skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this is a noble thought, don't forget to give thought to your wife and baby. Informed spousal support is crucial to warding off postpartum depression, and keeping the marriage healthy requires a lot more work when there's a rugrat in the house.

Ultrasound technology definitely has room for improvement.

There's a bit of quackery going around ultrasound departments where they will miscalculate your fetus' conception date by a week or two, measure the fetus' femur length, and then scare you into ordering an extremely expensive blood test, not covered by health insurance, to rule out Down syndrome.

This is based on some old research that correlates a femur length ratio very weakly to an increased risk, when certain ethnicities frequently occupy that ratio without any increased risk, and miscalculating the number of weeks can also throw normal kids into the danger region due to the necessary precision of the measurements involved.

We were guilted, heavily, into ordering one of these tests by our local and otherwise reputable hospital complex. While we weren't dumb (or wealthy) enough to order the test, it did cause substantial stress for mom, and I wonder how that impacted the baby. Even if we had proof positive that our kid had Down (he doesn't), knowing wouldn't have changed anything, since abortion at such a late term for what may be a minor issue is a nonstarter, and I suspect it would be for most expecting parents.

Just a thinly-veiled way for ultrasound practices to scare you into paying them hundreds of dollars in commissions, at the expense of your mental health and that of your baby. Disgusting and amazing that it hasn't made the news, because from what I found on the internet, it's extremely common.

If you want to help, maybe find a way to cut out this depraved practice.
StrictYAML's FAQ – Why Not Use TOML?
"some parasite or virus which requires a host body. in which case you must concern yourself with your own survival, the survival of your host and the stability of the host/virus system”
I’d really like to agree. But arguably, humans are dependent on the earth for their survival, and yet the evidence suggests minimal concern for the stability of the planet’s ecosystems. Many viruses also end up killing the host system, often leading to the death of the guest viruses themselves..
Sure, but note how it also says "negligent". Ghostery is a privacy browser extension. They should be using something more sophisticated than a process so prone to human error when handling user data.
0, like everyone else.
So Tesco spend £1m taking 100k customers from Sainsburys, and Sainsburys spend £1m taking 100k customers from Tesco. No overall change, other than Tesco and Sainsburys customers end up paying £10 extra on their shopping, what a waste of everyone's time and money.
5th is way better than 4th though it is a bit nerfed and limits character customisation something CR avoids by a lot of home brew character options.

There are also some flat out nonsense rules i.e. I am standing next to some one on the floor holder a gun/heavy x bow - I am at a disadvantage to hit them!
I can see why they colour coded blocks. I think that project would have been unreadable otherwise. Which is ironic because even the worst of HTML with inlined CSS and JavaScript is more readable (albeit less maintainable).
Netflix can also restrict access to paying users. Can every site out there do the same (while maintaining a viable business)?
I'm confused by your comment are you saying diffrent rules should apply to Google vs other companies or are you saying Google lack the engineering talent to comply and everyone else has it.

The former is a deeply troubling form of government that leads (in my view anvetiablly) to corruption and abuse of power. The latter is plain backwards Google has the resources to be profitable under any regulatory regime it is small companies that don't.
"drink the kool aid" is a fairly common figure of speech and is rarely meant as a literal comparison to Jones town.
FFmpeg is an evil hateful package for distros to maintain, but Nix makes it look so easy.
In Germany toothpaste for children contains a third of the flouride of toothpaste for adults (500ppm).
I've never had an intermission in any film (unless you count 12 months waiting for the sequel), although I can't think of anything longer than 3 hours. That would be horrendous, and would certainly mean I don't visit the cinema.
How does serving a text version change the cost of creating the content?
Ask HN: Experience with offering monthly subscriptions?
I run a mid-sized online community that has about 2 million pageviews a month, through a limited company in the EU.

At the moment it is entirely financed through advertisements. This brings in just about enough money to justify running it, but I don't really like this model. Not only are the ads annoying (I even use an Adblocker myself) but I suspect that they are also not very good value for me. In addition, there are of course all the complications introduced by GDPR, which mean I am not even sure anymore if I should continue to use services like AdSense at all.

Over the last few months and years I have been thinking more and more about introducing some sort of subscription feature, where members could pay a small monthly fee to become an official "supporter" of the site. This would then hide all ads, give them a little badge on their profile and maybe access to some bonus features in the future.

However, I have been shying away from doing this so far, mostly because the tax implications sound very complicated. If I understand the rules correctly, I would have to charge each user VAT based on their home country and then report the VAT I have collected to each home country every month. And to do this, I might even have to register with the tax authorities in every country?! However, it seems like Stripe may have something to help with this [0] although that may be more US-focused.

Has anybody here tried doing something like this? How complicated is this in practice? Or can anybody recommend a service that takes care of these issues for you? And what has the reaction from your users been like?

I also recently came across Funding Choices from Google, which may do something like this with their Contributor feature [1]. Has anybody implemented this successfully?

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[0] https://stripe.com/works-with/categories/tax-calculation

[1] https://support.google.com/fundingchoices/answer/7279083?hl=en&ref_topic=7279185
Every alternative I know is based on Ecmascript, what other alternatives are?
Show HN: Stationery iPad/Apple Pencil app – making handwritten letters fun again
Most people are using whatever is the default browser on their mobile phone. And if they do use a desktop, most users still struggle with the single-vs-double-click, never mind the right-side mouse button.
Not making a moral argument. @gkya's comment paints a picture where entrepreneurs unhappy with GDPR are perhaps just a small contingent of incompetent amateurs who shouldn't be doing business in the first place.

While I, in agreement with OC/OP, see it as a threat to the entire industry.
Amazon Warehouses is the official Amazon seller of used (returned) goods.

However they also sell returned items to others. There are multiple huge warehouses where I live filled with (mostly) returned products being auctioned off to the public by a middleman. The volume is astounding.
The European Union Experience
Table top role-playing was never dead. It's just hip right now for some reason like anything "geek", since "geeks" now have money brands and the media try to cater to their tastes, the same media who painted them as "idiots with a useless hobby" for 30 years.
Egyptian Blogger and Activist Wael Abbas Detained
This may well be harder to get right than just deleting the data. Just as in the saying (and this is a terrible paraphrase) goes:

"Anyone can design a lock that they themselves can't pick"

If you think you have anonymised data sufficiently you may well not have done it sufficiently to prevent others from re-conctructing it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
Targeted ads are great. Things cost less because there is more competitions between suppliers and they don't have to pay a lot per piece, since they can target only the specific people who needs the thing they sell. This is GREAT for people with small business and low budgets... but we know now that Europe only care about the big business and billionaire overlords.
Also with targeted ads you don't have to hear/read about products you will never care for a moment in your life.
G&S did a one off of a paranoia game Felicia day is scary good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWEDpT1gByI
Show HN: Trello Air Theme
Came here to say this! Dark chocolate satiates, contains very little sugar, and lots of healthy flavonoids.

I've brought lots of the Lindt 99% from my recent visit to Austria :)
Manuel Duran, a journalist who has criticized and exposed ICE, could be deported
giving every random game root access on my machine is what killed PC gaming for me.

I could play and encounter the ocasional cheatet. great f... deal. to this day I still play wii mario kart with some friends and there is still some loser spamming bombs all over the maps because nintendo screwed up (I wouldn't mind games havin root access to a console). we simply couldn't care less. yeah everyone will lose to the loser and switch servers asap, but we still had a good time.

while on the PC every crap you install from steam (which already have root access, expose network ports for who knows what, etc) will also install with root access for what? so people can't cheat on solitaire2000 mmo? I gladly would like all that crap software to run securely in a sandbox and find the ocasional cheater that I will lose to and then proceed to ignore.

heck a blocking list would be better than every single anti cheat code.

I don't even know where I am going with this rant. giving up your entire computer to every crap game is dumb. period.
This stinks as a masked React
> CC instead of BCC has been a regulatory offence with fines up to 300000 EUR before GDPR

As an American, I'm skeptical about the odds of enforcement. If it were an American company that did this, on the other hand, I'd assume a decade of uncertainty and indecision followed with a fine.
Conventional “wisdom” is rarely anything but simple convention.

It always amazes me how people tend to short circuit all rational thought and higher order intellect when it comes to certain, almost inexplicably obsessed about things.

This fluoride issue is a good example, people who aren’t self-important and “educated” have been derided and ridiculed for years now simply because they suggest there may be something wrong, even though their claims are based on the very science the self-important group claims to hold to be sacrosanct.

So objective evaluation leaves you with the realization that it must be something else than actual scientific method and rational intellect that incenses the self-important cohort.

My belief is that it is really based on a naked kind of supremacism of the “educated” and self-important people who, although extremely competent and skilled in many ways, seem to lack quite basic skills like humility and exhibit strong psychopathic tendencies, which would allow them to cede the very notion that those they have utter contempt for (usually those not in a concentration of self-important narcissism of urban self-selection) May have actually bested them or have pointed out the worst thing possible to the self-important supremacist psychopathic group … that they were wrong about something. There seems to be an odd kind of psychological or even cognitive barrier that prevents that group from accepting divergence from beliefs that have been psychologically comparnentalized and shielded from approach that it causes almost violent and very much cognitively dissonant reactions.

Just float the notion that climate change is the 21st century’s alchemy andbthat there is a whole science industry behind it that inherently depends on furthering the notion of climate change in spite of fundamental issues that question the whole notion. Just alone the violent reaction to “denying” climate change should indicate to any rational person that something is not right. Serious, old school, died in the scientific wool actual scientists with no financial incentive have raised serious questions about the whole notion … but those are summarily ignored and violent reaction is the norm upon possibly informing anyone of the dissenters. That’s another example of how our supposedly most educated, learned, and intelligent; seem to be incapable sometimes of getting over themselves.
Yeah, you could imagine something like this. You could train a model about the types of ads that would be effective using the online data of those who consent (or Americans). You could download the model on each EU person’s computer, evaluate the model against local history, then request ads from resulting categories. It wouldn’t require moving their personal data off of their device. You could pay a small subset of people to serve as trainers for the model.

Yes, it would be hugely challenging to implement, but it definitely seems possible to do something along these lines.
Being too creative about unwanted traffic can backfire. Reminded me of this:

Justin.tv used to redirect people who searched for "porn" keyword (apparently high overlap with people being toxic on the platform) to what they were looking and used an affiliate link. This became a negative newsstory for them.

TechCrunch calling them out: https://techcrunch.com/2009/02/16/justintv-is-redirecting-po...

Article with retrospection: https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/justin-kan-stop-freaking-o...
Yep. Doing a one person startup (in the US) I absolutely do not have time (or money) to mess around trying to figure out GPDR compliance. I'm not selling data to anyone, and I'm not collecting anything beyond an email address during sign-ups at this point, in any case. If a user decides they want to store PII or other sensitive data on my system, I can't stop them, but I'm not going to go combing through their data in order to sell it either. Most likely I'm just going to have to avoid doing business with Europe for the time being.

A quick read of some of the provisions of GPDR immediately brought to mind this passage from Atlas Shrugged:

> “Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”
I hear this argument a lot but I disagree.

While some advertisements can alert you to a product that will be helpful, many have the psychological intent of producing dissatisfaction and are an attempt to compel you to purchase something you do not need and your life probably would be better off without. Advertising is deliberately about producing discontent and it makes people more unhappy and more dissatisfied with their lives.

I would rather see ads that I can immediately dismiss than have ones that make me start desiring that which I don't really need.
idiots? that would have been gentle. Most media painted geeks as antisocial and having serious mental issues.
One doesn’t need to go to the trouble of imagining oneself as an alien observer to do this. There are many examples closer to home.

Many migratory birds have a sort of fifth sense (I don’t recall the nomenclature) that allows them to “feel” the earth’s magnetic field, and do not have the the red-blue-green combination for their primary colors - the world view of a bird and a human in a skyscraper looking down at the scenery below/around would already be significantly different.

Or fish, for example, it’d be interesting to imagine life in the water, moving around at the flick of a tail.. The point being, one’s experience of reality is highly dependent on the physical apparatus one is equipped with.
You might be surprised, but most Muslims do dry fasting each year on Ramadan ;)
John McPhee's "Control of Nature"[0] covers a fair amount of the Mississippi River Basin Model's use and provides a lot of insight into the history of controlling waterways.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Control-Nature-John-McPhee/dp/0374522...
everything Google you mean.

recaptcha was fine without even having a server side confirmation, until google improved it.
Most people also don't understand the difference between a URL and a Google search. Installing an ad blocker is way beyond their understanding of how the web works.
Not the gravity assist slingshot trajectory.
This type of complaint nearly always means you're listening to a surround track on a stereo system, without proper "downmixing". This means you're missing the center channel, and instead only hear the front left and front right channels. In surround sound, dialogue mostly goes to the center channel. If you didn't get the video from a good source, the problem could be baked into the video itself.
You think you're being funny, but it took silicon valley to invent a machine to press juice of proprietary only bags of pre-chopped fruit, so I think you look rather foolish now!
Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2002/01/eli-l...

Eli Lilly’s mistake not only cost it some settlement money up front but as I understand it helped push the U.S. pharma industry into a very expensive regulatory regime that now impacts every server they build and every software update they roll out. The process requirements are quite onerous.

(I had worked closely with the teams involved but left about a year before the mistake. When I heard about it I spent a few hours racking my brain to make sure I hadn’t left behind some tool they might have used.)
So series + the movie afterwards?
IF my understanding is correct, you can actually keep a denormalized version of user information (name, shipping info etc) and still be compliant, assuming you do not use that billing information for any purpose other than billing.

The "right to erasure" isn't as strict as the "right to be forgotten" -- You (the end-user) would need to prove that merely having your name and address in billing records violates your right to privacy. And to make that argument you'd have to provide evidence the business is using said information for purposes other than billing.

Personal data can be used lawfully to "fulfill contractual obligations with a data subject" (eg: fulfilling a purchase, and retaining information for warranty/returns/RMA etc purposes) and "To perform tasks at the request of a data subject who is in the process of entering into a contract with the controller.
" and "For the legitimate interests of a data controller or a third party"
welp im certainly glad that I wasn't the only person who had this exact thought. though i would say I think it's a bit naïve to think that they necessarily would require a reboot for the backdoor to start working. but that being said, it's still an interesting proposition
I strongly hope that regulation is enforced independently of political convenience. And if it turns out to be misused that way, I'd demand it to stop. However, let's wait for the facts first, shall we?
AD&D 2nd Edition was as good as D&D ever got for me. THAC0 really wasn't that bad and they've really neglected a lot of the great settings since then. At least Ravenloft got some love finally.

5th edition is bearable and much less "play with minis" oriented than 4th was. 3/3.5 was the munchkin's wet dream.

If I want a storytelling game I reach for Burning Wheel/Torchbearer/Mouse Guard though -- depending on what kind of game my group wants to play.

And if people want high action, it's better to just run something else like Shadowrun, Feng Shui, or oldschool WoD games.
Your legitimate users don't ever forget their username and take a few guesses?
Actually, yes.
But I am not in a formal relationship, so I can imagine this to be harder to arrange when you live together on a regular schedule.

But I would certainly try to do this in this situation as well.

It is not only privacy btw. it is also just nice to have both persons here in the now and not half distracted because the Smartphone just got new messages. Could be important... but usually never is important enough, to destroy the moment.

So when I go to sleep, alone or not, the mobile is off (without battery) or away. Unless there might be a emergency and I need to be avaiable, but those situations are rare.
I could find many ways to describe HyperV, but "just works" would definitely not be a phrase I'd use.
>This would be great if GNOME actually had sane defaults. Unfortunately GNOME is full of terrible defaults that it makes you jump through hoops (gconf, tweak tool, extensions) to change.

This is pretty much why I use Mac OS now instead of something like Gnome. They're clearly trying to get there, though.
Coming home after 130 years
I'd say the people of the EU don't want their PII all over the place (even if it's in China. Actually especially if it's in China). If you can make cryptocurrencies not have that then that'd be great. Bitcoin very much does not address this.

As for questions like "Where did the mafia get all this money from" this is an argument against all cryptocurrencies, and for the financial regulation that is in place.

Financial regulation exists because people want it, for the most part, and either cryptocurrencies should have to abide by them (which includes trackability and reversibility) or it does not (which means GDPR).

I'd argue that no, there is pretty much nobody who wants cryptocurrencies, when they think about how yeah almost all the time financial regulation do benefit the individual.

I'm not saying GDPR is perfect, or even necessarily a step in the right direction. But cryptocurrencies are definitely a step in the wrong direction, going what people want.
ClojureScript. Based on EDN.
I assume it is your tone getting you down voted, but the message is true. If a cascading delete is too hard for someone building the tech at a startup, it's no wonder emails and passwords are leaked every single day.
> GDPR doesn't work like that

We don't know how GDPR works. Its structure grants immense discretion to political bodies. Given the EU is undergoing another cycle of political weakness, it would not be safe to assume anything about interpretation or enforcement.
I guess a receipt could also be useful in the event of food poisoning or similar... also, i can imagine a few other edge cases where the info on a typical receipt (name of server/cashier, date and time of purchase, item/batch number of purchased product etc.) could be useful later on ...