skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to have been modeled off of https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/8m0f03/mozilla_wil...
That’s probably ok though, as I imagine those features are somewhat less important to advertisers.
> You must have some interesting associates, I've never met someone like this.

Indeed. :-) In some sense I seem to have a tendency to attract some specific breed of people (that is very hard to describe: let's outline them 'really smart people who have not found their place (yet) and are often somewhat quirky') "magnetically". :-)
You might use an app like taxi.eu to call a taxi, which allows to add constraints like "credit cards accepted".
You forgot "target emerging markets", which is an important reason that Xiaomi and Huawei have been successful.

Nexus phones also weren't really successful and weren't intended to be. They were intended to be development devices and for Google to show the direction that they wanted Android to go in. They also didn't build any of them in-house, they were made by HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Huawei, and Asus.

Google's real entry into the smartphone market was with the Pixel which was a direct competitor to the iPhone.
It appears many companies try not to comply to the spirit of the law. Stack Overflow, for example, sent an e-mail claiming to have opt-in permissions to promotional messages, while not actually having them and only providing opt-out settings:

"With your continued permission, we will send you promotional messages based on your preferences. To see and change your opt-in preferences, manage your Email Settings."

I guess with such attitudes it's not going to be enforced much, otherwise there will be no one left to enforce it on.
Fair. I appreciate the input.
Funniest thing I saw this year. Brave new world.
This makes some sense in poor tropical nations, where rigging a mechanical system like this is quite feasible locally (instead of having to import advanced lithium batteries, along with usually exorbitant import duties etc), and some of the "inefficiency" can be used to heat, and particularly, cool spaces.

It also makes sense for oceanic wind turbines, which can use periods of high wind vs low demand to pump air into large under-sea air storage bags, using the sea as free cooling/heating towards isothermal operation.
> Why is it a problem that you have to agree to be monetized to read a stupid blog post?

Do you want my opinion or what the gdpr says?

My opinion is that my data is not a commodity exchange. We (I) usually use money for that.

The gdpr says

"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 can politely ask me for my data to read the blog post, and I can politely refuse to give it to them. And if my data is not necessary for letting me read the blog post (it is not) then they have to let me read it anyway.

> If you don't like those terms, go read something else.

That is what I did. I left the site. But this is not what I am angry about. They are lying by saying that i MUST consent to their terms.

> If you refuse their terms, it seems obvious to me that they should be able to refuse to serve you. Maybe I'm missing something here, but this sounds like asking for a free lunch.

User data is not money. User data is user data. I am not asking for free lunch.
As an American citizen I'm glad that GDPR exists. Our own government will never strongarm Big Tech into respecting their users - especially in this political climate - so I'm glad someone else is.
Yup, you could say that again. I cut my teeth in Linux while in high school for the most path. First year of college, I go to the engineering labs to get a job, it's all SunOS/Solaris. It's like driving a car! There were very few commands that were different!

Now, Linux is slowly going rouge and changing everything in the supposedly name of "progress" I'm still salty as hell with the systemd rubbish. The problem is that all the cool toys are supported better on Linux and I don't feel like compiling from source for most things. :-(
I was using 0bin quite often, but a couple of weeks ago they had problems with their SSL certificate, so no browser would let me use the site. Happy to see it's back!
White or very light background, rounded corners, drop shadows, and some time on spent on proportion.

It's a nicer look than Material or any of its flat competitors.

I wouldn't object if web design headed back in this direction, but it's not a new look. Various Kai Krause and Metacreations products used a version of it back in the 1990s.
Why is HN non-compliant?

They use Cloudflare which has gone out of their way to be compliant (to the point of offering US citizens and the rest of the world the same protections as EU citizens), and nothing else is included on the page that could track you (check it if you don't believe me).

You can anonymize your profile, you can edit it and you can use one of several services to get your data out. On the whole it is pretty good.
I've seen this so many times, but if this future comes I think there will be a lot of angry ass people complaining about the $100s of dollars it costs to make the internet useful.
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Can they? I was under the impression that GDPR does not allow “accept tracking or else pay money”. If it does then that seems like an easy, obvious solution to the problem. So easy and obvious that the fact no one is implementing it makes me suspect it is not actually compliant.
No this is not correct.
interesting, but I'm not sure of some of the UI decisions. upload file a bit too relevant, easy to confuse with submit, when people is most likely to copy paste. I would have also added at least a 1 week expiration option, and probably set that as a default, though that's very personal, and would have added code coloring as an option in the front page too, though I like the idea of autodetecting by default. short url generation doesn't work here either, chrome in my case. can't write tabs manually in the text area either.
Rocket report: China goes lunar, Antares flies, and a 140-ton Sea Serpent
Ask HN: Why hasn't shared source code ever really caught on?
There's a subscription for everything, but not one for source code. Something where similar to "open source" but you can only access it if you pay the subscription fee.
I think they are fundamentally different things. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think a netlink alias is just an additional address and an old-school alias is more like a virtual interface.
The feds lost – yes, lost – 1,475 migrant children
Russians already killed and injured more than 100 000 people in Ukraine, including 2,500 children deaths. More than 2 000 000 left their homes. They shot civil plane full of passengers to blame Ukraine. They used chemical weapons in Syria. They completely destroyed their own major city. And so on.

Why they cannot damage few routers? What will stop them? USA and Britain will declare war?
> You can pay with your data if you consent to it.

No I can not. I can pay with money. User data is not money.
I won't comment on anything else -- I really don't know much about it -- but I will take exception to the "clone" comment.

It is very hard to make a decent copy of a great product. This goes for everything, not just phones. There were many others trying to copy the many great ideas packed into the iphone. Even now, its not obvious.

Consider that even for an android as it currently stands -- a phone where you get the OS from Google, and the parts from various known manufacturers -- there is an enormous difference in quality between the different products. Samsung has dominated other phone makers and in theory they should produce comparable product. (Some do, I am sure.)

The same is true of, say, Windows laptops. Some are amazing and some are unusable. But why? They all us the same OS and the parts come from the same handful of manufacturers?

I'll let more knowledgeable people opine as to what the challenges are, but its not easy.
I am trying to think what kind of architecture, code design could have led to such a defect if indeed it's a defect. My guess this is a feature that got triggered by an easter egg.
Careful not to go too far in the other direction, and under-estimate the power of an entrenched relationship with enterprise IT customers.

Microsoft has become the de facto number two cloud provider, and Azure is now AWS's main competitor. That is in great part because IT managers (and behind them, CIOs and procurement) are familiar with Microsoft products.
> Ask about a famous Serbian scientist, and everyone can mention Tesla. Ask for the next one, and observe.

I was going to mention Mohorovičić [1], but it turns out he was Croatian (which to me means that Milanković and Mohorovičić were both Yugoslavians, but the Serbs and the Croats don't seem to view things that way).

Then I remembered the Serbian-American inventor/engineer Michael (or Mihajlo) Pupin [2], who really deserves to be better known. Besides being an inventor, he won a Pulitzer prize in 1924 for his autobiography, "From Immigrant to Inventor". Anyway, that's the main reason I'm posting this comment, to attempt to rescue Pupin from semi-obscurity.

But while I'm here, I'll mention that I didn't learn about Milankovitch cycles in astronomy courses, but in geology courses, because of the cycles' influence on the timing of the Ice Ages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija_Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihajlo_Pupin
Media businesses can introduce or grow subscription revenue, reducing reliance on ads.
Yeah, the BSDs were the winner too at one point, so was Sun and even WindowsNT. Don't underestimate how fast it takes to fall from grace.
write a groundbreaking philosophy book like nietzsche
If the benefit users got was that great, I think people would pay for these services, if forced to.
Ask HN: Is the universe functional or imperative?
Does the universe maintain state or is an entire copy generated every time something changes?
U.S. Federal Budget Flirts with Surplus Using Special Items
That looks fantastic, I would actually read USA Today if this lean site sticks around.

If they want to monetize, publishers should control their own generic ad inventory (like they used to in old pre internet days) and ask for opt-in if you want customization.

Easy on paper but hard in reality.
You can still have ads under GDPR. You can even continue to track people, you just have to ask consent and not doing it behind user’s back.
> think the hot innermost loop body

In many applications data access is the bottleneck, and an FPGA coprocessor will not give any improvements in that area.

Using an FPGA to do arithmetic computations (e.g. as in audio/video coding) could provide a benefit, but I fail to see how this improves things much over having an extra CPU core.

The only thing an FPGA does is replace registers by wires, basically, and there's not much to be gained there, I guess.
could be picking up a bounced audio if it close to a wall or other surface.
Well, to an extent. They still reserve the right to block apps from using their API if they infringe on Facebook business interests. For example you can’t make an alternative newsfeed app. People have tried to make apps that aggregate multiple social account feeds, and they got sued / C&Ded IIRC.
Not an option with Chromium. There was once a barely supported single-process option, but I think they even removed that.
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
This is good for Bitcoin.

[...right?]
I don't see where the current headline fits in with the blog post linked. Perhaps a better article (though I still can't see as strong a headline) would be https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/05/23/the-general-data-pr...

>Our Firefox data collection review process is the
cornerstone of our effort to meaningfully practice
privacy-by-design and assess privacy impacts to our users.
We believe it is consistent with the GDPR’s requirements
for privacy impact assessments. Mozilla has had this
process in place for several years and revamped it in
2017.
Amazon might have a serious Alexa problem on its hands
It's rather saddening to see it claimed that no engineers know how to read Pascal any more, given that Pascal was designed in part as a teaching language, that people should be able to learn.
I think I may agree with you, but to say something like that you also need to say why you don't think it's correct, otherwise it's pretty unhelpful.
In Chicago I had a particularly fat one saunter right past me, a few feet away, before dashing across a busy four lane street into a cemetery. He was clearly not fazed by me, or traffic, at all.

(It was across Western, for anyone wondering)

There was also this famous incident of a coyote who casually walked into a Quiznos in Lincoln Park and cooled off in the drink cooler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWTttvImgnQ
Yeah I don’t buy into the idea that because there were some under-the-hood changes that had to be made, that means the whole application has to be thrown away and a new interface re-written. I don’t believe for a second that these developers couldn’t have dropped in a new backend and mapped the same commands to it.

Putting a shinier coat of paint on the command line isn’t going to attract a wider audience, it’s just going to piss off the only people who actually use the command line regularly. The CLI is the last place you want “change for the sake of change”.
Blocking 500M Users Easier Than Complying with GDPR
It's using the old goo.gl link shortener API... which no longer exists. The server is open source and hasn't been updated in a few years.
How about a million years?
The article I linked has eight citations on this.
The TV not running in the first place and singing to one's child isn't "surviving", it's like a lush forest compared to the irradiated wasteland that is "turning off the tv and playing some white noise and/or music".

> This comment could literally apply to ANY new thing.

Yes, and?

It applies to using x-ray machine to fit shoes in shoe shops, which was super fancy schmancy at first, and I'm sure anyone who rejected it solely on the bases of being unnecessary was laughed at by first adopters, too. On the other hand, there's the discovery of washing hands being derided and ignored, when quicker adoption could have saved lives.

Exactly because it can go both ways, you have to look at the actual thing. You can't determine the quality of a thing or the usefulness of a habit by just looking at a calendar and a clock.
What Is Zero-Access Encryption and Why It Is Important for Security
They are indeed related, it is not uncommon for banks to offer reduced mortgage rates if you have with them also other products, and often people prefer dealing with just 1 bank. So I would also contend your point of "having just a mortgage with 1 bank and the checking account elsewhere" being the most common case.

And nonetheless you were initially asking why would anyone join a bank that charged them ATM fees; the answer is that it might still make financial sense or be convenient for people. We are discussing about why there is a sizable population for which ATM withdrawal fees makes them prefer paying by card; you can of course "blame the victim" and say that it is the fault of those people not choosing the proper back. But it is just avoiding the topic, which is: this is a problem when travelling to Germany, and it I not a problem when travelling elsewhere in Europe.
Is not having a license for it a big problem?
I'll give this the ultimate compliment: I have wanted to make something like this myself for many years. Well done.

I do have one question: So the price is the same whether my site is a complicated app that requires 1 hour to test out, or a simple static web blog about my rare barbed wire collection?
Well from an engineering perspective you could create a blacklist and a whitelist. There's not a huge amount of variance in news sources out there, i'd say 80% of news sources being shared on social media are less than 100 domains. The rest of the fake news sites domains could be added to the blacklist based on a combination of user reporting and moderation. You could literally put a team of about 5 people on this and over a long enough timeline it would be solved.
NASA to the rescue: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/

Basically it's not measurable within a lifetime and the signal of human interaction with the climate is magnitudes higher.
From Canada, http://www.thesuburban.com/ too is unavailable in Europe due to GDPR.
All of the big companies know that most people aren't willing to base their purchase on whether or not a phone has a headphone jack, and therefore they don't have much to lose from ditching it. They can use that space for more battery or for whatever else they want to put there. The inside of a modern smartphone is a pretty space constrained place.

Buying 6 dongles would also only cost $54 ($9 each) which isn't a ridiculous price for an accessory in my opinion, especially if you're buying a high end phone that's going to cost you $700+ anyways.

Personally, I just carry one dongle attached to my keychain and keep one in the car. It hasn't been an issue for me yet.
Religion and/or morality is a cultural change that has definitely proven to be not neutral to our species in the long run, so far.
Which book? And what impact did it have?
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Donate your sperm thrice a day for the rest of your life. Pretty sure one of your descendant will have a significant impact in 1000 years.
Funnily enough I did very very similar project half a year ago or so:

Code:
https://github.com/ghostFaceKillah/mini-self-driving-car

Writeup:
https://ghostfacekillah.github.io/car.html

Good job for getting PWM steering right, I had only 3 state steering (full left, center, right) and it turned out to be quite a limitation in the end.
I got the email from mozilla too, where they say it's not another privacy policy update and link to that same blog post.

I guess from the email it was implied that they are already compliant, but then the linked blog post in the email in no way confirms that...

Weird.

The email said:

>> Does it seem like every service, app or subscription you've signed up for is sending you a privacy policy update? It's all because of the General Data Protection Regulation, aka the "GDPR," a sweeping new European regulation taking effect this Friday.

GDPR has implications for many organizations, and that includes Mozilla. But unlike other organizations, Mozilla has always stood for and practiced data privacy principles that are at the heart of privacy laws like the GDPR. It feels like the rest of the world is catching up to where we've been all along.
Focus on leaving a high fidelity fossil.
You are wrong. This is a misconception that has thankfully died down a bit over the past week or so, but apparently it is still a bit alive. There are accords in place between (for example) the US and the EU, which allows the EU to hand out fines overseas. The reverse is also true (the US can and does litigate in the EU).
Care to elaborate? In which US court does the EU have standing to bring suit against a US citizen or corporation for violation of regulations the US does not recognize by either law or treaty?
That's interesting as what it's website privacy policy actually says looks the exact opposite of GDPR compliant. From https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/websites/ which is linked from as Privacy link from https://addons.mozilla.org.

>We may use cookies, clear GIFs, third party web analytics, device information, and IP addresses for functionality and to better understand user interaction with our products, services, and communications. Learn More

>You can control individual cookie preferences, indicate your cookie preferences to others, and opt-out of web analytics and optimization tools. Learn More
What a striking coincidence who the article uses as their sole example under "Violations":

10. Violations will cost big.

Like, really big. In the past, penalties for irresponsible data collection and management were low enough that it was, perhaps, more profitable for big players to eat the fines. Now, however, “organizations in breach of the GDPR can be fined up to 4% of annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater).” While it’s still unclear what a “significant” violation would be, here’s how a fine could add up for for Alphabet, the holding company of Google. Alphabet made $110 billion in 2017, so a significant violation against the GDPR could result in a whopping $4.4 billion fine. (!!!)
That and the facebook pixel.
Possibly they had user agreements that were so badly written they'd have been a problem even if they weren't actually collecting a lot of data.
Chances are, you won't be remembered in 1000 years. And you'll be too dead to enjoy it if you are. Are you sure you have come to terms with that? Lots of people I meet here are obsessed with "making their dent in the universe" and I think some of it is driven by the fear of death.

That said, if you just want to better the lives of future generations, there are plenty of things you can do now. Give money to good causes. Get involved in politics. Plant a tree.
> I just cant understand why is everyone trying to push all its intelectual power into trying to workaround GDPR

Because they make lots of money on user-hostile practices, and they want to find a way to keep this profit source.
sorry should've mentionted. This is discussed in other comments in this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152939
Solution: Pay a few bucks a year or see ads. What's so difficult about that? That could solve the problem somewhat at least...
As a fellow german I couldn't agree more.

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.

You're looked at funny if you want to pay small amounts by card here.

Part of the reason I think where historically high costs attached to credit card payments but the girocard system has been pretty cheap all along. Another issue I see is that it sometimes takes ages for the machines to do their thing.

I've been wondering for a while what the reason could be when using PINs. When I lived in Switzerland I remember things working like this at a supermarket:
1) You put all your stuff on the belt at the register
2) While your stuff is being scanned you can already put your card in the machine, enter your PIN and press okay once
3) When everything's scanned you only have to press ok again and the transaction is finished

In Germany it's different. You first have to wait for the whole scanning/entering into the register process to be finished before you can even put your card in the machine.

Hoping contactless payment will make this easier.
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People don't seem to use them on Linux for containers, but on FreeBSD that was the way to set up IP addresses for jails. You just had tons of aliases on an interface and you gave these IPs to jails. Anything that binds to 0.0.0.0 inside a jail gets bound to the jail's IP.

Now you can use VNET/VIMAGE to give jails separate virtual network interfaces. If you want to. The option to use aliases is still there of course.
That's certainly reducto-ad-absurdum if iv'e ever seen one.

They're both in the realm of "graphical programming language in the browser". One is a pay-per-$something, and the other is libre/gratis.

And sure, you could use backend js to write scripts to do $thing, but requires a lot of setup to work with different APIs. So absolutely no, js+text editor is nowhere near the same.
That’s pretty neat actually. Thanks for sharing.