skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope people will be proactive about this. Even if regulators aren't all that interested, users can do a lot to enforce GDPR, thankfully.
Yup, this is 100% correct.
That hypothesis offended the sensibilities of anyone who believes that all those who are able to work should do so.

From each according to his ability, Comrade.
The CDX. A great little console. Even worked fine with the 32X despite Sega’s claims to the contrary.

Even if it looked crazy in that configuration.
But an IP address is PII. So presumably a wallet address in PII. If so, then all transactions are PII and subject to GDPR removals.

This seems harder to solve.
Cookie warnings are the new ads. My ad-blocker eats them.
Hopefully, having converged on this Schelling point of "Russian attack!", the so-called cyber [0] intelligence industry will have soon rendered itself moot.

[0] a/s/l ?
Damn I’d just started doing something similar on the side. Looks like I’ll have to rethink my efforts. :)

Nicely done
Xer here, welcome to the party, pal!
> [2] When I say Postgres is great for analytics, I mean it. In case you don’t know about TimescaleDB, it’s a wrapper on top of PostgreSQL that allows you to INSERT 1 million records per second, 100+ billion rows per server. Crazy stuff. No wonder why Amazon chose PostgreSQL as its base for Redshift.

Correction: Amazon chose ParAccel, which was a data warehouse forked from PostgreSQL.

Many data warehouse products have followed this path due to licensing. MySQL is GPLv2 which means you can't ship derivative works without releasing your code. PostgreSQL has a permissive license similar to MIT/BSD. You can do anything you want with the code. That's still a major consideration which the article omitted.

(Cross-posted from another HN link to same article.)
There's a good chance you're using a blockchain(1) to visit this website: the SSL certificate that protects your connection is published in a Certificate Transparency blockchain. If you're using Chrome, your browser verified a proof that the certificate was in fact in one of the CT blockchains. Being a blockchain, auditors (like the sysadmins at hacker news) can be sure they have the complete set of all certificates, and thus be sure they can detect any forgeries.

1) A blockchain is simply a chain of blocks. The key thing they do is allow auditing mechanisms to be sure they have the complete set of data contained in them. They're really a very simple and useful idea, which unfortunately has been hyped up by a bunch of scammers and semi-scammers. The consensus mechanisms used to secure blockchains are the interesting part, not the blockchains themselves. Although for many applications - Certificate Transparency being one of them - boring old trusted third parties seem to be good enough.

That said, if you have a stronger decentralized chain available too, you can always publish commitments to the state of your centralized chain in the decentralized chain, improving security at relatively little cost. I wrote up a particularly scalable version of that idea here: https://petertodd.org/2017/scalable-single-use-seal-asset-tr...
what would the other use be? Manipulation of new and media?
As a recently graduated computer science student with deep experience working with startups, notedly with highly experienced women developers and staff within those startups, I find groups like this deeply troubling.

I believe what these groups advocate for on paper and what they knowingly actually advocate for are very different. IMO these groups foster division and group-think that makes learning harder for all involved and if anything promotes the portrayal of toxic culture as a purely gendered issue along with wrapping everything under a poorly though-out victim mentality.

Some of the best female developers I've come to know both as co-workers and mentors (although I'm a man) avoid these groups and find them counter-productive. Some have even been banned for just speaking on the issue of these groups, regarding their "real" benefit. I acknowledge there are problems with tech culture, but pro advocacy and labeling of any groups involved will never be a productive way to solve these problems.
"We went along for the ride every single step of the way [with Facebook]... But we noticed, over the course of two years, that we were being paid in all types of currencies — followers, shares, views — that did not feel like money."
> uuid's aren't guaranteed to be unique at generation

If they are not unique, they are not really UUIDs. In which case you should tweak the algorithm to make uniqueness guaranteed. Like add a client id and its logical time in there.
There's also a lot of potential criminal use for them, like proof-of-life for a person who's actually dead.
Could those ultrasound based jamming devices used to thwart eavesdropping be the ones causing the problem?
Love it!! I could really use this for a few things and if you do subscriptions, I’d have a few more uses for it. Are you considering subscriptions?
David Foster Wallace wrote a review of an Updike book in 1998 that also shed some light on Roth:

http://observer.com/1997/10/john-updike-champion-literary-ph...
Comcast confirms it's close to bidding for Fox to beat out Disney
I started reading Roth a couple months ago as part of a project to learn how to write better fiction

I freely admit that this is my personal biased opinion, but if your goal is to write better, you could do no better than study Bellow and Updike.
Lots of other countries have debit cards linked to accounts with standing credit, instead of the "credit card" that you pay off every month.

These debit cards very low fees, sometimes they work as both debit and visa card, so you can use them abroad too.
IANAL, but pointers to PII are still PII. If you can go from "description or address" to "human" then it's PII.
> They like their own.

I'd say that's true for the vocal minority of cheerleaders, but I would wager that most people are just voting against other candidates at this point. I.e., the lesser of two evils.
The CIA mostly doesn't decide that kind of thing, they just implement decisions made in the White House.
This is a good read, but I question this line:

> Video games, at their best, offer everyone an equal chance to overcome the same challenges on an equal playing field. “Pac-Man,” after all, didn’t let you add extra quarters to purchase immunity from the ghosts.

I mean, in a way they did. If you had more quarters to spare in Pac-Man, you'd be more likely to make it further than your cash-strapped compatriot.

But then again arcades peddled these types of "pay to win" mechanics long before the App Store, and so probably aren't the best example to use in an article like this. NES era games would be more appropriate I think.
Genuine question as it pertains to US-based companies. How can a foreign law have such seemingly deep impact on US-based companies, let alone, situations where the visitor is not paying for services? Maybe this gets into International Law, but even if I'm not _targeting_ European visitors, say they cross some threshold by percentage compared to US visitors - why must I abide by a foreign law?
Porn was the killer app for online video streaming and secure online payments too, though. The Internet owes a lot to porn.
It’s definitley fibre and we get a stable 100Mbit connection all the time.
I'm completely on the side of Reddit, here. Subreddit moderators have too much power. It's all very well saying "anyone can create a subreddit, if you don't like one, make another" but it's impossible to compete with subreddits sitting on common names, like "science".

The practice of removing higher-voted posts in order to keep their AMAs at the top should never have been allowed, and I'm glad that it now isn't.

Abuse of moderator power is one of Reddit's biggest problems.
You can easily guarantee uniqueness within the system without any coordination.
I'm not sure which is worse, Kaspersky/Russia spying on everyone in the Fed or the NSA.
> improve your browsing experience

In advertiser-speak, "relevant and interesting ads" are an "improvement to your browsing experience".

Actual end-users may have a slightly different interpretation on what constitutes an "improvement".
The Cuba “attacks” took place at houses and hotel rooms, not actually in or around government buildings.
They already abide by the GDPR. There are exemptions on the GDPR for: national security; defence; public security;
the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences; etc.
GDPR applies for non-EU based operations as long as the users are EU-based.

I guess theoretically they only have to comply with GDPR specifically for EU-based operations and/or EU citizens, so they could technically keep at it if their servers are outside the EU and for any non-EU users. But I think in the long run it'll be easier to have sitewide compliance.
Yes there is.

- "Are you storing my data?"
- "Uhm, technically… I mean it's on our hard drive"
- "Delete all my data now. Please and thank you"
> London's Victoria Line now runs at up to 36 trains per hour, a train every 100 seconds.

And have thinking about pushing it even further for quite a while now.

https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/ninety-second-railw...
From what I have been able to gather, MetaCPAN was the planned replacement for search.cpan.org and the reason it took forever to transition was to guarantee a perfect handover and minimal to no issues(linkrot, API problems, etc) upon the shutdown of the search.cpan.org servers.

They spent a good deal of time making a perfect drag and drop replacement and I think it went very well.
I have been helping a school who I do IT work for with their GDPR roll out - not because it is my area of expertise but because they had nobody else to turn to and the Local Authority who control the school have released zero guidance in preparation.

There are many, many unresolved issues:

We are supposed to employ a 'data officer' this basically cannot be anyone who works in the school at present. We sought volunteers but didn't get a single applicant. It is difficult to justify paying someone to do it (if you can find a qualified person) - the budget for things like school books is already paper thin.

I contact external suppliers who use our data and receive a wall of silence.

Things like publicly visible visitors books are outlawed (depending on how you read guidance), the alternative are electronic systems - more cost.

Displaying certain sensitive information, prescriptions for pupils, are now outlawed, this could compromise safety.

There seems to be a raft of GDPR training systems which are basically a single page questionnaire, costing upwards of £300.

I don't have an issue with what the legislation is trying to do it just seems so vaguely implemented. Basically we all know that the organisations who need to clean up their act will be doing the least to comply.
Last October a mysterious radioactive cloud spread over Europe [1,2]. The source was traced to the Ural mountains between Russia and Kazakhstan. Although the amount of radioactive fallout in Europe was minuscule and harmless, there must have been a significant amount of radioactive material released at the source.

A few months ago, Putin announced Russia developed a nuclear powered missile with unlimited range [3] (really is was just 22 miles because "Russia"). The missile was reportedly tested in late 2017. Did Russia spew radioactive jet waste over their country during a field test of their nuclear powered missile?

News Sources:

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/10/563286253...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/21...

3. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/01/590014611/...
nice. yeah. i like that sentiment, that perspective. i would feel good about answering in that that way. thanks.

(for some reason, i always imagine companies want an answer like "Well, I've been dreaming about fixing bugs in billing systems for discount airline backend software since I was in the sixth grade. And since your company is the third largest discount airline backend software company in this part of Ohio, I just had to apply.")
The guy that wrote "Hotel Mario" - not the cut scenes, but the game - was a real guru professional. Watching him code was the first time I ever saw anyone adding up the op-code and memory access times to design their algorithm. Everyone at Philips was quite impressed. At bit later a contractor at a game studio showed Philips an idea called Compiled Sprites that allowed 64+ independent animating entities on screen at once. But that innovation came too late, as the brain drain at Philips was already well underway. CD-I was dying just when a way to make the games they needed appeared, but everyone was already mid-job hop.
It might be worth contacting Virgin and see if you can get a free installation under the infill funding, it’s specifically for urban areas that have been missed out.
Facebook and Google have profoundly changed the way people connect and find information, respectively. It's quite a developer mindset to have incremental space travel improvements above those.
You are asking a very broad question without really indicating what your requirenments are.

I use Mailchimp for my project https://dndemail.com. It has been a great way to launch my solo project. MC has been great primarily because it is:

1. Flexible
2. cheap
3. easy to implement API

I use the api to push the email address of new sign-ups into Mailchimp.

In Mailchimp I have an automated DRIP campaigns that start emailing the users with regular emails about how to use my app and take advantage of all the features.

I can update the user's marketing channel in Mailchimp depending on their actions in my app. For example, if someone cancels their subscription, I trigger a Mailchimp email asking for feedback.
ive never cared much for the weather channel. After the whole snafu about their own pet names for winter storms I think they lost a good deal of credibility as anything more than a paid wrapper for noaa.gov.

wttr.in is a good service you can get on nearly any device.
> I wonder how many of them is fishing, so that they redirect you to fake sign in page and steal your password.

Or spammers trying to verify that your email address is active. Presumably the spammers can charge more for verified targets.
> It's pretty unlikely to get a collision

unlikely is not zero, which was why I commented. I'd hate to rely on uniqueness of something that has a chance of not being unique.
> There were many situations in the past 8 years, where laws could be passed to benefit High skilled immigrants. However Democrats always said that either you have Comprehensive Immigration Reform or nothing.

Am I right to say your argument boils down to the Democrats tent being too big for your liking, and you would prefer them to have catered to High Skilled Immigrants? Unfortunately for you, the Democratic party has been a "big tent" party since FDR - that's their political schtik. I think you should have expected more from the party that supports "job creators" like you (or maybe not quite like you).
Wonder if there's a way to get off these lists?
Reading it myself would require wasting precious time, when I can instead offload that responsibility to someone who has already read it and can comment on whether or not it is a shitpiece.
Foxconn reportedly scaling back plans for Wisconsin display factory
> I should be able to demand

If GDPR applies to Bitcoin, _who_ would you demand the purge action from?

There are an estimated ~10000 pseudoanonymous Bitcoin full nodes[1] all updating a ~170 GB append-only database[2].

Where does the GDPR compliance demand get sent? To the bitcoin user forum where some (not all) the developers hang out? Or to the maintainer of the github repo for C++ bitcoin client? What would be the procedure? Make those 10,000 nodes update and download new client software that "forks" the blockchain for each GDPR erasure request? Why would Chinese miners care about compliance with EU laws like GDPR?

[1] https://bitnodes.earn.com/

[2] https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size
The cookie law was flawed from the beginning because it allowed companies an opt-out mechanism (which we see via these cookie banners). This is even the case if the user does not consent. A company cannot force or even ask a user to opt out of GDPR so, unless a company misreads the law, we won't be seeing useless GDPR banners.
Gave it a shot and found the highlighting to be distracting to the point of making it hard to read the current line. I'll try playing with the colors to make it more legible.
China's social credit system blocked 11M flights and 4M train trips
This post is for those who believe that they will never get RSI symptoms. Don't be foolish. I spent my teens and twenties pounding away at a keyboard with a slouch and bad posture. No pain. Eventually it got to a point where my forearms experienced soreness after a long binge of typing. Luckily, a night of rest "solved" the problem. Then, the recovery period became longer - a weekend, three days, using a heat pack. Finally, and this is the reason why I am writing this, the soreness never went away. Once you pass a certain point with active denial, your body gets damaged. Like another poster mentioned, at that point you need to spend equal time counteracting the effects of what you did with something like functional fitness or strength training. RSI once it reaches a certain point, like most problems in life, does not go away. It can only be managed. All the advice and personal experiences shared here is good but keep in mind that the best time to manage RSI is before symptoms appear. Don't fall for the premise that there is a solution for RSI without addressing the root cause, continually and daily.
For about the last decade or so, I've held on to the idea that there ought to be a maximum age for elected officials. Ideally, in my view, 60.

As I myself have aged, and watched those around me age, I'm really quite struck by just how many people reach 68 or so and spend an inordinate amount of time looking back, fondly, on their prime years. It seems incredibly natural for that sort of nostalgia to arise, as the body decays. I can't help but think it also leads to "back in my day..." style thinking, and the mythical "golden past" to which we need to return.

When you've reached such a mental state, I suspect you're no longer as capable of thinking critically about the future as someone younger, someone who still has a future. You've got no skin in the game anymore, and when that happens you're no longer fit to serve in any decision making capacity. Act as advisor, absolutely. But without skin in the game, you'll do precisely what our gov't has done: mortgage our future for gains today, and completely screw over coming generations.

It's a weak rationale, I admit. Borne of my own biases against the status quo, for sure.

Still I can't help thinking its a good idea. An enforced retirement age for elected officials would be in public interest.
Funny how we all have different experiences, I have been with them for 10 years (and longer before that in a shared student house) and can’t praise them enough. Much better than the experience we had with BT in the early days of starting the business.
On the weekend if my first woke me up, we would start doing chores. He learned very quickly to fix his own breakfast and play quietly (yes, around 3 years of age).
Effective how? The article quote someone talking about "saving democracy", but the use of the military saying "we think X is fake but we can't tell how we came to that conclusion" seems very limited, and depending on the content and target audience of the fake would just get a shrug and "of course they'd say that".

Are there even past examples of any military, US or otherwise, injecting itself into public discourse over something to clear things up, instead of doing the usual opposite?
Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Routers
I'd suggest looking at Morley Callaghan also.
Good journalism suffers if subjected to popularity algorithms. What a weird wave this has been, where Facebook's News Feed used to be okay and then sucked, where my curated Twitter feed used to be okay and then sucked, etc.

There's a difference between what people say they want (as interpreted by views, clicks, eyeballs), and what they want to want (as interpreted by values, what feels rewarding in hindsight, what they're glad they did later). I wonder if these algorithms will ever evolve to start serving up metaphorical vitamins instead of potato chips.
I've known some r/science mods. The removed posts were reinstated after the AmA had achieved enough traction on its own, things weren't left permanently deleted.

It was still blatant vote manipulation, but the end result was science AmAs were regularly featured on r/all and also the default view of Reddit.
Most of those e-mails are either illegal or unnecessary.

If you've already opted-in to receive marketing messages, then they don't need to ask for your consent again just because GDPR is coming.

If you haven't already opted-in, then the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive only allows unsolicited messages containing marketing information related to previous purchases you have made from that company.
> And yes, not basing it on population side means you are screwed if you come from a big country, but at a huge benefit if from a small country

What the actual system does is make it so you are screwed if you come from a country with a large number of qualified immigrant applocants in a similar category (employment or family) subject to numerical limits. Population is loosely associated with this, but the biggest negative impact by far, on a country level, is to qualified immigrants from Mexico, and specifically to those in limited, family-based categories. India and China have bigger populations, sure, but much smaller total backlogs of qualified applicants.
Based on the age and tenure graphs, it seems a lot of representatives in their 50s were voted in during the 90s, and relatively few of those have been replaced. This would be the Baby Boomers coming in to their full political strength.

However, there seems to be a similar wave of fresh-faced, long-sitting senators coming in the early 80s, and I'm not sure what generation that would map to. The "Greatest Generation", perhaps?
But it also allowed skill with the game to shine by getting further on a single quarter.
because the EU has enough global influence in terms of it economic power that it is able to hurt economic interests of US companies who want to operate in the EU.

For most of the world, this has been true in regards to following US laws for a long time. (DMCA, copyright law)

In the end, international law is mostly a game of (economic) influence, and the EU is economically significant enough for these companies for EU law to matter.
I think the EU just kind of tipped their hand when questioning Zuckerberg, German MEP Manfred Weber asked whether the Facebook CEO could name a single European alternative to his “empire”.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17380982/mark-zuckerberg-...

This sure seems like the EU trying to toss up arbitrary laws because they can't compete with American companies.
> It’s unfortunate to not see life expectancy explicitly mentioned.

I think it has more to do with the number of constituents per district. You need to be a lot further in your career to win an election with 500,000 voters than one with 20,000 voters.
That's just it, doing something unbelievably stupid for marginal gain is the Russian M.O. right now. There are still people in hazmat suits cleaning up leftover nerve agent in Salisbury.
> Certificate Transparency

Only in the sense that "git" also is a blockchain. In other words: nothing relevant to cryptocurrencies, really.
It's refreshing to see an objective article written about this subject. They presented plenty of facts from both sides of the argument and left the subjectivity up to the reader. Well done.