skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are totally different problems, though. Dropbox is a trivial scaling exercise compared to Twitter. (Some Dropbox engineers are going to be all up on me now, but it's simpler by far to shard than Twitter was -- and yes some functionality in Dropbox is probably harder to shard, but the core use case of Twitter generated hot spots by definition).

FWIW, Twitter did what you're describing, we had 4 or 5 thousands hosts running the Ruby stack at its peak. Unicorns and Rainbows, oh my. Then it started shrinking until it shrank to nothing. That period was actual the relatively stable period. The crazy period, the one that I wasn't there for, was probably impossible to architect your way out of because it was simply a crazy amount of growth in a really short amount of time, and it had a number of ways in which unpredictable events could bring it to its knees. You needed the existing architecture to stay functional for more than a week at a time for a solid 6 months to be able to start taking load off the system and putting it onto more scalable software.

Any startup would be making a mistake to architect for Twitter scale. Some startups have "embarrassingly parallel" problems -- Salesforce had one of these, although they had growing pains that customers mostly didn't notice in 2004 timeframe. Dropbox is another one. If you're lucky enough to be able to horizontally scale forever, then great, throw money at the problem. Twitter, at certain points in its evolution (remember AWS was not a thing) was literally out of room/power. That happened twice with two different providers.
If all you've seen is a shadow, all you've seen is a shadow. How do you know it's not someone's twin? Or some sort of puppet facsimile?

Now, that's a contrived example. More realistically, I doubt we'll ever be able to get enough detailed measurements to really understand how genetics, nutrition, exercise, and environment all play together to affect human health. Clearly each is complex enough on its own and to combine them together quickly magnifies the observation problem to be entirely intractable. We can imperfectly generalize and work with populations to come up with various guidelines that seem to work well with populations. We can break down the problems, measuring particular cells or organs. But to recompose all the experimentation and observation into a full system view is much more complex than solving chess or go. It's much more complex than predicting the earnings forecast of a single company. The complexity of the problem space is just ridiculous.

So we try to push the boundaries of the complexity we can deal with, but there are diminishing returns over time. And clearly there are outer bounds we will never be able to approach.
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Nah.. Just time to relearn it all with StorCLI instead.
They are treated the same because you are collecting data about others and GDPR regulates how this should happen.

If you want to collect the data, then it must relevant for your business and that warrants you should treat it properly.

Upon request to erasure you should go use reasonable measure to remove it. Wiping your memory is absurd and is never considered reasonable – no need for a lawyer to rule that out.
People that like to spend a lot of money for the same product shop at Whole Foods. Smart people, and price conscious people, buy the same product for a fraction of the price at their local franchise grocer, whether that is Hannafords, Market Basket, Price Chopper, Publix, or what have you, wherever you are.

Walmart does have typically inferior grocery items, still; it's been 15 or so years since the super centers were built in this area with groceries, but the meat and produce is still well below par.
Maybe I'm living in a liberal media echo chamber, but his rants appear to have the opposite effect; the backlash is drawing more attention to Tesla's problems.
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So . . . what we have here is a law that assumes that if you are a good enough engineer to create software that makes money, you are a good enough engineer to comply with the law, given two years' notice.

I don't have a problem with that.

If the law has a side-effect of people who suck at understanding and organizing and managing data responsibly not starting companies and making money off of data, I'm also okay with that.

Maybe the days of two guys starting a company in a garage learning how to handle other people's information before they start a company dependent on it is just beginning.

I'm also okay with that.

You don't have a right to be incompetent. You don't have a right to be clueless when it comes to databases and information. You especially don't have a right to take advantage of other people who don't understand exactly what it means when they agree to a ToS page.

The reason there are so many comments to the effect that this is a non-issue is that it's just not hard to comply unless the business you're running is doing something shady. There is nothing technically difficult about complying with GDPR. If it's hard for you and everyone in your company, I don't know what to say. Hire someone who doesn't suck at this.

This is only difficult from a business point of view. Not a technical one.
> So while I might not be able to claim the same Linux Greybeard status as the folks who installed via floppies on an i386

Hmm... I guess I get to claim 'greybeard' status then. I installed both SLS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System) and later Slackware from floppies on an i386 (and later a Pentium).
I wonder if they didn't use a bulk email service for protecting their customer email id's; but derped while sending bulk email themselves.

I feel bad for the person responsible for that.
Found it - it was a C module, and was available until 2.1, when many little used modules were removed.

1.6.1 declared it "obsolete": https://www.python.org/download/releases/1.6.1/

Obsolete Modules
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soundex. (Skip Montanaro has a version in Python but it won't be included in the Python release.)

Looks like it was finally removed in 2.1: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.1.3/notes/ matches the NEWS file in https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.1/

- Removed the obsolete soundex module.

https://pypi.org/project/Fuzzy/ has a modern implementation if you want to play with it.
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> It won't be for long! Taxes and spending in Seattle have shot way, way up

There's an argument that places with lower taxes and lower government investment attract and are better for businesses. The evidence in the U.S. seems to be overwhelmingly otherwise.

The states with the lowest taxes and investment are the poorest; all the great American industries, from automobiles to finance to IT to education to many others, started in high tax/investment locals, boomed there, and remain there. Perhaps investment is a good way to yield returns.
It is simple. You have to apply reasonable measures to delete the data.

That is vague, for sure, but hopefully you have the engineering skills and domain knowledge to make a good call.

Dealing with credit card data? Think a lot about it.

Dealing with movie preferences? Deleting from the database should be adequate.

Dealing with attendants from a local conference? Delete the files when you don’t need them.

(And remember: nobody will ever show up with a fine one day. It will always start with a warning and a chance to improve before any fine is applied – unless there is serious neglect.)
This article looks very interesting, but it's full of jargon from the ad industry that makes it somewhat opaque to me. What I have an interest in is, what will this do to the stock market on Tuesday?

Also, I find it interesting and confusing that the site puts up a panel on the privacy policy, which says "By using our site, you agree to these terms". But then it has an "Accept" button, as well as an "X". So (not that this site is unique) what does it mean if I don't click Accept (as is my wont)?
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I don't think you'd disagree. I just think, "Well, you could search for iproute2," isn't that helpful because it's not that obvious that that is the package name.
A college student working on a side project probably shouldn’t hoard personal information if it doesn’t care to protect it.
There is no way to serve free content with targeted ads, blocking it outright seems really harsh. A paywall can help justify the efforts of compliance.
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Whatever you do, do NOT redirect to a gov site.
Yeah that's ad tech companies and their investors and/or shareholders getting concerned with their valuation.
Under the GDPR, by not clicking Accept it means you're not agreeing to those terms.
1) The correlation between the content people peruse and the products people buy is pretty poor. Take a news site with an article about school shootings- what related content would they advertise? Guns? Back to school supplies? Without knowing why a person is on a page, it's difficult to understand what related products might appeal to them.

2) Tracking user behavior is fairly important to implement click fraud detection- obviously that doesn't justify shady behavior on the part of ad networks, nor does it necessitate the in-depth amount of personally identifying information they may or may not collect. However, some forms of that data- think IP addresses, click history- may be useful.

3) If you already have some data per point 2, why would you waste an opportunity to display something meaningful by putting up an ad that might be completely irrelevant given what you happen to know already?

None of this is meant to justify targeted ads, only to explain why they have better appeal to both content providers and ad networks.
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Indian media is passing from a dark ear .. where government have created & achieved a goal to control the voice to the public .. so that they can run anything like in "North Korea" .

it's really a dark age of information , where TV is only running based on the press release from Government ( Mr. Modi ) OR Corporate ( like reliance , vedanta .. etc ) .
I guess that's how they can keep the place reasonably clear and moving along.
Is there a reason they need to get their vitamin A from rice, a crop that demands precise cultivation practices, and not cheaper and more convenient vitamin pills?
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I wonder at which point he gave up on paying back the loan. I think they were reasonably frugal for the first four years (the $400/mo MB being an exception). It seems like when they started the orthodontics school they considered entering this, and definitely by the time they bought the house, they had no intention of repaying the student loans.
Is it supposed to be enough to be compliant with the GDPR?
If you have harvested data from Europe, you are not allowed to sell/transmit it without informing the concerned party.
I feel that to become GDPR compliant this way, you also have to delete all data that may have come from european residents.
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I guess we’re just kind of ignoring things like credit bureaus, who sell finacial data about you whether you like it or not, and god help you if you miss a payment. But hey, even if you dont screw up, maybe something gets reported wrong, or maybe you just don’t spend like the algorithm wants you to, and your credit, and thus your life, is ruined.

I guess we’re also ignoring private health insurance companies and how they can just kind of, you know, deny you for any reason. But it’s cool because your insurance is dependent on a benevolent private company providing you employment.

See where I’m going with this? The Ayn Rand “government is violence” nonsense needs to stop. It’s not corporations vs. government, it’s powerful institutions vs. we, the plebes.
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As the solo developer/cofounder of a two man business I have absolutely no time to worry about these things. Only a few days ago I've googled GDPR to get a facile understanding of what it is.

If at some point I create something that is large enough to matter, I can worry about it then and will have the resources to do so. Until then I'll continue working on software as if it does not exist. It's hard enough to build a profitable product that is valuable to people, don't need to think about any laws handicapping my creativity and design decisions.
I very much doubt it. For example, American restaurants happily serve this crap, passing it off as "tuna": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escolar
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Not GP but scraping price data off some stores (particularly travel sites) tends to be unwelcomed by operators.
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Wow, they seem to be using Hierarchical Temporal Memory rather than more traditional deep learning approaches. We've seen some rather grandiose claims about HTMs' capabilities from Numenta (who I think invented the approach?) but no really convincing applications yet, so it's really interesting to see a concrete demonstration like this.
Depending on your use case, you might get away with building your layout for mobile and then grid-ifying it for larger devices. That way those browsers that don't support grid will get the mobile version.
FreeBSD just lists those IPs under the interface.
How true was that on week 1 that PCI went live?
> If it's only meant to be used against big companies or extreme offenders, why doesn't it say so?

Because, and this has been repeated millions of times on HN, Europe and the US follow different systems in writing laws
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If you are interested in phonetic algorithms, sorting, recognizing and filtering, you will enjoy Talking Banana Twitch ban story by Useless Duck Company : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5ppf0po3k
Clicking the X means the tracking scripts won’t fire. GDPR forced the site to still be readable (no cookie walls allowed).
Big Trak is probably the first device I ever programmed. I've got a picture of me as a kid in a plaid shirt squatting on the floor programming my Big Trak. Not much has changed in 35 years.
I wish there were some more startups attacking the sleep apnea problem. It is more common in the general population than people realize, and it creates many more health problems. CPAP is only tolerated by fewer than half of patients (I can't stand how uncomfortable wearing the mask at night is while I sleep), and the efficacy of surgery is up in the air. The surgeon in the Bay Area that does jaw reconstructive surgery to open up more space for the airways charges six figures for the procedure, and it is not covered by insurance.
Looks like worthwhile additions. WSL is pretty nice, although I've started moving away from Windows, and generally do all my WinNix stuff on MSYS2 and Cygwin now anyway, for a variety of reasons. That and Eshell in NTEmacs is so nice.
> * The EU is not nearly as powerful as the Chinese government*

Not sure what that's supposed to mean.

> If G/FB suddenly stopped supporting EU users

But they won't because they are not stupid. Instead they'll start respecting the privacy of EU citizens, which is going to be a win for us.

> I highly think most people want the free apps with targeted ads over a full block or paywalls.

Most people aren't aware of the threat to their privacy.

Also, do you work for a company that makes its living off targeted ads?

Not that I judge you or anything, I worked on a startup in the past building a platform for serving ads on bidding exchanges (what Criteo has been doing, except they succeeded). And now I'm working on anti-ad-blocking technologies. But I'm also privacy aware, as I've seen full well what targeting can do and I don't suffer from double standards.

The people that defend ads targeting are those that work in the ads industry.
DMCA is only one example. In the financial world, the extra-territoriality of US laws is widespread, such that for example even securities sold outside of the US, to non US customers, by non-US institutions, issued by non-US entities have long US laws compliance sections in their documentation. Non US banks outside of the US are reluctant to take US clients because of these laws (not dissimilar to the discussion on blocking EU IPs here).
It's open source. Feel free. I'd expect there are significant architectural differences between Linux and BSD by this point, though, that would make it quite a challenge. Alternately, it might be like adding major new features to Xorg: possible but extremely challenging.

My understanding is that the Linux version of net-tools was based on the BSD software, but I don't know how much code is actually shared between the two projects. It was intended to be syntactically equivalent and support the same features (at the time). You'd probably find it easier to write a net-tools-like wrapper for iproute2.

Yes, someone could have just extended net-tools. But nobody did. Instead, they wrote iwconfig and other tools when they were needed, and then someone decided to write a competing package, iproute2, that did everything. And that package added feature support when they were added them to the kernel, and bugs got fixed. Those didn't happen with net-tools unless each distro took care of it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/710533/
In theory, yes. However, I think in practice addressing the concerns of critics is often out of Pearl's hands.

Until they supply a "ground truth" or data generating model, he has a dilemma:

* if he doesn't create a data generating model, then arguments for / against his approach will be specious.

* if he creates a data generating model, they can claim it doesn't reflect reality.

In the case of Judea Pearl and Andy Gelman, it seems like the point of contention is much broader than the do-calculus. Andy Gelman does not seem to be a fan of structural equation modeling / similar graphical models.
It's really the most elegant way to transport 4 D batteries and a 9 volt across the living room floor.
Perhaps, perhaps, but (a) I think I've seen this sort of thing before, and (b) your interpretation nonetheless contradicts the statement that using the site is agreeing, and (c) I'm not in the EU.
That is quite the difference. This makes me think maybe I should work on something to default me to EU versions of sites.
How? I'm not in their country, their laws don't apply to me or my business in any way, shape or form. They could perhaps argue I do business there, but that still doesn't give them anything to press charges against. Best they could do is block my site as far as I can guess...
I've never dry fasted and never would. It sounds like a terrible idea.

I try to drink at least three liters of water per day while fasting.
Yes, but this is actually more difficult than you think. It doesn't take very many data points to ID a user.
If you’re considering moving here, think hard about it. It does rain for most of the year, meaning that there’s lots of “green” all over the place (if that’s your thing). Also, in the summers it’s basically 60-70 straight days of 70s and sunny. Not a lot of variety imo.
It is insufficient to only mask PII because behavioural data can in some cases uniquely identify an individual, such as purchasing history. You have to destroy all data from the user.

By the way it is this stuff that is so maddening about GDPR. The EU steadfastly refused to be helpful by even answering frequently asked questions clearly.
Yeah, but how old are you and your friends? I think eventually most people grow out of this sort of immature 'pranking' and just find it a bit boring...
> Tesla does not yet have a presence in Eastern Europe

The accident happened in Greece which, while it is geographically located east of Brussels, one would not refer to as "Eastern Europe" unless one is rather unaware of the connotation of the phrase from recent history. But, then, this is Tesla.

> Model 3 hasn’t yet been homologated in Europe

Now, was a GRE word really called for here?
Didn't consent to third-party tracking, and then couldn't access the article. I hope that this doesn't become a widespread pattern, where companies disallow access to services when people decline to be tracked/profiled, now that we have an increased legal mandate for clarity and user rights online. NPR, being a public benefit non-profit, should really act in the public interest, and allow people to access the content without being subject to surveillance from ad companies and social media.
:-/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
Why can't I ignore it? I have european customers but they chose to sign up with a business in a foreign jurisdiction where their laws don't apply. If it's a problem, the EU can feel free to block my sites, but I can't see how it's negligent to not comply with laws that don't apply in my country.

I don't comply with laws from many other jurisdictions either. Should I start applying censorship laws for China and Saudi Arabia too? Why should the EU be special?
No, data can be sold or leaked and abused at any point in time, it doesn't matter that it doesn't happen right now.

People that blame Cambridge Analytica are missing the point, which is that Facebook is a threat to everything we know just by existing.
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I've still got some applications that use SQL Server's SOUNDEX() function for fuzzy name matching. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well for most names. I've used it in a student information system to look for duplicate student entry (happens more often than you'd think).
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This is one of the best software books I've read, that's not about strictly about software. The concept of small batch sizes in particular maps really well to prototyping and agile approaches. But it gives a basis for why those approaches make sense and work. It's like quantum mechanics compared to classical mechanics...
This is why GDPR has the fines up to €20m. Hopefully some of these users who were breached file for a breach, if you can't hold my data you don't deserve it. Good intentions aren't compatible with the law.
Shouldn't it be called Windows Subsystem for GNU? There's a boatload of GNU-tools in there, but does it include a Linux kernel too?
"Anonymizing" would be replacing each user's PII with a value that's unique to that user. Instead, you could just blank it out or overwrite with universal "data removed because of GDPR" token.
Seattle has the highest amount of rainfall per year of any mainland region.