skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop spreading FUD please.
1: fines are up to (4%? thought it was 2%) depending on the offense (i dont think even Cambridge analytica would qualify to max fine, even if they were a persistant offender).

2: Yes some terms are vague, some part are vague too (what is considered "big scale"...) but if you want to cry about a vague law that enable government to shut down businesses, look at FOSTA-SESTA. This law is also vague to allow european countries to tinker around. Moreover, a vague law is often in favor of the defendant on european courts (if a litigation is ever taken to european court), so this is an advantage for owners.

3. A warning will be issued before any fine, then some time would be given to comply. If complying is difficult, regulatory instances have to help you by giving you ideas/examples/advice.

4. In the case of a physical guestbook, i'm pretty sure the regulatory instances will just laugh at the demand and ignore it anyway.

5. We had a CNIL contact before the GDPR was even drafted (we host health data) and we store non-hashed IP address of our customers (for ip whitelisting), name, surname, email address and phone number. Everything seems good for him as long as our security audits every year are good. I'm pretty sure we hold more client data than almost every small to medium shop whose business is not selling customer data, yet members of regulatory instance say we are okay. This panic is ridiculous.
They do. For example, Twitter filters out Nazi related hate speech in Germany and France.
I agree a modern day Philip Dick would be amazing. There was nowhere near the appetite for Sci Fiction back then as there is now. Dick churned out dos-a-dos bound pulp paperbacks, and most of his work is in short stories he published in magazines. He's a bit like Dickens in this way. All his ideas had to fit within pretty tight constraints, within crude mediums.
Ah, that changes things significantly.

While I'm still concerned about the potential application of this case onto others, the ruling is far more reasonable imo.
Honeybees May Be Dying in Larger Numbers Due to Climate Change
That is essentially what led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Although China's economy functions better and conditions seem to be improving for the average Chinese person, so it's hard to say how it'll play out. Also the Tiananmen Square protests happened 30 years ago and the same government is still in power. So I think chances are good that they'll be able to hold onto power for the foreseeable future. As long as they continue to do well economically at least.
Do you mind elaborating? Looking at email marketing myself. The only difference I see so far is that MC is cheaper...
Agreed that term limits have not been a force for good in California politics.

Imagine you had a law that no programmer or engineer could work at your company for more than 6 years. You could keep them employed, but they'd have to transfer to a difficult department, like sales or legal. Also your product is over 20 years old. Does this policy sound helpful?
Discovery of First New Blue Pigment in 200 Years Leads to Quest for Elusive Red
Pandora rolls out ‘personalized playlists’ to all Premium subscribers
Now I know what it is people are complaining about when they use the acronym "SJW": pointless tilting at windmills whilst the real issues are ignored. But at least you're doing something, eh?

I'm sure that making sure to refer to my wife as "adult woman" in the future will cure the problem of management being packed with men of the same ethnicity as the group manager.
A US based disinformation campaign.

Imagine the reactions if North Korean or Iranian diplomats made these same claims.
That only seems possible if both processes were running on the same physical machine (and hence share the same input MAC address).

It's a nasty corner case, but I'm sure the UUID designers considered it a valid tradeoff, since I believe the algorithm was designed for a distributed scenario. In the single-machine case an atomic counter would be a much easier solution with very reasonable efficiency anyway. Still, it might have been clever to also include the local process id in the UUID, I wonder why they didn't to that.

At any rate the problem is easily worked around by running the two processes on different machines, i.e. ensuring you have at most one UUID generating process per host (with respect to the database table in question).
This meme that people from Eastern Europe or India are less capable purely because they live in lower cost-of-living economies is a disgrace. Sure, there's horror stories with big corporations farming out work to random consulting companies whose primary goal is to squeeze money instead of delivering value, but if we're comparing individual people as we are in this thread, that's a very different story.

I also doubt that the advantage of being a native English speaker matters much if you cannot express yourself in a clear and concise manner, which has less to do with country of origin, and more to do with your grasp of the subject at hand and your ability to think straight.
RealMan's Compiler Collection
The U.S. Government doesn't want us using Kaspersky because Kaspersky blows the whistle on the back doors the gov't has installed in various software.
Why link to the disqus thread?
> EU seems to be the only large entity that cares about citizens

Business owners are citizens too, and they hire citizens.
> 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".

These complaints, though both with merit, seem totally decoupled to me.
A DPO is only mandatory if the core activities of your business include regular and systematic monitoring of individuals on a large scale, or include the processing on a large scale of specially protected information.

A shop only processes personal data as a secondary activity, with their core activity being selling merchandise. The data they do process is not in a specially protected category under the GDPR and pertains only to their business rather than the wider lives of their customers. They do not need a designated DPO.

A social media network, an ad tech company or a credit reference agency does need a DPO. A manufacturer of IoT gadgets that constantly phone home with a stream of usage data almost certainly needs a DPO. If the IoT gadget I sold you tells me what time you get home from work and what time you go to bed, that sounds an awful lot like "regular and systematic monitoring". A manufacturer of IoT gadgets that only phone home occasionally with fully anonymised error logs probably doesn't need a DPO.
The UI is pretty, but that's about it.

How about you just talk to a developer like a regular person? Don't understand what an API is? Just ask them. Great folks love explaining things to others, and if you're not a developer yourself, it's not too stupid of a question to ask (or simply Google it).
Marketing, that is how it works.
> The only way for popular forums to maintain interesting content is moderation

Which is all well and good, just don't portray your site as one where the users are in control of the content. This was the seed of all reddit backlash.
I know non-technical people who, when they think they are hearing anything remotely technical, seem to shut down and go into "I don't know technical stuff!" mode...

Not that flashcards are going to cure _that_.
Agreed. If we (humans) had reliable personal responsibility, grocery stores wouldn't put candy bars and tabloids near the checkout lanes and advertising would be much less effective.
And if one of the two things you "know" about C is that it's "uncommon".. Best not to remove all doubt.
> when you're a "public servant", and you use your social media as a medium, are you entitled to privacy in the same way a standard citizen is?

Public figures have different standards of privacy. For example, the standard for what a news publication can report about you are different; thresholds for slander are higher.

What is a public figure? AFAIK, it's someone who voluntarily puts themself forward as one. For example, a movie star, someone who makes public speeches, etc. Running for President of the U.S. is volunteering to be the most public figure in the world, and arguably Trump seeks publicity beyond any other president.
I went to a Jewish day school as a child. We had Hebrew classes from preschool through 8th grade (after which point I switched to a secular high school).

At the end of 8th grade, I could still divide my class into two groups: people who cannot speak Hebrew, and people who speak Hebrew at home.

In college, I took 2 semesters of Japanese. Guess which language I am stronger at today. (Still no where near fluent).

We would not devote nearly enough time in school to teach children a second language.
We’re doing it wrong, alternative languages should be offered throughout school. For me, it was French only in Elementary then only Spanish in middle school. HS has both. What kind of system is that?
I had hoped you'd appear in this thread. Do you remember in what years/versions this happened?
Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript?
I don't see what problems it solves. Rather, the "problems" that is solves are not really problems to me. I want to develop software in a stack that is entirely free of Javascript. Does anyone else ever feel this way?
Back when I went to school, they still had Latin as well as Greek as options in addition to French and Spanish. Wish I had chosen Latin over Spanish. Back then Chinese wasn’t available, unfortch.

That said I agree with author. Foreign langs don’t help non native speakers of foreign Lang land jobs. It’s virtually useless with job prospects.
I think this is a 1st amendment issue - which doesn't say you have the right to say anything, it actually says that the government (and the president) cannot stop you from saying things - Trump blocking people on Twitter is exactly this
Actually, the maximum fine is 4% of revenue or €20m, whichever is more. For a small business or organization, the 4% number isn't the scary one.

You can say that in practice this would never happen, but calling it FUD also doesn't seem right since the regulation is super vague and only mentions maximum fines, not likely actual fines.
Technology isn't a like drug, says psychologist who works with teens and gamers
One can't skip the "cheaper" aspect. Computer games (well at least not the freemium play2win types) are generally much better deals than being a sports buff, as you can spend a lot more time playing/watching replays of games for less than a cable subscription.

The MMOG and freemium types that require subscription fees or have an in-game economy are a different story. I truly hope legislation prevents those types of games from destroying the existing landscape of "buy-once play-many" vs. constantly buying "gold/credits" for upgrades (that you need to even stay competitive).
You have absolutely no evidence of this, and there have been multiple independent medical examinations and diagnoses.
Evernote, Resharper, Backblaze, Office 365
They have their products translated into languages that are only spoken in Europe, they know I'm in Europe and show me pins that are relevant to my country, and they work with merchants to show you geo-targeted ads. I mean, spending 51% of your effort on US demographics is technically still 'focusing' I guess - but I don't think it'll be enough to be able to claim that this law doesn't apply to them.
Django - “a style sheet language that extends from CSS” what blasphemy!
Don't buy a shredder. Buy the Shredder: https://smile.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Figure...
Google: Taking action against scammers
> If you had more quarters to spare in Pac-Man,

Definitely. And just to dilute simplistic points of view, there were also books published designed to teach the secrets to beating these games in part to spend less money on them. [1] One was even published by Consumer Reports..

[1] http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/12/golden-age...

But the author has already bought into the frame that playing the game according to implicit rules and achieving progress is the dominant form of the game. This overlooks many other social aspects of the game, such as roles like watching, reviewing, finding secret levels, using games as a social space to meet others, etc.

In short, the author is caught by surprise by the fact that humans will project their social relations into the video game world which they have imagined to be hyper-egalitarian.

In fact, the mere invention of the games was an extension of our social relations into the digital field, so as soon as they appeared it was too late to sustain the author's idealistic viewpoint.

Perhaps the author would have made a stronger point arguing for the emergence of a hypercapitalist congeries of video games which are actually a precession of Baudrillardian simulacra. In the first stage, the dynamics of human experience are projected digitally into a virtual, lithographic field, e.g. instead of battles in space, we use electronic computers to simulate game play

In the second stage, e.g. games on disks and CDs from the 80s-2000, capital was used to design a product which must be recovered through sales of the game software.

In the third stage, it is the simulacra of a game which is sold. It must be so technically dazzling that the capital required to produce it can not be recovered from the sales of the game itself. The game must be reconfigured so that it is not merely a game any more, but an addictive object whose main purpose is no longer leisure, but to recover the hypercapital outlay to reproduce it through gacha.
Neurochips from the 90s
> Gates said something along the lines of, “That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.”

Funny how the largest tech companies and many silicon valley startups of this wave are trying to do the opposite.
But in moderation (heh), eating vitamins is much, much better for you than eating potato chips.

Nobody's arguing for an excess of anything. Obviously a completely locked down subreddit that rejects and deletes all posts and comments would be useless, but so would one that's completely unmoderated.
Whoever has learned French can read French literature. It's puzzling that the idea of school exposing the children to culture and broadening their mind never occurs to Alex Tabarrok. Why does everything have to serve the job market?
Ofcourse, just saying how it is and that it is pretty well accepted by 100s of millions of people.
666. They erased secret information from spy's brains.

667. They were testing a medtec app that can sense incoming strokes and play a tune along

1333. They detected incoming cartilage blockage and prevented stroke by zapping the clot.
Please humor me this reductio ad absurdam question: So does that make a toothbrush company a platform? Because arguably lots of people are avoiding cavities, and that fact seems more economically valuable than the total dollar value of all the toothbrushes sold, or the net present value of all the toothbrush customers in the world. What am I missing here? (I don't think a toothbrush company is a platform company, for the record).
Giving patients the ‘right to try’ experimental drugs is a political maneuver
This article has such a condescending tone- how is paying for a video game subscription any more harmful to "leisure" than paying for a trip to the beach? Pure clickbait.
So it's better for the poor to blame the rich and be relieved of the guilt of being poor? It's not one-sided, and to say it is allows for a victim mentality that is harmful to anyone reading this and not thinking critically. I acknowledge that there are myriad reasons for becoming poor. Some people have one horrible tragedy after another heaped upon them to the point where they are destitute, and to those people we need to lend our aid and sincerest sympathy. There are others, however, who are poor because they spend their money foolishly, often times in a unconscious attempt to assuage feelings of depression, anxiety, or lack of agency. These people also deserve our sympathy, but they will never escape their issues without actually realizing they have a problem and seeking help. I fear that comments like this enable those people by re-enforcing their belief that it's a one-sided issue that they have no control over, and to them you're doing a grave disservice.
Comcast confirms plan to buy 21st Century Fox and control of Hulu
It's completely absurd. If it transpired that China had been attacking the foreign missions it was hosting, it would instantly go from superpower to pariah state. Countries would pull their diplomats out of China. China would lose credibility even among its allies.
Talk to any proponent of the GDPR, and they’ll tell you that it’s all about principles and intentions. But that’s a double-edged sword. Sites can’t lure EU users in and ignore GDPR, but at the same time, users cannot lie to you, and then go file a complaint with a regulator or demand rights that they told you they don’t have (either by using a VPN, which means they are lying about their location, or checking the box attesting to something they know to be false).

When looking at whether an action can proceed under the GDPR (either against you or an ad network whose code you have on your site), their regulators will review your site and see that the checkbox was required to register. That, combined with not having content or services targeted to EU users, should stop any GDPR action in its tracks before it is filed.

This of course all depends on the GDPR being enforced in good faith. They have every incentive to be abusive with it, and no incentive not to be. But we just have to hope that newly self-declared privacy overlords in the EU are kind and benevolent.
I'd imagine so, the right to free speech doesn't mean the government has to listen, right?
MIT’s Super-Efficient Dispatching Algorithm Minimizes a City's Taxi Fleet
> If not, what alternative do you propose to GDPR?

There are lots of alternatives. How about enforcing the existing statutes before expanding them? My preferred alternative would be to start with a smaller scope and just require clear transparency on what is taken (i.e. not stored, taken). You can grow from there. But first, show you are capable at enforcement before increasing scope so vastly.
> Rotondo also says he's locked in a custody battle with his son's mother — and that his parents' demands for him to find a steady paycheck threatened his ability to waive court fees

So not only is he not paying his parents anything for living there for 8 years... but he is purposefully not getting a job so he doesn't have to pay his son's mother child support, all the while he is suing for custody. If that's not the definition of a deadbeat idk what is.
But you didn't address the existing rationalization: explain to me why the minimum ages exist in the first place, and why that same rationalization shouldn't exist for older people in their more out-of-touch and declining years.
Uber Shuts Down Arizona Self-Driving Vehicle Operations
Starting really early is the key. I am Albanian and grew up watching Italian TV, and learned Italian as a kid. Only took two semesters of Italian classes, yet the language ability (especially reading and comprehension) is still there 30 years later.
It takes just a bit longer to kick my speaking abilities into gear. (Usually a couple of days when visiting).

I did take two years of German lessons (High school and college), and unfortunately I forgot it by now.

The key is: 1) Start really early (6 or 7 years old) and 2) Immersion is key. Learn by being immersed int the language (either TV, living in the country, etc).

When I visited Sweden and Denmark, I couldn’t find anybody that didn’t know English well. Everyone was really good at it, and I suspect is part of the reason that Sacandinavian countries have better living standards than Germany/France/Spain, where it was very often hard to communicate in English.

English is the de-facto business language, and while as an American you can get by without knowing a foreign language, knowing one well is huge asset to your life.

One pro-tip: the best language to learn is the language from a country that you like the culture. You can really know a language by only being immersed in the culture as well.

By being an asset I mean it allows you to be able to move to a country with a lot less friction. Eg. knowing German well, it opens your world and ability to do business life locally and live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland without the huge penalty if you didn't know the language.
Think the OP meant ethernet last mile which on copper is 2BASE-TL or more likely 10PASS-TS

Though I suspect that most ELM is delivered over fibre and the CPE just presents a RJ45 fo ryou to plug your TOR Router into.
Even most of those seem to subsist more on pulling in a small percentage of "whales" (who spend thousands and likely have gambling addictions) and people who buy the occasional hat.

Even then on an entertainment/hour basis video games are a remarkably cheap form of entertainment.
Most of early physics was done by curve fitting, and on very small datasets. Simple Newtonian dynamics shouldn't be much of a hurdle for a neural network. That's about as much anticipation of cause and effect as you'd need for faking most kinds of videos.
My point was that "$3 billion over five years is very costly" is a largely meaningless statement when applied to the entire backing sector.
You are too dismissive of the obvious. The Cubans may want the money and the tourists, but the Cuban Government does not. Capitalism weakens socialist/communist governments. If there were some fundamental flaw with equipment, it would happen in plenty of other places...why hasn't this issue come up in consulates in Germany? Why did it start the instant we send diplomats to Cuba? It only happens in countries where operatives would be free to experiment without fear of reprisals from the local government. The proximity of the Cuban Consulate is NOT a coincidence. Cuba may be trying to deflect attention away from themselves by saying 'see, it happened in China too'.
You have no evidence to support this.
Last time this research was mentioned, many were not impressed by it's overall quality.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16597036
I wouldn't throw the New York Times and the Washington Post in the same bucket as the Huffington Post and Slate without some good evidence backing it up. It reinforces the idea that all news sources are roughly the same which is not true.

WaPo and NYT are national newspapers founded in the 1800's who compete with the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, the LA Times, Reuters, etc.

HuffPo and Slate are news websites launched in the 90's or 2000's that are competing with sites like Breitbart, Salon, the Daily Beast, etc.

I agree that we should call out this kind of article, but I don't like spreading the conception that click-bait based news websites are equally as reliable as more trustworthy sources.
It's not bad in or of itself, but as the post points out, it correlates with ever-worsening approval scores.
If the NSA employees responsible were proud of the public exposure of their clandestine work, while it was still viable, the NSA hired the wrong people.
TV/Cartoon mashups, AR 'stickers', plenty of silly entertainment possibities.
I'm not talking about titles in general, you're probably right, but in this particular case I think this was the crucial bit of information for me - the code was released many years ago, and I'm sure only a fraction of HNers read the articles in full so many would never notice this important piece of information.
I hear you, but the alternative is to write your app four times. That's a non-starter.