skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if we needed more reasons to not eat seafood. Oceans are too contaminated, especially that part of the world.
Disregard of labor regulations and property rights, as well as cheap labor.
It hinders nothing. It ensures that what you're with user data doing is truly voluntary and that your users really are 'willing and eager" about it beyond you pinky-swearing you'll be good with what you're given.

Be annoyed all you want, the only people whining about the GDPR are those showing their true colors when it comes to user privacy and agency. If you're complaining that it hinders you from using user data as you please, that's precisely the point.
I did not make a throwaway account “just to tell someone off”, and you could’ve figured that out in 5 seconds by looking at my comment history.
Things like Newton's Laws are, in a strict technical sense, not true. We still use them because they are very nearly true. But, strictly, they are approximations of something more fundamental. That extends to a great number of very intelligent figures of the past who described reality as they saw it but, in the end, turned out not to have sufficient measuring technology to be as correct as we would understand it now.

It is an extremely reasonable position that large swathes of what we believe today is also going to be wrong in this sense. For example, the great debate about whether reality is discrete or continuous (currently I think the evidence is discrete, but philosophically maybe we are a simulation run in a continuous universe).

We should try and work to the current state of knowledge of the researchers, but we all know that there is a high risk of something big and impressive being discovered that changes the name of the game, like when they split the atom. We just don't know what happens next.

Our understanding of consciousness also depends on who controls the dictionary and defines consciousness and surrounding terms.
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Maybe the mussels saw a gap in the market and decided to start producing it.
Funny that that site announces it's using cookies in a pop-up that blocks much of the text before a click, per another EU reg.

Not that we got the best UX from that one, where I'm constantly reminded cookies are a thing, via a large blocking box requiring user interaction, like a pop-up ad for something I already know and can totally control on my end.

There's a saying about how internet considers censorship damage and routes around it? Maybe better: the internet considers regulations information, and anycasts them, regardless of their quality.

China's a bit of a counterexample. Maybe the firewall is bidirectional, keeps democracy out and censorship in?

Maybe that's the endgame, balkanization. Some people will get to live under paternalistic maximalism, some under authoritarians hunting dissidents, some under anarchocapitalism, all dystopias in their own special way. And some of us will flee to Tor and .onion sites and encrypted signatures where we manage our own privacy and prevent third parties from auditing our communications.

Edit, "brevity."
There is nothing non-compliant about that. You seem to misunderstand essential vs. data hoarding for advertisement purposes. If you were to keep that data forever, sell it to third parties or profile users based on that logging data, not tell them about it, then yeah, you'd be violating the GDPR.

For normal operation system logging is pretty much a requirement for essential operation. That includes most properties of a connection like IP, UA, date, time, URI etc.
Good point. Here I was thinking I stumbled onto something novel...
Can you please tell me who you work for so I can avoid using you?

I don't actually want to be profitable for you if I'm not paying for the service.
It seems like they've been struggling with cold things a bit. I've been ordering the same gummy vitamins off of Amazon for years, but apparently they won't ship them to me until October due to the climate where I live (it's 65 degrees today which is actually less than than the average high temp in October)

>You're subscribed to a heat-sensitive product that we're unable to ship during the summer. Your subscription for the following item has been placed on hold and will automatically resume shipping in October:
1. when you open a restaurant nobody cares you're a collage student. You have to have all the checks and permits to serve people food. It's not because somebody hates small businesses, it's because the right not to be poisoned is more important than the right to do business hassle-free. Why should internet be different?

2. Fuck your souvereignty. Seriously. USA has no problem violating secrecy of correspondency worldwide, and argues in length for years whether wiretapping its citizens is OK, because everybody agrees wiretapping others is perfectly fine. USA forces poor half of the world to follow ridiculous copyright law, including software patents and art becoming public domain after a century or more. There's no good will earned there, so don't expect a free pass cause of your feelings. Want to serve customers from other countries - have to obey the law there.

3. they probably could. Still - I'm sure there will be "GDPR as a service" soon. Maybe some libraries, frameworks and standards how to handle personal data will finally be created? This should have been done decades ago.
>There's is a lot of implicit contracts (you filled up our sign up form? Well, then you chose to give us your data. ...) //

AIUI that's one of the main changes, that explicit consent is now needed to retain data and specific details of how it will be secured, who it might be passed to, must be given. Also that if the service being offered doesn't need the data, that the company offering the service can't insist on having it.

It is a big thing for micro-businesses and SMEs in the UK - despite having data protection laws already - it does change the complexion of how one handles PII and the embedded assumptions. We're talking about businesses many of whom have paper bookings diaries - the diary apparently needs to now be secured, whilst it's always sat on the counter before; that's a costly structural/workflow change (unlock the diary for every phone call!).
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Even poor people are forced to own cars because the whole cityscape is designed with that assumption, so they have to shell out thousands of dollars they could've used on food or other niceties, to buy a barely functioning vehicle that costs them more money and time to repair constantly.
Too late for some! When trying to kick opiods, I recommend cannabis. Any narcotic works wonders through opioid withdrawal, and cannabis is so safe.

Although you might become 'addicted', it's easier than controlling opioid intake.
I’m surprised the chemicals don’t quickly break down in the salty sea water. Do ocean environments affect half-life of pharmaceuticals differently?
Ghostery sends GDPR email exposing 500 addresses on CC
If this is the case, then being transparent about it is a good policy. I hope your employer is committing to compliance publicly and apologizing to its customers for the delay.
Hopefully, these actions will spawn european competitors that will eventually take over the market. If you're ignorant and don't care about privacy, you do not deserve better.
I'm not sure what you are comparing it to. I think there are a lot of worse sources.
Count the overpasses on I-5 when you plan to widen it. I
think that when self-driving cars become typical (say, >50%
of freeway traffic) that alternating 2 & 3 lanes and
exploiting them with platoons of SDCs may become feasible.
Actually this has been a big problem in the cryptocurrency space. It's entirely too onerous to comply with the rather extreme regulations in the finance space so exchanges had to ignore them for the longest time. Some exchanges even have to move countries because it would be nearly impossible to operate "legally". Yet their services are still needed and if they didn't have this freedom and flexibility then the cryptocurrency space might not have had the tools it needed to grow and innovate.
If I want to service a small group of people with, say, a nuclear power plant, and those people are willing and eager to just go with it without any bs or roles, then it should be possible. When you make it prohibitive to handle hazardous materials, then you've done something wrong.
You already described far more work than I'm willing to do for the small web site I happen to host. If there's a simple geoblocking switch I'd much rather flip the switch and block Europe than continuously worry that I didn't dot every 'i' and cross every 't' to make some obscure European regulator happy.
it's task sanity checking.

is the task description ambiguous? then estimates will be all over the place, so you'll know you need to spend more time on specifying the task.

and risk minimalization. if the estimated complexity is above some threshold, you need to break down the task.

to get a time estimate you use the historic burn down rate (average story points per sprint completed/delivered)

but it's not something you can do up front.
tl;dr https://ibb.co/iEPiao
Thanks for the example, it does motivate it a bit better when there are more complicated (but still relatively simple) causal relationships.
So which parts of the GDPR do you actually disagree with in case of this XMPP service? Mostly you need to tell people what you collect, allow removing accounts and history, and tell them if you're sending the data to third-parties. If you're running a private service you most likely already fulfill those requirements. Where's the annoyance?
With the DMCA, if a US judge determines that a foreign company has broken the law, and someone associated with the company ever visits the US, that person is at a high risk of being orange-jump-suited in a barbaric punishment system.

It's been this way for nearly 20 years.
That characterization seems hilariously disconnected from the facts, which are that DARPA kick-started autonomous vehicles more than fifteen years ago with millions in government money, and that the vast majority of development of such vehicles has occurred on public roads, mostly in California. The parts that have been developed off-road have been done at an old Air Force base, and if you want to argue that facility is privately funded that will only make your argument sound even more dumb.
It is extravagant and ludicrous to claim that the signal of human influence (CO2 ppm?) on the climate is magnitudes higher than that of the Milankovitch cycles -- which have been driving the regular glaciations and interglacials over the last 3 million years.
Of course it will work! That's the point: remove the wifi card and use a USB dongle instead. Practically every laptop featuring a Broadwell or later CPU will work.
EU laws can be ignored. Block 'em!

Maybe someday they will learn?
you can build a functional car, but you can’t put it on the road. you can build a functional mvp, but you can’t make it available as saas to users.

you can drive your unsafe car on the track, and your negligent mvp on your customers own hardware as in-house software.
If your not big enough to be a bully and you try—you're gonna have a bad time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17157649
So the defaults will be changed.

It's called software cause it can be changed easily.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154175
US environmental regulations tend to spell out technical requirements, particularly around emissions.

I would have been happier if they'd done something around setting up an administrative body that authors and updated regs.
We are not going to go looking through compressed archives and snapshots for your data. We are not going to run routines on immutable logs to filter out all trace of your history. We are not going to check CSV files used for imports. We are not going to track down any third parties who may have shared our data. We are not going to retrain neural networks on a new dataset that excludes your data. We are not going to move heaven and earth for a user who decides it'd be clever to demand all his data be deleted after reading a couple articles on Medium. We don't care how European you are.

What we can do, is set a little deleted flag on your profile to treat you as "deleted".
Kanban + someone technical who understands critical path bottlenecks and prioritizes those tasks so others can keep chugging along in parallel.
Dishwashers don't currently handle solid waste well; instead of composting the non-liquid material it's all flushed down the drain, which is both bad for the drain (that grease adds up!) and a loss of the composting that would occur when you manually scrape off a dish.
They also travel to see places and experience nature, because you don't have to be rich to go to a National Park, for example. Showing one's children what the world outside of <town> looks like is not an inherently unaffordable activity (although it certainly is more available to people with money, and on a different scale).
Dealing with laws is hard. Dealing with laws that aren't even from your country is very hard.

When you're in "move fast and break things" mode, getting stuff working for SOME users is better than having a complete solution for all users that come much later. It's not even just about ignoring Europeans. A lot of these products and software solutions start "only available in California", or hell, only in SF. That's even true for some stuff from big companies like Amazon.

Then as you grow, you can start tackling more barriers and regulations from other countries. I mean, there's plenty of companies that won't ship to my address because they don't do business with the US. Or when I lived in Quebec, I could not participate to a lot of contests because it wasn't worth it for these entities to deal with Quebec's gambling laws. That's ok.

Even if you agree with the general idea of GDPR, even if you want to implement the tightest privacy rules you can't in your software, there's more to it than that. I've watched lawyers duke it out over some of the details. My employer takes GDPR very seriously and we've done everything in our power to comply, not just with the letter, but also with the spirit of the law. But we're big, we have money, and we're actively trying to grow internationally. 10+ years ago when the company was barely afloat? I'm not sure they would have been able to deal with the fine prints even if they wanted to.

There's more to GDPR than sending a silly email and adding a "Delete all the things!" button.
I wouldn't want to confuse popularity with quality.

Reality shows and daytime television are popular, that doesn't make them the best version of the art form.

HN flies a little under the radar. I don't think that's a failing.
I can't vote for the executives of the newspapers here in the U.S. (that right is held by the board members of each of those companies). You can vote for your EU parliament representatives. If there's things you don't like about the law you and your fellow citizens have the chance to change it.
>1) A College student working on a side project with no revenue are treated the same as some massive multi-national.

If the side project uses personal user data, then there is no reason to treat them differently.
that's bollocks, and I phrased it nicely.

every pm methodology talks about getting to know the problem domain, risk minimalization (start with the riskiest assumption, do a minmax check on it, the pivot to the next riskiest, and so on).

selecting the right tool for the job is an inherent part of the process.
What about long term human survival? Without technology, spreading into space would be impossible.
Ok, so how do you explain this one then?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17154175

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17157649

Both posts are ~6 hours apart, each one has a decent number of points and comments, and each one points to the exact same url.
> where you can't add trailing commas to calls and signatures containing args and kwargs

I think that's signature only. You don't have problems with calls:

$ python3.5
Python 3.5.5 (default, May 17 2018, 07:04:26)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def foo(*args, **kwargs):
... print(*args, **kwargs)
...
>>> foo(
... 'abc',
... )
abc
>>>

The argument black made about not adding trailing comma is also quite unconvincing to me:

> Unnecessary trailing commas are removed if an expression fits in one line. This makes it 1% more likely that your line won't exceed the allotted line length limit. Moreover, in this scenario, if you added another argument to your call, you'd probably fit it in the same line anyway. That doesn't make diffs any larger.

Who cares about the 1% chance of not exceeding the line length limit? If you really care about that, use one-per-line style, not all arguments in one new line.
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Speaking of disconnected from reality, you seem to be claiming that poor people travel, which they don't. In yet another example of American inequality, the bottom income quartile of families are quite stationary; they can neither afford to move about nor do they have "days off" as such because an American is not legally entitled to any.

The supermajority of American families cannot even afford an unexpected $500 expense; they sure as hell aren't going to blow hundreds to drive to LA.
Could this have planets?

Well not planets, but my question is more general - could a star moving this quickly have a planetary system - obviously this one would not if it got shot out of a supernova.
Has there been progress in art?
to be fair though uber also has thousands and thousands of unsafely driven cars on the road that we have no problem with; humans are bad at controlling heavy rolling fast motorised steel boxes
> UK/EU is such a hard place to conduct business

is it though? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index#R...

USA is 3 positions behind Denmark which is in EU, and just one ahead of UK.
Wow, I didn't realize that makes it four very good books that Kernighan has been involved with: The C Programming Language (by Kernighan and Ritchie), The Unix Programming Environment (by Kernighan and Pike), The AWK Programming Language and The Go Programming Language. I have three of the books in hard copy (and had the first two books for years, in fact, bought multiple copies, because the earlier ones wore out); the only one I do not have is the AWK book. Along with many others, I think they are (all the ones I have read) great examples of technical writing. I've conducted training for customers using the first two books (on C programming and Unix respectively), and once got a present (a quartz wall clock) from one customer (a large public sector Indian company) whose participants thought I conducted the training well. I still have the clock.
Thank you for the citation; this is an interesting and useful discussion.

The contract that Facebook has with its users is not merely to serve as their social media platform. The contract includes personalized advertising.

Facebook, in the terms of their contract with you, give you X in exchange for Y. X is the social media platform. Y is personalized advertising. This is the contract. AFAICT from the GDPR, they don't specify boundaries for the terms of the contract itself, do they?

The ICO talks at length about what it means for processing to be "necessary" for the purpose of fulfilling a contract. But it doesn't state what the boundaries are as far as what constitute legitimate contracts.

For example, this would be a valid contract under the GDPR, AFAICT:

I offer to make you free sandwiches in exchange for you telling me some personal information about you and targeting you with advertisements while you're my sandwich shop or elsewhere; and I provide you an ability to revoke this contract at any time (and whereupon I will delete the data I've collected). Of course, this means you don't get free sandwiches anymore. This would not be an illegal contract under the GDPR, AFAICT.

Now, if my contract were just "I'm going to give you free sandwiches." Then yes, collecting data and advertising would not be necessary for that contract. But that isn't the contract.
When I started a software dev contract in a Southern California high-rise, I had to undergo 2 hours of earthquake safety training before I could start working.

I think it would be unusual for any Bay Area employer to require any earthquake safety procedures, despite a far higher potential for risk to life and limb.

Very few buildings will collapse in a Bay Area earthquake, but the number is not zero. Far more will be "damaged" and that may still involve plenty of lives lost.

San Francisco I'm not as worried about- the east bay and parts of the peninsula (esp. Foster City) would concern me more.

Best link I've found:
http://gis.abag.ca.gov/website/Hazards/?hlyr=liqSusceptibili...
>no one healthy or smart wants to be a politician

This is probably more true on the national level than on the state and local level. Plenty of people get involved at the local levels because they see problems with their community that government could fix. Given that many national politicians started as state and local politicians, one would think at least some of them started with a good moral system
spoiler alert: he dies
A large number of tech-inclined americans believe that you're a commumist if you don't consider Ayn Rand to be 'a bit left wing'
Selective breeding isn't genetic engineering though. GMO is used when genes from a species are inserted into another, not for strains that are produced through artificial selection of organisms with desirable traits.
The film begins with government agents unearthing a refrigerator from the Nevada desert; the only known conveyance to have successfully protected a protagonist from the full brunt of a nuclear explosion.
GDPR is simply a response to abusive behavior. May not be the best response, but it was about time.

Then, it is surprising to me that Americans are against a national id card, but are not OK with a privacy protection law.
I think you misunderstand it.

Google generates money not by collecting data but by showing targeted ads (they need personal information to do good job at targeting).

They actually do provide option to opt out, remove information about you but they make a quite a hassle to opt out and block features that could otherwise work, to encourage you to opt back in. For example you don't agree for Google to your location history? Fine, you don't have location history in Google Maps even for places you searched 5 seconds ago.

Anyway, to turn things around, yes they provide you services for free, and you're paying for using them by have targeted ads, if you decide to not use those services anymore you can't get an offline version of their tools that doesn't phone home, so why should they be allowed to keep your data in perpetuity?
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>How do I know if a vendor is compliant? //

Did they ask for explicit permission to use your data? Do they provide the service if you only provide the data they actually need, rather than asking for a swathe of PII so they can sell it on? Do they provide info on how your data is stored, and who has access to it? Do they provide a way for you to view and/or delete all the PII they have on you?