizations like YC and "Atrium Scale" is to sell access to their "elite" networks.

They perpetuate Silicon Valley elitism for profit. They help a lucky few chosen founders and damage the entire ecosystem for everyone else.

The best advice for anyone that is not a lucky member of these private clubs is to just build a regular business and ignore Silicon Valley entirely. Once you have significant traction, you can raise money with 100% certainty. Greed is the ultimate motivator for most investors.
Hm, it's easy to find credible claims that they weren't, e.g. https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/when-iri...
I see your point, I don't see why it is relevant, I know about Ba'ath, etc.

I know that Jews have been suffering more attacks in Europe recently including one in Berlin that wasn't a jew but wore a kippah to "prove it was not dangerous" and got attacked. So ignoring the issue or just sidelining issue is not ideal.
In the demo, the interaction was described as being "real":

> . “What you’re going to hear is the Google assistant actually calling a real salon to schedule an appointment for you,” Pichai told the audience. “Let’s listen.”
Donatists claimed that sacraments were only valid if the priest who performed them was a faithful Christian. So if the priest was a heretic or grave sinner, the sacraments he performed were invalid. The Catholic Church declared that to be a heresy – a heretic or a sinner can still perform valid sacraments, provided the heresy doesn't involve a radically different understanding of the nature of the sacrament.

So, from the viewpoint of traditional Catholic theology, Protestants are heretics, but their beliefs about baptism are close enough to the Catholic belief that their heresy doesn't invalidate their baptisms. (Different story for ordination and the eucharist, since Protestant theology on those topics is further away from Catholic theology.) Whereas, non-Trinitarian Christians, the Catholic Church views their beliefs to directly touch on what the sacrament of baptism is about, so their non-Trinitarianism invalidates their baptisms from the Catholic viewpoint.
Reactionless drives are even "worse" than Epstein drives, since they break conservation of momentum entirely. Epstein drives just have wildly implausible characteristics- while they might break all known laws of, say, material and nuclear science, they don't break conservation laws since they require reaction mass.
I think this is a legitimate cultural difference.

I’m fairly left leaning for a US citizen & find the idea that the default should be big companies abhorrent.

But I recognize my bias & am not st all convinced it’s in any way objectively correct.
Interestingly the US fertility rate started declining in 2008, and Canada's hit a peak in 2008 and went down from there.

Also interesting: China's fertility rate is apparently lower than the US's.

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
Check these links:

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-keep-anonymous-2018/

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

http://vpnspeedtest.org/
I would say there is a definite conflict of interest for the sole owner to be the DPO - you are responsible for the entire direction of the company, thus have considerations beyond data protection (rather than an individual who ONLY has to consider the data protection outcomes in the exercise of his duties). Even if you make data protection a paramount concern, and intend to be fully compliant, there is the possibility that you could e.g. make more money or provide a better service by making a different choice, therefore there is a conflict of interest.
> But then that would imply that Tesla has an obligation to make sure third party news outlets report on every holiday taken by every executive.

Public companies have to publicly report any "relevant facts" that could seriously impact the company and the investors. A Senior Vice President of Engineering taking a leave of absence of many weeks (or more, with no end announced) during a major engineering crisis in the company is by all means a relevant fact.
Given the intent, I can't.