skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does your website serve users from EU region or do you intend to block incoming traffic form EU? If you serve them then you might want to collect some data points about them. It is like being on the internet you are by default given a chance to operate business (website in this case) in whatever country a user access your website from. You are not going to open a franchise in Germany and not abide by their local laws concerning about German shoppers right?
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They claim that everyone had a lot of time, but what about the 1-3 person startup that’s been around for 4-5 years who is just getting by and didn’t have the resources to re-engineer their entire application or to write up a complex privacy policy or hire an EU Representative (Yes, apparently that is required as well). If the EU does clamp down on forced consent I think the long tail of small startups and publications and side projects will simply block EU visitors because they won’t have the means to become compliant.

I’d be interested to hear how problematic this is for new startups who are building GDPR complianance into the systems from scratch. It would seem to amount to needed bespoke permissioning for every user because forced consent is not permitted (although being widely used).
The groups you've mentioned set forth their axioms and accepted logic and construct their math accordingly. There's no disagreement here, as there's no "disagreement" between Euclid and Lobachevsky.
We’re still not GDPR compliant and don’t plan to be. So far so good.
This policy isn't to drive users to iBooks. It's to drive Amazon to implement Apple's IAP for a sweet 30% cut of all purchases.
This seems 100% rational.

If the sites determined that they cannot or will not show ads in compliance with GDPR, then why would they pay for the bandwidth it takes, knowing they can't monetize it without being in violation?

It's the equivalent of the whole of the EU putting uBlock on their computers. Companies that make the majority of their money on advertising are responding.
Bullshit. Please tell me how the EU has any possible way to enforce this law in the courts against some small business in the US that has no EU presence but many EU customers. There is zero chance that US courts are going to let this small business be fined by the EU for violating an EU only law.

Their absolute best option would be to attack global platforms that small businesses rely on to get the platforms to enforce compliance or blacklist those small companies. This is especially potent for Visa and MasterCard. I doubt that will ultimately work though.
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Business don't comply with regulations because it is easy, but because it's needed to do business.

If a service didn't had a big user base in Europe, most countries don't speak English, it may be cheaper to remove the service.

The New York Times or The New Yorker that even have physical copies available in Europe work as usual.

I work in a gambling company and this is our day to day business. To enter a new market means to follow a new set of regulations. To do the adaptation or not is an strategic decision based in complexity, expected revenue and other factors. GDPR is just another regulation to add to the long list related to tax evasion, responsible gambling, fair play, etc.
I design board games. It will be a challenge to design one that will last 1000 years, but there's at least one that I have designed that I think has a chance. It's called Proximity.

I made and released a web version of it 14 years ago, and it's still my most played design (I desperately need to find the time to make a modern update, though. HTML5 at least). Doesn't exist in physical board game format yet, but I'm going to try to get a publisher for it in the next year or two (only been networking with the board game industry the past two years).
could you clairify the following: what is an example of a primary problem? what is an example of a secondary problem? what is failure by your definition? what state would a problem be in if it were "solved"? is a problem solved when everybody agrees on a solution? what, then, happens when a contrarian states otherwise? e.g. parmenides was one of the first monists, and that was more or less not acknowledged for a long time after plato, but has since come back into vogue somewhat; was the problem of "is our universe one" solved, and then unsolved?
> If a user can export their data easily from any service, they can easily resell their own data for money to services that seek to monetize that data. They could even rent out their data by the day for model training using the right to delete.

This has been tried infinitely. It doesn't work. Say your service can extract $5/year/user from advertisers. At 25million users, you can pull a $125m revenue. That's huge. But if users were to sell their data, it'd only give $2-3 if you take commissions into questions.

As people realize that their data does not bring much cash, and the invasiveness of the procedure (will you agree to share your weekly grocery purchases for one year with 202 advertiser, and you get paid $2?).

Most people will disagree as they realize how a horrible on an equation it is. Only bots and kids with no disposable income will remain.
In the last century, the deciding factor about a company's freedom to do whatever it wants has always been strongly influenced by national security concerns and by monopolistic concerns.

The degree to which iOS is or isn't a "monopoly" has a lot to do with how much freedom Apple has to make decisions like this.
> GDPR is not against the ad business

Yet somehow, I doubt that GDPR would exist if Google and Facebook were German companies, rather than American ones.
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Census data in particular. Edwin Black wrote a book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
No, I'm speaking precisely about places that only take cash or ecash (EC, maestro) but reject major credit card networks (amex visa Mastercard). They are not only kebab stands.
He can be very persuasive, and toys with facts and with people’s emotions.

This rings true to me. He's very polarizing. And he knows it and chooses how to address topics in ways that further divide the different sides of the argument.
I downvoted because your comment doesn't add anything to the discussion and, in the context of this post, looks a bit like trolling.

There are people that like and do not like the GDPR. Telling that you belong to one group is not even information.
So if I'm to understand this correctly, the proposition would involve designing new chips based not on transistors but an oscillating component made out of something like [probably uneducated example] quartz crystal? Or just to also include something like the latter? For the purpose of manipulating data flow? Or is this all a network of transformers inducing the flow on each other?

edit: This helps, I guess there's no sound, practical solution yet. Clearly, LC oscillators have serious practical limitations: inductors remain a major challenge in any planar
and miniaturized technology."

I'm at work and I've only read into the second page so far, but it's interesting. I didn't know Van Neumann had an oscillatory computer design.

Very interesting!
I could also just set up my home router so I could VPN to it then back out from there.

However, I'm just as happy paying someone a nominal amount for convenience. It's the same reason I don't tend to spin up my own servers for basic web hosting - there are people who do that and who keep track of security updates affecting their specific systems, and for a small amount of money per month I don't have to worry about it.
Thanks for the comment! I'm sure we do this at Shopify. I didn't bother to get comments from the part of the trust team that deals with phishing.
So your team is only using one UI tech.
Could this help out in the HFT userland-networking scene?
That's the takeaway I'm arriving at as well. We (as an industry) had about two decades to be responsible and hold others to account with user data online. Instead we opted to pretend like a weasely Terms of Service replaced a sense of morality.

Now we face regulation because, as it turns out, people care about how we use their data and how we influence them. Not exactly shocking that we ended up here.
recording of your face during all transactions + receipts would roughly duplicate the card-level tracking.

Most paper money has a serial number that could be tracked for following the chain-of-possession for that piece of paper.

In the case of Germany I can see a law being written that would require serial numbers be recorded for person-to-person cash exchange. Those guys love regulation. :)
Paywall articles should be banned here
If the benefit of cashless is that you don't have to carry around a pocket full of cash, they're incompatible in the sense that if you use both, you lose that benefit.
Interest rates have been basically zero in all western world for a long time. Transferring money in Europe is also cheaper than in US, very few fees if any.
I mean, the URL was changed, it seems. I was more questioning the ghosting of the comment in spite of upvotes, without any kind of notice/reasoning.

"Troll" comments get removed with an explanation.
The US and EU have a good relationship. The EU can (probably will) use international law to hold you accountable and the US is likely to comply.

EDIT: you is the hypothetical you. If the EU targets you then they will use international law to do so.
I was careful to qualify "some" programmers and avoid generalization. Some younger programmers like this, some others like that. The difference is in ancient times I don't remember so many people liking discipline languages.

Funny thing is Pascal was seen as the constraints language at that time, while C was more liberal. Different times.

In Pascal evolution (Delphi and Lazarus), a lot of automatic memory management, including proper gc but most often simple referemce count, has been incorporated over the years. Also the memory for a lot of standard library resources is managed hierarchically.

In short: You still need to know how to deal with memory manually, but most of the time you don't.
Link to repo?
I detest all of the apps Google makes for iOS because they are very careful not to implement any of the features that differentiate the way an iOS app works than an app on any other platform.

For example, none of the Google apps I have on my iPad support split-screen.
If you don't have multiple zones you can still effectively have zones by opening/close the registers/vents. This will prevent hot or cold air from entering the room. However, it will also increase duct pressure and that could be somewhat problematic. Either way, "smart vents" are on the market. They're ridiculously overpriced though and one could hack together an alternative for under $50 per vent (source: personal experience). Probably less if they are clever. Of course then there is the problem of running power to the vents or having sufficient battery. But that's an exercise left for the reader.
This is really interesting to me - I can't seem to reproduce this on a couple different platforms. In the past (and just now) I've definitely seen 100x differences with LC_ALL=C, but you used that on both, I'm sure.

How large was the 10 million line file, and do you know whether sort was paging files to disk?
seems to be becoming more and more “scientifically” clear that brains run better on ketones, and burning fat is cleaner for the body
Blocking access at geographic level across pretty clear signal they don't care about users/readers in those regions

They can't make money off of you because the ad networks can't operate, so all EU users are a cost.
I noticed this the last time I was in Berlin. A cafe can process a line of 10 people paying cash very quickly.
they are probably printed with special inks, requiring a special marker to fool magnetic-scanning or somesuch. It would also be easy to reject the validity/authenticity of paper money with an illegible serial number.
stuff like this is why i have trust issues with people who try to push webcomponents on me. I'm either not smart enough to understand why i dont get it, or its just not ready yet.
Yeah I'd be happy with that approach, should include upgrades as well as new installs though. Just to have every user aware that their browsers contain a single setting that can prevent vast amounts of tracking would be a huge improvement over today.
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Two weeks ago. I'm there almost all weeks. It is still a nuisance (although I'll admit it is much better than in 2011, as commerces start using payment processor startups such as sumup instead of traditional german banking)
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>"At the moment, I am involved with one cloud provider in China that bids big on cheap FPGAs and RDMA. AWS and Azures can be defeated in detail."

Can you share how this FPGA and RDMA combination works architecturally? What's the software stack composed of? Might you have any links or other resources you could share?
> You can speculate how [GDPR] will be enforced (as you have)

Since the GDPR will be enforced in the UK by ICO, there's very little speculation in the parent post.
Businesses had plenty of time to prepare for it though.
i don't know. wanna try putting up a codesandbox to use wired-elements in a react app? would love to learn. sorry i dont know your affiliation with the polymer project or react-polymer. it just didnt seem usable when i looked at it
One of the things that philosophy is actively working on is determining what "right" and "good" actually mean. There are epistemic/analytic senses ("the answer on the test was right", "all bachelors are unmarried"), practical senses ("it's good to run"), normative senses ("you ought to run"), and so on. A great deal of contemporary philosophy is invested in further delineating these senses and explaining how they relate to our ontology, our metaethical views, etc.

I've heard more than one person say, too, that philosophy progresses by creating new subjects. When you consider that pretty much all of logic, political thought, and biology come from the tradition started by Aristotle, that claim sounds reasonable.
A couple of hundred bucks spent on renting GPU instances can speed things up considerably.
Look at it this way: "my website is in the EU, my servers are in the EU, why would I care about DMCA?" The truth is that if a company had a way to discriminate their EU users without any possibility of failure they could only apply these things to them but that approach has proven to not be cost effective.
I got some small apps and side projects and honestly, i dont give a crap. Good luck hunting all these little websites.
> Because the risk and costs of compliance are borne by all, not just the non-compliant. I would hope that "but laws only affect the bad guys" or "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" would no longer be reasonable arguments these days.

That's like saying that drug regulations are bad, because all opiate producers take on "the risk and costs of compliance," not just the street pushers.

The whole point is to actually raise standards for all of society. What you're criticizing is enforcing higher standards than the current status quo.
You shouldn't, unless you plan on doing business in the EU.
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GDPR is significant because for the first time in this history of the Internet an (EU) user no longer has a marginal cost of zero.

The cost to write an application to be GDPR compliant is high and frankly will not be worth it for many entepreurs developing an MVP.
12 hours? Sounds like just skipping breakfast would constitute as intermittent fasting for me. My breakfast is usually pretty light anyway.
Of course, it all may well depend on whether such terms are reasonable and legal. There are plenty of consumer protection laws that nullify all sorts of 'agreed' terms.
> but I have never heard anyone use cash for privacy/trust reasons.

Only a few people state this as their main reason, but it's an added benefit and one that's weighted more heavily as time goes on. When I do my grocery shopping I will always get cash to pay for it, also makes it easier to keep costs in check.
cards charge a fee so it is in the interest of card issuers to collect fees. Speed has nothing to do with anything and it clearly a lie.

Cashiers handling cash are a liability because they can steal and make mistakes more easily than a computer system, so paranoid business owners can reduce that particular risk.
There's no 4% tax on revenue in the GDPR as far as I can tell. It's a 4% fine for violations. Which is potentially far greater than a 4% tax, since it applies to every violation.
https://github.com/NervanaSystems/nlp-architect

It's not linked directly in the article but the article does mention the name of the software is "nlp-architect"
Yeah, hindsight of other video platforms where this exact thing happened.
I agree, but at least if the ad market is much smaller, the data will have that much less value.

Various companies will probably still gather and sell data for even more nefarious purposes, like manipulating elections, but that’s a different battle.
GitHub repos here: https://github.com/NervanaSystems
What exactly do you want here? Do you want every site to have you upload your passport? Or are you just saying that any jurisdiction in the world should be able to effectively force every company globally to comply with their laws, and that they can’t pull out of those markets if they find the law too onerous?

Forget about the intent of the GDPR, what about the broader principle when applied to laws you don’t like?

What if the US passes the anti-GDPR next week, that you MUST track all available data for US residents or citizens, no matter where in the world they are? What then?
But what's the worst that could happen? Your site would get dns blocked in the EU?
I'm not sure I follow which parts are flamebait. Is it the generalization, or the slang-y/blunt way I phrased it?

Because people make similar generalizations here, well, all the time, and I feel the generalization itself was both accurate and relevant. If I described public transit in the US as an "absolute disaster" I doubt anyone would blink an eye; it's blunt, but also accurate. I don't feel it's wrong or messed up to criticize a particular part of a country's culture or policies, as no nation is perfect.

I could definitely reword "obnoxious as hell" to just something like "really obnoxious/annoying", but I don't feel "surprisingly backwards" is actually flamebait: it's strong language that might irk some people, but it's also my earnest opinion; I was trying to express how it actually felt for me as an immigrant, not trying to piss people off. And I wasn't applying it to Germany as a whole, but a particular area.

I'm not trying to troll you here, I'm trying to see where exactly you draw the line with strong language/what exactly was objectionable so that I understand what's considered acceptable.
I didn't say the law was bad, I was saying if it turns out to be, repealing it should be an option. Too often there is no going back from these things because it's not considered an option. Instead only options like revolt, go elsewhere or use a VPN are presented.

Obviously the last incarnation of the GDPR didn't work for multiple reasons, the most oft-cited one being non-enforcement. Was the option to repeal and take other approaches to the problem considered? Nope...double down. Since people agree with the intent, the approach often appears above reproach.
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I agree that this is pretty obnoxious, but this is also clearly not a “public web page.” If access is not open, I don’t see how you could call this public.
Instagram has 13 employees when it was sold to FB.

Did any major companies have the technology growing pains that Twitter did - ie Facebook, Google, Amazon, YouTube, Netflix (streaming), Dropbox, etc.?
"total freedom" — never heard of it
GitHub link - https://github.com/NervanaSystems/nlp-architect
> Honestly, I don't. I don't want this precedent of government overreach to stand.

Why is it overreach?

It's literally why we invented government! I, the little guy, couldn't find giants like Facebook or Google. That's why I asked my democratically elected government to work on the problem.
All those pages seem to block the entire continent not just the EU. I'm in Switzerland (not in EU) and still get blocked.
> The only reason anyone remembers the LG Prada is to bring it up in this kind of discussion.

> If it was so radical and ground-breaking, how come LG are an also-ran Android OEM and not the most valuable company ever?

The LG Prada example only destroys the "Apple invented rounded corners" argument.

iPhone was groundbreaking. Rhe lawsuits afterwards were ridiculous IMO.
> while the people who argue very vocally that paying via credit card/NFC/... is so much more convenient are not the kind of people that is very interested in computer science topics.

They are usually also among those folks who don't think anybody would be interested in their data along the lines of "What are they even gonna do with it? Why should I care" firmly belonging to the "Nothing to hide, so I got nothing to fear" camp.
> reasoning about what science is and does is part of philosophy

Only if you approach Philosophy with a lot more rigor and math than what people have historically done. The useful parts of discussing what you call the 'philosophy of science' involves quite a bit of statistics for example.

What people call useless is cruft dealing with Known Unknowable's which suck up time without getting anywhere.

IMO, it's not that Philosophy is dead, it's just when you keep calling the useful bit's something else eventually people don't care about the leftovers.
Germany still requires that you register your residence, name, age and religion within two weeks of moving to a new place.

Often, you even have to provide proof from a landlord that you do live there.

The German obsession with privacy has a LOT to do with making life difficult for tech companies, rather than the privacy of its citizens per say.
I don't aim to rate billionaires, I wish to point out the stupidity of allowing the internet at large to vote on the $value of any other random individual in the world.

There are huge problems with our media but a large part of those stem from the proprietors, whether huge corporations in the US or billionaire owned such as Fox. It's rarely down to individual journalists

Sure I could add comments, the ability to submit links with references etc but we all know how it would turn out. A complete shitshow of spam, libellous comments and junk. Much like I expect a crowd based site voting on fellow humans who happen to work for media companies.
Sure, but the argument there is that Apple should allow iOS to run binaries signed by entities other than themselves (or not signed at all).

The App Store is a service owned, operated and paid for by Apple, so they should certainly get to decide what they allow on it.
Is that a serious suggestion to buy a second phone, or is it supposed to be absurd?

How does having prime lock you into Amazon, at all? You're not disallowed to shop elsewhere after signing up for Prime. You don't even have to sign up for someone else's "free shipping membership program" to buy your Nest.

You're argument doesn't work for me.
Except Valve cannot put the link to their website in their iOS app. Users just have to know to go the Valve web store.