skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wikipedia:

> BetonSports plc is a British online gambling company founded by Gary Kaplan in 1995. The company was one of the biggest players in the United States online gaming market, drawing in several billion US dollars in wagers in the early 2000s.[1] In June 2006 US authorities indicted the company and a number of its executives on RICO, mail fraud, and tax evasion charges arising from its supplying online betting to customers in the United States (the alleged crimes took place before the adoption of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006).

This is about federal crimes committed by executives of a billion-dollar company.

OP seems to be a solo open-source project, and violating the GDPR is not a criminal offense. This isn't even close to being comparable.
This is a pretty tough statement to defend. Take a look at the myriad of open source projects, or just limit it to Apache’s http://apache.org/index.html#projects-list and you’ll see a bunch of “empty emacs buffer” projects with a long audit trail of agile development. Not necessarily scrum.
When I worked with GDPR compliance we tried and tried but still ended up with the opnion that IP adresses are considered personal information.

Article 4 point 1 in the GDPR indicates this (unless you can somehow prove that the IP is not related to the person, which I think we all know it effectively is in most cases)
These dreams are extremely common, and are often attributed to money stress, though I imagine any stress would do.
Thanks, we've reverted the submitted title to that of the article.
Absolutely true: the first hackers community literally grew around model trains.

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/the-tech-model-railroad-club/
I get the same thing, and DownForEveryone tells me "It's just you. unfortunately.tech is up..." So invalidating. :-)

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/unfortunately.tech
Learning an HDL isn't that hard. I was productive within a few weeks of starting to use VHDL.

A former colleague is now an Altera/Intel FAE, I will ask how things are going the next time we meet up for a beer.
Essentially, the plot of "EdTV".
I don't see how publicly won't fly. If for the sake of an investigation, they need discretion, that should have a reveal time or reveal condition that is not too broad. For example, "When the investigation is complete or two years, whichever is shorter." Then match up requests (including rational in the form) and responses. Requests outside that are illegal.
So when I get reported, I'll say I didn't worry because some guy on Hacker News said I'd be OK? That's not how it works. You can be as confident as you want without affecting the reasonable worries actual businesses have about this regulation.
Because Congress fucks enough old people as it is? I'm kidding.

On a more serious note, being young makes it appears as though the congress-person is taking advantage of an "impressionable" employee. Being good looking makes it look like the relationship only exists because of the congress-person's rank.
David Brin becomes more and more prescient as time goes on.

https://books.google.com/books?id=wg4XBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA336&dq=0...
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-38-gdpr/

> The data protection officer may fulfil other tasks and duties. The controller or processor shall ensure that any such tasks and duties do not result in a conflict of interests.

I guess you could say that it is literally impossible for the DPO to not have conflicts of interest if the DPO is also the owner and manager of the company.

More:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

> The DPO must be independent, an expert in data protection, adequately resourced, and report to the highest management level.
Of course it has to be implemented well and must rely on some other (important) assumption like "social security numbers belong to actually living persons".
It's good when people share their personal experiences like this here.

People too often take a "tough on crime" attitude but don't realize the millions of people affected by overzealous police or burdened by justice system digital trails who haven't even been convicted of anything. That's not just.

Turning a blind eye just means more pent up anger and less trust in the justice system. It just seems un-American that people can't move on with their lives and accomplish their full potential.
Decided actively I don't want children at around age 30. Married, and currently seek a vasectomy so my wife doesn't have to be on birth control and I never have to worry about having a child ever again.
Are you really can't imagine what state is capable of doing? Not so long ago they packed people on trains to gas them on an industrial scale, and there were people questioning whether this actually happened. Do you think jailing people for not complying with GDPR is not possible? Bookmark this comment and check in 5 years... if this site will even exist by then.
I got turned off by their tv commercials. They are really marketing towards the "clean your PC" crowd
As the person who found this bug: I certainly don't condone any kind of misuse like this. I strictly tested only against people with whom I had prior agreement.

My hope is that a vulnerability like this sparks the right public discussion to get real change effected in a positive way, but in the current political climate I am sadly not optimistic.
From Wikipedia[0]:

Jeffrey Hillman from the University of Florida developed a genetically modified strain of Streptococcus mutans called BCS3-L1, that is incapable of producing lactic acid – the acid that dissolves tooth enamel – and aggressively replaces native flora. In laboratory tests, rats who were given BCS3-L1 were conferred with a lifetime of protection against S. mutans. BCS3-L1 colonizes the mouth and produces a small amount of a lantibiotic, called MU1140, which allows it to out-compete S. mutans. Hillman suggested that treatment with BCS3-L1 in humans could also provide a lifetime of protection, or, at worst, require occasional re-applications. He stated that the treatment would be available in dentists' offices and "will probably cost less than $100." The product was being developed by Oragenics, but was shelved in 2014, citing regulatory concerns and patent issues. In 2016, Oragenics received a 17-year patent for the product.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine#Attempts_using_...

[1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1941-gm-bacteria-may-...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12369203/
The sky-marshal-starter-pack, of course: https://i.redd.it/w67t4ogdmx8y.jpg
This used to work for me until around senior level but after moving up a little more (with corresponding salary) I find it harder to move around while keeping the salary.
Many of the comments here are rebutting - saying that a DPO isn't needed or that this guy gave up unnecessarily. But the fact that he had to spend who knows how much of his time to even discover whether he needs to do anything (or what sort of trouble he could get into) is too much of a barrier for many people and their hobby side projects. This is unfortunate and not surprising collateral damage of the GDPR.
The magic of “agile” is that partnership with the customer and shared accountability.

That’s difficult to codify, especially in contracts for delivery. “Agile methods” more often than not translate into hiding a complete lack of planning in a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
IBM got me with that one
Something around video verification.

Convincing fake video and audio is coming soon - it isn't a major problem yet, but it will be more challenging to determine if recorded evidence can actually be relied on.

Some sort of service that signs and proves the authenticity of videos I think is a an idea that was until recently probably bad, but has now became good.

It'd be similar to what digicert does for websites. You could then work with browsers to show verification for trusted videos.
In many states the employment market is so tight that jobs are going unfilled. This is especially true in blue-collar jobs that require interfacing with computers and advanced machinery. In many areas with higher unemployment rate, employers still complain they can't find anyone who can pass a drug test.

We do have a mismatch -- lots of employers simply aren't yet paying enough to get employees. And agricultural employers can't get any Americans, white or not white, to work for them, in part because the seasonality of the jobs and lack of health insurance makes the pay immaterial. If you work for 6 weeks you could lose eligibility for some benefits, and what are you going to do for the other 46 weeks in the year? Providing benefits not tied to employment would mitigate this problem. But it still wouldn't solve the problem of all the Americans not even looking for work because they're out on disability. These people, again, are not competing with immigrant labor, because by and large they really can't do any sort of physical labor.

There is really no competition for ag jobs. Americans really, really don't want to do them, for some rational economic reasons and some reasons of expectations/feelings about what they deserve.
> you're mostly attacking windmills

Or strawmen, rather. (Too late to edit.)
All I really want is a feature phone, long battery life, water resistant, end-to-end encrypted texting, onboard voice mail and hotspot capable. Is this too much to ask?
I immediately discounted the whole "Uh Huh" "Hmmm" thing as just a cheap psychological trick - a way to humanize the interaction without requiring much effort at all. As for the rest of it, I didn't necessarily tag it as fake but I did recognize that the act of making a reservation is a fairly structured process, requiring the exchange of a few critical pieces of information in a quick and efficient manner. But not necessarily something to be bowled over by, and no doubt something well-rehearsed in this case. Given the choice, though, I will generally always go online to take care of something like this rather than interact with a human anyway, since there's always the possibility that they will just screw it up on their end.

BTW, I have no particular reason to trust (nor distrust) anything Google says or does.
What's wrong with the USGS or Landsat data portals?
If you're not in the EU and not actively trying to market your services to people in the EU, GDPR does not apply
You don't need a DPO. I work with healthcare businesses and some of them don't even need a DPO.

You only need a DPO if you are a public authority, if you do large scale processing or large scale processing of sensitive data (ambiguous in the GDPR).

If you collect some data, all you need is a privacy policy outlining such, stating what you collect in general and that your legal basis for doing so is to provide the user a service and to monitor for app crashes / bugs - both within your legitimate interests.

Many people have interpreted GDPR to be stricter than it is. In fact, those who have to do the most work are those that cause incredible damage to individuals when they lose data - especially those that have had recent, massive data breaches e.g Equifax.
Yes, of course. If you're a deep sea fisherman, it's trivially provable that you can't do that job in Nebraska :)

But that's never what these guys mean.

It's always casually advanced as a blanket statement about the hopelessness of living somewhere that you can't smell the ocean. I don't know why it became popular to demonstrate such obvious ignorance about the job markets of inland cities, but here we are.

I, for example, know precisely nothing about the job market in, say, Salt Lake City, but that's why I don't make statements on the internet about the job market in Salt Lake City.
I had this idea one week ago, you beat me to it. Congratulation on the release!
Likely you'd like the modern class syntax then.

You declaratively specific the "class" (it's just an Object under the hood, it's mostly sugar for prototypes) and then you could just to instanceOf to test if it's your "type".

I mean in JS basically everything is an object so if you're constructing a "type" you're constructing an object no matter what.
Excellent writeup, and thank you for both sharing the details and summarizing the relevant context.
People constantly confuse agile development with software design. Agile is not, and was never intended to be, a way to design software. It is a way to implement software. How you design it is up to you, though agile certainly encourages you to involve all stakeholders from the beginning, and to make design changes incrementally throughout development as circumstances warrant. But it is not a design methodology.
«OK, so replace "Bitcoin" with "Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies" in the title»

Changing the title would not resolve my main critic, which is that de Vries still overestimates the true figure (because of his assumption that manufacturers will make zero profits "by the end of 2018".)
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There was a previous 1995 directive for instance. It didn't have the teeth of GDPR, but was actually rather similar. It would be hard to be compliant with That and in breach of GDPR.

That rather makes the anti GDPR arguement sound like "yes I know that is the law, but I was breaking it over the internet so that doesn't count"
>I realized early on he was a strange and scary guy and that I didn't want to be like him.

What about your interactions with him gave you that impression? Genuinely curious.
nde – The IDE of the future, today
It seems to me like he's overreacting a bit

I get that the GDPR regulations seem quite complex and daunting but his usecase seems pretty simple to me.
Not all immigrants are undocumented (what you call illegal).

The current US policy by this administration is causing even documented immigrants to reconsider or just give up and leave.
> That's obviously wrong, examples to show that are trivial.

Does that actually affect the behavior of the code, though? That seems to me like a private implementation detail, but I don't know much about the HotSpot JIT or the JVM in general.
I have seen projects where there was a very good specification upfront and the developers pretty much just had to work through it. This is not always possible and requires a very good understanding of the problem but it can work really well.
Oh wow, I can't believe they left all their CMS resources on open listing...that's quite a find. Their website reports that the "trylocationsmart500x250-w500h250.png" file, which is a screenshot of an older version of the vulnerable website, was uploaded 2016-09-14 22:20. This means that the vulnerable site was probably available since at least September 2016.
Which article, recital or guideline do you base that assertion on?
Fair enough, although… you know more about this use case than me, but wouldn’t you generally have a large number of servers in the cloud you want to provide remote access to? So if you’re using WireGuard, either you have to configure each client to talk to each server it needs access to – which could be good for security, but sounds like a pain to set up – or you have a central server that serves as a hub for all the VPN traffic. In your blog post you said you just had to “point the client at the server”, so I’m guessing you’re envisioning the latter. But then wouldn’t an overlay network work better in many cases? For example, if you have cloud servers in different geographical locations, and as the developer you’re near one of those locations but far from the VPN server, you’d have lower latency connecting directly…
> I provided sources showing that this is, empirically, what happens, no matter what you would like to believe.

I can’t read the second one, but I’ve seen the arguments in the first one a million times — a whole lot of whining about how it’s absolutely impossible to find workers. No, you can’t find them at the price you want. Show me the farmer offering $30/hour plus benefits. You can’t. Even in the first article they peg “skilled” labor at $15-20/hour with the unskilled earning less. Guess what, I can get that a McDonald’s so try harder Mr. Farmer.

> Obviously! But once you do that, the produce costs so much that no one wants to buy it.

So I take it you were against the recent ~doubling of fast food wages in some localities to $15/hour then? Nah, probably not, I’m guessing you used the same argument so many others did: “what’s your problem, it’ll add like three cents to the cost of your Big Mac.” Well, I’d argue that doubling or tripling farm labor costs would only add a dime to the price of a basket of strawberries. Who cares? Pay real wages for real work and stop making excuses for what amounts to modern day slave labor.
Shocker. Managing requirements well results in successful projects.
I said they are "the same" only in terms of how your brain can immerse/rewire itself to understand those new controls as if they were artificial limbs. Even with the same level of fluency, some controls are definitely better than others depending on the domain.

So VR is definitely not pointless. Motion tracking for your head/arms/feet unlock many applications that are previously hard or impossible (e.g., 3D sculpting using mouse/tablet vs a motion controller).

But it's not always better than mouse/keyboard input for let's say typing or shooting a target. Having more irrelevant degrees of freedom makes it harder to master your input controllers, even if you already had a lifetime of practice with it in the real world (e.g., I am okay with doing parkour levels of movement with WASD/Space but won't ever try it with my real limbs even though in theory I know how to climb over a real world fence).
Disclaimer: I work on GDPR stuff for a company it certainly applies to, this is my opinion not my companies

We’ve spent tons of money & interacted with lots of official sources trying to get opinions about what GDPR means and it just isn’t available.

Everything is a risk mitigation technique right now with no real answers in sight. If I had any personal projects serving traffic in the EU right now that weren’t profitable I’d likely shut them down.

I think it’s likely that the regulatory agencies will act with restraint and this will all be hysteria without merit, but I’ve seen enough legal opinions to know that’s not the worst case scenario.
You are correct that it does not take $60K a year to raise a kid (or two or three).

There has been a meme for a couple decades now, that kids are so expensive and will cost millions of dollars to raise, etc. This meme is doubtless responsible for much of the reduced birthrate.

You can spend as much or as little as you desire on kids. I grew up shopping at Goodwill, but now I buy $40 shoes that my kids will wear for 6 months before outgrowing. That's my choice, as there are cheaper new shoes and much cheaper used shoes. Somebody else might buy their kids $120 shoes and complain to their friends how expensive their kids are. It's a shame that people like to promote this myth of the expense of kids.

If you can get over your trust issue with your GF, her not needing to give up a high paying job and being able to be home with the kids is a win. She won't feel like she's missing out on something and your kids get a much better childhood.
This reminds me of some of my favorite direction stories from life. I was in Ohio. I had just intersected the Dublin-Granville road. I stopped at a gas station to ask "I know Dublin is at one end, and Granville the other, but I'm not sure which direction I need to go to reach Dublin, left or right?" I assumed a station attendant, at a shop with an address on the Dublin-Granville road, would be able to answer this. Instead he replied "Oh I don't know, I'm not from around here."

In another instance, I was working with someone in Seattle who had lived there about a decade, had a PhD (I mention only to point out they had some intelligence), and I mentioned I had to go to Tukwilla that night - maybe ten miles at most south of the Seattle city limits. She had no idea where Tukwilla was, had never been there.

So point being, whether it was pre-device based digital maps or today, most people have no idea where they are.
> I would posit that the people coming here illegally to work are actually the most entrepreneurial, hard working, can-do people

You're not at all wrong, I grew up with a lot of illegal friends. Good number of them have since gone on to become American citizens through hard work and determination and have built good lives for themselves.

Maternally, I'm a second generation American. My grandparents came to America post-WWII with nothing but an offer of employment, and ended up retired with the classic condo beach life. The classic story of rags to middle class American riches. There's a reason that's been the American tale, coming to a faraway land in search of prosperity takes drive. We filter for hard workers.

The problem is the black-market / underbelly aspects of this pool, and that very desperation and drive that drove them here has them put up with conditions we should be ashamed of be it in California, Iowa, or Appalachia. Businesses exploiting that cheap source of labor drive down the ability for those trying to live a basic American life.
Well, at least it did until they elected a president who had an affair with an adult film star, among other things.
It's my impression that we're talking past each other, to some extent. The idea that there is a "proper" way to develop and market remote anonymous deathmurderbots (the evil purpose of which is well known) is so bizarre that it renders all other aspects of the discussion somewhat vague and insubstantial. If the point is that the Law should protect "bad" people as well as "good" people, then sure I agree. The way that things work in this dingy corner of America, however, is typically more arbitrary than that. It's difficult to take any story we get from this quarter at face value.

It is interesting, which threads inspire the sort of "policing" we see here. Is it so important that we all agree about things we cannot possibly know?
Microsoft Quantum
That's why I mentioned I'm ok with projects reacting strongly and removing themselves. Removing my info (and many other GDPR points) is in my interest. If they can't do this, I'm glad I won't be their immortal user.
Ok, then what is the problem then? It's not racism; Nigerians are a lot darker than Arabs. Maybe it's a cultural problem, combined with religion: you never hear of Nigerian Muslims committing terrorist acts in the West. Islam is a big, big religion, and Muslims from some cultures simply don't have any kind of bad reputation (I'm thinking Malaysia here), while others certainly do.

So maybe it is religion, just not the whole religion, but rather particular sects. All Christians are not like the Pentecostals or the Mormons, and similarly all Muslims are not the same.
PuTTY is indeed wonderful, and may still have a future because of its particular TTY emulator. The Windows vt100 emulator built into the command console isn't awful, but still has some rough edges. PuTTY has been well sanded down.

And shout out also to SecureCRT which has been serving SSH client needs on Windows for even longer. Albeit commercial software, not open source.
Changed. Thanks for emailing us! We wouldn't have seen this otherwise.

(Submitted url was https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...)
Incorporate as an arms company, turn your criminal case into a civil case lol

> "By embedding a pound of weed in this cardboard box, we provide warfighters a non-lethal incapacitant that is compatible with currently-deployed logistic infrastructure"
Do you genuinely believe people are going about thinking "I'm so glad for all this illegal immigration so that tomatoes are 20 cents cheaper"?
> Does GDPR have any non-monetary enforcement?

Yes:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-84-gdpr/

> Member States shall lay down the rules on other penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation

So every country can create whatever penalties they want, as long as they are "effective, proportionate and dissuasive".