skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However we still don't understand allergies, autoimmune disorders, or nutrition well. On top of that, there's the whole field of gut bacteria that we're just starting to take seriously.

People shouldn't be downvoting you. That's a very important point. There shouldn't be knee-jerk reactions in either direction. (GMOs in general, not the rice.)

Here's an example of how little humans know about how vitamins work: if you give smokers beta carotene in supplement form, it increases their chance of lung cancer, even though in food form it reduces it.[1][2]

[1] http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/dangers-be...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15572756
If you notice the red brick circles in various intersections around the city. One of the problems with the fires after a quake is that running water may not work anymore, so they installed these cisterns filled with water to try to make sure firefighting water was available if needed.
Bad idea. Maybe for journalists on a deadline (and there's a plethora of that already).

Instead, publish what you believe is solid, worth the effort to read, and has lasting value ... for at least a small audience.

You have to be the jaded editor missing from the loop. There's plenty of verbal clutter in the world.
The valuable lesson from NPM about package management is that everything on the web is ephemeral. If you don't have it locally it might as well not exist.
We distrust both but only one has a monopoly on violence that can be pointed in our direction at any time.
At this point Seattle is a fairly crummy city in a fairly nice location. The region and climate are nice but the traffic is hell, the crime is bad and the housing costs are astronomical. The tech salaries are high, but it doesn't make up for the otherwise poor quality of life.
All (or most?) of the big European car manufacturers in Europe provide and actively research self-driving technology. Volkswagen's research budget is five times as large (iirc correctly) as Tesla's.

You are succumbing to a lot of stereotypes here, which I might add is fuelled by a cargo cult tendency within Silicon Valley.
Regular database backups are a bad practice?
That's a distinction without a difference. What do the methods matter? It's the end result that counts.
> especially given said rule is incredibly vague and designed to be applied "on principle".

You know, I'm starting to feel that at least some of this contention is based on how Americans interpret the law vs. how Europeans do it. Somehow it seems that Americans (and the UK) has this huge legal corpus but everything has to be nitpicked to the letter, or the common law judges' interpretations may vary wildly, and some people might skate on technicalities, i.e. abuse of the letter of the law.

Whereas in civil law, which the EU is, there's less leeway for interpretation, however, the spirit of the law is also taken into account.
European car companies sell identical technology to Tesla, it's just they call it lane assist (accurately), not autopilot.
Past invoices will have names and addresses, will you shred them? Don't you need them to file taxes?
Can Your Smart Switch Disclose Your Physical Location?
No, you see, if it's not a startup, it cannot be innovative.
So you work for a big company like Canonical. Glad to know you guys always get it right:

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/canonical-warns-2m-users-of-p...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/hack-...
> Selective breeding doesn't create fundamentally new organisms like transgenic GMOs,

Yes, selective breeding (both artificial and natural selection) create fundamentally new organisms.
If I go home and write in my diary that today hekfu bought lots of broccoli, you don't have the right to come to me in five years and demand that I remove all mention of you from my diary at my own cost.

I asked this question in a comment [1] here on HN a few weeks ago. There were affirmative responses that yes, the shopkeeper should in fact be held to account for keeping notes on who came into his store.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16509598
Yes we're between 5th [0] and 7th [1] depending on the measure, which is think is appropriate. Most of the places I'd rather live globally are more expensive [2].

[0]: https://nested.com/research/rental/2017/us/all

[1]: https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/real-estate/T006-S001-mo...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/admin/1000000054865...
That is incorrect. GMOs are not necessarily any more fundamentally new than hybrids and mutated strains produced through other techniques.
Twitter was bigger but they don’t run on Rails anymore where I gather AirBNB does.
GeoIP-based blocking, plus some techniques to detect VPN users, end up being fairly (but not 100%) effective at detecting foreign users. There's no need for DRM in the video file if you prevent most people from accessing it in the first place.
TBH location tracking is the most sensitive PII I've seen anywhere, and plenty of 1 man shops are doing it. It takes like 100 lines of code.
Then why is the US FDA approving it? Nowhere in this article does it say this won't be sold in America.
I thought this same thing. Figuring out who/when to tarpit might be a little tricky, but here's the basic approach for a Debian system via iptables: https://sysadminblog.net/2013/08/debian-iptables-tarpit/
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. It's the Facebook Way™ and the dream for all those soon to be failed startups.

Funny how that works...
I’m not sure that delete=1 is a good idea, because you’re still mutating database records. But, it’s often lot cleaner conceptually to model state as an append-only log of assertions and retractions or via a log-structured system, where you never delete old records but just push a new index record that leaves the appropriate record out.
The Biggest Trap to Avoid When Chasing “Success” or “Happiness”
I agree that a few more sample questions/answers would be useful.
Are you using the optional types in Python? Plenty of people (i.e. most) are using non-functional languages in production. There are probably many best practices you could adopt to cut down your bug count without throwing away your code base.
Many of these people would happily give their government the power to wipe your memory if the technology to do so existed. It's insane.
I liked the story of the interstellar traders, who had a device to set off a nova, in order to ride a light sail to the next star.
I hate to toss in a commonplace, but can’t anyone here play this game?
HN has been overrun by MBAs a long time ago
Well, either that or the cost of complying isn’t worth the lost business. It doesn’t need to be shady, that would be a pure business decision.
"but I would like it a lot better if it said that in the actual law"

Have you read the bloody law! http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...

This is legislation designed to protect not only me (as an individual) but you as well (as a probable foreigner) from me!
Maybe it shouldn't, maybe other cultivar species should be regulated much more thoroughly.
Omg horses are more efficient than most cars...?!?!
> GMOs are not necessarily any more fundamentally new than hybrids and mutated strains produced through other techniques.

"Not necessarily" but sometimes.
Make it useless to even try. Don’t make it easy to detect when someone has burned through an ip - they’ll just pick the next up in the proxy list they bought. Make it so after 100 unsuccessful attempts, flag the ip and only allow it to log into accounts they’ve already logged into before (to stop them from using a real account to detect if they’ve been banned.) don’t say “you’ve been banned” - just shadowban the IP and always fail the auth. After a while they will notice but not after a ton of attempts
The Old Robots
Apple adds TRON [TRX] pricing to its Stocks listings
I thought of another way to express this that might resonate better.

What I like about the Black philosophy is that it wants to make code style _uninteresting_. People should think about other things, not formatting. That's a great goal. So it seems to me that the best style choice is the most _boring_ choice. The least creative, least novel way. It should try to avoid inventing new formatting algorithms.

What's the most boring way to format a string literal?

The way the language already does it. The way every Python programmer has already seen string literals formatted from the very first day they started typing things into a Python interpreter.

Even if half of us liked single-quotes and half of us liked double-quotes, you can guarantee that every Python programmer on the planet has seen and lived with strings that are formatted the repr() way, including the double-quote fans. You can't guarantee the opposite.

No one could fault you for doing it the repr() way. Blame Guido :) he made that choice decades ago, and everyone has already had to make their peace with it. It's a solved problem. For anyone writing a program that emits Python code, it's the default way to format a string. It's the least assailable option, and that's a good thing.

How does that sit with you?
While the GDPR allows for third party litigation, the violations are expected to be handled though relevant data protection authorities, and direct litigation is a last recourse if all else fails. If you haven't tried and failed to resolve your GDPR complaint through the relevant authorities, you'll be laughed out of the court, if you try to bring a GDPR case to it.

Edit: any replies instead of just downvotes? Yes, it isn't spelled out entirely in the GDPR but it isn't operating in an empty place. The civil law systems of most of EU have certain assumptions in place, like that you will first try to find recourse through proper avenues, and only then try direct litigation. If anything, you might actually try to sue the data protection authority for mishandling your case.
Huh. Didn't think HN would be the place to find anti science sentiments.

Seeing a lot of antivaxxer type logic being employed here in the comments.
You should trick them into thinking they have valid credentials for all their login attempts since it will devalue their dumps which they are likely selling. Most dark actors are highly specialized and these guys are likely selling what they find.
That just emphasises how worthless it would be to spend effort to make sure we're compliant with GDPR. We have better things to do.
And the third amendment:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Ask HN: Where to find a developer job?
I have decent coding skills, some stuff on github, and built part of my company's test automation platform. I've never, officially, been a developer, though.

Where do I look?
I’ve wanted to do the same kind of thing. My business partner who handles the backend, and may be more sensible than me, suggests not wasting my time. Hanging onto the socket is potentially DOSing yourself. You could have a server for it, but it’s a server you could be using for other things. In the bigger picture, spending time on this is a form of DOSing yourself. You could be working on features or customer service or spending time away from work or, perhaps, implementing two factor auth for customers, if you don’t already have it. As much fun as it still sounds to me, I think my co-founder’s advice is best: do make sure you’re locked down but don’t try to get them back, since it’s time & resource consuming, and not very likely to work anyway.
Doesn't point (d) apply equally to organizations of all sizes?
They had other issues earlier this week too. Doesn't help that their status page hasn't been updated in a year :D https://twitter.com/trentbillington/status/99882216803616768....
Existing laws and accounting standards still take precedence over GDPR. Past invoices and accounting entries remain as they are.
Log them in. Give them the data they want but make it false. They think it's working and mark those passwords as good but they don't know otherwise. Now they have no idea if they're really good or bad and they have to verify with multiple other attempts somewhere else.
You are right. Not to mention this gives a huge advantage to big players like Facebook and Google. They can screw small guys by pointing out violations.

EU member countries should consider getting out of this bureaucracy.
Quick way to get lots of IPs by crowd sourcing frameworks usually used for app testing and QA
It is utterly remarkable that the same people who earnestly believe humanity will establish a colony on Mars also think it’s impossible to properly handle PII.
Using Apollo Server with the Serverless Framework
including targeted advertising campaigns?
I think it's more likely that other countries will adopt similar data protection rules (and they should).
> I do not give a damn whether you're soft-deleting or hard-deleting my IP address and my user account

You don't give a damn; neither do those computer illiterate people who use the same email address and password for everything, and one leak of some shitty inconsequential website may obliterate their entire online presence.
> Black would sometimes change its mind about its own formatting and a second pass would cause a different formatting than the first

Why not? I mean, I never built a formatter so idk about the complexity involved, but to me it seems that if Black had a rule like "if you see `a+b` (no spaces), just leave it alone", applying the rule twice shouldn't change anything.

(though I imagine that the interactions of such rules could become hard to understand...)
Ghostery Celebrates GDPR Day by Revealing Hundreds of User Email Addresses
I lived in Seattle for three years, and I just moved away two months ago.
im so surprised companies are doing this, but also not at the same time. shocker.
No, the idea is to taint anti-GMO activists with the accusation that they're killing third world children so that other, more profitable GMOs can be fed to fat Americans. Golden rice is so utterly incapable of actually solving vitamin A deficiency that even the IRRI have given up pretending that it can (notice how the article describes it as "a complementary, food-based solution to existing nutritional interventions, such as diet diversification and oral supplementation" - a working oral supplementation program is effective without any complementary solution and is much cheaper).

To give some idea of how fundamentally absurd an approach this is, two 5-cent capsules of vitamin A a year are sufficient to prevent vitamin A deficiency in kids, whereas as far as I can tell replacing all the rice eaten in countries whose poor populations are almost entirely dependent on rice with the most modern, improved varieties of golden rice still wouldn't achieve this. (Oh, and by the way it inherently has worse yields than the varieties it's based on, so that golden rice will be more expensive too.)

Even if it worked, the licensing issues made it undeployable in practice. There's a free license to certain third-world countries that GMO proponents like to wave in the face of opponents, but that's basically all it's useful for - due to a one-two punch of requiring the rice to be grown in the country it's sold in and only licensing countries that can't grow enough rice to feed their population (almost all of which can't grow rice at all), it cannot be used for any kind of meaningful deployment of the tech. Despite the complete and utter lack of any profitable commercial market for golden rice, the GMO industry couldn't bear to actually give up the possibility that they could somehow make money from starving third world kids.
Yes, indeed I have. But if there's something I've missed, I'd surely appreciate a quote or specific reference.
"This is a silly and downright crude comment" - easy mate. My ISO 27001 docs are a bit dry as well and I wrote the bloody things as well as the sob ISO 9001 ones.

In my opinion you absolutely hit the nail on the head with this:

"If you own a business, the cost of reading this document is about 2 days"
> your random small useless app/blog/game/forum that has some personally identifiable but harmless and unimportant data

Unimportant like your email address and your one password you're reusing everywhere? Yes, they should know better but that's neither here nor there.
How would EU enforce laws on your business there, if you don't have any representation in the EU?
It's like cocaine being on most bills. Headline is true but misleading readers.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drug-money-2/
What if "a special value" == NULL?
I took a class [0] with Nick Montfort this past semester that covered a lot of the history behind computational poetry. Might be worth looking at yourself. You can see some of the work I created here [1].

[0] http://nickm.com/classes/the_word_made_digital/2018_spring/
[1] http://freezine.xyz/montfort/
Keep in mind, though, that I mentioned incremental value, though maybe what I meant was marginal?

I do agree that NF's business model can't really be compared to that of a gym, with a goal of maximizing subscribers that (eventually) don't use the service at all.

One of the big mysteries is how good a deal did they got for that outsourced delivery infrastructure, as well as how much of it is metered (and how) versus flat-rate.
PII is a hazardous material, and it should be regulated like other hazardous materials, for obvious reasons.
I love the retro "3 1/2 Floppy (A:)" in the file chooser. Nice touch.

Or was it really that long ago?!?
Many people have already and continue to try his experiment, and indeed work hard on scaling up the problems that his method is applied to.

That’s part of the problem. It was offered up as a “miracle” that supersedes and fully, logically subsumes the hard fought and real-world tested methods of others, who rightfully weren’t going to advocate the use of some other, unproven thing claimed to be a cure-all, yet they still did engage heavily with it and worked through the math and agreed with derivations for simple models under various collections of assumptions.

I’m still not seeing anything convincing. Pearl’s tone is not polite or even quirky, and strays badly from any measure of humility or collaborative spirit of inquiry. Really. I mean, sure, he’s not coming out dropping f-bombs, but that’s utterly not the point. Trying to justify it as if it’s a diplomatic and earnest request is silly. “Hey, your career’s worth of work is totally wrong. Here look, my work completely supersedes yours because I worked through some canonical, highly academic cases. But I’m being fair & balanced about it, I swear!”

And then when folks did look into it and still felt unconvinced, “I guess you’re just dogmatic & closed minded. I offered to look into it with you, but you ignored me.”
It's because your comment belies your understanding of the article and the nature of the announcement. It makes no sense to compare AWS ECS in it's entirety to the rollout of containerd. The correct comparison in your case would be with Kubernetes Engine against ECS.
Kiwi scientist calls out Elon Musk's 'bullshit'
A lot of people are judgemental about it though. The idea that everyone there has cooties is pretty deeply entrenched.

As far as Whole Foods goes, it has some specialty stuff you can't get elsewhere easily, but as a main grocery store the selection is small and the prices are high.
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Head of Demand Generation in San Francisco
This. Honeypot with fake data once you're sure they are a bad actor. That will reduce their value as a provider of data.

It's fairly easy to create fake, but checksum compliant credit cards.
I'm not sure how the GDPR fixes anything, since those people aren't going to be capable of finding the hidden "delete account" button five pages into a big tech company's byzantine privacy settings.
How much more thoroughly? Golden rice has been going through clinical trials for almost a decade now. When do we decide it's safe? Fifty years? Two hundred?

Or never, because it's not really about "enough testing", it's about a kneejerk reaction to an unfamiliar process.
Look at it this way: The service you're using needs a privacy policy, that is not new. The way that policy is organized or shared is no different now, just what rights the user and what obligations the service provider has.
I tend to agree with you, but Seattle is in a state with 0% income tax, so just because the city’s taxes are rising doesn’t mean they’re net higher than other large cities.
I’m not confident in anything I’ve written ever to have it picked apart by a team of expert witness programmers. Maybe that means I have no business working at a startup. Maybe we should think about the implications of that.
Sometimes a fragmented market just means everyone has the same problem and nobody can solve it profitably at a price that works for most. Then things just suck for everyone.

Which is to say that you could be right! Absolutely and completely! Or you could be really wrong. Time will tell. The economic history of protectionism could be read by some to provide some clues, though.
I think that to the hardcore GDPR fans that you're arguing with, this is like asking if we should let someone who is interested in structural engineering go build a skyscraper and figure it out as they go. Or someone who is interested in medicine start doing brain surgery on people.

They don't really agree that all PII is not the same. To them, storing their IP address without permission is a horrific violation of their human rights.

It strikes me personally as illogical and paranoid to the point of hysteria. However, that's just me, and at the end of the day, I think there's a cultural divide here as to what constitutes privacy, who owns what data, and what power we should trust the government with.
Look at the cavalier attitude people have with their data until now. Do you really think starting today every one of them is going to start caring and requesting full deletes everywhere?

Maybe a percentage will be better educated, and actually request data deletion here and there, sometimes but I don't thing anything is going to massively change in general customer behavior. The GDPR just gives the means to those who really want to control their data (which were there before, by the way, just not really enforced. Now that there's a number figure to the possible fine, now is everyone paying attention.)
No, read again.
In what sense is good code subtler than good management? I would have serious the reverse if anything.
I meant the first versions of it at least: https://www.quora.com/Skype-product/What-programming-languag...
Safari on iPhone in private browsing seem to work here..
> My biggest fear is that all of these complex bureaucratic laws are just raising the bar for doing a startup.

A senior executive at a large bank once told me "that's the idea!". Specifically, complex and onerous regulation makes it a lot harder for upstarts and, while costly for large established players, they can bear it.
Protip: you can ignore the GDPR and get away with it if your business is located somewhere that the GDPR has a snowball's chance in hell of being enforced. For example, America
I was just about to mention Montfort myself! His Trope Tank lab at MIT is a place of total techno-literary bliss: http://nickm.com/trope_tank/
The more creative the solution, the more the script kiddie will enjoy defeating it. You avoid a bully or you punch them in the nose. Never play games with them.
"The answer to “How do you handle...” is that you get your shit together."

Yes it is
Yes, and Texas also has no state income tax. Both are friendly places to small business.
ImageSharp Beta4 Released
Love Spacy, thanks for working on it.

This is a giant corporation getting academics to build software in a lab. I hope it's good, but I've usually seen it doesn't end up being much.
A simple example: another law requires it.
I'm guessing you're hinting at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? It's not well-known or well-regarded in the US.