skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of a developer for Open Data Kit. And This is the first open source community that I have contributed to, I have to say, ODK is an awesome place to get start with open source developments and all the ODKers are so warm hearted and cool! ODK can teach many things you don't know and all you need to do is to claim an issue and send a PR!
This makes me wonder if fluoride could be a cause of the rise in autism.
Wasn't familiar with the term.

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How does for example a small yoga studio’s email list fit in your examples? Or even just it’s website? Without cookies and login even - the IP adress in the log files alone is considered potential personal data that basically puts people in the need of consulting a lawyer about how to safely deal with that. And makes you a potential target to being sued and getting a lot of hassle. Even found nit guilty in the end, no one will pay days of time and energy needed for defense.

And then:
What kind of online business can reasonably be done without using an email adress, if only for login/resetting password if lost? You either have no option to reset passwords, or must do it by phone, which is extremely expensive.
I'm still one of those people who really wanted a segway-city. I still have hopes people will build new cities where there is currently no infrastructure. Maybe under there, people can build those hyperloop things.

But really I just want a segway city :(
It makes a lot more sense that that would directly tie to the US healthcare system approach and how it prices products & services rather than more to the ad market impact.

Everything in the US healthcare market is similarly far more expensive. From radiologist salaries, to a bag of saline, to hospital stays.

You could cut pharma prices in the US in half through increased negotiating power, imported drugs and government price restrictions for Medicare/Medicaid and still have a very large industry full of advertising.
"Party line" implies that it's a position everyone's obliged to take as part of being a party member, rather than something freely and independently reached.

And I suspect the main driver for GDPR cheering is that nothing else has been done about so many other privacy incidents. We can look back on HN and find such things as the massive Equifax leak (the next one of those is going to be interesting!) and the smart TVs that exfiltrate a list of all files on any media inserted.
I think most groups just ignore 90% of the rules and focus on interactive story with chance elements. I've met very few people who play tabletop RPGs for the mechanics. It's actually a lot like scrum or lean manufacturing in the sense that blindly following the rules is the worst way to actually use the system. Though, I think nearly every D&D book says you're doing it wrong if you're not having fun.
> GDPR is a piece of human rights legislation.

Not only that, to a certain degree it also influences IT security: Companies with a data breach have 72 hours to report it.

No more sitting out breaches until users can find their own data on some obscure Russian forum, 2 years later.
Decryption is very slow for some reason. In comprasion http://sebsauvage.net/paste/ works instantaneously.
Small niche products thrived on their inherently high precision in content-based targeting. When their niche had ad buyers. (edit: actually I meant "if", niche content providers without much on-topic ad budget are a winner of tracking-based targeting)

The more recent capability of targeting those niche ads also on random click-bait sites didn't exactly help those small niche products.

(Edit, for clarification: with unrestricted tracking, if you publish to a niche with good ad money, the few ads that you do show, for a tiny fraction of the ad budget of your niche, become the information source used for drawing much of your niche's ad money to ads displayed to your audience on unrelated sites. Your ad-network should practically "steal" your content-targeting information to divert on-topic ad money to entirely unrelated sites)
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This culture has driven innovation of the last 2 decades. You can't point me to one other industry which enjoyed as much success.

Of course, Europe couldn't care less - they never had a real startup industry in the first place.
They found a 2 IQ point difference testing kids 6-12 years old with a sample size of 500. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to believe anything in this study.

I understand that it's expensive to run longer studies, but with an effect size of 2 IQ points, they'd really have to test the kids post puberty at a minimum. Otherwise the numbers will just be too volatile.
I'd like to see a Beowolf cluster of those.
> Even my simple blog with no ads has google analytics on it.

I would suggest that you remove google analytics then. It only causes harm.
I've tested Ghostery back when it was launched - as with other blockers you could enable/disable blocking per domain and third-party (iirc); you could then use a Ghostery account to synchronize these settings between your devices.
In the UK, there is a sophisticated siren system that when sounded requires citizens to make a cup of tea with our electric kettles.
>"Is online ad spending a net negative for all of society, or a net positive?"

I don't have a precise answer for that question. I would love to read a good analysis.

>It allowed millions of web sites to fund themselves

Not sure about that number.

> which enabled millions of other people, many of whom don't have a lot of money to pay for content, to access it. Many of those people would never respond to the ads, so in effect, they were subsidized by those who would respond to the ads.

Yes, and it also allowed centralized ad agencies (google, fb, twitter...) to gather and mine their data, to behave irresponsibly and give us the Age of Anger fueled by social and video sites extracting value from human interaction while disregarding the huge social costs of all this.
I hope so. I subscribe to Prime but not Netflix and would like to watch the whole thing.

The fact that I already qualify for Syfy through my Sky package rubs salt in the wound somewhat. Same goes for me getting all UK CBS channels but no new Star Trek.
Which law is that exactly (german here, but i dont know what you’re referring to€
What if a legitimate user travels abroad and needs to use the website?
One cool thing about the update is WSL's filesystem now supports metadata which can store Linux file permissions.

So instead of having 777 permissions everywhere you can have your WSL mounted files and folders have correct permissions.

Problem is popular code editors like VSCode will strip this metadata every time you save a file.

If you want to see this fixed, please post about the issue in https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49021.
Thanks for Standard; it really adds a missing piece to the landscape.
I agree so much. The first season was amazing with the split story line between the main crew and Miller on Ceres but it all went downhill when the proto-molecule was introduced and suddenly there were massive shootouts (with characters who admitted only episodes earlier to never having killed/fired a gun)

I really love the political aspects and cultural differences between the various factions though.
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Wow, that America Today stunt is really impressive, feels almost surreal. Great way to fill the time until things sort out and they eventually devise a way of compliant monetization.
Wow. That makes me feel a lot better about all those API routes where I have to make 2 or 3 database calls.
As long as one can find it. It's not trivial when you're just thrown to the front page and there's no obvious search feature.
I started watching this last week and thought it looked great, but the audibility of the dialogue was absolutely appalling, I was missing half the conversation if I didn't have volume uncomfortably loud, it really spoilt it. How can you spend so much money on a production and make such a basic error?
It doesn't run natively but it's really easy to interact with Docker from WSL.

You can follow the steps to set this up at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows....

I use it every day and it's great.
Apple has been targeting the general public filling their needs with easy to use device/software stack and while part of it is starting to fail (dropping AirMac series), I would consider them losing focus if they start to build tiny machines only targeted at geeks.

But I do feel that without extending their business what they're going to do with their massive cash just sitting around doing nothing.
Yup, GDPR is pretty much harmonizing data protection laws across the EU. Much of the stuff that's in GDPR had already existed on a national level for quite a while in some EU countries, like France and Germany, but got mostly ignored by multi-nationals.

That's why the EU made these laws a big EU thing, so they are in a better position to actually enforce this stuff on multi-nationals.
Very true, for example in case of reddit shadowbans it is trivial to check if an account is banned while a legitimate user can go on for a very long time assuming that simply no one is replying, unaware that something like a shadowban exists.
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Before this you were getting the same nasty ad crap, they just didn't warn you about it.
Yeah, same here. Having read the books, I was pretty frustrated at some points at how much some things were simplified for the TV viewers.

It's still the best recent scifi series on Netflix, though.
A few years back I worked on record linkage projects that relied in part on Soundex. My experience is that Soundex is on the faster side of the phonetic algorithm speed spectrum while (Double) Metaphone is on the other. In the middle are modifications to Soundex or similar approaches like Soundex2, Phonex, and NYSIIS.

For those interested I'd highly recommend the work of Peter Christen [1], who does a ton of research in this space. If you want to see some code, check out the implementations of several of these algorithms I wrote a while back [2].

[1]: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~christen/

[2]: https://github.com/antzucaro/matchr
Amory Lovins' "negawatt power" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negawatt_power .

In his 1985 book he "argued that utility customers don’t want kilowatt-hours of electricity; they want energy services such as hot showers, cold beer, lit rooms, and spinning shafts, which can come more cheaply if electricity is used more efficiently."
Where does toothpaste fall on this scale?
Not less, sass.
No, it’s not always the case.
I like more the Lord of the rings movies than the books.
And game of thrones is a great adaptation although it’s probably the only case that I know in which the tv serie is ahead of the books.
> Does this mean you get free tv? No, you're still paying. The only reason that $CORP spends $1 advertising to you in your program is because it will make you spend more than $1 with them at some point in the future.

Not necessarily. It could be that the advertisement gets you to spend that dollar that you were going to spend anyway on them rather than their competitor.
Ads are primarily paid for by Procter & Gamble, Berkshire Hathaway, GM, Comcast, AT&T, Pfizer, etc.

Procter & Gamble all by itself spends $7 billion per year on advertising.

The top 100 advertising companies in the US by spend - not one of which is a VC firm, a tech start-up, or powered by VC money - spend more annually on advertising than the entire combined value of all venture capital in the US.

You can easily see this in action: when venture capital plunges dramatically every five or seven years, the total US ad spend doesn't similarly plunge with it.
I'm in the US and I can't agree with this sentiment.

1) Don't collect more information than is necessary to provide service. Why do you need to care about someone's physical address? "Shipping physical product" is a good answer. Why do you need to maintain historical usage data? "Providing user the ability to view their own usage history" seem acceptable. If any of your answers involve "Just in case", "because marketing said so", or "I don't know", then your plan smells. If you think you need to make money selling my data, think again: maybe you should be charging me enough to cover your costs and make a profit; or if you already are doing that and you still want to sell my data, the you should just stop being greedy.

2) Allow the user to fix incorrect data. I mean, you wrote it to a database at one point in time, you can issue UPDATEs to allow the user to edit information.

3) Remove data when it's no longer needed (e.g. when it's out of date, or when a user says "I'm outta here") If you can't be arsed to figure out how to properly delete data from your database, or hire someone who knows how, then I suggest you're not really dedicated to the business of creating software of value to customers.

4) Provide all of a user's data to that user. It's right there in your systems, and your software is accessing it to make decisions, provide service, etc. How hard can it be to put it all into some CSV files to download? You don't have to copy the users rows from your MySQL tables into a SQLite database that the user can download. Some files with basic explanation of content will suffice.

Yep, it raises the bar on what's "bare minimum" to get your company going. But keep in mind this is more 'line of business' than all the other requirements foisted on you by the law: things like corporate structure, taxes, occupancy permits, etc.

VC firms pair your technical ability with another founder who, presumably, has more of a business bent. That person should understand how to set your business up and how it's regulated - and if not, know where to find answers.

You sound to me like all the GOP whiners about how "regulations hurt business" who fail to see that lack of regulations hurts consumers.
30% is not sustainable for any business. You have to take into consideration that once a product is returned then the merchant has to sell it as a used one with a significant discount. Selling 30% of your inventory at discount means you're doomed.
Hey, much appreciated! thanks for the Fuzzy mention as well :)
If I'm not mistaken, python 3.7's data classes will make attrs mostly obsolete?
the reading guide at the bottom is quite nice. It has a daily recommended 15minute snippet.
Extreme over-exaggeration in my opinion.

Actually, just because one critcices the way the law is made doesn’t mean they think it’s basic intention is wrong.

As of your slavery example:
Forbidding slavery is one(good) thing. Saying „everbody having somebody work for them out of anything but total free will and not being able to prove it is doing forbidden slavery“ is something else.
If i must work because i need to eat and pay rent, is that total free will?
How can anyone prove that?

So sure, the wording is extremely important.
You can be a company of ten people and still turn over millions by selling your users’ data in shadowy ways.
Why shouldn’t you be stopped just because you’re small.
How can the size a company be used as a rational differentiator in a law like this?
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no, it's there. Not so easy to find perhaps:

http://www.theoldrobots.com/Rob.html
A potential future for the Ad Tech industry: consent without tracking walls
Mind Control
I was actively harmed by kennywinker's idea I actually would like to seek restitution from him for expressing it because I don't know of a way for him to have it fully erased from my mind.

...or maybe I shouldn't have used this site if I didn't want to be exposed. This is going to end up being less exposure for the EU to things on the internet until someone figures out how to monetize them. If they cost money without somehow contributing something they will be actively excluded.
I'm aphantasic and still prefer books, in part because they provide the motivations, thoughts and plans of characters, along with other not-easily-visually-portrayed elements.
Some of the recordings of the first few episodes are known to be bad. It depends on where you watch it (SyFy, Amazon, Netflix, Torrent), and if you watch it with 2 channels or 5/7.

Anecdotically, I've found the Torrented (from SyFy or canadian TV?) and Netflix versions in Stereo to be OK.
Yet another great benefit from GDPR.

First I call this the "great unsubscriber" due to the great number of (since) forgotten newsletter i got unsubscribe from. And Now this.

As european consumer (despite being outside europe) i ca only see benefits with this new regulation.
Save "on restore, delete all data sets pertaining to user id 47263".
You mean like [1] or [2]?

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/germany-fines-man-208000-for-stealing-c...
[2] https://www.thelocal.de/20170405/germany-to-fine-social-medi...
I found the whole concept a lot easier to swallow in the context of a TV show than in the context of the books. I suppose it's because they didn't really try to explain it in the show as much?
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If your business was in the UK, the ICO can and would be able to stop you processing data, and get a search warrant for your business address. This is because they report directly to the government.

I doubt you'd be able to fix any issues before they get involved.

PS. it's Cambridge Analytica
You can get some OK ones, but they're expensive. Miele makes the one I have and I'm completely happy with it (comes with full remote control from an app as well).
Directly paid for, yes, but the whole adtech industry is mostly financed by VC money. What P&G et al pay doesn't nearly support the "industry".
First one to CC-breach in a data breach notification mail acknowledging the very same breach will hold the speed record, forever.
The grand challenges of “Science Robotics” [pdf]
The condescension is a bit pointless. Gnome (like Apple) tries to make good default choices with minimum configurability. KDE, apparently, makes the wrong default choices but allows maximum configurability.

I usually prefer the former, because I think configuring software is a total waste of time. An obvious sweet spot would be good defaults and minimum configuration clutter, but with an escape hatch to all configuration options. Gnome kinda allows that too (through gconf et al), but with associated risks.
"Tracking Cookies are a specific type of cookie that is distributed, shared, and read across two or more unrelated Web sites for the purpose of gathering information or potentially to present customized data to you."

You still make a valid point though, but my guess is it's not going to be considered pervasive tracking, where a data subject loses hold of their information, and will be considered in-line with the spirit of the GDPR, since it addresses the excesses the law set out to regulate: the wide-spread leaking and sales of profiling data.
Not storing the logs though would make you compliant.
Works for me in FF, most recent, on a Mac.

It's a fancy version of a game I first came across in "BASIC Computer Games", or something similar.
Open the first page, and continue through the rest. This might seem like a flippant answer, but I've always hated companion texts which try to read specific meanings into primary texts. I much prefer just to engage with the original, and make what I can of it. I figure I might miss some things, but I can also have my own perspective.
I also had mixed feelings about the protomolecule (for the same reason as yours), but in later parts of the books it contributes to the plot in a meaningful way (that is, it's but just a bogeyman). Can't say more without spoiling it :)
I've been on this website for many years, and have been following the privacy topic for more than a decade.

I never had the feeling in the past that HN visitors were especially pro-privacy. There were a few notable exceptions, but many more were the entrepreneur/hustler, "I don't care" or the "let the market sort it out" types.

In the past 1-2 years I guess there were several data leaks and privacy-related scandals and more and more people have had enough of these Monday to Friday advertisers on this Monday to Friday plane (of existance).
Hate would not be a wrong word to describe the feelings those people have towards the advertising industry.

Maybe the pendulum has swung back :)
Yeah,I'm new to open source and really appreciate your post!
I'm a bit confused because we can use... you know, many kinds of online tools to build forms and we don't even need a native application! So what's the special feature for this App? I'm very curious about this :)
It's a shame they never made a firefly film
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Could you explain the different meaning of "really", as that is not a shift that I am aware of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven
You're joking but see:
https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/electricity/balancing-servic...

that lets get people get paid for taking load in exactly these situations! You should probably apply to get paid for operating that emergency siren system.
> the IP adress in the log files alone is considered potential personal data

Stop logging the IP address then. Hopefully default settings in web servers will change.

> What kind of online business can reasonably be done without using an email adress, if only for login/resetting password if lost?

That means you have a legitimate interest, so long as you don't send marketing emails to those addresses, or sell them, and so long as you delete them if someone deletes their account.

> How does for example a small yoga studio’s email list fit in your examples?

If someone signs up to your email list, they've consented to receiving emails. Just don't sell the list, and remove people if they unsubscribe.

The only real complication (if you're in the UK, I don't know about other countries) is that there is a fee to register as a data controller. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-fee/
Compared to other international non-US cities? Seattle is still very affordable. Places in Zurich aren’t cheap. Heck, even Vancouver is more pricey.
Exactly.
Plus they don’t simply concentrate on people intentionally/ignorantly abusing data (putting my email on mailing lists again and again and ignoring me telling multiple times i don’t want it, reselling, etc) but put a lof of insecurity and bureaucracy on people with nothing more than a static website with IP adresses in logfiles...
As someone who has studied extremely detailed information for most of my life, I have found to this day that the most useful presentation of information is text coupled with diagram.

Which makes more sense to you? Reading a wall of text, or looking at a properly formatted table and graph where your brain can study and make sense of trends?

Would you rather have a wall of text or audio description of the human arm, or would you rather have one illustration to distill the relevant features?

Children's brains, I assume, work like adult brains, and this article agrees.
We want to collect data in challenging environments around the world, maybe some places without network connections. You can download ODK Collect and have a try.
But is everyone really using ad-blockers? I thought it was obvious, like you, I mean, why wouldn't people use ad-blockers and keep living inside a garbage typhoon? Then, I saw some "studies" [1] saying the total of users relying on ad-blockers is ridiculous, like not even 1/5. It's baffling but seems like most people are still struggling against pop-ups.

[1] https://pagefair.com/downloads/2017/01/PageFair-2017-Adblock...
(If this study lies, what wouldn't surprised me to the slightest, it would be by inflating the numbers, considering they sell counter-measures.)