skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2 years of legal arguments and debates happening in companies because of GDPR.

That's seriously optimistic. From what I can tell, most companies realized about a week and a half ago that this was going to be an issue and freaked the hell out.

I'm still getting a stready stream of better-late-than-never GDPR emails.
Allowing 28 separate, politically diverse and motivated data regulators to litigate a vague law against publicly unpopular multinationals is a recipe for capricious and arbitrary action, but I believe that was rather the intent.

Litigating on this particular issue would be an incredible stretch though. Offends basic sense of fair play imo.

If Turkey gets EU membership, it would be a hoot to see how Erdogan uses this law.
Do you propose a city should not measure traffic or pollution? There is a difference between gathering aggregate data about a neighborhood, and individual surveillance. Though I understand many people with engineering minds don't like to deal with nuance.

I think you are reading more into it than you should.
Sparse matrix multiplication is generally considered to be a different problem. Sparse matrices need to be represented differently (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_matrix for an introduction). There has been recently a lot of research on how to do sparse matrix multiplication efficiently on manycore architectures. See this 2018 paper for example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.01698.pdf. Note that sparse matrix-vector multiplication is also a different problem.
I believe Venezuela proves you completely wrong. You should read up on what is going on there with Bitcoin. What Satoshi envisioned is actually happening there.

The fact that bitcoin has gone 10 years, with limited use, to me signals just how amazing the technology is. Ten years is nothing for a tech that can last 1000 (or more..).
I think that's a legitimately great idea, sure. I don't necessarily advocate abstinence (although I feel it's been a good thing for me, in general), so any tool that can help someone recognize when they might be veering down a path that may be harmful would probably be very useful.
7 Ministers with one holding a double mandate (Minister & President)
> IP address is PII, though.

Your premise appears to be flawed in the context of established case law. IP addresses alone are not considered 'personal data' unless you have the capacity to readily add other information to add color. See below:

https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

> The CJEU decided that a dynamic IP address will be personal data in the hands of a website operator if:

> 1. there is another party (such as an ISP) that can link the dynamic IP address to the identity of an individual; and

> 2. the website operator has a "legal means" of obtaining access to the information held by the ISP in order to identify the individual.

> On the facts, if the BRD has the legal power to compel the relevant ISP to disclose sufficient information to identify Mr Breyer, then Mr Breyer's IP address will be personal data in the hands of the BRD.

The vast majority of entities do not meet the requirements for #2.
Not about IQ but I read somewhere about how the properties of octopus bodies (squishiness, bonelessness) form a very different understanding of the world compared to those of primates. Can't find where it was.
Apparently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMed
That has happened like half a dozen times before in the history of Bitcoin. Not really a sign of demise.
Just after nuclear bombs were invented.

Coincidence? I say not.
> No sane western corporation will willingly eliminate an entity about the site of USA out of spite and take a profit hit just because of new PII protocol

Probably not. It would make sense to roll out services on a country-by-country basis, limiting exposure to those where the national data regulator is known. EU lobbyists and lawyers were just granted a massive break.
Remember that final prices of drugs are “street prices” in quantities of use. So you might have 25,000 USD of a drug, and it might be 2 kilograms, but when you split it up into 2-4g packets, the individual prices are much higher and you might get “one millions” in street value, which is what the police and media like to report. It makes the amount seem so much bigger.
What is my IP? curl ifconfig.io/ip
Saying that there is no reason to buy a crypto-currency is absolutely false. You probably live in a Western country where you mostly trust the banking system and stability of your own currency. That is not the case in many other countries. You will probably say that most crypto-currencies are extremely volatile, which is true, but there are already existing and active projects that have addressed that issue, for example the DAI stablecoin. In Russia there's been a banking crisis recently, stablecoins, tokens tied to commodities and such would have directly benefited people keeping their money in these opaque and vulnerable institutions.
I think you missed the point I was trying to make; I was mentioning that OP has made a too broad of a statement which could apply to any successful technology too.

I wasn't trying to make any comparisons, since these are two very different situations.
It will take some time to play out. People will sue, costs of lawsuits payout will be weighed against continuing the existing practices (IBM vs Xerox style) etc.

Two things: they are still operating in EU, and it didn't go well for Microsoft itself when they tried to disobey EU.

So, we'll see how it ends.
As somebody who values privacy greatly something about the GDPR just doesn't sit right with me, which is confusing and conflicting because somebody who values privacy should be naturally aligned with it.

After thinking long and hard about the GDPR the part that bothers me the most is the expectation from the EU that foreign entities enforce their regulations because the EU cannot bare the political consequences of doing it themselves.

Imagine if China decided that Chinese citizens accessing foreign servers was a breach of national security due to the ability of these foreign servers to collect private browsing information, and imagine if China decided to make laws that fined these foreign entities in violation of their laws. It would be a fucking joke and it would be ridiculed internationally for good reason. China obviously knows this and they are prepared to get their hands dirty and implement the Great Firewall of China because they have no problem appearing as a controlling and authoritarian state.

So why doesn't Europe just do what China does and build their own firewall? If they really wanted to restrict collection by foreign servers which exist in non-EU jurisdictions and apply the regulation internally in the EU then they have the technical capacity to do so with a firewall.

Europe just can't bare the consequences of building such a firewall because it would destroy them in the court of public opinion. If EU citizens suddenly lost access to American services all hell would break loose. On a more political level the EU is a place which is generally known as being liberal and open and the construction of a mechanism designed to enforce their regulations by closing them off from the outside internet would be the construction of an authoritarian tool of censorship and restriction of freedom.
Men's testosterone levels have been falling for decades... I agree there's definitely a trend happening that has causal effects other than what the author is postulating.
> Litigating on this particular issue would be an incredible stretch

At least litigation has a clear end. The problem is more endless requests for information, each requiring research and drafting by expensive EU lawyers. A burden irrespective of whether you did anything wrong.
Purse.io lets you buy from Amazon
I get lots of bitcoin payments.

>10 years into Bitcoin there's still no reason for someone to buy in other than speculation

This is simply completely wrong, perhaps you should research the subject a little bit more.
What happens when an EU citizen travels to the US and accesses a website?
Essential mathematical GIFs that will make mathematics finally make sense
Did you look at the linked article? The point is that it reinforces a potential implicit bias.

"Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood, it is best to relinquish the old innocuous proverbial expression all together."

No one is attacking you and there is no need to defend.
I just thought it would be funny to put Timberlake on the quote since Sean Parker never said it and it's less fun to credit Sorkin.
I mean, each EU member already had the right to litigate vague data privacy laws if they wanted to.
> Does Google have any plans to describe how they will eliminate human-spoken conversations from their noise detection?

I am very much not a fan of this project, but I will point out that the problem you're describing has an easy solution; a microphone can record conversations, but the output of a microphone can be fed to an algorithm that never keeps that recording and only records the noise level in dB.

If you've ever used a toilet that flushes itself automatically when you leave, you've been in a bathroom with a tiny camera watching you. No one ever worries about the privacy implications of this, because that tiny camera does nothing with this information except decide if it's light or dark immediately in front of it. The image data isn't stored, it's just thrown away.

Is Google going to record thousands of hours of sidewalk microphone recordings and store them somewhere? Seems far more likely they're just going to stream a "Currently it's 60dB at this intersection"; meets their requirements with minimal bandwidth and infrastructure.
> How will they do that to a company that has no presence in that country and is actively blocking any access from that country?

One of the EU's twenty-eight members will try to extradite an American executive. That will be shot down by U.S. courts. We'll throw tariffs at each other for a few months until whatever administration that happens under negotiates a compromise.
Large ones certainly, small ones kicked the can out of ignorance or just waiting for consensus to develop. That articles like this are so popular show how muddled the consensus still is.
If anything, this is good for tech jobs overall as we all have a lot more to do now.
If this was the case, it would make sense to charge for capacity, not for usage. Like, if you ever want to use more than X amps of electricity, you have to pay for upgraded wires and stuff. Doesn't explain charging less for first X units per month.
I'm so tired of fluffy, easy, popsci books. Give me dry and technical any day. Info-Ops grabbed my attention, at least. There's always a market somewhere.

(On a related note, I'm trying to learn more about sales and marketing. Every book I've seen recommended so far has been written like a lowest-common-denominator self-help manual, even the supposed classics. I am taking recommendations if anyone has any, especially for books that describe the history and development of each field in detail. Preferably available as an audiobook).
Perhaps it isn't a stupid as you think? Perhaps people like the idea of trading computational power for social mobility?

If your computer could do your work for you, leaving you to do whatever you want in life, why would you NOT want that? The stupidity is that we are not all doing this, that we are not tearing down the halls of congress for cheaper power collection methods. What is crazy is that we never demand accountability from our traditional finance system, leaving us to trust a few tremendously wealthy individuals who have no obligation to the rest of society. With bitcoin, there is no trust, in fact this is even a key feature: remove the trust. I think this is an idea that is very powerful, and is something that people like.

If you are looking at bitcoin as an investment, then you are already looking at it all wrong. This isn't about investing, its about financial independence.

I would suggest you look into the fundamentals again.
well not sure if i should call it a book... it was a litel guide about conecting my first computor/dsl/.....

and after that i could have gotten started with the beauty and power of the internet
Is Amazon accepting the Bitcoin or is that just a way to convert it into real money first? If the seller doesn't know, it doesn't count as Bitcoin usage — just another Visa transaction.
The vast majority of the work this creates will flow to lawyers and lobbyists.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14566057
I took a different lesson from learning to implement matrix multiply: you can get a small amount of code within a few percent of peak performance if you try. So, the trick is to keep the 99% of the code that does 10% of the work within an order of magnitude of peak performance, and then get the rest within a factor of two.

That gets the system within a factor of three, which is still embarrassing, but that’s what profiling tools are for. :-)
Thats fascinating, i wonder how much coordinate matrix multiplication in spark takes into account factors like choelesky decomposition. Noticed most of those libraries are written in C++ or fortran, is JVM based approaches generally discouraged in this realm? It fits well with our current stack based mostly around spark
That's true of any advanced node, though.
That quote is incoherent. Your quote -- clause 1 from A22 -- indeed points out that profiling is permitted under circumstances enumerated at the end.

Further, the GDPR has rules around two things you mention, but they are different: (1) profiling; (2) automated decision making.

Profiling has three elements, as described by the A29 WG:

* An automated form of processing.
* Carried out on personal data.
* For the objective of evaluating personal aspects about a natural person.

As for IP addresses, mapping them to an ASN is fully anonymized. Since an anonymized IP address is not personal data, using it is not profiling.

Blocking users from using your site is highly unlikely to have the "legal effects" enumerated in the above clause.
Makes sense. The one difference is see is the speed which you could ramp up the power and the amount of current you can draw.

Even the fastest gas plant presumably needs a few seconds to power up - enough time for the network to react. Additionaly, the maximum power and current it can deliver is generally known.

In contrast, the plan linked here basically proposes to build a giant distributed capacitor bank - with ever-growing capacity.

From what I understand, purpose-built large capacitor banks are used to generate very short pulses of enormously large currents - e.g. to power experimental lasers, railguns or similar.

Maybe my imagination runs wild here, but I see no reason a hacker with appropriate access couldn't do something similar - e.g. command all batteries to unload with the largest possible churrent at once and setup switches in such a way the current from all batteries is directed to a particular location.

I'm don't know what you could do with the resulting pulse but probably nothing good.
> But that's what would happen regardless if the human worker could find another job that pays more than the one being automated. The issue is that the human worker would prefer $5/hour to unemployment, and the employer would prefer a $5/hour employee to automation but prefer automation to an $8/hour employee, so an $8 minimum wage puts the employee on the unemployment line.

Putting people who perform work we can do cheaper with automation on the unemployment line is a side-effect of a good thing. Think of what the first wave of industrialization brought us.

People can now invest time learning skills they're actually needed for, without reducing economic output (and later supplementing it).

> Which is more undignified, working a job supplemented by government assistance or being unemployed and 100% reliant on government assistance?

Honestly? Rather than slaving away at McDonalds working for 7 dollars an hour, effectively kissing the ass of that horrible company, just to receive government aid anyways to get me to the end of the month I'd just not work at all.

At least that way FastFoodChainX can't use me to leech off the government and myself.

Just because you introduce a minimum wage restaurants and junk food chains aren't going to go away. They're gonna get more expensive, sure. But you'll lessen the burden they create on society, as well as raising a class of neglected workers to the point where they can afford to dine at such places themselves.

> Both of those benefit larger entities. Suppose you sell a unit for $100 and your previous unit cost was $80 but with the more expensive materials it's $90.

What's really gonna happen is that it'll now sell for $110. Or probably $115 to cover the advertising for the new "High quality ingredients! Now 95% less poisonous!"
Slack does this as well with API tokens, I believe. If they find them in a commit, they'll automatically revoke them.
Pianos: Beyond the Steinway Monoculture (2015)
"Article 4 (4): ‘profiling’ means any form of automated processing of personal data"

CJEU case law has determined that IP addresses are not considered "personal data" except in certain cases (https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...)

> The CJEU decided that a dynamic IP address will be personal data in the hands of a website operator if:

> 1. there is another party (such as an ISP) that can link the dynamic IP address to the identity of an individual; and

> 2. the website operator has a "legal means" of obtaining access to the information held by the ISP in order to identify the individual.

> On the facts, if the BRD has the legal power to compel the relevant ISP to disclose sufficient information to identify Mr Breyer, then Mr Breyer's IP address will be personal data in the hands of the BRD.

The vast majority of entities do not meet the requirements for #2. Therefore, automatic profiling rules could not apply since the automatic analysis being performed is not against personal data.
There are several good articles discussing ARA:

http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-...

https://ssbg.co.nz/about/media/words-with-meaning-the-import...

https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/fall-2016/d...

For HN comments specifically, you might have read one of these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184472

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9767231

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552107
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

I lead a team to translate the whole book to Vietnamese fifteen years ago as a freshman highschool student, and released it for free online. We beat the printed book publisher by months. I should have gotten into tons of troubles, but everyone was kind enough to not beat me down. I didn't get into any legal troubles partly because people saw the values in doing it, partly because they didn't know what to do with it, partly because we were anonymous later on. The website received so much traffic I couldn't believe. Later on, I wrote an ajax-based site: after loading a very simple skeleton, it would only load plain text on demand afterwards, yet it would quickly saturate any free hosting bandwidth I could get. To put it into perspective, I had several HN front page stories nowadays and I got about 50k unique visitors worldwide a day at best. I got 5k a day just from Vietnam back then.

It was how I knew and met half of all the important people that shaped my early twenties, many of them were writers, translators, poets, reporters. It was an incredible stretch of luck and a huge eye-opening experience to be starting it and seeing how powerful the internet could be and where following a passion could lead me to at that age. I was a college dropout at 19 and an internet celebrity I knew from that incident picked me up and suggested to me that I should look into studying in the US. If not, I would have been typing this in a dark hot corner in Vietnam today.

I wrote a bit in more details about it here: http://www.tnhh.net/posts/Harry-Potter-and-me.html

Archive of the translated book in 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040213105923/http://huanhuu.net... (it was lame)
This is all wrong. Many people receive payments and pay in bitcoin. All without having to trust some centralized oracle that cannot, at the end of the day, be trusted.

Take a look at what is happening in Venezuela with bitcoin, and you will see why your statement is wrong. The fact bitcoin, an open source project, continues to flourish with some of the brightest minds in computer science ten years after its foundation speaks to its core strength: the removal of trust.

I sold an old phone through traditional fiat a few months ago, it took paypal 3 weeks to process my payment. With bitcoin, I could have been paid with in the hour.
Not that I disagree with pretty much all the overall points you make, but I'm really weirded out by Napoleon always being put alongside Hitler in the "agressive conquerors" group. There are plenty of example that would fit, but a man who was fighting defensive wars >90% of the time and mostly ended up conquering because he and his army were better than the others at wars is kind of an odd choice. Even his push on Russia was made defensively since they refused to apply the continental blockade, and the english used the money to fund countries to rise against France. It's especially true since almost every time he tried to turn into the agressor it failed and he didn't conquer anything that way, only when defending.

Also he didn't exactly fit what is usually understood by "dictator that was deposed", he was beloved by the french people, took over by referendum and deposed by the nobilities of the other surrounding countries because they got scared that their own populace would start asking for this whole "meritocracy" thing.

You make a few coalitions with all of europe against a country because they believe their people are all equals, don't be surprised that after a while they try seize control of your resources.
One reason Patanjali products are popular is because they are significantly cheaper than alternatives from Unilever or similar companies. With demonetization in India, middle class is still experiencing cash woes (and have less faith in the government), and will pander to cheaper FMCG alternatives for their daily needs. I believe this company is either going to crash or reduce its operations at some point in the future to remain profitable (unless BJP stays in power for the indefinite future). Either they will have to increase prices (due to raised wages of workers), which will make their products less competitive, or they will have to really spend money on replacing BS products that purportedly contains cow urine and animal remains.
Truly. I studied history in college. Whenever I start to get worked up about the current political climate I remind myself that it is all just a blip on the course of history and someday in the future there will be a similar video and our time will go by in the blink of an eye and that future watcher will care as much about what happened in our days as I care about what happened to the people of 400BC.
It's NOT about stopping them from doing business, it's about businesses taking personal data more serious.

E.g. the right to be forgotten, EU has it US doesn't. sanctions when you forget to disclose a massive data-leak on your private escort website? $0 in the US, hopefully very expensive in the EU. Your nemesis publishes lies on the net? EU helps you have that deleted. Your supermarket tracks your shopping and knows you are pregnant before you do (this happened in the UK!), won't happen anymore in the EU. Shady Sunshine Ltd bought your email address and purchase data to spam you, bad and expensive for them. facebook won't allow you to continue unless you agree to face-recognition? This might be the first case in courts.

Wait and see for the good sides once the panic has quieted down.