skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank God, I almost went a whole 24 hours without seeing another service with a -ly suffix

Still cool though, hopefully devs will hop on this
Hopefully what will happen is that it will be more expensive to advertise and publishers will earn more on dumber ads

Obviously if ads are less targeted then they may be less effective so advertisers will make less on ads that cost more. This will hurt their bottom line, which in turn will make the products we buy more expensive. But that's exactly the end goal. I want to pay for things (information, products) with more money rather than with slightly less money and all my integrity.
Tesla in Autopilot mode sped up before crashing into stopped fire truck
I'm one of those "grumpy old admins" they mention in the post, but I've switched to using ip for 5+ years now and have been happy. But, -brief -color is a new one on me, and I'm gonna add that to my toolbox.
It’s the interface index which is mostly an incrmsenfing number. That can become important for sub interfaces and others things that may reference it. Though they could reference by name instead.
Bitcoin Scammers Are Demanding Ransom for Lost Dogs
That's the essence of the CAP theorem. You can have two of three - consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. Sometimes it makes sense to choose availability over consistency.
Ha. You’re insane if you think that the US Congress is going to start letting 28 agencies in the EU start fining small businesses that have no EU presence whatsoever. The political ads write themselves.
As someone who loves his iPad, this makes me sad. It’s not enough for me to abandon it but it’ll definitely make the upgrade decision tougher when the time comes.

Does iPad even support Xbox1/PS4/steam controllers? Last time I checked, at least PS4 gamepads did not work on ios. Without those (certainly Xbox and PS4 ones), I’m not sure I’d want to stream games onto an iPad anyway (not that this makes it better, if anything it makes it worse).
if you don't deal with EU customers (like if you don't sell ads to EU advertisers), you don't have to.
I attribute it to European jealously over american tech success. Hi tech success that flies in the face of their supposed social, cultural and moral superiority.

User tracking is not really why we don't have nice things, look at the success of moviepass even after they publicly admitted what they were tracking. People want part of the spoils which is exactly the purpose of GDPR.
This is absolutely not the case. I can install any app-store app I'd like, and it can install apps on my phone. I can even download raw apk file and install them myself.
it really doesnt take much to implement an intermittent fasting regimen.

one easy way to hit it is to simply move to an 8 hour feeding window, eg 10-6

really taking advantage of the time you are sleeping as 'fasting' time, makes the concept of fasting a lot less daunting
What the GDPR means for our customers
> Second, I believe the law protects EU citizens regardless of where they are.

That's incorrect. That is the attempted naive reach of the EU in action. The correct formulation is: the EU would like for GDPR to apply to all EU citizen data globally.

US sites/services with no business reach into the EU, do not need to comply with EU privacy laws. 99% of businesses around the world (most small businesses), those outside of the EU, will entirely disregard GDPR - because they have no business dealings with the EU.

The EU has no jurisdiction over the US economy or its laws. That will remain the case. The EU also doesn't control China, or India, or Japan, or Brazil, or South Africa.

A simple example for illustration: I can establish a new US service that is ad based (with eg 100% of revenue being derived from the US market), I can keep all of my infrastructure & business operations outside of the EU, I can take on EU users at will, and I can do anything I want to - in compliance with US law - with their information without concern for GDPR: because the EU does not lord over the US, their laws do not rule the US. This is legally how GDPR actually works, despite the amusing propaganda campaign to pretend GDPR requires global compliance.
The ability to buy games was removed from the Steam Link app.
> As an American, reading the term rights associated with increased government control is nonsensical.

This is nonsensical. You can not have rights w/o government anyways. You may have privileges or power to force others to comply, but "rights" are defined by a third party entity that enforce them.
> ATMs could OCR and log the serial numbers of bills they dispense, and they obviously know who they're dispensing to.

Indeed this is an issue that bothers me since some years. We should indeed think about ways to "reanonymize" the cash (even) more.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, since it's true. As a thought experiment, why should this have any more relevance to a company that's in the US than the Thai law that prevents criticism of their king.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Thai...

I suspect what we'll see soon is a law protecting US companies from EU overreach, comparable to the SPEECH ACT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act

It would not surprise me if some US companies are holding back, because they expect similar protections from foreign law to be passed here.
This project had moved to https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin https://privatebin.info/
> then the result will probably be that a lot of free websites ban EU users and smaller companies take their place with products that either cost money or will be a bit worse.

Availability of quality free content is not a problem, the content will just be available from other source.

The big problem on the ads-monetized web today is ranking high enough, and the site that don't want to apply GDPR will just have to compete with the site that do have the extra push the EU market give them. On the advertizer side, they make direct money from content accessibility so they will upgrade their tracker so it is GDPR compliant for EU-traffic with no work from the content publisher. That is a non issue, this is just day one of a big change.

Let's also not paint a rosy picture of the web either. GEO blocking is a common daily reality for people outside the US. Any valuable and popular content is locked already, despite being monetized quite directly (see Netflix, Amazon Prime, ...)
Encouraging. And how is that going so far? If I meet a fellow Philosopher now, can I prove him wrong in a way he'll accept?
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Given a company has a dominant market position the point of anti-trust and monopoly is that everybody should blame them if they abuse that position.

> If you don't like them, fine, quit using their services

Which, again, for companies with a dominant market position is an entirely unreasonable proposition. Hence, laws.
In any case the classical definition of free will has been solved.

The question of free will in voluntary action implicitly was important in the context of soul and dualism. Any action that originated "inside self" could be done at least in principle without outside influence, "the will does not have to be such as it is". There was at least possibility of fundamental free will.

If there is no fundamental system boundary, the question of free will is defining less fundamental boundaries and the question loses its status as fundamentally important question.

Generating new definitions for free will can of course continue.
"User-interface customization" cookies are actually explicitly exempt from EU consent requirements: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm

I believe they should not be affected by GDPR either, since they're not actually identifying a person.
No, because this is opt-out behaviour. It needs to be opt-in: To avoid personalised advertising, your actions required should be "none". It should work like that by default.
give the author some love ! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17133699
Welcome, GDPR!
Generally I've seen 16 hours being the ideal mark for daily fasting.

Purely anecdotal, have not gotten a proper BF-test and don't count calories, but it seems since I started constraining my eating to 8 hour blocks a few months ago that I've gotten visibly leaner to the tune of a couple % points. I lift daily and eat fairly clean with 2-3 cheat meals per week.
Amazon Prime doesn’t lock people in. That’s like saying a Costco membership stops people from shopping at other stores.
Ah, when I used to bother with Proxomitron (https://www.proxomitron.info/), I could rewrite anything that went "over the wire" because it acts as a HTTP-proxy listening at localhost. I remember modifying Javascript lines so adding my own code was possible...

One could add an SSL library and basically MITM HTTPS connections, but I never tried that.
> I also heard one investor mention how Tumblr struggled with technical debt related to their feed

Not sure I'd agree with that, but I suppose it depends on the context and timing of the statement.

Tumblr's solution for reverse-chrono activity feed is, at its core, <1000 lines of PHP and a few extremely heavily optimized sharded MySQL tables. It is creaky and old, but its relatively small code footprint means it isn't terrible on the tech debt scale.

Tumblr's feed is computed entirely at read-time; there's no write fan-out / no materialized inboxes. The key insights that make the system fast (under 10ms latency to identify which posts go in the feed) even at scale:

* If you are grabbing the first page of a feed (most recent N posts from followed users), the worst-case is N posts all by different authors. If you have a lookup table of (user, most recent post time) you can quickly find the N followed users who posted most recently, and only examine their content, rather than looking at content from all followed users.

* For subsequent pages, use a timestamp (or monotonically increasing post id) as a cursor, i.e. the id or time of the last post on the previous page. Then to figure out which followed users to examine for the new page of results, you only need to look at followed users who posted since that cursor timestamp (since they may have older posts on the current page) plus N more users (to satisfy the worst-case of all N posts on the current page being by different authors that were not on previous pages).

* InnoDB's clustered index PK means it is very very fast at PK range scans. This is true even for disjointed sets of range scans, e.g. with PK of (a,b) you can do a query like "WHERE a IN (...long list of IDs...) AND b >= x AND b <= y" and it is still extremely fast.

* You can optimize out the access pattern edge cases and make them fuzzier. Most non-bot users only ever scroll so far; even power users that follow a lot tend to check the feed very often, so they don't go deep each time. On the extreme edge, users who follow thousands don't comprehensively try to view every piece of content in their feed anyway. This means you can measure user activity to determine where to place limits in the system that help query performance but are completely unnoticeable by users.
Enforcement in practice is almost certain to be "at the edge" with things like payment processors and ad networks that have direct business operations in the EU and are easy to demand third-party compliance from.

If you literally don't do any business with EU entities, even at arm's length, enforcement is going to be impractical and unlikely.
Science didn't replace philosophy. Science is philosophy. That's why scientists used to be called natural philosophers. Yes, in the modern era we have gotten much more specialized in the modern era and that arguably is a loss. But it is kinda necessary given the depth that many fields have gotten.
How are you creating Docker containers of any complexity without understanding Linux?
I'd question your use of "benefit" and "low prices". Some of their services do not require purchase with currency. That doesn't mean the price for using them is low. It's just different (and often hidden, or outright incalculable).
Yes, they say

To make Medium work, we log user data and share it with processors. To use Medium, you must agree to our Privacy Policy, including cookie policy.

However it seems to work just fine without cookies - when I load the site in lynx, and reject all cookies, it loads just fine.
yeah.... that's gonna happen
The "-brief" switch is not mentioned in the default manpage, at least on my Ubuntu 16.04 installation. Why? This should be mentioned prominently, as it's so useful.
I guess the question is what does the EU value more, privacy or their relationship with the US?

I don't have an answer but I suppose we'll find out soon enough.
You should ask an attorney, not take random advice from the internet.

But since you asked, here’s some random advice that HN will hate but can’t refute: you should ignore it. You shouldn’t misuse user data, but that’s always been true. But you shouldn’t worry about the latest laws or regulations from any countries that have no effective jurisdiction over you, even if they claim to. If New Zealand sees a blog post of mine that they dislike and sends me a bill for a $100 fine, it’s going straight in the garbage. There’s nothing they can do. Same with the GDPR.

Don’t misuse user data, ask an attorney, you’ll be fine.
systemd has decided for you that these commands are better. It is now your responsibility to accept their decisions.
snap install tor-middle-relay

https://snapcraft.io/tor-middle-relay
This does appear to be supported by TFA:

> Although the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which IF enhances cognitive and motor performance have not been established, the shift to ketone utilization appears to be one of the key biological mechanisms that prevents age‐related reductions in brain white matter integrity and preserves spatial memory
> At one place we get to hear about "GDPR" and how it's "delayed gratification", "society first".

> Then there is this obsession with cash. Where "society first" does not apply.

Both are not about "society first" (and I have never heard this term with respect to GDPR), but "privacy first".
> I can imagine this being legitimate interest, can be disabled with DNT flag, and it's not personal data. Mozilla signed a legal contract with Google which prevents Google from using this information.

Actually the do not track and tetemetry preferences do not work on the addon page.
We just call her "you know who" (a.k.a. the thing who's name we are too afraid to mention)
Are they really "terrible" with "awful usability"? In my day-to-day debugging, I do find `journalctl` much better.
Let's see a couple of quick examples:

- Show logs for the current boot: $ journalctl -b

- To get all errors that are of priority level ERROR and worse: $ journalctl -b -p err

- Show me logs for a given binary: $ journalctl /usr/sbin/libvirtd

- Or via its unit file: $ journalctl -u libvirtd -l

- Want to query all the errors for a given disk? Here we go: $ journalctl /dev/sda -p err

And so on...
They are perhaps owned by media organisations that do in some way do business with the EU even if those specific outlets do not.
Assuming I accept your argument. If there can be no progress what's the point?

It's fun is a perfectly valid justification IMO, but not something that necessarily brings prestige etc.
You're exactly right. Just skip breakfast and don't eat snacks after dinner and you'll be at 16 hours easy. Try it for a week and see how you feel.

I've been IF'ing for 15 months now and it's great. Lost 20 pounds without even trying and have more energy during the day.
Restaurants at the hotels in US also demonstrate this trust. You just write your name and room number on a receipt and leave. They don't ask for any proof of staying in the hotel.
i think there is value in analytic philosophy, mostly when used as a tool to clear up otherwise muddy issues. Case in point, Jay F. Rosenberg's "Thinking Clearly About Death." In the second half he spends his time clearing up moral arguments about euthenasia, letting die, and rational suicide, using analytic philosophy. he only comes to a definite conclusion on the rational suicide argument, but his clarifications are invaluable in the other cases.
The intersection of the set of "intersection of gaming and mobile" and the set of "hardcore gamers" is small.
I've been through a similar situation, and it did not end well for me. If you are asking for donations from strangers on the internet, yes, you are starting to panic. The good news is, you are aware that there is a problem. The bad news is, the problem is real.

I won't give any money, but here is the advice I can give:

1) That feeling of "...all I need is a little more time and funding before I can launch the product. When my product is launched, everything will change." is very dangerous. Get out of hope mode, and get into planning mode. I know it is hard because emotionally you need the hope to keep you going. It's good to take care of your emotional needs, but when you are driving across a desert with an almost empty gas tank, "I'm almost there" is a good way to end up stranded.

2) Realize you are undercapitalized. This is a primary cause of business failure. You need to do something about it. Either get more capital or start cutting corners. If you are trying to build a house, but only have enough money for a garage, you can end up with either a finished garage or a dead construction site. One of those is worth more than the other.

3) If you don't know what is going to happen if you fail, have a plan. Ideally you should have that before starting, but if not, don't end up here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445141

4) I don't know the cloud business well, but I have a friend who owns a cloud business and he is able to compete by offering a niche service. It seems that having good relationships with his customers is a more important part of his business than the servers or software. You may be well served at this point by getting a prospective customer or two to sign a letter of intent that they intend to buy your product when released. You could take this to a bank and have a decent chance of getting a loan to get you to the finish. You probably won't get a loan without this.

5) Your value proposition appears to hinge on automated cloud management plus charity tie-in. I'd use your charity contacts to help you network with local prospective customers. Charity tie-in can get you in doors you can't get in on your own.

Best of luck.
> Still it would require at least a cookie notice.

Fair enough, I'm actually somewhat curious why Mozilla doesn't provide a cookie notice. Not that it matters, because those notices are used everywhere and people ignore them.
Android has had split-screen for a while (and anecdotally, it works with google apps)...just sayin'
Why is it reasonable to assume they were disclosed willingly? That sounds like a startling assumption and the reverse of the one I'd make.

Without good evidence, you must assume they were disclosed unwillingly.
Free will has been settled? What?
Add to that the motives of state institutions who can freely put their fingers in the honey jar (your bank account).
How Amazon Plans To Use Whole Foods to Dominate the Retail Industry
It looks like they updated their privacy policy but I didn’t see mention that they assigned an EU representative so. It entirely.
I just get redirected back to https://usatoday.com :( Perks of living in the US, I guess.
This is an insane argument. So now by having a blog, I’m under the jurisdiction of 200 countries and countless other small jurisdictions? What happens when they all contradict each other? Or when I can’t tell what jurisdiction a user belongs to? Or when they pass crazy laws like anti-blasphemy or demand half my revenue, or whatever?

I don’t think you’ve thought this through.
As someone else is pointing out, a business needs to have a positive reason to follow this regulation. If the very vast majority of my business is from US readers/customers and practically no money comes in from European readers why would I put any effort in at all to comply rather than just block. The only scenario where this would happen is of compliance was cheaper than blocking.
Great Permutator
You could answer this by answering: Does Hacker News store personally identifiable information? Well: 1. Hacker News has no interest in personal information with regards to its news feed, 2. How does having an email address on your account change things?

Things get ambiguous when account names are a persons real name, same for the email address. IP Addresses are also ambigous because of their topical use.

Hacker News may log IP Addresses but there is an argument where these IP Addresses can be "traced". Trouble is an IP Address is PUBLICALLY identifiable information. It can be viewed easily and there are no real correlative relationship between IP and person.

An argument can stand to say "Hang on, I'm sending this message to Hacker News website via my mobile phone, that has an IP Address mapped to my device, therefore indirectly my IMEI device number is mapped to an IP Address where that IMEI number is mapped to an IMSI number on a SIM card which could be linked to subscriber contract details".

Yes true, but that IP Address is from a pool of addresses assigned to that mobile device via the connection provider. It changes based on DHCP Leasing rules.

Passwords are not personally identifiable information. HOWEVER, Hacker News still has a responsibility to protect that information.
If it isn't it is pretty close. No JS includes, they use Cloudflare which has gone out of their way to be GDPR compliant, you have full control over your profile and the moderators have so far complied with any reasonable request I have ever made. On top of that there is an easy way to export your data through several services.

What specifically would trigger you to wonder?
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.
> Your registrar is almost certainly a lot easier to phish/social engineer/whatever than Google.

Please don't spread unsourced FUD. I'm not saying registrars are perfect (although Gandi, which I linked, has an impeccable track record), but everyone uses registrars for their domain name, even the biggest businesses out there.

If you have a problem with a particular registrar, I invite you to source it and share it. But the general idea that the potential for a point of attack makes the email "not yours" is nonsensical.

What matters is the email address you give out to people. Where that email is stored and ends up doesn't matter. Which registrar owns the domain doesn't matter.
Could you let me know your browser and OS?
Some animes have theorized a different method for reversing entropy. Like nuclear fission, we may be able to release a tremendous amount of energy by smashing the dreams of young girls and harnessing the power of their tears.

https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Thermodynamics
> Given that iPhones account for just 35% of US mobile phones [1] and only around 15% of phone shipments worldwide [2], this is in no way monopolistic

Why do you think that? You are only arguing that "monopoly laws" should be called "oligopoly laws". These laws require abuse of a dominant market position, not a majority share.
Because bitter HN users will call you shady if you don’t fully comply with their pet law, no matter how ambiguous or onerous :)
Facebook and Google targeted as first GDPR complaints filed
Do Not Track should work on addons page, if it doesn't, it's a bug.

Telemetry settings however don't work unfortunately :(.
I'd be honored to supply that service, for free.