skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. They may even be required to store access information, due to legal regulations in some countries. Also, providing service may become practically impossible if it is not possible to keep logs and similar data.
Sometimes I wish I knew some in-depth physics, take a bunch of LSD, and see what hidden truths would emerge... Does that happen? A bunch of scientists should really take some psychedelics together.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Remote-Team as a service product?
I am doing some user study on companies facing a shortage of technical talent. Would you be interested in expanding your engineering team whereby we handle things like recruiting, training, payroll, taxes, setting up the office, compliances, etc at locations convenient to you?
I think those are just the members of the new IAB consent framework. This is how programmatic ads work, you "partner" with a bunch of ad networks and serve an ad from whichever is paying the most at that moment.
We already donate to reddit.
It's Google's terms, and Google is the one who determined the mandatory flow of that setup as per agreement with the hardware vendor. The EU could absolutely hold them responsible for not having this sorted out with their partners, it isn't like the OEM put the terms on a device and sold it without Google's permission.
If anyone at Apple is reading this, this creates ridiculously bad UX for iOS users.

Search for a book on Google. Click on an Amazon Kindle Search result. The Amazon iOS App launches and tries to find the book, realizes it's a Kindle result, launches Safari to show the result.

So the was trasitioned from Safari -> Amazon -> Safari pretty much because of petty politics from Apple. And all for what? A happy Kindle user isn't going to suddenly switch over to iBooks and you've just made life much worse for him.

The pettiness in the mobile platform wars is unbelievable.
I'm not talking about elementary school, I'm talking about masters or bachelor's level advanced mathematics that has nonetheless been established for decades or centuries.

All I'm saying is that teaching and researching are different skill sets. One does not prepare you for the other except indirectly, nor is one a prerequisite for the other. One could just as easily say some pedagogy is required to communicate original research. It's true to an extent, but you don't need to be a excellent teacher to be an excellent researcher, or vice versa.
> clear signal they don't care

Or, it could mean they hadn't realised how much work it'd take to be GDPR compliant, and decided to temporarily use geographical blocking until they can be compliant.
You need somebody that knows the regulations and developers that are capable of auditing the whole system. That's added fixed costs, which is an advantage for incumbents.
Then it's a device that does not comply the regulation and must not be sold.
TLDRRTFM of the day
> ...

> What?!

Well, do you have any examples? Anything like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc.? Because I'm looking at this list(1) and not seeing anything on that level, or even very close to it really. Or look at the Fortune Global 500, no German tech companies there, only car or manufacturing companies.

> Maybe it's the special air of ignorance

What ignorance? Nothing I've said is wrong, shit my one friend I had in Munich before moving here said more or less the same thing to me before I had even come to this conclusion (granted, he works at Amazon).

> combined with assumed superiority that sets them off, eager nodding not-withstanding.

That's just your own sensitivities at play. If I thought the US was flatly superior to Germany, I wouldn't have moved to the latter. I could go on and on about areas where Germany is clearly superior to the US -- land use, transportation, social safety nets, egalitarian policies, etc. -- but none of those are the topic of this thread. Perhaps you should be asking yourself why you responded to accurate criticism by lashing out.

Again, I've seen plenty of threads on, say, healthcare, where Europeans will comment on how outrageous and stupid the US system is, and Americans will upvote their comments and reply with how much they agree. When particular European countries are singled out though, and particularly some of them like Germany, you don't see the same behavior.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Technology_companies_...
Your data is worth about 21 cents.
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To be fair, the fact that the car increased speed just before the crash is entirely irrelevant here. It is not as if the car was some conscious agent being willfully reckless.
I can't follow this logic at all. When home prices go up, rents also go up

If that were true, the purchase price to rent ratios would all be the same. They aren't.[1]. There are some places in the US (looking at you SF!) where renting is cheaper than buying and vice versa.

[1] https://www.mashvisor.com/blog/best-real-estate-markets-pric...
Well, obviously, since the only way to view the site is to accept, the fact that he viewed the site is incontrovertible proof that he accepted!

/s

(though honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they tried that argument...)
EU GDPR and personal data in web server logs
It's not just about cookies, tracking and advertising; it's about informing the user about what will be done with their data, its retention periods and reasons for holding/collecting/processing the data. This will be site dependant, so can't really be generalised in the way you suggest. eg a manufactures website may say they hold your data for 6 years in case of a product recall but an online shop might only hold your data for 12 months for the purpose of returns, so it'll be different permission in each case.
Has there been progress in philosophy?
This is sad news. However, on the flip side, finding out that Linux Journal is back from the dead is heartwarming. I hadn't caught that bit of news previously.
Keeping your email without a use case is a violation of your privacy.

How would you feel if you had to give your home address to the baker to buy a pastry?
A driver's view of the fastest lap ever at the Monaco Grand Prix
Most of the web is funded by targeted advertising. Are you seriously surprised that a lot of those websites are blocking EU users since they cannot make a profit off of them now due to GDPR?
Hobson's Choice regarding tracking / data collection consent is specifically a breach of GDPR.
You think this is equivalent to knowing about the Milky Way? You seem to have put some major significance on something that really has very little baring on our day to day lives. Im sure most countries teach a good deal about the solar system and the planets, It's taught at a very young age in the UK and its refined through the years of school to the point where you should have a good understanding of it all. But we never put any emphasis on this. You know why? Its irrelevant at that level. Unless you are studying for a degree or even higher this won't have any baring on what you are learning.
Explain GDPR to Me ASMR Style
> The problem with that model is... how much money is a single profile worth, really?

I remember some estimates, facebook profile with a few years of history is around 1$, a few profiles from different sites of the same person 5$.
ahhh.. Salespeople. What's truly on the bottom of the pond under all that scum and stagnant water.
The relevant language is in recital 24. “Factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.”

If the Chicago Tribune doesn't envisage offering goods or services to EU residents, it's not covered. And geofencing out EU residents is a pretty good indicator it's not. (Frankly, it probably doesn't have to--it's unclear why someone would think the Chicago Tribune was actively marketing to EU residents anyway--but geofencing them out certainly eliminates any ambiguity.)Someone can't find their way to a site, fake being outside the EU, yell gotcha, and expect European regulators to do anything about it whatever people may wish.
Yes, the user owns the data and can give consent.
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Tesla isn’t Apple. Tesla is more like Essential.
Google services with guaranteed no tracking and profiling?

$20 is cheap.
again, I don't see how you can draw a comparison between cheap Chinese manufacturers and an SV backed startup. Can you imagine the VC pitch for that? "We want to raise capital so we can make low-margin phones and that Chinese manufacturers can easily undercut".

Chinese manufacturers have more capital and have easier ways to monetize than a small startup. For that matter, Name a Cheap Chinese manufacturer that has been able to break through in the US market? No chinese phone manufacturer has more than 8% of the market in the US.

Essential took their shot at trying to make a value-chain leap. They failed. That's okay. Life moves on, their engineers will be okay, and they'll get more opportunities in the future - but at least they took their shot.
The Amazon store app doesn't sell anything which might compete with iBooks or the iTunes store, i.e. - no digital books, music or movies.

In my other comment on this thread I've pointed out how this creates hilariously bad UX for iOS users.
That's not exactly true. There are services which take your cases for delayed or canceled flights for keeping a percentage of the redeemed money. It must be said that carriers brought that to themselves by stonewalling customers despite pretty clear laws. But this is rather an exemption.

Personally I would love to see similar services for GDPR. However the structuring of the law makes this unlikely, I believe.
Should Hyundai be able to ship cars with the same body as a BMW?
Would they have more of a case even when they direct the complaint to the wrong business?
I finally found out how to get netstat on these dang new systemd machines! :)
In that point of view, it seems a rather unfair complaint

It is an unfair complaint. But to be fair to the regulators, these complaints were filed by users, and may well be dismissed once reviewed by regulators. This type of unfair complaint will be an interesting test to see just how abusive the GDPR enforcers may or may not be.
https://gsuite.google.com/

A lot of people don't seem to know that GSuite is both usable (useful, even) and affordable (cheap!) even if you are a solo user.

Here's a quick howto:

1. Go buy your own domain name (~$10/yr, https://www.gandi.net/). Make it something you like, something professional. This is for your personal email address. firstname@lastname is the most common pattern.
I recommend everybody do this. Even if you want to stay on gmail, yahoo, aol or whatever you can set up redirects. This becomes an email address you truly own, and your email provider cannot hold you hostage anymore.

2. Create a new GSuite account ($5/mo, https://gsuite.google.com) - The entire setup is guided and completely painless if you're even slightly technically-aware.

3. Migrating from a previous Google account: You can use Google Takeout to get a lot of your data (https://takeout.google.com/). Unfortunately, migrating the data automatically is hard. For email you can set up IMAP from gmail, for Drive there's migration scripts. But you also don't have to migrate immediately, Google is good at multiple accounts.

I know I'm sounding like a Google shill right now, but GSuite really is what people tend to ask for when they talk about Google's handling of data and say they'd pay $5/month to "regain their privacy". Well, here's your occasion to do so.
I'm pretty sure that's incorrect at least today, it's possible to skip through the initial setup on a stock Android device without adding a Google account or accepting a ToS.
Except they absolutely cater to foreigners. Even living in the countryside of Hokkaido, all of the train stations had everything in Japanese and English.
Six4Three sues Facebook for conducting mass surveillance through its apps
It took them 2 years to realise that? That’s the same as not caring.
If you live in the USA. However, as an European you have more rights, and in the next years we will witness a lot of battles between EU users and American corporations desperately trying to maintain the old status quo.
Machine readable only means no images. You can still structure it in a way that it's a pain to import. Or use changing structures. Definitely violates the spirit of the law but don't think Facebook cares about that.
So you are stipulating an account worth is 240USD a year at facebook? Instead of 20, why won't you say 100, make it round.

Seriously though, behemoths do fall and if facebook ceases to exist there will be no harm but good in my book.
A good history of ML/AI with quotes from the DL luminaries
CLO Machine Is Approaching Full-Tilt, and Credit Quality Suffers
> ... absurd complexity of it

Nuff said
I know it seems like a stupid question, but I wanted to make sure I understood the parent commenter's point.
All in all, GDPR reminds me of how legislation and regulation was constructed in USSR and now in Russia.

The rules are such that it is practically impossibly to comply; it is then left to the powers-that-be to decide which ones of those in breach are investigated and prosecuted.

It's the perfect setup for arbitrary and selective application of justice system to attack political opponents, dissidents etc.
> Article opens by claiming "DES-Crypt has a core flaw in that, not only was the algorithm reversible ..."

> That's not true in any meaningful sense

That's exactly right, and when I published the article, I recognized that I needed to change it, but didn't get to it. I've fixed it. Thanks.

> and points to the fact that the author hasn't any clue what they're talking about.

Ouch.
I can buy a Nest Thermostat from any of thousands of websites and it would work just fine in my home. I can't even get a Steam Link app for free from anyone and have it work effortlessly on my iOS device. These two are not the same, no matter which side you are on.
Absoultely every site that has had a new GDPR warning is just the same as the old cookie banner. "By using the site you agree..." Some have updated privacy pages which describes how you can delete or deny cookies...
An absolute joke, nobody is following the law.

It should be simple. A new banner that asks "allow tracking", yes, no. Either option allows you to use the site freely.
I'm not holding my breath. To paraphrase Jurassic Park "Money finds a way".
HBO's model actually somewhat aligns with Netflix's, only it's far more focused (and tends to be less ambitious).

They want a single big hourlong prestige drama as a tentpole (Game of Thrones, Westworld; in the past, True Blood, The Sopranos, The Wire), and a pair of highly-regarded and experimental comedies as more niche programming (Veep, Insecure, Girls). Keep subscribing to watch the big tentpole, and maybe get hooked enough on one of the niche shows that follow it to keep your subscription running in the times when the big shows are off. A show like Brooklyn 99 wouldn't survive very long on HBO, only because its style of comedy isn't catering to a specific niche (compared to something like Silicon Valley or Veep) and at the same time doesn't have a broad enough appeal to act as a tentpole.
I block JS wherever I can, though.
How is this different than hiring a consulting company?
Sure, that argument could certainly be made. But unless someone is taken to court over this (or at the very least, threats are made), I think people will continue selling such phones. After all, most sellers aren't going to realise their products are in violation of the law.
You can have ads without tracking. But frankly I'm 100% happy if you actually have a choice of "give your data or pay". It's a massive improvement over "give your data or don't use the service" or "give your data and pay" which is what we have today.
What I'm contesting is the assumption of the majority. There may be a small sub-set of programmers who will prefer the example, but until Avail's usage/interest is wide-spread such an assumption has no validity.
Ask HN: Emergency, site down. Whats the best GUI for ubuntu server mysql?
Went https and it is causing me to have infinity redirect loops.

Thinking WP is causing it and want to edit the wp_options file.

Doing select * from wp_options has the text going off the screen.

But yes, this is basically emergency, 250 people have not been able to get onto the site. I'm half considering reverting back to sunday undoing a week of work.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The article speaks of old software but, instead of fixing what it has and being standards compliant, it chooses to break away and do its own thing along with the new bugs and other issues which will surely arise.
Amazon used to not carry Chromecast or Apple TV: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/12/19/amazon-s...
I don't personally speak Ruby, so I can't really gauge her skills or the impact her projects have on the Ruby community. Is there any Rubyist who can expand on her "merit"?
We sent the prototypes with USPS, within US, and down the line they said they couldnt deliver and we asked them to re-route it to another address because of that. They even gave us a tracking number.

After a month went by (adding to the already another month of delay) they said its on its way, etc. We randomly searched ebay with our brand name and saw an active listing with our prototypes in it. Other things in the box like our gopro were gone, but at least we found the prototypes and contacted the seller. The seller said that she got the items at an auction for items that couldnt be delivered a MONTH earlier, while USPS was telling us it was on the way.

Seller ended up giving us the prototypes for a small fee.
You can disable Google's ad targeting at any time: https://adssettings.google.com/ You don't have to pay anything. What you get instead is untargeted ads, like ads for cars, potato chips, and shampoo, just like on TV. Personally I find those to be a lot more annoying.

Facebook's ad targeting can be similarly disabled under https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_s...
The bottom section says:

>Use the slider below to see our actual pricing (discounts at 5, 10, 50, 100 tests)

But regardless of if I set it to 1 user test or 100 user tests, the price comes out to $10 per user test ($10 for 1 through $1000 for 100).
email is not covered by GDPR but by the local communications acts. It will be some new EU laws in the next 2 or 3 years... So there's no problem in THAT case.
But if this email is copy/pasted in a reservation system THEN it might be covered by GDPR.
Your gripe with Google can be firmly applied to Microsoft.

However, I believe this instance was more a case of Microsoft scraping/ripping the youtube site, rather than continuing to collaborate with Google.

I'm sure if you or I did something like that, it would be blocked.
Apple continuing to chase revenue from apps and services really worries me.
Playing devil's advocate, I can see the R-Play developer defending their app as "only" streaming the PS4 experience, something that they don't really control. If Sony decided to put the store front-and-center, there's nothing that developer could do to get around it.

That said:

> Lombardi said Steam disabled purchasing its iOS app but did not elaborate on how the change was made.[0]

If this is the case, then I've got no idea why Apple would block the app.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-steam/apple-blocks-...
It sounds a little bit like air traffic control: "roger dev gbe zero niner alpha one you are cleared for proto kernel scope link strip 4 dash 7 F L 11400 gamma zulu src please copy."
Consent must be given for a specific purpose. It is debatable whether a generic "we need to share your data with our processors" is sufficient. I doubt it.
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Is GSuite better from a privacy perspective? It doesn't show ads in gmail, but I'm pretty sure they're still tracking you and feeding that into ads on youtube etc.
Mostly they won't be able to send mailings around.

Data portability and such are likely a much bigger hassle. Those are actual features you need to implement now if you stored PII.
> unable to understand

What if he is not very smart? Or even better, what if he is very dumb?

At which level should those be written then?
This is a good reminder that defaults should be simple and human readable.

Advanced options should be behind flags for power users, not the other way around.
The world maybe, Germany certainly not. On our last German Perl user group meeting an old ex-organizer presented their struggles with the German authorities to import a small amount of camel milk to Germany from Israel. We wanted to make ice out of it, and we are obviously very fond of camels, being our mascot. Even if we got first permission to import camel milk, in the end the veterinarian refused to hand it over and it was destroyed in orderly fashion. We had to take the costs. I hope they will put up the YouTube video soon of this camel milk story.
> There needs to be a name for this kind of suggestion on places like Hacker News, where someone suggests renting your own server or compiling the program from source yourself or anything else that is very obviously beyond the interest and/or capabilities of the average user.

I admit that things like server adminstration etc. have to become much easier, so that more "average" people are able to do that (and with this I do not mean: "drop another level of abstraction upon GNU/Linux").

But I know people who openly stop communicating with people who do not respect their privacy in terms of communication, since for example this means that these people are willing to extradite them to three latter agencies.
> We do not believe that our value as human beings is intrinsically tied to our value as knowledge workers

Neither do I. But I believe the amount of money any of us get every month for your job as a developer is (and has to be) intrinsically tied to our value as knowledge workers.
What's with generated images (some crap like facebook frames or generated slideshows etc) doesn't have facebook the copyright on those - at least the designs? Should those be included in the export?
> ECS also lost

Hmm ... Could you back this up ?
Google ctf 2018
Ask HN: How do you manage chargeback fraud in SaaS?
We are operating in the marketing industry and many seem to be paying with stolen credit card. How do you stop this kind of fraud?
Different types of comedy are impacted very differently if you discover the author believes what they're saying.

"A Modest Proposal" [1] would be seen in a very different light if we learned Jonathan Swift was serious.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Yes. The real work is making sure that Qt works. It sounds silly to say it aloud, but it's what really separates high quality platform from the rest.
If people force the issue then I expect big sites will give you this option. But it won't be necessarily cheap, so most people will opt to use the free version instead.
The regulation's big but it's probably not larger than a sprawling API documentation, etc. and you approach it the same way: just read what you need.

IIRC almost _half_ of the actual regulation is about what and how the member countries should set up their internal supervisory authorities and the rest is similarly specific.

There are innumerable checklists, summaries and guides on how to deal with GDPR as well.

The two I like are:

https://blog.varonis.com/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...

and

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
You're right, I confused those two.
ifconfig is obsolete for how long? 14 years or so? :)