skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so hyperbolic. Hazardous material? So your old IP address that has since changed 27 times being in some forgotten log file somewhere is now basically like uranium or industrial waste. Makes sense.
Hey just one question: Remember the old days when many people still using NTTP? Your email and IP address will be carried in every post you've sent, and other people have to download the whole post (including your email and IP) so they can view it.

Does GDPR made all NNTP services illegal?

I'm asking it because I was developing an online forum application that will publicly display your posting IP and registered email address, and sync posts with other sites.

If GDPR made that illegal, that could be a bad news for me.
Sure, but it also leaves a much bigger attack surface, because you still have all the deleted data ready to be leaked, as has repeatedly happened in practice. It's only a cleaner solution if your risk accounting allocates close to zero cost to that, which is what most startups do.

It's hardly only EU bureaucrats who have pointed this out. See Bruce Schneier from a few years ago: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
Yeah, this sort of thing is like a pessimistic case for Cassandra and various databases that are designed to model data as an immutable set of facts and to model deletions as retractions or the like.
> there are some GMOs I'm concerned about

Like what?
The whole idea is to _prevent_ people from thinking about formatting, by actually making it impossible to make any formatting decisions. There's exactly one way to format the program and that's it. It's draconian, but that's what's great about it.
They just dump human waste into the water. I can't even watch people eat shellfish.

"One hundred and six wastewater treatment plants, discharging as much as 97,000 pounds of chemicals each year, are located around Puget Sound."

https://news.vice.com/article/seattle-area-salmon-are-loaded...
I thought you would have to al least all the admins to agree to follow the GDPR so that data can be retrieved, corrected, and deleted on demand right?
Ha, I actually thought the comment was relevant for an article on blocking EU users with Cloudflare.

This regulation calls for legal expertise, trusting google to save on fees seems risky for a business. In all seriousness, biz owners should shell out for expert advice for compliance, or stop doing business in the EU.

Google and Fb have already seen litigious groups claim $9.3B in fines on the first day[1]. There will certainly be a cottage industry of lawyers going after online businesses that have erred with GDPR.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/gdpr-google-and-facebook-face-up-t...
Nice. It's not the greatest thing in the world either, tho. (Not the worst thing either, tho.) Here, a related conference papers (there does exist a staggering amount of project management science - mode of it little applied, however.):

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-74310-3_...

Oh and, on an unrelated to this but related to Project Management matter, you might find some use for this very Russian tool & programming language, originally developed for the Buran space project (development continued after the project failed for unrelated reasons), and still to this day used in space flight software development:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
Anyone know why Apple hasn't acquired one of the existing self driving car startups.

If a company known to be old and slow like GM could overpay and snap up Cruise, what's stopping Apple from opening their warchest to acquire one of the many other self driving car startups that have made decent progress?
Does not work.

If you already have information on EU users, you may be violating GDPR anyways.
Does this actually run fast enough in browsers to be useful?
Sadly, this is true.
If you're absolutely certain that the user's identity cannot be reconstructed from the remaining data points, then yes, a full anonymization is enough. You are, after all, removing personally identifiable information, even if the record structure remains in your database.

It's a law, not a technical constraint. No one gives a fuck about some foreign key relations, they care that personal data cannot be accessed, or somehow reconstructed.
Can you cite any parts of the article that support your view on this? I’ve read it a few times now and don’t see any. The author describes glossing past do-calculus before but for practical reasons, and doesn’t mention anything about “harsh or arrogant criticism” — and in fact doesn’t make reference to fair criticisms, like Rubin’s & Gelman’s.
> Put it a different way: are you too busy to read docs/specs of the technology you are using or will you abandon it because specs are too dry?

Umm, no, I won't read them?

I seriously cannot remember the past time so ever went and read all the official docs for a new tech.

Instead I learning by doing, and reading stack overflow.

If I have to read through 50 pages of docs to use something, I seriously am just going to use something else.
Treatment of felons in the US, like many things, depends on the state. You may have heard of them not being able to vote, but that varies.
Basic housing is the thing that stands out most for me. I'm originally an American, and now live in a rural area in Europe. Rural parts of the more affluent Western European countries aren't advanced per se, but they're, I dunno, reasonably modern. Decent housing and decent internet access. The U.S. countryside is just incredibly backward in this weirdly visible way by comparison. Entire swaths of countryside, especially in the southern US, but not exclusively there, are full of a mix of trailer parks on the one hand, and questionably habitable shacks with missing wallboards and plastic-tarp roof patches on the other (parts of Louisiana are seriously shocking). And good luck getting broadband.
Almost everywhere gets there water from some other area (even groundwater), which is why the concept of a “water supply chain” will come of importance. More specifically, “area” can be defined as the point sources for utility water distribution lines. As another poster mentioned, watershed is the common term. I’m not sure what point you are trying to make beyond water flowing downhill.

My point was, if I’m a lender, and I’m about to lend to a property that has a history of water shortage + a severe threat of total drought, i’m hedging my bet by knocking back the appraisal to be sure I can get my money back from the property given the likelihood of drought. Likewise, I think there is an outsized chance wildfire or an empty fire hydrant, my premiums charged to the property are going way up.

In these cases, “area” is looking at all possible options for getting potable water to the site for the foreseeable future, including high cost options like trucking supplies in to refill municipal water supplies.
Here is a question. Do you have a good sense of how you would use your time after you quit? Obviously you would have more time for your family and hobbies, but beyond that, a lot of the challenge of working for yourself is in making sure you are still pursuing a plausible career path and not taking a wrong turn that will stress you out and has no reward.

I recently approached this question by writing down what I know about myself and my general interests and strengths and weaknesses. I limited myself to finding the nine most important of these(an arbitrary number but small enough that I could keep all of them in my head) and reworked it over a few days until they described me well and were no longer contradicting each other.

I figured out that I wanted to position myself towards something more like teaching than, e.g. "deep" R&D, sales, customer support. So now I am working on making video essays for a Youtube channel - something I hadn't considered until I really worked through what I did and did not want - and am having a great time with it. And if the channel and associated products don't work out(like a lot of YT channels, the actual channel and video content can be leveraged into a marketing funnel), it's still a pretty solid career move in terms of getting my name out there.
Well yeah, good new to hear that. Honestly, for me it is hard to attend to local meetups because now I am in abroad so the only source I can use is the Internet. I have done some research about the tech companies that are following appropriate practises such as Telefonica, Casumo, Socialpoint etc. Dont know the real situation though.
Yeah, my point is just that the way databases have been developing recently has been towards eliminating mutation and deletion. The GDPR’s conception of deletion is fundamentally opposed to these models.

However, you can sort of match the two by storing personal data in a separate key-value map, using the (random) key from that map to link your data to the personal data and then just deleting the map entry when someone asks to be forgotten.

The annoying part is retrofitting data scrubbing into things like data warehouses and other systems of record, without accidentally deleting data you have a legal obligation to retain to satisfy, e.g. anti-money laundering laws or audit requirements.
I can't say I'm surprised that someone would do this. I had just written a breach policy that included "Use the Bcc field to send notification, don't make it worse than it already is."

Pedantry: title should use "its", not "it's".
A new Facebook
Oh, I must have misunderstood. Sorry! I take back my issue with the slices, then.
And JavaScript!
Gpdrcasualties.com – a list of casualties of GDPR
Go up a layer. Bad leadership is worse and can be the cause of bad management.
I’m a Python programmer and I never had the perception that single quotes are more canonical in any capacity. I always felt that single quotes were for degenerates who didn’t realize that single quotes are most commonly used for chars by the broader programming community. ;)
you're saying that blocking eu ip is insufficient. so you can, at leisure, forcibly subject anyone to attack by gdpr, against their will, by circumventing their access controls.

the only way for all businesses around the world to avoid abuse and subjugation to eu regulators, who they cannot influence, is to not exist at all?
And going through all the backups to overwrite the data? Backups that would have been written to CD or tapes?
(in the Men's Wearhouse guy voice)

He's going to mention the terminator seed that doesn't actually exist. I guarantee it.
Hey, man, that's totally fine that you don't want those services.

Which is why those services are responding by blocking all EU customers.

Seems like a win win for everyone. Businesses don't have to deal with ounerous laws, and EU citizens don't get to use those services.
I know blockchain and PoW is the thing to talk about right now, but if you think about it, client-side PoW is kind of a bad system. the whole point of such a system -PoW or captcha- is to increase the cost for the attacker to do the attack, so rather than $0.00000001/request (if you're renting a russian botnet or something), it costs a bit more, hopefully more enough that it's not worth it for the attacker to continue. a quick search on google says that recaptcha2 solvers can be obtained for $0.003/solve, which makes the cost per attack $0.003. on the other hand, the PoW is much lower. let's assume most of your visitors have a dual core system, and you require 30 seconds of PoW to log in. a dual core ec2 instance (c5.large) can be rented for $0.096/hour. at 30 seconds per solve, it can generate 120 solutions, for a final cost of $0.0008 per attempt. so in this case, going with the captcha solution is clearly the better solution as it costs almost 4x as much per attempt. there's a bunch of other factors not accounted for that makes PoW worse:

* native code can almost certainly run faster than javascript code, even if you're using webassembly. in my experience js cryptominers operate at around half the speed compared to their native counterpart on the same machine

* the attacker can leverage GPUs to compute solutions hundreds of times faster than what your users can

* users have to wait 30 seconds before they can login. you can generate the key while the user's filling in the form to shave off a few perceived seconds, but that will result in a sluggish login form

* users with slow CPUs (ie. anything slower than what's in a c5.large) will take even longer to generate a solution. this is especially problematic for people on smartphones

* users might think that your site's high CPU usage is because you're running a cryptominer on your site!
They'd also be spending a shitload for storing those dumps.

If information is backed up (in a way that it cannot be easily accessible and queried directly from the backup,) and the backups are stored securely, and there is a mechanism/policy (it doesn't have to be a purely technical measure) to replay the deletion in case if the backup is restored, you're going to be fine.
This is the case pretty much anywhere near a coastline.

I refuse to eat locally caught seafood.
Apparently it defaults to 10 days for tombstone purging and recommends not going below 5 days. How bad is performance actually going to be at a nice slow several-day compaction rate?

The pessimistic case sounds like trying to remove things within hours.
Hope they don't do the same thing on the data breach notification they're now legally required to issue...
does it mean that you can load your designs on that fpga ?
where can we find what features are exposed to sw ?
Isn't it incumbent on Pearl or someone on the do-calculus school to run an experiment to show it performs better than popular ML systems?

It's a beautiful theory, but it hearkens back to the symbolic AI era that has had limited effectiveness.
Don't let the EU Do this
What security problems?
The more interesting announcement is that Intel Nervana, already postponed multiple times, is again postponed to "late 2019".

One theory is that Intel Nervana outperformed Nvidia Pascal, but didn't outperform Nvidia Volta, so it couldn't be released.
Which I think is the answer to the puzzle: the job and housing markets matter a lot more than the tax situation.
The comments here are largely what I expected to find: people throwing around the names and quotes of famous philosophers from centuries past, as though it's a pissing contest to see who has read the most books on the topic. Modern discussions around philosophy are effectively a circle jerk: person 'A' regurgitates a quote from one philosopher, and then person 'B' is expected to regurgitate another quote to counter.

While the historical works are an important piece of the puzzle, it would be nice if more folks could avoid equating "studying philosophy" with "literally studying existing books on philosophy - and nothing else".
Shadowbans, if not implemented completely correctly, are extremely user-hostile and frustrating.
As someone that had to deal with Magento in production, it had serious scaling issues. I noticed more than 150 SQL queries to make a single purchase, with an abundance of lock contention issues... enough that they alone will bring a SQL server to its knees.

It's great for selling one or two items per hour. If you are unfortunate enough to have a popular product, then your options with Magento may be limited. You can't easily shard a shopping cart. Once you max out at 48 cores and SSD RAID, you're stuck.

Fortunately, for us, the problem resolved itself once we turned away enough customers.
Sometimes it's helpful just to have a decision; any decision, followed consistently, is better than no decision or continued debate. This is one of those situations.

So I don't read "opinionated" to necessarily mean "better than your opinions"; it's more like "makes decisions for you so you can avoid the cost of debating them."
Imagine situations where people actually read the regulation and its commentaries.

You don't have to delete specific records from every one of your backups; in case of a deletion request, you have to be able to replay that if you restore the backup. Also, have some kind of policy in place for how exactly you're handling your backups and how long you're storing them.
I used to live in Europe and have also lived in many parts of the US. Just trying to understand, since I didn't notice much visible difference other than wind power. I'm from a rural area in the US, and it was a great place. I haven't spent much time in rural areas of the south though.
Who are you arguing with that thinks DMCA was a great idea but GDPR isn't?
Your bank's requirement to verify a chargeback is not a law. It's a business contract.
Your intuition contains some truth: according to Gauss's law, the gravitation of the expanding nova shell shouldn't change at all until it passes by its surviving companion. The matter expanding away from the companion will gravitate less, but that will be canceled out by the increased attraction to the matter expanding towards the companion. Really, we're just assuming the hot, dense, and small dwarf can sustain the licking it gets when the remnant hits it. The smallness helps it get hit by less material, moreso if it's far away. It's gravitationally bound so it won't shatter - the most you could do to disassemble it would be to boil off its matter by raising it all to escape velocity. It takes a lot of energy to do that.
But if everybody did something like this, it could make a difference. Maybe we could use a library/service specifically designed for this purpose. It could keep itself up to date, and other than setting it up, you wouldn't need to spend time on it.
I'm not disagreeing with you. Looking on the outside, Twitter had two issues.

1. Twitter wasn't built on a scalable architecture

2. Ruby didn't use resources efficiently -- it was slower than other stacks.

If Twitter had been scalable, even if it were 10x slower than Java, you could throw 10x the number of servers at it until you optimized the stack then reduce the number of servers needed and the customers would have been none the wiser. Of course the investors wouldn't have been happy. Well at least in today's world. I don't know what the state of cloud services were in 2008. Then you could focus on efficiency.

But since Twitter wasn't scalable, you had to fix the stack while the customers were effected. I'm almost sure even in 2008, with the growth of Twitter they could have gotten the capital to invest in more servers if they needed them.

It's not completely analogous but Dropbox is a good counterexample. Dropbox was hosted on AWS at first. Dropbox never had to worry about running out of storage space no matter how big it grew (it had a scalable architecture) but for their use case, they weren't as efficient (ie cost not computer resources). Their customers were never affected by their lack of efficiency because they could operate at scale. They had breathing room to re-architect a more efficient solution.
The problem is dealing with software and databases that weren't designed for deleting and anonymization. I do not envy all the developers who are going to have to rewrite crappy legacy code to be compliant.
Dungeons and Dragons: The revival of a 'geeky' pastime
> network, and those users are willing and eager to just go with it without any of this bs

How can you declare they're willing and eager, if you don't have their consent, and they're not informed about your actions?
Yes, that is, indeed, a degenerate case, as I suspected.

Is it safe to say that such situations are often found with embedded or otherwise specialized hardware?
When does n grains of sand become a sand pile?
Has YouTube won? Don’t they lose money?

It seems like Netflix has won. Hulu is catching up. YouTube is working hard on a distant third place.
Haven't listened to WFMU yet but KEXP.org of Seattle is also very good. They regularly post live sessions to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3I2GFN_F8WudD_2jUZbojA.

And BBC radio 6 isn't bad: https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music
And remove it from the off site backup, like AWS, which helpfully makes copies of the backup data, and you have to remove it from all of them.
One of the highlights from my childhood was being served by a Coca-Cola cobot at a diner, refilled my drink for me. It was soon after the Winter Olympics where we got to see it ice skate.

Like all trends, it was localized. You had to live in the right place at the right time.
For the many customers whose phones developed touch disease, it was a problem. And Apple themselves say it's 7x more bendy than previous models... well, except that Apple doesn't say so publicly :(

Do those sticking up for Apple in this thread want Apple to continue releasing flimsier products than they used to? I do not understand why there is so much positivity about this story.
> still collects IP addresses

It doesn't have to.
So basically more work.
it’s somebodies “local coastline” elsewhere too
so that might not help you
From http://online.sfsu.edu/repstein/GEessays/goldenricehoax.html

"In order to meet the full needs of 750 micrograms of vitamin A from [Golden] rice, an adult would have to consume 2 kg 272g of rice per day. This implies that one family member would consume the entire family ration of 10 kg from the PDS [?] in 4 days to meet vitamin A needs through "Golden rice".

This is a recipe for creating hunger and malnutrition, not solving it.

Besides creating vitamin A deficiency, vitamin A rice will also create deficiency in other micronutrients and nutrients. Raw milled rice has a low content of Fat (0.5g/100g). Since fat is necessary for vitamin A uptake, this will aggravate vitamin A deficiency. It also has only 6.8g/100g of protein, which means less carrier molecules. It has only 0.7g/100g of iron, which plays a vital role in the conversion of Betacarotene (precursor of vitamin A found in plant sources) to vitamin A. Superior Alternatives exist and are effective.

A far more efficient route to removing vitamin A efficiency is biodiversity conservation and propagation of naturally vitamin A rich plants in agriculture and diets."

-Vandana Shiva
And if getting your "act together" is a substantial cost for small companies, no matter?

The word choice almost presumes the conclusion, that data privacy rules are obvious, and cheap, and akin to just washing hands after using the toilet.

Every regulation has costs and benefits. I also would love to have better worldwide privacy at no or little cost, but the fact that people are blocking the EU shows that some companies just don't see this to be the case. And they're voting with their feet.

EU citizens should accept the fact that if they support the law, they will further data privacy protections, which are good, and they will face the music if some innovation leaves or whatever compliance costs may come with it.
Small-likelihood times many-chances times grave-consequences equals a finite but significant number of lives wrecked. A gamble you deem acceptable.

I can only hope that karma visits those who arrogate to themselves the decision to sacrifice a few of their fellow human beings: may they and their loved ones become the sacrifices.
On the plus side, the USA Today in Europe is completely ad free now.
Try Trader Joe’s for those speciality items. I find them to have quite an eclectic selection and treat their workers well.

On the subject of the acceptance of Walmart as the county store for all income and wealth levels, I agree it’ll take more time for normalization.
Isn't the real issue that meta-physics is that it always follows actual-physics? That is, if the metaphysicist says something like "guns don't really exist" and the physicist says "but I made a real gun, can I shoot you with it to prove it?" the metaphysicists always back down. Or put less aggressively, it is metaphysics that has to conform to discoveries in physics, not the other way around.

So the point the pro-science people are making is that any metaphysicists who deny the efficacy of science can't possibly believe what they are saying because they are not willing or able to actually live their lives according to their beliefs.