skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has that interpretation changed? I recall reading that in some circumstances it could. Or was that misinformation?
They only apply if it's your core activity though. If dank memes are your core activity, you're not "processing personal data" on a large scale, regardless of how many memes you store.
It's connected to their other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17158209

The laws are not stricter (they arent even laws yet), and they are meaningless in those areas because the government itself already defies them.
COPPA only applies to sites that are directed towards children or have "actual knowledge" that they're collecting data from children. It's legally sufficient to ask for birthdays and refuse signups from anyone under 13.
> mixing acetaminophen with ibuprofen

It's a well-documented (in scientific literature) phenomenon that the mix of a standard dose of both acetaminophen and ibuprofen provides the same or better pain relief as opioids. This is what medical schools currently teach. You can read Maxigesic sales forecasts if you'd like a glowing review.

> use [OxyContin] if you need it

As far as I know, no one "needs" it (for pain relief, unless already addicted). By suggesting so, you're creating a placebo effect.

> [@Kenji] it depends on the person

Responding to a dead sibling comment: There are some differences observed for anesthetic response. The "red head rule" is interesting and suggests that different people might have different responses to various drugs. However, I'm not aware of any differentiation known for acetaminophen or ibuprofen response.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/
If companies find it too onerous to do business in the EU I am sure others will happily fill that gap, so I am not worried. A lot of polluters probably also went out of business once environmental regulations got tightened.
I think GP meant COPPA, not COPA

https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/docs/new10136361...
I've thought about this, but didn't want to make my home more attractive than it is. I have a small dog and my neighbors have several pets who would probably be at the losing end of encounters with coyotes.
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Can someone help me understand how to read/interpret this graph? I tried to make sense of it, but I think I was only fooling myself. I need to get planed.
> Also... where else would you plant it?

I definitely prefer the Big Ag corps answering that question... and until they have an answer don't f*ck with the one environment we live in.
Goes both ways, sometimes there's text to quote:

raise KeyError('"%s" not found.' % name)

f'The flange is elevated by {flange["spronge"]} degrees of spronge.'

I don't normally use many contractions or possessives in my code, but am willing to admit it happens occasionally.
The problem isn’t so much as there’s a cost to implementing GDPR, but that the tech community has been “move fast and break things” and refused to handle things properly before.

If all you do about my PII is “set delete = 1” (which one could argue isn’t even the best practice in every scenario), then I probably don’t want you to handle my PII at all.

To your example, you could easily not switch to a CASCADE, but instead set delete=1 and rewrite every sensitive field with a special value. Doesn’t even require a DB migration.

If your attitude to properly handling sensitive information is “it’s too complicated and costly, so we’ll just not handle it and YOLO”, perhaps GDPR is a good reflecting moment for you.

[edit:typo, edit:clarification]
The amount of effort, skill, and resources required to pilot a drone is much less than a helicopter. It's the difference between something a photographer could do on his own and having to collaborate with expensive service providers.
I was replying to this:

And this is exactly what Twitter did, and how Twitter replaced Ruby and Rails with the JVM

In the context of my original post where the contention was that languages don't scale that architectures do. Your post was that it was exactly what you did - replaced Ruby with Java. Not that you replaced Ruby with Java and rearchitected the entire stack - exactly what my original post said waa the problem with Twitter - the architecture.
As a member of the community to whom this particular mussel economy is very important, this is disconcerting. At the same time, it's worth mentioning that the mussels in question were cultivated out here in cleaner waters and then _transported_ to urban shorelines.

The results are a possible window into what's to come if we don't curb our rate of pollution in the region, but not representative of what's currently in the mussels that get to your plate.
When you learn that someone lied and they are under 13yo, the rule applies again.
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> EU users will be trained to click "Agree" without reading, because web sites would ask them for permission very frequently, and users do not have time to read web site policies anyway.

From what I've read, opt-in is only supposed to be used when there's an actual voluntary choice, and "allow us to share your data with 3rd party trackers or we block you" doesn't count as a real choice.

It should be treated in the same way as opting into marketing emails. Totally optional. Not opting in shouldn't totally break a site.
For my money, it hasn't worked for Uber until they start generating bucket-loads of cash.

I do agree with your overall point though.
Because of the US international dominance it hasn't really had to develop domestically to compete with other countries. Instead Americans compete among themselves, making commonly beneficial things controversial.

At some point Americans will hopefully realize that spending significantly more money on essential things like education, housing and transport won't be competitive in the long run.
Clearly you have a different definition of entrepreneurs/technical people than I do.

Those seems like impositions on people who implement bad practice or work in fields that have morally questionable practices regarding people's data and identification. Many people I know don't engage or work in such industries because of the moral implications of doing so and what people are doing with data.

Its not about "just ask your lawyers" or "just call HR". Its about "well don't do dodgy/disrespectful stuff with customer data".

And if everyone is doing it or its regarded as "best practice" (as the old joke goes, best practice is just orwellian-speak for average), then that seems like MORE of an arguement why GDPR type activities and policies are required.
What you are describing is transgenics, GMO just means that the genetics were modified using gene editing tools rather than breeding techniques the vast majority of GMO food products are not transgenic.
DBs, memcaches, tape backups, offsite storage, log files, etc.

Past that, deleting things from databases is sometimes hard. If, for example, I delete userX, and userX was the founder of a number of forums, or chat rooms, or groups, or facebook pages that are linked to userX? Do those groups and forums and things count as 'belonging' to userX? If userX happened to be the guy who created /r/news, do we delete that subreddit, and all of the content therein?

What if userX was a paying member? Do you delete all his old invoices? How do you make sure that doing so still allows you to balance your books?

There are indeed real world scenarios wherein just deleting a user and cascading that delete throughout the system breaks things. In some cases, it might be better to replace userX's personal details with 'AnonymousUserX', but then that might leave behind content they've generated, which you then have to replace with "DELETED CONTENT" or some other stub, which causes complications.
Dad of a 1 year old here.

How do you start potty at 6 months?

And how do you go about teaching signs?
Kind of reminds me of the footage in William Gibson‘s ‘Pattern Recognition.’ Hearing this also made me more curious about phone scams than anxious, which is a nice change.
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In the specific case of XMPP, wouldn't I need to have an agreement with every other admin who federates their XMPP server and work out what exactly our roles are as defined by GDPR? XMPP still has active development community around it so this will no doubt get much easier with time, but that's just XMPP.
My default stance on GMOs is one of caution — in fact, I supported the failed California GMO labelling proposition — but really, I think that their risks and benefits should be evaluated individually. Lumping them all together, either for advocacy or for opposition, is like lumping together all synthetic pharmaceuticals.

So although there are some GMOs I'm concerned about, Golden Rice is not one of them. I'm not an expert or anything, so take that for whatever you think it's worth, but nothing I've read suggests to me that it's likely to cause a problem. This could change given new information, but I don't think that those of us urging a certain caution do ourselves any favors by opposing every single GMO, even those that are pretty clearly beneficial.
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More GDPR strawmen.

If a user requests deletion, assign anyYassociated entities (eg purchases, conversations etc) to an anonymous user. Or, keep the original user record and just blank all of the fields. You've had two years to think about these problems.
To be clear, I'm annoyed as a user too. Partly by the discrepancy between the claim that I now have control over my data, but can't actually use it since the small independently run services can't accept my data even if I wanted them to, because that acceptance comes with a set of requirements that are prohibitive, and which I, the user, would not want in this instance. However, judging by some of the other responses, I might be wrong about the effects on independently run services (and I'm happy to be).

I'm going to ignore the part about my supposed true colors in respect to user privacy. Too tired.
> Given that they mean the same thing, and one is both harder to type and harder to read, it makes sense to prefer the other.

Nailed it.
My favorite 'word you don't know'... or at least the word most commonly affecting many of us... Xenobombulation as in 'should be working but really surfing, facebooking, instagramming or whatever useless past-time activity that gets in the way of actually earning a living and/or getting down to the business of life'. Not that I'm a fan of Xenobombulation (slacking on work/duty), just seems it's a cultural mind-set these days affecting young and old.
> Someone says "delete me and my purchases", so you do, and oops - total book sales are now wrong.

Erase the name and address fields from the user in the database. You don’t have to delete any line, and that person doesn’t have any personal info in your database anymore. Problem solved.
Seems like nobody got the point of gdpr. A it's core a move to break the US companies (the GAFAs) Monopoly in Europe and to potentially fine them with huge amounts of money. The fact that GDPR is actually a good thing for the users is subordinate.
> Not true.

... unless you plan to use the backups.

Then you have to have another service that tracks entities to delete when a backup it's restored... and back that up separately.
While I agree with your point 2 (remember CAN SPAM and DMCA!), that's called "whataboutism" which is usually seen as a bad argument. I wonder if it's only called a bad argument because people are on the receiving end of it or whether it really is faulty in some way.
I'm not aware of any rule or case which supports this claim.
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+1 to this. GDPR is just the personal data equivalent of the "don't be a dick" principle.
You don't necessarily have to delete stuff from cold storage right away. You just need to have a process to remove deleted PII when you retrieve/rewrite your backups.
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Oddly, Sarbanes-Oxley also had implications if you were a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

We had two major expenses: liability insurance for meetings and SOX insurance for the officers. Everything else was in the noise.
A simple blog without ads still collects IP addresses. It's as if the EU is trying to legislate that the web needs to behave like Tor.
>because he's using philosophy to justify the superiority of science.

But saying something is a philosophical position doesn't mean he is using philosophy to justify that position! Philosophy purports to be a general analysis of how things are, so in some sense everything is a philosophical position. But this doesn't bootstrap the value of philosophy, not in any substantive sense.
No, it doesn't, but as a matter of fact there has been disagreement among mathematicians on those issues. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_contro....
IANAL, but unlikely. Sending messages is the primary purpose of the service. As long as users are made aware that messages going outside of your domain are shared with 3rd parties, it's on them to make that decision. Same would apply to email, phones, etc.
I don't know.

It's possible, as another poster mentioned, that they can hear water flowing through the lines. The surroundings are utterly quiet, and I run the irrigation at night. I can hear turbulence noise in the lines before the water emerges from the local applicators.

On the other hand, coyotes are canids. Their sensory skills are optimized for olfaction. Maybe they can smell the minuscule amount of water vapor that leaks through the push-to-connect couplings. Plus they seem to be pretty smart. It might take only one coyote Einstein to discover "plastic lines here = water" and pass it on to the pack.
Why should he pay it back? He wanted leverage, they are giving him leverage. He wants to take a flier on a home that could appreciate significantly. That's the risk when you make a loan.
I never forgot the promised robots. They're ingrained as part of my childhood, a dream of mechanical assistants that were a hybrid of the 1950s futurism combined with the promise of a digital tomorrow. Instead we have been sold cheap spying devices that have more in common with the ubiquitous microphones of 1984 sweetened with the droll dialogue of the talking wall screens of Farenheit 451. Ohh well the future still lives in our dreams and those we choose to build with sweat and grime.
You can CNAME across CF accounts but you can’t CNAME a proxied record to another proxied record.
Yeah, I was mostly making my comment in jest, and I find the idea ridiculous.

But I ALSO find it just as ridiculous to prosecute companies for not providing protections to users that they have banned.

It should be fully within everyone's rights to not do business with countries that make silly laws.
The discussion here is getting quite heated. I'm sure no one has missed that this is a bit of a light hearted piss take.

I was going to go to town on it until I did a quick pre-emptive search but I had no idea about this being a thing: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/451 - 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

I'll assume that 451 is designed to be available if a canary might be required at short notice.
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Implying that launchd and SMF are similar shows how little you know about both systems.

Launchd is mostly crappy, obtuse plist files, a semi-broken DAG, socket activation that spins your machine to death.

SMF was an access point to many things, it was clean, concise and pointed you towards the actual things that the OS provided. (like; log files) It was a pleasure to work with.

The only problem was that service definitions were configured with XML, I have never been a fan of XML.
CF DNS is pretty good for a free service. Lots of annoyances to be sure but saying they’re not focused on it is kind of wrong.

This is actually an issue with the CDN portion not the DNS portion.
You're right! I'm also sure others will happily try!

With that said, it's possible that a fragmented market with fewer legal business models may not be as conducive an environment to all possible businesses. It's even possible that as a result, not all gaps will get filled.
Again, only if you assume that these memes aren't covered by article 9. You might be able to infer a lot about someone from their authored or favorites memes. Article 9 doesn't just cover the personal data itself, it covers personal data revealing ethnicity, political opinion, etc. If I look at a user's list of authored memes, and it's full of pro gay rights memes have these memes revealed their political opinion? Many would argue yes, and processing memes is definitely the core activity of our hypothetical site.
All this may be true, but just understand that when you finish one phase of a project, another one begins. So now, comes the part where you have to promote and get word out about that project (software, whatever it happens to be) before it becomes a success. The work is not actually over, just the 'creation' aspect. And, if someone is addicted to merely creating rather than helping the creation thrive and survive, they will perpetually be stuck with a house (or computer) full of half finished projects.
If your intuition is saying it should have gotten splashed apart: so what? The portion traveling in the same direction as the main body of the star would fall back into one body. The rest would be somewhere else, no longer a star.
I highly recommend this video of a Dave Thomas talk about what agile was supposed to be vs what it has become. Most of us are probably stuck working with some sort of Agile methodology regardless of whether or not we'd like to, but it can still be nudged in the direction that Dave talks about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
Based on the (recent) comment on the issue [0], they use the Cloudflare proxy instead of an actual CNAME /and use workers to do yarn-specific changes on the edge / (see below).

[0]: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5885#issuecomment-392...
I think that we'll probably need some changes around non-digital records. Mind you, these exemptions existed in Irish law and were horribly abused :(
5,000,000 MPH = 8,046,720 km/h = 0.007455824656 in light speed
Ask HN: If your website loads another websites images do you violate GDPR?
Yes, a company worth over half a trillion dollars with access to the best legal teams around the world has authority on whether it has done what it can to be compliant or not. And authority is how the legal system works, not everyone can just practice law without going through the proper education and licensing.

> Please point out which rules are confusing and/or messy.

The comment thread you just replied to -- the one where you seem to saying that random HN commenter is more accurate than Facebook's entire legal team on regulation that is supposed to be unequivocal -- is a start.
Ask HN: Which companies/services are already GDPR compliant?
I'm looking for alternatives to the websites we use daily
you can log ip adresses. keeping them forever is bad.

It means that any future government, no matter how evil it is, could query your log and know precisely what I am doing on the internet right now. I might not want that.
The lower on the graph, the more energy efficient. The further right on the graph, the heavier the object.

So the trend is towards more efficiency per kilogram for heavier animals, presumably due to square-cube law[0]. Or maybe the 3/4 scaling law[1][2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law

[1] http://mathbench.umd.edu/modules/misc_scaling/page20.htm

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc
That link discusses the renovation of the eastern section that took place since 2000? Hardly comparable to the original construction of either bridge...
It’s like the machine at a batting cage that shoots the baseballs.
> Whereas chimps will usually only copy something if they completely see how doing that action will produce this desirable outcome, human infants will copy whole sequences of actions even though they haven’t a clue what the value is of the thing that they’re copying.

Might be because human children are better at socializing.
http://sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/apes...
That's one of the fastest macroscopic solid objects with relation to its original environment.

It is an entire star traveling on hyperbolic trajectory out of Milky Way. Even at the distance where we are from the center of Milky Way the escape velocity is still over 500 km/s and if I remember the number of detected objects that are on trajectory to escape our galaxy can be counted on the fingers of your hands.
That's Max Schrem though, he's been at this for years (and made FB's data collection processes much better in the process).
> doesn't count as a real choice.

Why not?
> Our understanding of consciousness also depends on who controls the dictionary and defines consciousness and surrounding terms.

I think that arguing over dictionary definitions is something of an anti-pattern in philosophical (-like) discussions. If we have a common agreement that there is something that we call consciousness, but it is a thing that we do not really understand, then pedantic arguments about exactly what the word does and does not denote are putting the cart before the horse when it comes to understanding the thing itself. It substitutes a lexicographical dispute for an examination of the thing itself, and it is not uncommon for such arguments to be used to talk around the issue by attempting to take certain positions off the table.

As for scientific theories not being strictly true, that hardly distinguishes science from philosophy in general (logic excepted), where there are at least two opinions on every issue of note.
I really REALLY hope people will take the opposite approach. Publish well thought out, well edited, original pieces. Take your time and reflect. Quality over quantity.
Yeah. It wouldn't keep me from defending (a pet, me, my wife, a kid in the neighborhood) from a coyote attack, but I don't have a reason to make their lives more difficult. Fellow mammals, just getting through life, etc.

And it's my (illusory) hope that they'll eat the occasional gopher while they're in my yard. The gophers compete with me for food. The coyotes don't. Yet.
What's the name of your app? If it were truly a useful non scammy app, Why wouldn't you take advantage of the free publicity you could get by giving the name?
This might be a bit of a weird question, but how do you remember which information needs to be deleted when you're at the point where you need to use backups?
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Did you say an on-off switch for consciousness? There may be one for humans.

https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-researchers-disrupt-consciousness...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152550501...
"Many" doesn't mean "the majority" any more than it means "every".
Mostly solved. Anonymized data sets can sometimes be de-anonymized if the conditions are right and external factors can be applied.
Assuming the remaining data can't be used to deanonymize them. This solution buys into the myth that anonymizing data protects PII.
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It doesn't have to be a specific rule. You learn that the age declaration was invalid so the "§312.10 Data retention and deletion requirements" applies unless you have a verifiable parent consent.
But this wouldn't even work, because it applies to all EU citizens, regardless of geography.
Sure, but the original comment alludes that the emailer is a best in class in the industry, and not some Nigerian fly by night company. Obviously there is still some due diligence to do, but I wanted to spell out what was being implied so that the unlikliness was also shown.

TBH, email is a bad example anyway because good providers are already pretty quick to boot bad actors so they don’t end up on blacklists.