skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This needs to be read with the mindset that it's for people who've decided to publish opinions, and care about having more people read them.

There are lots of reasons you might not want to do that: you're the kind of person who picks stupid fights[0], your opinions are deeply hated by most people, etc.

For the people it's aimed at, I think it's close to being right. For many others, writing is a tangential part of what they do, and they ought to be a lot more careful. But that probably also means giving up on having a lot of people read their opinions. You can't spread your ideas with one hand tied behind your back.

[0] Not being judgmental here...I've picked too many stupid fights in my time.
We where already subject to much stricter rules, so we honestly didn't have to do anything. We have started selling GDPR consulting, so it's only positive.

Both my colleagues and I have much stricter personal guidelines to data protecting than required by our employer, our chief security office and the GDPR, so it's not really an issue.
The block is to pacify the lawyers, it doesn't really matter if it's effective.
The $100B proposal was a complete overhaul, including the signaling system, major reworking of subway station, track improvements etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/magazine/subway-new-york-...
Not when a US site uses a "copy protection" mechanism to ban all EU users, and grants a copyright license giving full access to US users and no access to EU users. Then your EU-based choice to use a proxy becomes a copy protection circumvention under the ECD, and the user is subject to a lawsuit.
This article should be an advert for why customizing the browsers scrolling is a terrible idea.
That "European presence" requirement is, by itself, an attempt to force their laws on the world, and if it's going to have teeth, will require other countries to bow to pressure to enforce it even though they had no input.

If Jamaica passed a law fining any company that hired homosexuals, we'd consider it bullshit even if they tried to abstract it a level up by only passing it as a local law, and then passing another law saying companies that serve Jamaicans have to have local representatives. I'm not sure why you think this is any less bullshitty a tactic, other than the fact that the law they're trying to push seems more reasonable (which I agree with).
>The #1 complaint about ads is that they are not relevant, so this does nothing but increase that problem.

The #1 complaint about advertising is that in 2018, it has evolved into a shadowy, insecure brokerage of surveillance data that it obtains using all kinds of under-handed tactics. If the GDPR curbs this in the slightest, it will be a net positive for people of Europe.
What's missing in education
The first part doesn't make sense. This is no different than exporting your data if you stop using a piece of software. Giving data back isn't really an issue of contention, nor is privacy in general.
It puts the mussels in a terrible place. There's no active labor unions for molluscs, and the lack of a temperature controlled brine pool in many civic courts prevents them from testifying directly.
I would love it if people who think SF's homeless problem is easily solvable would create startups to solve it.

Unfortunately they're all busy making the fourth, fifth, sixth, electric scooter company
> Linux dropped the cost of using UNIX down to zero.

BSD had already done that, better, and earlier. Let's not try to rewrite history.
KFJC is a tremendous place.

If I may plug KZSU, on Stanford campus, as another college/community radio outlet in Silicon Valley.

...I worry all the time that, owing to the lack of affordable housing for the creative class, and the general lack of culture throughout the Silicon Valley, that there won't be enough energy to support all these radio stations.

If you're curious, don't be afraid to look into joining them! They both take on community members from throughout the area.
Why? Software eats hardware for lunch.

The value is the business consuming AI. If I can layoff 10 Level 1/2 Helpdesk techs, I can increase my profits by $500k. If I can nuke accounting or HR tasks, even bigger costs can be eliminated.

Intel is the commoditized player here.
I feel like starting from scratch GDPR really isn't that hard to handle.

If your business is based around exploiting user data however it might be a lot harder, but then that's the point of GDPR, to prevent people exploiting user data.

GDPR exists because it turns out we can't trust companies to handle personal data with the care it deserves, and I don't see why any company should be excused that proper care.
One can obfuscate an extremely live distributed, obfuscated cache that mirrors public resources, and that's not magic.

Just because you have trouble imagining the implementation of such a thing doesn't mean I do, and doesn't make it impossible.
If by chance this is not a joke, you should look into ECC memory and why it exists.
What user experience? Any music archive or store can provide two functions: download for backup purposes (lossless codec is good for it), and on-line playback (for which lossy codec makes sense). Both can be called user experience and both have value.

People don't need to know what it is by default. But they should be able to make lossless backup if they need to.
We're in fintech. And we're not in Europe, but we're about to start a big project targeted towards European users.
That's how some US tax/banking codes already work, so it's not without precedent. I don't remember exactly what it's called. But allegedly it's a hassle for everyone involved, both banks and customers.

Ah, found it: "... is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which was passed in 2010 and will go into effect in January of 2013. The act requires all foreign banks to identify and report on US citizens with accounts holding more than $50,000 in an effort to clamp down on tax evasion. If banks refuse to comply, they could face a punitive 30 percent withholding tax on all payments from the US."
Already stole the idea and have the rights secured.

All the best,
- Hollywood
You can only have targeted ads if you ask users for their consent which is why these pop ups etc are necessary - going back to the original question.
I don't think you had to publish this.
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You only have had to gone through the implementation challenges personally to know that it’s hard and the costs (to do it by the letter) are high. In fact to do it by the letter you’re going to have to hire a law firm to ensure you’re compliant and they’re going to err on the side of caution and take you down a rabbit hole of implementation changes.
> Hacking is not a problem you can solve by passing a regulation that says "don't get hacked".

It doesn't say "don't get hacked", it says "if (when?) you get hacked, minimize the the cost to people who trusted you with their data". And the easy way to conform is: 1. do not collect more than you need to provide the service, and 2. do not keep the data you don't need any more just in case. Which should be the default, but in the world of cheap storage and data mining seems to be forgotten, or an afterthought. E.g. when a user unsubscribes we tend to set the flag "subscribed" to false next to the rest of their data, instead of removing the e-mail address we don't need.
That makes me wonder: what about wechat? Surely Tencent has many overseas Chinese users in Europe, and I’m sure they play as or more aggressively as the American majors. Is Europe going to sanction Chinese companies for violations along with American ones?
That's because GDPR is regulating and fining without representation to non-Europeans. Blocking Europeans is a defensive measure.
How can the regulation already be ineffective? It's literally been in effect for one day. You'll have to refine the standard anti-regulatory tropes in this case.

Get this: not everybody is consumed by paranoid fantasies concerning their government. And while your shallow understanding of China based off a few western-oriented articles here and there may validate your own biases do understand they have no real relation to reality. In reality, there are no extraordinary consequences for missing a single bill. On the other hand if you're sued in court over a debt the judge -- not unlike American judges (!) -- can use public humiliation to try to modify your behavior.
Per Wikipedia:

> Golden rice is a variety of rice (Oryza sativa) produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of rice.[1] It is intended to produce a fortified food to be grown and consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A,[2] a deficiency which is estimated to kill 670,000 children under the age of 5 each year.

So, yes, genetically-modified to produce more beta carotene.
This could also possibly fall under the dominion of the little understood maritime law.
I run a small consulting business.

It's been quite some effort but for my business so far it's been a net positive because it made me rethink, clarify and streamline my processes.
For what it's worth, I'd argue the same should be permitted of a small car maker. If I want to go build my own cars, step 1 should be putting a motor on a chassis and being able to drive forward. Step 1 shouldn't be adding airbags and seat belts to a couple axles.

The safest car is one that can't drive, and the most privacy-friendly software will fail to compile. You should be able to build a functional car before you need to worry about making it as safe as possible, and similarly you should be able to build a functional MVP of your software before you need to worry about compliance with a huge international policy.
Will Prime affect grocery shopping behaviour ? Considering that Walmart' pickup will probably have a head start in many markets of creating that habit ?
I find it odd that you complain about "cheap money" (meaning, I presume, low interest rates), and "usury" in the same rant.
Talking of great lines...

* "Amazon, Google, and Microsoft each spent more on CAPEX in 2017 than Oracle has in its entire history."

* "That red line you may mistake for the x-axis is Oracle’s CAPEX spending"

* "Maybe they are reconciled to sitting at the children’s table of cloud, but the problem for both IBM and Oracle is cloud is eating their existing businesses.
It has eaten the server business and now starting to feast in earnest on software infrastructure, including the database, which is the profitable heart of these companies."

* "Both companies have acquired a number of SaaS applications, which will bolster their sense of self-worth and belonging in the cloud, but there is little to no platform leverage associated with these apps (and platform leverage = profits!!!)."

* "Watson which is in serious contention to be the biggest “overpromise and underdeliver” in tech industry history, now blockchain as they try to save humanity from our looming existential tomato provenance crisis"

* "And their (IBM’s) customer problem is who their customers are at this point: the disrupted. You may not get fired for buying IBM, as the old saying goes, but it is increasingly likely your employer will go out of business if you’re in an industry where technology matters."
Commonly the data is used for targeted advertising which is why they need the pop ups and consent forms. Their appearance is not because the companies want GDPR to look bad.
I work for one of the biggest (non-tech) companies in the world, and in many countries we've been storing user data in spreadsheets all over the place and often without consent. So it's been pretty frantic.
> They really need to tell the US to go to hell on that front.

Would be easier if Europe had a coherent voice. You got the former Eastern Bloc countries desperately clinging to the US (because they, rightfully, fear that Putin will screw them over), you got the UK which is trying to not fall apart due to Brexit, France is... France and Merkel is trying to prevent the worst of the shitshow, even though she's miserably failing at that (and under heavy pressure from the AfD nazis and her own sister party which is openly copying the nazis).

In addition, Europe is so damn far behind the US when it comes to military power - jeez, German army is practicing tank shooters with broomsticks as munition, the NH90 marine helicopters are not allowed to fly over water and we all know what a fuckfest the A400M is. No money, no competence, but it wasn't a problem since WW2 as the USA had always covered the EU... now that Trump is, well, being Trump the EU has yet another giant problem to tackle.
You should read The Three Body Problem trilogy for some interesting ideas in that direction.
What are you talking about? China with it's national real-time citizen tracking using 'social credit' scores, facial recognition, and internet firewalls really cares about your privacy?

Ok, spend all your time going after the ad company and ignore the government which is 1000x worse and will control your life or toss you in a cell. Good luck with that.
Manipulating a white dwarf to kill a planet is like using a hydrogen bomb to kill an ant.
I no longer live in the area, but I aso enjoyed KZSU a lot. It seemed a lot less music focused and felt more like an NPR. They had some really awesome segments, like I remember one in particular about having students look at themselves in a reverse mirror.
> But the mid to higher end doesn't give away their money without judgment; that's the problem.

My platinum Amex works at Walmart just like everyone else's credit card, and with curbside pickup, I don't even have to go in. I can pull up, check in with the kids still in the car, and have the car loaded and be on my way in 5 minutes.

I don't shop Whole Foods because a) the value isn't there ("Whole Paycheck", and I don't have nor want Prime to get a discount) and b) Walmart is a slightly less evil sweatshop than Amazon (IMHO).

Sidenote: If anyone from Walmart Labs is reading this, you've really up'd your mobile (iOS) game. Kudos.
So hash the IP before you log. Now it cant be traced to a user and you are GDPR compliant. Its really not that hard.
There's quite a series of books co-authored by Kernighan, all excellent. Three others are The UNIX Programming Environment, Software Tools (in Ratfor and Pascal), and The Elements of Programming Style.

They are classics for many reasons, including how far you get in such short books.
Do you quit after you found product-market fit? Or earlier?
as always there is news to the contrary indicating harmful effects : https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321864.php
That's one of my all time favourite stories.
The dishwasher is that robot. Just call the racks in the dishwasher shelves. Job done.
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This is actually one of the reasons I posted this, because I'm not sure, I'm not a lawyer and while I'm hopeful I got it right, I'd love guidance if I got it wrong.

Can you elaborate? What am I missing / what would I need to do to be GDPR compliant?
This is interesting, an EU Activist thinks they can twist Facebook's and Google's arms into providing free service: (again, I'm not a fan of FB/Google invasive data mining driven advertising)

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44252327
Speaking only for myself, I use a normal power cord. I would kill for a battery. I've forgotten the cord once or twice while traveling and after a day or two without it I feel miserable.
Exactly how I read it
FACTA is why banks refuse US citizen or PR customers.
It will not curb it. Facebook and Google who control 90% of the ad industry will already have consent from billions of people by the end of the day, and the increased regulation will only increase their market share as the safe and reliable avenue for advertisers and further strengthen their monopolies and data activities.
I liked the appearance of the site. Very clear and easy to read.
You could fast before and after work. Eat all the calories you need in your 9 hour window, fast in the remaining hours.
This is not the interpretation I've seen everywhere.

GDPR says 'accordingly, consent will not be considered to be free if the data subject is unable to refuse or withdraw his or her consent without detriment.'

The user needs to be able to use the service in the way they expect to, without needing to give their personal data for targeted advertising. Another way of putting it is personal data can no longer be used to pay for a service.
Go ahead and block the EU. I will clone your business for the EU market and I don't have to worry about pesky US competition. /s
It's a reality. Literally, a 4% tithe on our revenue would literally kill us right now. Funny though you seem to know this isn't the case, having never seen our books.
My understanding was that an IP address is considered personal information under GDPR, which would put it in your class #2
Will that work if noncompliant company is offering its service for FREE* by funding everything selling data and you have to charge/use less valuable static ads? Just having a larger market doesn't automatically make you're product more successful, especially when that larger market needs more mundane localization efforts that the average startup probably won't invest in for a couple years GDPR or not

Plus, blatently ignoring regulation is cheaper in the short term, and if you successfully leverage that advantage into revenue than you can start throwing money at the problem once the regulators finally do get around to prosecuting you.

Worked for Uber.
But just because it requires changes affecting companies outside of EU that doesn't make the jurisdiction global. It's the same as with any other product that you are selling - if you want to sell it in EU, it has to satisfy EU's rules, irrespective of where it's being assembled / produced.

So if you "sell" to EU residents, follow EU's rules.
Not a great deal. Sure, more paperwork in terms of obtaining DPAs (Data Processing Agreements) with some of the vendors we work with, as well as preparing our own DPA for our customers, but overall not a huge impact as we already value privacy highly in our SaaS app.

On the development side, we've had to accelerate some 'nice to have features' that we had planned for later, to this month. Things like scheduled deleting of old customer data, migrating to a more robust SQL system that supported 'encryption at rest' etc. Things that would have had to be done anyway.
What a clickbait title. The word "lawsuit" is just not true and completely made-up.

In case any of you cares: what they did in fact is file a complaint, no more. See https://noyb.eu/

If you still don't understand the difference between a lawsuit and a complaint at a EU countries' data protection office, you should start reading...
I never believed that the GDPR is a protective regulation. It is a focused on huge players which coincidentally are all US based.

The winners of GDPR continue to be the big five. Hopefully, they will adjust their behaviors (after paying some painful fines) in spirit of this regulation. Despite he GDPR, these companies will stay the technology and innovation leaders they are today. This will not change by that. This regulation will hopefully just enforce them to consider data privacy as something a lot of people really value.
Go is probably where it went mainstream in the current generation, yeah, but the idea has definitely been around for a while.

The earliest implementation I know of was COMAL, a very clean and tidy version of BASIC, I think dating from around 1980.

A lot of 80s micro BASICs did some level of auto-formatting purely as a side-effect of the source code being stored in tokenized form to save memory.
So you're saying F. local laws that get in the way of international commerce? You could stop doing business with Jamaica, and hence put pressure on it's elected bodies.

If you don't like foreign markets, don't enter them.
Facebook is legally an Ireland company FYI.
Just to do the Fermi problem math for fun, how much heroin is needed to reach detectability in Puget Sound?

Assume 1 ppq detection rates (like many spectroscopic methods claim to do).

Puget sound is 110 km^3 or 1.10E14 liters of water. That's 6.05E15 moles of water. At one ppq (1E15), you need 6.05 moles of heroin. This comes out to about 2.2 kilograms.

Now in terms of doses, that's a lot of doses. But that's not a lot if a drug runner could have just tossed a single brick in to reach that concentration (or emptied a single car boot in haste).
I had to figure out how to power a CPAP while camping. Some thoughts:

- The article says to use a 12-volt marine deep-cycle battery. Recommend using an AGM battery instead, no need to deal with refilling electrolyte and easier to transport. Also the 35 amp-hour U1 size is only about 22 pounds and fits in a small cooler or tool box.

- Most of the modern machines (Philips or ResMed) have DC-DC power adapters available. Philips is great because you can get a $30 cigarette lighter cable, connect that to a cigarette->alligator clip, and plug that directly to a battery. ResMed's adapters seemed more expensive (they use 24 volts), but at least it's an option. AC inverters are obviously inefficient.

- Not using a humidifier would probably double your battery life. With a 35 AH battery I could get about 3 days with humidifier/heated hose on. 3 days without humidifier left about 40-60% battery life. Of course, this depends on your pressure settings. The humidifier also works passively if not powered, flow of air through the water tray still does some humidification.

My next project, trying to figure out how to add a portable solar panel to the battery.
How does GDPR affect your business? You're not really responsible for anybody's data, presumably you inherit the policies of your customers.
When I read that, I don't know how to answer.

As I said other comments, I'm not sure if people on HN have a problem with the GDPR, or just with the concept of regulation itself.

Also, when I read about "complicated rules for small businesses". It reminds me about American republican politicians explaining how taxes on the rich will affect the average joe's taxes.

The reality is that many rules only apply to big businesses. And small businesses are exempt of many rules. My favorite one is the "Data Protection Officer", everybody on the internet™ says that you need one. The reality? Most small business won't. The article 37 explains that the Data Protection Officer is when a business is "collecting data on a large scale" [1] Second of all, people interpret that as "Hiring somebody", you don't. It's just a role, take your CEO, and now he's your "Data Protection Officer", ...

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[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-37-gdpr/
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I would loooooooove for the choice to pay for usage
Do you send user data anywhere in a way users may not expect? If not there's probably nothing to comply with. It's really the opposite of bureaucratic law — the entire thing is quite readable and reasonable.
Fucking hell, the scrolljacking makes it completely unusable.
Just another thumbs-up on this one. Fantastic!
Facebook certainly doesn't have full consent under the GDPR.

They are playing games, and don't respect the requirements that the GDPR puts on "consent": focussed, freely given (non-punitive), fully informed.
Oh, there was a silver bullet after all. Turns out Kanban and 2 hours of pair programming per week is the Right Software Development Methodology.
Its a mildly interesting question but if you want to know whats best its a parent reading to a child because there is an emotional dialogue on top of the reading. Listening to radio or any other passive reception of a signal replayed is nothing compared to live performance by a human that can react to the now (e.g. if the kid finds something funny you can slow down and enjoy the moment etc.).