skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That stuff is completely ridiculous. If your news aggregator ran a ML-based application to filter out science-related articles so as to keep out click-bait, bogus articles, you'll be able to continue running it without any problem. It doesn't even have anything to do with GDPR.

Ah, yes, if what your ML application does is suck user data on one end and produce "useful" information on the other end, then you will have a hard time explaining users why you need to collect all that data and why you need to hold it in storage for as long as you do. Because, indeed, you don't really know how that data is processed, nor how long do you really need to keep it. (This is very much an oversimplification though; many ML-based things don't necessarily fall under the rule about automated decision-based making)

Both are pieces of information that should be essential to making an informed decision about whether or not to allow private data to be collected. If you can't provide it, you need a better business plan. I'm really sorry that your founder won't be able to buy that new yacht this summer but it's hardly my problem -- and it does nothing to stiffle ML progress.

In fact, if anything, it'll be beneficial to society if some smart people give up doing ML to show ads and go someplace where they can apply ML to something useful.
And this way of thinking makes the world fill up with garbage. I'm doing the opposite: I never publish anything unless I'm proud of it and I can defend it as being of good quality. The world doesn't need another useless piece of anything.
Not less, fewer.
Wine is very often cited as a 'solution' for not needing Windows at all (when the reality isn't so simple). It looks like a reasonable enough comparison.
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True, some of this is more from the UK ICO, but some is from the official guidance from the EU.
I'm not so concerned with one newspaper's interpretation of the law or the risk in not following it, what I'm more worried about is that I can't find a word about it in the law. The relevant clause is supposed to be article 7.4 I think:

> 4. When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

So they have to sit in contemplation for a few hours before going right ahead with collecting data that is not functionally required? Utmost care was taken...
Anecdata point: I am a paying The Guardian subscriber. I pay because in my opinion quality should be supported.
My god, it's full of gliders too!
It’s certainly going to be a battle. Allowing “ad-walls” like agree in order to see content they are making GDPR pointless. The law text seems pretty clear on that I think.

Q is what will actually happen if the law is interpreted the way I want/think?
Newspapers are doing quite poorly already.
Huh? It’s not meant to be insulting, nor could I find any reference in any culture in which it would be considered an insult. It simply means that all of you from the EU seem to say the same things about GDPR - that it’s wonderful, has no downsides, that our new self-declared privacy overlords will be kind and benevolent, etc. It’s like there is one person behind all of your accounts, and that person is a big fan of it. That’s why I used the non-derogatory term “party line”.

See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/party%20line
Or add https://coinhive.com which will put a load on the client and make you a bit of money.

Can be used like a captcha or placed in between a process. You just specify how many hashes need to be completed before proceeding.
> From what I'm hearing from my friends that do ecommerce stuff, product ads targeted to the EU are no longer profitable across the board either. That will force a ton of review sites aimed at EU visitors to shutdown, along with many YouTube reviewers. As advertisers pull product ads out of the major ad networks because they can't make money, the revenue of publishers/content creators in the product review space will plummet in lockstep. Amazon has cut affiliate commissions to the point where turning to them is no longer an option for any site that costs money to maintain either.

and nothing of value will be missed
That I still wouldn't mind so much if it weren't for the fact the update system provides so little feedback of what's going on and whether the process has stalled or not.
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How can anyone "opt out of that IP collection"? It's not the way the Internet works: logging is an essential part of of its infrastructure (and in certain jurisdictions it's required by law). The only problem is if the IP is associated with personal data. If the user really wants to remove it, they can remove their personal data, and in this way the problem disappears.

On the other hand, if you plan to sell the IPs associated with some other data to a third party that can easily link it to people (Google and Facebook can), you may want to consult a lawyer.
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Okay, what about this: try youtube-dl on the infinitely-free 600M RAM instance you get in GCE. Upload bandwidth (what you'll use to d/l video from instance) is 1GB/mo max, but outbound to Google services is free, so transfer the videos out through gdrive.
You're implying that there's a direct equivalence, but that's not really true.

Although the parent comment said "rail line", since TFA is, specifically, about HSR, that's a unique rail line in an existing system, which has something of an all-or-nothing construction problem. Having it half finished won't reduce the train travel time between LA and the SFBA for anyone.

Conversely, road capacity can be added incrementally, and, in many cases, when it is, it has an immediate effect for that section [1], providing relief as soon as the money and/or construction resources are available. In rural California, that's more likely to be months and fractions of a billion, not years and billions. The urban parts are slower and more expensive, but only proprotionally so (i.e. HSR is yet slower and even more expensive there, too).

You haven't presented any evidence for your assumption that on-demand driverless vehicles would require extra capacity, especially down a long-haul corridor. At best, that's some very heavy speculation on the operating cost (dominated by tires, suspension, electricty, I'd expect) versus capital cost of keeping enough spares in each metro.

[1] Yes, I'm aware that, at times, it can have a paradoxically negative effect on congestion, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen for capacity increases on what are essentially point-to-point corridors.
Yes, and? No one claims that it is. It is, however, about iterating quickly on networked software in the absence of heavy bureaucratic process. Process that is now necessary to ensure auditable, provable compliance with the letter of the law, even for activities that are already complaint with its spirit. One can argue this is necessary for society, but it's certainly a crackdown on the hacker spirit.

Fun fact: GDPR has not one word to say about advertising in particular. Ad targeting may still be legal in some cases! Meanwhile all networked software is illegal by default unless its operator can prove that it stays within the defined GDPR exceptions.
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Cool Project. Would appreciate if you can put the overhead of using the library in the readme and some comparisons to get some idea.
Well written Readme never the less.
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more convenient vitamin pills?

In the context at hand, rice is more convenient.
Great, lets hope European companies move quickly to provide services for these users.
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Can you point to the bit of the law that requires website owners to delete data upon request? Or the bit of the law that requires website owners to ask for consent to gather IP addresses?
Exactly. It's very sad that reasonable privacy measures present such a technical challenge, but nobody promised being responsible was easy. That's why we have regulations - to force businesses to place the common good ahead of profits, where applicable.
Pfffft. WSL is almost a side project for Windows. If it were meant to be more than a dev environment we’d see a major push for it on Windows Server. Major push: fast development, integration with other Windows Server tools, tons of marketing, etc.

Did I miss something? As far as I know the Windows Server side is completely silent...
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I didn't give them my consent so I got redirected to the plain text version of the website on which you can read the article without being tracked https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=611609366
dumb question on power producing /usage: say that Germany (and countries linked to it's power lines) produce 100 units of energy but only 95 are used that moment /day or whatever. What happens to the extra power? Where does it go? I understand that they try not to overproduce but I'm sure it happens
What Linux CLI dev env is there to extinguish? There’s more Mac users using nix CLIs than there are Linux users using those nix CLIs...
That's correct: government intervention stifles economic growth, be it GDPR or the Paris Agreement. The point is, these laws are proposed where self-regulation fails, and the corporate greed lead us to the situation that is worse to the society as a whole than without it.
The GDPR says "It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent". If you're hiding the "delete account" button, you're breaking the law.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/
> the requirement that you can permanently delete all of your information.

Can you point to the bit of GDPR that says I can have all my data permanently deleted?
Please see https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-will-the-gdpr-impact-machi...
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Exactly two years ago I was asked to prepare a list of all databases containing personal data that I have access to and briefly describe what I need them for. This was the moment my company started to prepare for the GDPR.
While I'm always happy to see good scifi being promoted and well-funded, as a huge fan of the books.. I could not get into the TV series at all. It feels like 90% of it is missing, and what remains just doesn't convince. I heard it has quite a decent budget but whatever it was, it wasn't even close to enough.

It's quite possible that this kind of expansive (sorry) space opera can never be fully realised on a small screen, or on any screen. The limitation of the format are just too restrictive. Kudos to them for trying but for any fans - take my word for it and read the books. You won't regret it.
Here [1] is a list (extracted from volume 50 apparently) of suggested excerpts. Supposedly, if you spend just 15 minutes a day reading these, you will become well educated in just a year. Note: I have not tried this.

[1] https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1
You may or you may not have an argument - but you only present the most cliché, most superficial version. You merely divide total population by total area, which is utterly useless and misleading. Why does that keep happening on a supposedly "better" forum like HN? Each time this topic is touched this exact same tired and wrong pseudo-argument is presented as if population follows an equal distribution per area.

Just like in the rest of the world, in the US too the vast majority of people are clustered in and around urban areas. In order to achieve your goal/argument you counted vast stretches of nothingness. At least since the early 20th century migration to cities has been going on, and it still does - large urbanized areas continue to suck in people from the already emptier areas of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaregions_of_the_United_Stat...
Engadget's GDPR consent to track seems really odd. They say they need to track you to provide service. If you don't click OK, and select "Manage Options" you eventually get to select the ad providers you let them share data with. You leave none selected, click through "Done" and you get the actual content page. Yet ublock origin is saying it blocked 14 domains on this page. So, are they giving me an option, and then ignoring my selection?
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Yes; if the client is a hijacked browser, it'll have a Referer header in it.
Must be nice. When you like a TV series, but it gets canceled, to be able to buy the whole thing.
”The GDPR, as a matter of law, does contain a blanket prohibition on the use of automated decision-making, so long as that decision-making occurs without human intervention and produces significant effects on data subjects. Importantly, the GDPR itself applies to all uses of EU data that could potentially identify a data subject—which, in any data science program using large volumes of data, means that the GDPR will apply to almost all activities (as study after study has illustrated the ability to identify individuals given enough data).”

From https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/how-will-the-gdpr-impact-machi...
Good. Adverts are a drain on society, they increase prices of goods which are advertised, and mean you as the product/consumer end up paying more than the service/website gets, as the adverts take a cut.

Look at television in the US, or even in the UK on non-BBC channels. You watch something for an hour, you get 40 minutes of actual use out of it, you get massive breaks in the narative which reduces your enjoyment, and you waste 20 minutes of your life.

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.

When you watch advert TV, you're selling 20 minutes of your life not for $1, but to shift your $1 expense now to a $2 expense hidden elsewhere in the future.

Far better to save 20 minutes, and that $2 in the future, by spending $1 upfront, and being the customer, not the product.
I wonder if actually had any experience similar to mine: in short, I had no problem in using the CPAP but after a couple of years I started suspecting it was decreasing the quality of my sleep.

I suffer of a- I think- mild-to-severe sleep apnoea; it was measured once and has been witnessed by anybody having the misfortune of sleeping in the same room with me. There have been periods of time when I used to wake up quite often at night with my heart racing and completely dizzy because of lack of air.

Finally, scared by the horror stories about sleep apnoea, and despite the fact that I was lacking any obvious symptoms of daytime drowsiness, I decided to buy a CPAP machine (Philips Respironics). Had little trouble in adjusting to the mask- didn't even need a humidifier- and after a while I found the bedtime routine quite normal- except for the annoying aesthetical issue of sleeping attached to what looks like a life-support machine.

I've used it regularly maybe for a couple of years. I can't say I witnessed any improvement in my daytime wakefulness or in anything else, possibly the opposite: I was feeling confused and found it difficult to concentrate, often forgetting mid-sentence what I was about to say. In the end I started noticing that I was waking up in the morning strangely lightheaded, possibly hyperventilated. Some people started asking me if I was sleeping at all at night.
In the end I gave up using it, and found no noticeable difference. Actually my sleep apnoea has decreased since then, and at least the major awakenings due to lack of breath have almost disappeared.

Anybody with similar experience?
Not to mention the ads keep following you after you buy the thing.

And this is not only because of lack of information. Checks out a cellphone from Amazon, buys the cellphone, still get ads saying "you might like this cellphone"
Well then, you’ve never been the target of a lawsuit.

Forgive me if it doesn’t make me comfortable that the decision whether to file a lawsuit against me or not is left to some often uneducated and inexperienced regulators.
One parameter is always enough [pdf]
I, for one, welcome our new inside-joke-forgetting overlords
Excellent news. If any show deserves to survive it's Expanse. Today with SpaceX pushing us towards Mars it feels like we're living in pre-history of Expanse which is based on the most realistic SciFi I've seen yet. We need this.
An AI decided to open source something? Hmm... Perhaps it's trying to use humans to further advance itself...
Prenatal Fluoride Exposure and Cognitive Outcomes in Children
ZipEpub

https://archive.org/details/HarvardClassicsEpub
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"Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do." Kumail Nanjiani

Don't care too much what others think
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> What I have an interest in is, what will this do to the stock market on Tuesday?

You can’t measure any effect by looking at the stock market for one day.
That's doable but you have to process a lot of traffic from the clients because the client would have to send all the answers it has calculated.

Do exactly what bitcoin does: You send a random prefix and require the client to find a random suffix so that hash(prefix+suffix) ends with, say 4 zeros.
Just talk with the reviewer and follow the his suggestion for amendment, if your application is not about selling users' browsing history and privacy .

We have our app being rejected serval times by Apple. We insist we have done nothing wrong and many competitors do the same way. Eventually, we decided to talk to the reviewer, and followed his suggestion to amend our application. Then it finally get approved.
That piece was probably written about the original version of Golden Rice developed 18 years ago which was being pushed as the solution to Vitamin A deficiency despite having about one-thirtieth the beta-carotene content of the current variety. When you yourself wrote that "Golden rice has been around for 18 years now, but "activists" have prevented its widespread use. That's 12 million preventable deaths." elsewhere in the discussion, it exactly was this much less effective version of Golden Rice you were claiming that anti-GMO activists killed millions by blocking the use of, not the one used in the linked study.

Also, the ease of absorption is annoyingly dependent on the rest of the person's diet (particularly having enough fat and iron in their diet, if I recall correctly). The meals used in that study may well be close to the best case scenario; people with vitamin A deficiency don't generally get that way by having access to well-balanced meals.
I honestly think this is more of a reaction to Macs having had a perfectly good POSIX environment for ages, resulting in the Apple ecosystem grabbing a lot of developer mindshare (or at the very least developer dollars). I don't think it's at all surprising that you can't create Windows apps that run within WSL, because I don't think Microsoft see this as Windows as a desktop interface to Linux. I think they just see it as a way to get reliable installs of Postgres, Ruby, Python, whatever else, from a really good package ecosystem, in a Unixy environment that you know will work (including being able to build from source), and expose those to the Windows developer.

For my part, if I'm booted into Windows I only really need enough GNU stuff to keep the Windows build of Emacs happy, and I find Cygwin makes that very easy. It's currently not seamless to try and do this with WSL, and I'd rather just dual boot if I want anything more heavyweight.
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> Mechanical engineering projects are too costly to be undertaken casually in the first place.

Yes, because of the implications, as the parent said. Just making stuff is cheap these days, that's not just true for software. You don't have to build a factory, if you want you can even outsource the actual construction entirely if you don't want to go through the trouble and remain flexible, just like "cloud computing" using startups.

> It only takes a few minutes and some easily self-teachable skills to start serving HTTP traffic;

Because people do it without caring for or knowing the consequences.

> now it's going to take a few months and some lawyer hours to create the bureaucratic cover for doing so.

I don't understand your point, it's exactly what the parent said? Yes, this forces the startups to actually care about the consequences of what they are doing.
No, "live and let live," would be applied ethics. Meta-ethics asks what the source of meaning in an ethical claim is. It is easier to adopt meta-ethical relativism if you know about meta-ethics, but I don't have a persuasive goal in presenting it; I don't think people "should live and let live." I just think it's clear progress in ethics will come best from people being able to assess their own and others sources of meaning in their ethical claims. I think we'd get more effective activism, relationships, etc. than without it.
> [...] to start an argument, case sensitivity is one of the most annoying features of Linux.

This is of course so much opinion-based, but my feeling is that in absolute numbers, machines which distinguish between upper and lowercase in file names surpass machines which don't. At least since the global market is dominated by Unix-inspired operating systems (iOS, Android) in the end ;-)
How do you keep track of what info needs to be deleted on restore without violating GDPR?
GDPR doesn't require consent for data processing.

Seems like they claim that they base the data processing on:

1. contract about delivering services between you and them

2. profiling is based on a legitimate interest of their administration

3. sending data to third parties based on consent

The way they write it I would call "Polish legalese", so I'm quite confident it was written very carefully by a lawyer and they know it is sketchy.

BTW I really recommend reading "Guidelines on Consent under [GDPR]" by Article 29 Working Pary, an EU body established by the previous directive. It's written in simple language with examples of what is valid consent. And how regulators think about it.

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_...
It would seem you don't want to interact too much, so maybe you won't/can't reply to this, but I have a tangential "what if"/suggestion:

Would you, or anyone reading this in a similar position, be interested in sharing further details privately (with or without NDA), and working together to build a solution?

This is the kind of thing I'd love to work on for free. Yes, for free; this is precisely the kind of thing that can't get filed under "awesome exposure!11", and I don't care anyway. I want to learn more about networking and this would be a great hands-on way to do so.
Glad to hear this. Wish this had been an option for Stargate Universe as well. SyFy seems determined to cancel every gem they get their hands on. Even Star Trek had a [substantial] 'gestation period.'
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If people literally dying in the streets isn't enough to "wake" people up, an article about opioids in mussels has a very poor chance of doing so, as well.
People had been using other - and better - mechanisms than Slack for this purpose for decades.
This is so true! I am rarely impressed by movie versions of my favorite books.

On a related note, I have been reading Judea Pearl's new book, "The book of Why" (truly wonderful book incidentally). I think that stories must, in some way, help us learn counterfactual reasoning. That is, help us create alternate versions of reality to conduct "what if" experiments in our mind.
I clicked cancel (i asume that is i dont want to) and got straight to the site. 10 domains blocked.
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