skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, he can't say anything else. There are no reference cases in court yet, so it will need to be decided what is actually true.

However, this cases will be fought with the Googles & Facebooks, not with 5 person companies.
It also states in the article where they are planning to tunnel to.
Not a bad pitch, but I suppose the main difficulty is getting the pitch to potential students in the first place, which is much harder past the very top schools.

If the nature of your funding allows it keeping a close eye out for motivated undergrads and actually employing them could work to raise your profile to attract grad students. As I understand it identifying good undergrad researchers is quite hard, but it may be a good low-financial-commitment way to spin up a group of sorts?
Why do you think the industry needs to be “disrupted”?
pretty vague there -- what do you mean data firm?...like a consultancy? I mean, OP didn't specify what type of business to start, but in some sense pretty much all tech start-ups are data firms.
Right, Agile is for outsourced/offshore teams cranking out intranets or shopping carts or adding another minor feature to an existing codebase written by someone else. Like maintenance on a legacy app.

The kind of work that good engineers thrive on - a hard problem starting with en empty Emacs buffer - is something that the methodology merchants have never experienced themselves. The only product they ever shipped is the methodology itself!

I say this as a one-time “certified scrum master”.
yes. It'll be like hsx.com, but for felons.
It's "viral". If you ignore privacy while processing data, you are not only excluding EU customers. You are also excluding US/Canada/rest-of-world companies that want to operate in the EU market.
I'm not sure this is always true. If you were collecting "sensitive" data (like race) or profiling people you may need a DPO
Looking at the list by company, it seems like the most valuable part of this project will be the data set you’re collecting for testing input validation.
"At least in Waterfall if you did a good job of designing the project, and if you stuck to the spirit of the method, you were to some extent insulated from management noise..."

I think it's an interesting article, with good points, but fundamentally I have to disagree with this statement. Empirically, it just isn't true, in my experience. It just means that all those changes by the customer to what they wanted, that the devs object to and management (which has to meet the customer face to face) always in the end agrees to, happen at the end, when they are more difficult, because up until that point the project wasn't "real" to the client, and they really couldn't tell you what they wanted until they saw that what you built wasn't it.
One misconception about GDPR is that you can ignore it if your company is small. And that's basically what you're saying.

And then the next would be that it's inexpensive to "make your case" if you get reported.
> I hate waking up, because I know it will be the same thing over again, day after day.

Change your life. You can't do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.
He said business- you can't make much money off of simple and anonymous.
Well what really screwed the pooch was that state governments defunded public universities forcing them to raise tuition. This caused the Feds to step in to provide more loans, which in the end, are effectively a tax on folks going to college. It's basically a variable tax though since you can minimize it and then they offer some relief programs.
How hard could it possibly be to click a "send rejection" button that triggers a plain-text email!?
> [...] Now if you run a website in the EU, any user who signs up to it has control over the contents of your servers and you have to ask in extremely specific detail to do anything with some of that content, and that "consent" can be revoked at any time.

You are saying that's a bad thing?

Services that require you to sign up, should provide the possibility for users to look at, modify and delete their user data - that's all. Where's the problem?
> increasingly smaller number and expensive lot of folks.

There is this sentiment on HN that people in EE/embedded space don't really get paid well (compared to the average Javascript-slinging frontend dev). Is this not true for HDL folks?
LocationSmart API Vulnerability
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If a business blocks EU citizens what will happens is that either another one who cares about GDPR will pop up and be able to work with both EU and non-EU citizens, or the business in question wont be that important in the first place. In either case, nothing will change for most people.
The USA voted in favor of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of human rights. It contains an item about privacy being an essential human right.
You can find a few on PredictIt.
Unfortunately, rails is difficult to scale on a shoestring budget.
Based on the people I know, it's because they have student debt, they can't afford a house, they can't afford for one parent to quit their job and do full-time child care, and the price of day Care is prohibitive.

The only people who can afford kids are either extremely rich or extremely poor.
Collaboration/Project software designed with distributed teams in mind first.
I've worked at a few places of vastly different sizes. From a company with only three devs, an office with three hundred devs, and a fortune 500 with over 3000 devs (not necessarily in that order). Maybe I've just been lucky, but at all of those places I've had conversations with my managers along the lines of "team x is doing something I find interesting and eventually I would like to do that, can you help me get there?" or "I have an idea for a project x that would be useful to us, can I block some hours to work on that?". Generally they have been amenable, and if not then I've moved companies. You need to be responsible for your own career, and I like working at places that encourage personal development :)
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."

Looks like the website rejected me :(
> I'm convinced this is the start where EU citizens become second class Internet users.

This is free market with 550 mil potential users/citizens, void will be filled pretty quickly by other companies/developers that actually spent some time reading about what GDPR is.
Re: age, compare a beaujolais nouveaux to a 2-3 year old beaujolais. There's a reason very young wines aren't usually seen on shelves; they can taste overly "green", phenolic, and/or tannic.

But once you're past about 4 or 5 years old, I think you're right - it becomes quite a bit more subjective.
> and certainly didn't have a religion that promoted extremism

Lets cut through the code words then and have a direct counterexample to what you're trying to say.

Nigerians are primarily Muslims. They are also highly educated and among the most entrepreneurial immigrants to the USA. And while there's a "Nigerian prince" joke every now and then, they really are doing relatively well in the USA. Like, "better than Asians" with regards to college education statistics.

https://www.chron.com/news/article/Data-show-Nigerians-the-m...

Nigerians are basically the perfect counterexample to the "Religion" (aka: Islam) problem that is so often brought up. High rates of college completion, high rates of business / entrepreneurs, high-rates of integration. Overall, clearly net-positive to the USA.

> Other Asian immigrants in the US were also either not religious, or (like with Koreans and Filipinos) adopted the same religion as the dominant culture.

What about Indians? Who are usually either Hindu or Muslim? Indians are also highly educated and start a large number of businesses.

I'm personally Catholic. I'd obviously prefer it if immigrants would come with the same Religion as me, but the statistics are in. Nigerians, Indians, and a whole host of other immigrants kind of do perfectly fine in America. There's no need for them to be Christian or otherwise "mainstream".

Indeed, bringing in immigrants on the basis of religion is severely anti-American IMO. America is certainly big enough to sustain Hindu, Muslims, and other religious groups. Especially if those people are coming in highly-skilled, highly educated, and overall are a benefit to our society.
Essentially: yes, that is the case. (Source: I am a privacy lawyer with >10yrs experience.)
Does anyone know if opting out of CPNI sharing with your carrier prevents location information from being shared with companies such as LocationSmart?

See: https://www.verizonwireless.com/legal/notices/customer-cpni/
To do this you need access to the SS7 network. I don't believe this is the issue in question, as the providers have APIs for partners doing location services.

Source: I used to have direct access to such an API
I don't know but I'd support companies working to improve privacy. It's a hard thing to monetize but there's a need and a market.
> There are no ways of accepting payments digitally without a third party.

1- I agree. Bitcoin is no exception here: I must buy Bitcoin through GDAX. Then my transaction must be confirmed by Bitmain. And they're all running software by Blockstream. That's 3 third parties that were trusted for my purchase.

2- 0-conf transactions are very risky for recipients, hence why exchanges require confirmations.

3- Credit card chargebacks is how the real world solved the fraud problem in the featured article. Can you please provide an equivalent article showing how businesses are suffering due to chargebacks?
Thanks, your write-up is very informative! I think the HN staff should change the URL to your post.
I dunno, if you can get into an ivy or into a med school you should go. It'll pay off.
Real time interactive NBA betting app. Try to get John Stewart to host. Squeeze HQ app out of business
It doesn't have to be European companies, an American (or Japanese or any other place) company can go and fill the role as long as they follow GDPR.
Why do you think consent is required?
Unfortunately, that is true :(
Almost like a rabidly anti-sex society resulting in people having significantly less sex than at any point historically known might have some sort of negative consequences, huh? I'm sure the rampant depression, anxiety, and other things known to be a consequence of reduced sexual activity are all caused by something else though. The fact you could start up the Youth Anti-Sex League from Orwell's 1984 and no one would even bat an eye is probably just a fluke. Carry on.
Don't you think many HN posters will object to using a chat service with a fishy as-of-yet probably-not-profitable business model and a big ol' database of all the messages sent? Discord is a great service for now, but it's unclear to me what their plans are in terms of monetization and user privacy.
I'll say this again. Currently I have Google home hooked up to my home automation system. It has trouble correctly identifying commands for things like turning on my desk light and understanding South African accents when friend visit from there. My Alexa does a lot better with that. Yet somehow I'm to believe that they have made this massive step forward. Google used to under promise and over-deliver. Now it has been taken over by marketers who tend to over promise and under deliver.

The truth is that they still make the majority of their profit from search, but need to look like they have something to back that up to keep the stock price up. Between that and Waymo it really felt like they don't. Android and the Chomebooks are promising as technologies, and I like they refinements they are offering, but the monetization strategy doesn't seem to be clear strong. It is definitely not as strong as Apple's ability to make profit from selling Macs and I-Phones...
Yes it is bollocks, but the fact that Monal wouldn't need a DPO if they were based in the EU is true.

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

Recording IP addresses in a web server log does not qualify as "regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale" by any stretch of any definition.

And that's besides the fact that they don't have any presence in the EU. GDPR's scope only includes companies with at least some presence in the EU. That's not just because it'd be unenforceable - the laws make no attempt to include a wider scope than that.
This was in one of the earlier drafts of the GDPR but was removed, so you can be required to appoint a DPO if you are a small startup as well, but only if one of the conditions mentioned in article 37 applies to you (which I think doesn't to the OP).
> Sometimes "nobody doing it" is the correct answer. It might not be economically viable for the USA to grow strawberries. We can import strawberries or find something else to eat.

I actually agree with this, but society has decided that "food security" is an important component of national security and that the country would like to maintain domestic food production even if it is uneconomical. And that's fine, if that's what the public wants, but once you do that you have to live with the consequences, like being forced to choose between illegal labor and rotting crops.

> In the long-term, automation may help.

Maybe, but a lot of the produce-picking that can be automated already has been. What's left is crops that, for whatever reason, are much harder to automate.

> At retail level, the cost of farm labor is is tiny portion of the total cost.

I'd like to see a source for this.

> Crops don't rot on the vine if farmers know the labor situation in advance

Please actually read my two links. The first is from 2012, and the second is about how the situation persisted through 2016. You're saying four years of Georgia's law wasn't enough advance notice?
This is the same extreme reaction people had previously to waterfall. Any methodology fails if it gets applied blindly and wrongly. You have to be willing to adapt it to your specific environment until it works for you. It would be a huge mistake to go back to waterfall just because people perverted Agile into a micromanagement method. The same people who can't make Agile work will also fail (and have failed for a long time) with waterfall or any other method because they refuse to adapt to reality and instead want work instructions they can follow without any thought.

The same thing goes on with OOP. It started out as a good addition to other programming styles, got turned into a religion ("you can't do this. It's not OOP.") and now into a pariah (FP is next to go through this cycle).

In the end stupid people will mess up anything they touch and good people will adapt things until they work.
But it's not "their" data. It's the webmaster's data. It rightfully belongs to the webmaster. It just happens to pertain to the user. There is no justification for that information still belonging to the user after the user surrenders it to the website.
Comments here only show how terrible this law is, as nobody has a clue how to interpret the requirements. EU direction is simple - cripple the internet so that only handful of companies could afford to navigate regulational hurdles and that way it will be easier for bureaucrats to control it. Any small initiative kill with fines. In few years internet will be under full control of socialist regime and people are sleep walking into new reality with the help of do-gooders.
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No, you can't be sued except by the regulator, who will only do so if you ignore them! Their role is to make you compliant, not punish you.
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A staircase bot to carry heavy objects. With an increasingly aging population, it is a literal pain to be lugging objects - especially heavy ones - up/down stairways.
> is as ridiculous as it is completely false

Agree, that's why I never implied that.
Obviously an offer letter would be better but the absolute worst is hearing nothing back.

No. One thing that's worse is they schedule a follow-up call, then blow off the call. Happened to me.
Go where your customers are. Tax is comparable to most of western europe, salaries are higher than Poland, but way lower than SV.
> one party wants to make it hard for two-parent working families to have more kids

Wait what? Are we talking child credits, abortion, progressive income taxes, mortgage tax credit?
Those mostly weren't millennials, they were gen X libertarians. The ones that held long enough to make some real money, anyways.

I know one millennial who mined a bunch of BTC when it first came out, and then sold all of it when it first hit $20.

I also know another millennial who bought a bunch of eth at the IPO, and has held through everything.
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OP never implied was.
Definitely agree! I often quote from the manifesto. Especially when dealing with Jira.

I've been meaning to read the original Waterfall article as well, I've heard it's good.
To be honest the ROI for a regular lobbiest is so low that just doing that can get your wants into law quite fast.
Monal is an XMPP chat system. User's messages are user data, and everything it does is processing that data, in the form of broadcasting it. I suppose as long as the data doesn't count as "very large", that'd be fine, but what does very large mean?
Casual free-to-play without the competition
That's not possible as the DPO must not have any conflict of interest (https://gdpr.dpkit.com/gdpr/chapter-iv/section-4/article-38....), so he/she cannot be an owner or executive of the company.
You can just do it manually... I have a feeling deletion requests will be pretty few and far between anyway.
Re: Bitcoin's electricity consumption, I wasn't satisfied with how one-sided or incomplete a lot of the articles written about this topic are, so I tried writing my own* that (hopefully) more fully and objectively encapsulates the data and facts of the matter.

TL;DR – We all need to stop ignoring Bitcoin's rapidly-growing electricity consumption and making flawed "What about _____?"† arguments. The Bitcoin community (myself included) needs to start facing reality and be able to demonstrate four things:

1) Bitcoin’s energy usage is actually reasonable, when viewed in proper context

2) All that electricity is actually serving a useful purpose

3) Bitcoin’s growing energy needs can be brought under control

4) Over time, the electricity for Bitcoin will increasingly come from renewable sources

I personally believe that #1 and #4 are already true and will continue to trend in the right direction over time. As for #2 and #3, those can become true in the near future, but right now it's all hypothetical and Bitcoin needs to start delivering on its (unfulfilled) potential soon.

* https://medium.com/@petershin45/bitcoin-is-killing-the-plane...

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Except.. isn't that based on the misconception that all of these "cloud" tools that "come from Google" are actually used there?

Google isn't using Kubernetes with Docker on AWS (or even GCP). I'm quite confident that they're running their own software on custom bare metal, with custom virtualization/container abstraction layers and custom management software.
Are you preparing to start such a company? I know zero funders excited about regulation. About technology and platforms, sure. But never about regulation. Only lawyers get excited about that.
You can maintain a waterfall-style project plan and use that to feed stories into your agile sprints. If something needs to change, then you feed that back up into your master plan, just like you would if you missed a milestone. The difference is that, with agile, you get more continuous feedback and you explicitly model iteration in your plan (since if you're doing it right, you're delivering progressively more capable versions of the entire system and not just components to be integrated at the end). Nothing in agile precludes long-range planning, or taking deadlines into account.
pretty much there: https://www.hellorust.com/setup/wasm-target/
No - you cannot ignore it when you are a small company that's true. But you can (probably, we'll see) ignore it if you don't do shady shit with your customer data. You are allowed to process data, if it's used to fulfill the service you provide. That's reasonable, and probably applies to most of what OP is doing.
I've posted a full writeup here: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/locationsmart/
"going to school and paying attention but being taught that abstinence is the only effective form of birth control and that condoms fail regularly so why bother" All so parents don't have to deal with the horror-movie scenario of their adolescent kids having a responsible, happy sex life.
If you ask the home run king how to hit more home runs, you'll get a lot of advice. Some of it may actually be accurate.

But I believe that if you really want to know how to hit home runs, you want to talk to the king's trainer, not the king. The king has no perspective. He has mostly only worked with himself. To put it bluntly: he's too wound up in his own bullshit to be objective.

Software Developers don't have trainers. Ask a successful person how they got that way and they have a sample size of one, or a handful. All you'll get is speculation.
> It’s a really quick indicator that I’ve either set something up right or not.

That indicator just changes to either showing nothing (good) or showing an info icon with "Not Secure" (bad). There's still an indicator there, it's just different.
There's "jobs" in all those places, but not necessarily jobs the OP can do. I lived in the NYC area for a short time, and the job market there for my specialty and experience was terrible. Here in the DC area, it's excellent. Places like Indianapolis, Nashville, etc., would also likely be terrible for me. Certain industries and specialties are concentrated mainly in certain areas, so if you're specialized, you have to stick to those places.
Same regulation... Same process. You have to be a flagrant and persistent offender who ignores the regulator to even be facing a fine.
Thank you for proving my point.
How do you know that only Google and Facebook will have problems?
The question is why is the connection between men and trains relatively strong? OP never implied liking trains was restricted to men.

Rephrasing to "nerds" doesn't change anything.
I modified a request in a fairly predictable way and bypassed the consent stage. See the full writeup here: https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/locationsmart/
False: when Poland proposed to exempt small business under 250 employees, it sparked an "outrage":

https://iapp.org/news/a/polands-proposed-gdpr-exemptions-spa...
Then don't keep it ?

We're talking about chat.. you shouldn't be logging the contents, at most a bit of metadata to prevent abuse (eg. a connection log to identify and block spammers).

If you don't store that metadata longer than needed (a couple of weeks? storing it for years would be hard to defend) you have legitimate reasons to keep it, and don't need to worry about deletion requests
I'm curious what you think the shortfalls are of all the existing tools that attempt to do this. Basecamp, Trello, Asana, Jira, to name a few.
> This is the same extreme reaction people had previously to waterfall

I mean... there's no correct application of waterfall. The whole waterfall process comes from a paper as an example of how not to run an engineering project.