skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I only have anecdotal evidence (but to be fair I didn't see any evidence in the article either that this cash-focus in Germany is really based on privacy/trust issues) but I have never heard anyone use cash for privacy/trust reasons.

I know quite some in Germany (and see myself among them). "Ironically" I observe that the people who are most vocally privacy-minded (also concerning cash) - at least in my cicrcle - often have studied computer science (or a related subject) or are at least very interested in computer science topics, while the people who argue very vocally that paying via credit card/NFC/... is so much more convenient are not the kind of people who are very interested in computer science topics.
You realized this is capitalism and all of these fees and taxes are pushed to the end consumer all the time, right?
Only if you look at these ridiculous benchmarks serving "hello world" and json encoding/decoding a basic dataset. The real limits to scale is I/O. CPU I/O, Storage I/O, Network I/O. JVM doesn't give you an edge on it. Once your app starts doing useful non localized work, the advantage of JVM is 2-3x at best.
I don't think they are protected outside the EU.
It's not strictly necessary but it's a good idea anyway, even outside of GDPR. The key question is, what kind of processing are you doing on the logs? If you're using it to build user profiles that needs careful consideration. You should also think about whether the URL in a web log contains personal data that affects that: if you know that 192.168.100.blah has accessed "/logged-in-user/joe-bloggs", then that IP address may now be personal data.
>Question of free will as a fundamental philosophical question is settled in a sense that it made only sense together with dualism and soul

It might be settled from your own point of view, but it's certainly a matter of current philosophical controversy whether physicalism entails the absence of free will.
>> I give you money, you give me product.

What a concept. I refuse to use the card system for public transportation in my town because they will only give you a card in exchange for your personal data. I find it deplorable.
Yeah, I've got to agree on this point. Whenever I hear complaints from US citizens, I think to myself: imagine having your whole country need to learn another language in order to do business...we are very lucky that much of the world does business in English, and we are able to benefit greatly from that.
Signing no, but inserting the card and entering pin is a commonplace in europe, the whole payment takes maybe 20 seconds. This is how everybody pays in malls whenever I visit (france, switzerland).

Contactless payments - no thank you, I like to have some control over my cash flows.

The mix of both is by far the best - have cash when you need it, have a card when you need it. Why can't people understand that not everybody thinks/behaves/lives same as they do?
rolling new rather than maintaining is epidemics within the Linux world. One that most users are insulated from thanks to the hard work of distros for the most part.
As someone in the influencer marketing space (100 players when I started, over 400 now), I view crowded spaces a bit differently. It implies, to me, a validation of consumer demand -- thus, those that can properly segment their offering to satisfy specific demands and execute more efficiently can pick up the available dollars.
A cryptocurrency implementing a zero-knowledge proof, like ZCash, may be a better choice here.
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Rails speed is speed of prototype. When you have a sufficiently large system with Rails, your development slows down. This is not just so for Rails, but languages like PHP, Python, Javascript.
I can’t inagine anyone being surprised by this. It was explicitly said the deadline of yesterday (or today, I forget) represented the end of the grace period, which lasted the last two years.

If laws don’t have effects then what are they good for? Companies are going to get in trouble and get fined because of this law, that means it’s working.
Probably because it's off topic meta noise, like complaints about paywalls. You'd probably be better served by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
Yea and it’s been done to me twice. Guess what? The bank and credit cards refunded the charges 100%.

Guess what happened when I lost my wallet? Or when I washed some dollars in my pants? All my money was gone.
The screen size/device size ratio looks great. Seems like it will be more durable. I thought it had a headphone jack but I guess not. Has 128gb of storage at the price point where the Pixel 2 only had 64gb (at the original price).

At $499 it sounds like an even better deal.
Less obvious and not explicit terms are violations of GDPR.
I don't know BitChute enough but the main difference to me seems to be that PeerTube is a community and free-software project where anyone can deploy its own instance, whereas BitChute is closed sourced and centralized in every aspect except video streaming.
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Developers. Our Last, Best Hope for Ethics?
I have reported as SPAM all the GDPR emails i got from unknown companies, i never asked to receive all this shit (250 GDPR messages just this week)
YES,

It is done and finished.

Webdav was mostly used to provide "easy" access to webdevelopers where at time were using IDEs for Flash (Macromedia) and HTML (Frontpage).

Once they finished from the IDE they upload the files.

But webdav is a mess to setup (servers and permissions) and was deprecated to better protocols (ssh, scp).
> So you carry a lot of cash.

Define "a lot". But yes, I usually have a week or two supply. Why on earth would I not?

> You tap your card.

As asked elsewhere: how is this secure?
The point is there's no disagreement among mathematicians wrt the mechanism of (dis)proving claims. It has nothing to do with usefulness, consistency, or the set of axioms assumed.
Twitter prioritizes availability over Consistency.
And one might add that the branching off point was some extremely esoteric work in the foundations of mathematics and philosophy of language that would have struck most people at the time as entirely speculative and useless.
What's the point of this? Xamarin is cross platform and a lot more "lightweight" than this will ever be. xamarin.forms supports mac, windows (uwp right now, wpf soon), GTK, Android and iOS.
Please don't post snarky nationalistic generalizations - it breaks the site guidelines and leads to nationalistic flamewars, which are the last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting to see more and more dicussions of programming and ethics emerging. This is a great read
That might be true for some interactions, but you touched icons, buttons etc., and frankly I don't think that part would have made that much of a difference for users.

It certainly wasn't something most potential users knew about the Palm Pilot before rejecting it out of hand as some gadget.
NSFW warning: Don't get curious about the Sam & Max link at the bottom of the page and subsequently scroll down unless you like meatspin.
It’s too late to edit the original comment: the person who actually made the call is probably facing charges of making a false report (and evidence tampering, for asking the other guys to delete their chat logs).

The others are probably facing charges of conspiracy to make a false report ( https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/conspiracy.htm... ).

There may be an argument that encouraging somebody to commit a crime, by way of a bet, isn’t the same thing as helping someone plan to commit a crime. I’m sure sure this wouldn’t be the first time for that argument to come up. Also, if they said anything like “just make a call and say ...,” that defense won’t work.
That comment totally got it. When S. Hawking said, philosophy is dead, he was right, was death for him, the the gross of the world still doesn't understand what essentially philosophy is, and more important, how it can help you, therefore , when people will start questioning basic behevoirs and trying to understand basic things then , philopsohy will have reach the end , which is teaching the humans to think by themselves . At least this is what I think.
Same here. I also made sure to buy + top up my oyster card with cash exclusively while I lived London.
Thank you :D I'm far from coins, but heard that monero may be more anonymous.

But it does not kills the idea, imho. Buying and paying coins anonymously is a different, independent area.

Came to my mind that this subscription model may spawn several Tor networks, trust whichever you want, like with VPN providers. Just keep the Tor code maintained by the public.

And several networks may use each other's nodes ... Cyberpunk in its best
If you're willing not only to download sideload apps but also to modify your device so you can have root access, then it works. So not really different from Apple.
You are also limited by number of access paths into the memory which holds, say, macroblock. I forgot about this issue, sorry.

For block RAM in previous generation FPGAs from Altera there were one read and one write paths. To have two read paths you would need to copy block RAM as many times as you need read paths. This means that if you search for block content inside a macroblock with N parallel accesses you would need N copies of macroblock stored.

Tabula's time shifting tech allowed for up to, I believe, twelve paths into the block RAM, six for read and six for write (they were time-scheduled to 1-read-1-write block RAM operating at six times the frequency). I thought this thing would be a road for superscalar FPGA CPUs, but Tabula was closed.

You can imagine not using RAM at all, but then you will spend other resources in FPGA.

These are problems with video compression I see here. I think they are substantial but not unsurmountable and require a balance to solve. It is just me that I saw the balance is not in favour of FPGA.
Mostly thanks Torvalds accepting just about anything into the kernel, not wanting to play politics if someone rolls a kernel with some drivers that are not GPLed, and keeps a strict API/ABI stability.

Above the kernel it is a wild west, with each "platform" implementing their own stack for anything beyond the core-utils (and those are more likely to be busybox based than GNU based for political reasons).
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It sounds like Germany has a self-imposed chicken and egg problem - you don't think cards are better, so you don't implement modern cards, but card aren't better because you haven't implemented modern cards.

We had a card-provider sponsored big-bang on contactless payments years ago in the UK and it's been an epiphany. Life is so much better cashless.
At Carbn, we're working to give developers a way to solve GDPR with code vs. a legal paper exercise. Basically, privacy-by-design for your existing infrastructure and automated privacy office. Would love to hear feedback!
I think this is an underated pro of cash. You can’t manipulate or freeze cash assets on someones person or just out of the bank without real world intervention.
You're skipping over the question of whether some version of free will worth it's name can be compatible with determinism. Dennett wrote a book on it.

Also, there is the question of what role our conscious choice makes in decision making. Some people have suggested that our consciousness is just along for the ride, instead of being in the driver's seat. But that interpretation is controversial.
There's plenty of disagreement among people who actually think about what it means to prove or disprove a mathematical claim (which is a tiny, tiny minority of mathematicians). See finitism, intuitionism, etc.

There is unlikely to be an agreed-upon mechanism for determining progress in philosophy for the obvious reason that what constitutes philosophical progress is itself a difficult and rather important philosophical question.
I don't see what is naive. The EU has never said that you can't have ads. You can do ads without using and selling user data. For instance, you can have contextual ads (depending on what you read, not who you are) or just random ads.

GDPR is not against the ad business, it is only setting limits and obligations on how you can use personal data. It is saying that it is not normal for businesses to build huge user profiles without oversight or even consideration.
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GDPR introduces a new concept called "Personal Data" which includes things like IP addresses and opaque database keys. Something is personal data if it is tied to an individual, regardless of whether sufficient information to identify that individual is contained in the data itself. An IP Address (or, according to some interpretations, an IP Address + timestamp but not an IP Address on its own) is Personal Data but not PII.

The GDPR does not address PII at all. To a first approximation, PII is now an American legal concept and Europe has a completely different (and strictly broader) definition of privacy-relevant data.
The GDPR is about EU residents, not citizens. You don't need to be a EU citizen but you do need to be in the EU at the time.
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Writing style can be linked to individuals.

Can I still have a forum where users submit text?
I refer you to read Apple's Software License Agreements carefully. They're here: https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

Specifically it states: " The software (including Boot ROM code, embedded software and third party software), documentation, interfaces, content, fonts and any data that came with your iOS Device (“Original iOS Software”), as may be updated or replaced by feature enhancements, software updates or system restore software provided by Apple (“iOS Software Updates”), whether in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (the Original iOS Software and iOS Software Updates are collectively referred to as the “iOS Software”) are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Inc. (“Apple”) for use only under the terms of this License. Apple and its licensors retain ownership of the iOS Software itself and reserve all rights not expressly granted to you."

If a person has agreed to these terms, I don't see how they can complain about Apple's policies in the future. The same software that isn't owned by the person, but is Apple's, now refuses to run Steam Link. The person who agreed to such terms had it coming, you can't blame Apple for that.
The salary does not play a crucial role on my life, I might earn less than I earned but the environment is the key that I am considering. What about the CS-situation of Spain in general? Is it improving, stable or not interested?
That's fairly incredible. A friend bought a Samsung smart TV, but after reading the EULA (which of course they spring on you after powering it on rather than to inform you at the point-of-sale) decided to forego the smarts in the TV. Those things track just about everything, your fridge apparently is still relatively mellow.

Did it open without you clicking 'ok'?
Regardless of GDPR, this is good in the short term. Organizations can comply with regulations (and ostensibly reduce market failures) or not comply and lose market share. If all regulations fell into the former camp we haven't tried enough strict regulations.

More generally I think a big problem with compliance is

1) Current business model practices. We don't know how all the ways to make money on the Internet because it hasn't been around that long so we just sell data/ads.

2) Technical limitations. The Internet is organized around centralized systems but this doesn't have to be the case. It's just hard to build a comparable decentralized system easily with the current tools.
Maybe, but if it can't handle that, it's kinda pointless to try to detect direction - all the places in my house where I'd be likely to want to place it are <0.5m from a wall or less; I'm certainly not going to place them in the middle of a room.
No one but us computer supernerds makes that distinction. On the consumer market, an email address is an excellent way to identify a person over a very, very, very long time. No one but the tech-literate change their email too often.
1) What's the concern here?

2) Why does the seller have to guard the payment processor's IT infrastructure?

3) Certainly faster than counting cash on top of counting the reciepts.

4) The problem doesn't exactly lie in the cash less system. Dealing with complaint is your business' problem.

5) Reversing 1 entry isnt a nightmare.

6) Are you developing your own solution or something?
Facebook and Google hit with $8.8B in lawsuits on day one of GDPR
A single AWS GPU server can hash trial passwords on the order of 100 GH/s, which puts a pretty low ceiling on "hashcat as a service" rental costs.

I'm assuming 10^12 tries per second is economical for any business.

there are about a million words, including all likely spellings of all but the rarest first and last names, so all 1 or 2 word addresses, firstname.lastnames, etc. addresses are about 10^12. try those, plus short alphanumerics, for the 1000 most common email domains -> 10^15 addresses

Throw in every name in public leak databases that doesn't meet those patterns as well.

There's on the order of 1 million domains that are likely to be serving mail at all; try the billion most likely names for each of those for another 10^15.

This should capture almost every email address that isn't an intentionally obfuscated one-off and adds up to less than an hour at 10^12/sec. There's a modest overhead to matching against a larger list but it shouldn't matter in practice
> It's common knowledge for those in the field to know that none of the primary problems of philosophy has been solved despite being worked on for 2000 years.

We have different definitions of "failure." Without the last 2000 years of philosophy, we wouldn't have formal logic, liberal democracy, the existential outlook, or any number of fundamental conceits that you and I use on a daily basis.

Whether or not any single fundamental question has been "solved" is irrelevant to progress in a field like philosophy.
Welcome to HN, where you get downvoted for asking for a citation, and then downvoted again because you're not allowed to complain about the moronic retaliatory downvoting.
You didn't address my other points, where I question if OP should rule that out.

> Otherwise, they may spend their whole lives fruitlessly chasing after immortality.

What about spending their whole lives fruitlessly chasing egoistic hedonism?

Again you didn't present a convincing argument that it is totally fruitless. As I've said, it certainly shouldn't be one's singular goal. But I think there's a role it should play.
> This reads to me like a warmonger justifying innocent casualties. Surely you don't believe this only takes out the bad do you?

How would it take out GDPR compliant websites? It they're not complaint, they're not exactly "innocent."
The linked web page told me to pay in order to read the article.
I have heard that such companies like Telefonica, Wallapop, Casuma pays around that range. No ?
You can choose to be paranoid about everything if you want to. Maybe your dentist is drilling fake cavities or your lawyer is giving you bad advice so you spend more money.
> These costs and power requirements are not obvious

At the time of payment they are irrelevant.

> Any comparison between cash and non-cash needs to be sure to count the complete lifecycle of and payment processing and not just the bits that the end-user sees.

Where is it convenient for you to draw the line? Do you include the production of card readers, the creation and maintenance of power and communication lines?
Modern version of free will has degenerated into question of deterministic vs randomness and few other more vague branches.

I don't think that is accurate, I think the more important aspect is [still] the definition of free will. It was rather surprising to me that at least some and maybe most people mean something entirely different when they use the term free will then what I thought free will should obviously mean. I always thought it should obviously mean that in given situation one has several possible actions and one can make a free choice among them but it turns out that is not what some or even most people mean or are interested in when talking about free will.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that it's cheaper to take one or the other, but if you mostly take credit cards then there is a marginal cost to also accepting cash? And vice versa. However:

- If I'm doing a large cash business then the next $5+ costs me basically nothing.

- However if I'm doing a mostly credit card business, the next $5 will cost me the same as the first $5.

With that, I think the analysis you read was funded by payment processors.
Mass murder, or having kids (or both!). Also saving lives.
It changes who exists in 1000 years.

But if you mean "what will people still be talking about in 1000 years:", of course it won't be all the bloodlines that didn't survive, or who their great^20 ancestor was.
It'll be significant "historical events".

Are you really smart? Cure cancer. Unify quantum mechanics and gravity.

A great artist, composer, writer? Do your thing.

Grossly rich? Start a foundation.

Otherwise do something truly exceptional or outrageous.
I stand by my statement. Delete my account, this place has become a cesspool.
> "obnoxious as hell" "surprisingly backwards"

Could you please not post this sort of flamebait? HN is a highly international community. People need not to make snarky generalizations about each other, and it isn't necessary to make a substantive point.
The steering angles are probably automatically obtained from the script you run when manually training the toy vehicle. I presume at every frame an image is captured along with the steering angle for this image.

You then create a neural net architecture that is being fed images and steering angle positions and outputs steering angle predictions. This is a regression problem that can be expressed in plain English as:

"First train the neural network with a collection of images and associated steering angles. After training, if I were to give the neural network a new image it has never seen before, what steering angle would the network predict?"

NVIDIA has a paper on it[1], and I blog about a similar coursework I complete as part of Udacity's self-driving car nanodegree[2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07316

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/teaching-cars-to-drive-using-...
> As asked elsewhere: how is this secure?

It's more secure than your two weeks' worth of untraceable cash that you're lumping around everywhere.

If you lose your card you cancel it. I can do this on my phone in 30s flat when I notice it's gone. Things bought in the mean time are covered by the card provider, and they prosecute the criminal to get the money back.

If you lose your two weeks' supply of cash what do you do?
Because the new law says the user can’t be assumed to consent, unless the specific parts of the contract are stated more explicitly, are opt-in rather than opt-out, etc. The old ToS become invalid and unenforceable.

If they stop collecting data for those users (at least until they opt in to an updated ToS) that would work around the problem.