skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By all means, use oxy if you need it. But please consider trying alternatives first so you can avoid addiction.

An amusing anecdote that I hope doesn't make light of your suffering... I once had some severe pain from a pinched nerve, and my doctor prescribed Oxy. I tried one pill at bedtime to help me get to sleep. It was when we were just beginning to hear about how dangerous that stuff is, and I was worried about it.

Then my wife said to me: "You're not having any alcohol with that stuff, are you?" Shit. I realized that a good stiff drink would probably have put me to sleep too. So I asked her to get me a bottle of whisky, and I flushed the Oxy. My pain went away about the same time I ran out of whisky.
Paris’s rent doesn’t include the (train/métro) suburbs, where 80% of the people live. It’s a very different market than the Bay Area.
Those groups don't get to keep the fine money? What is with all the disinformation about people sueing companies for GPDR violations like it's a civil court issue and one side gets damages?

People can refer an issue to the regulators claiming that the GPDR has been violated. The regulators will determine if they believe the regulations have been violated and whether it's a large enough violation to enforce. If fines are levied they go to the government and are intended to be punitive, hence the percentage of revenue as the max fine so that you can't just ignore the regulation by being rich.

No individual or group other than the government is going to make money off of this, and the government has to balance the loss in taxes and cost to enforce against any gain from a fine.

This whole kerfuffle about the GPDR has just shown that american companies will lose their fucking mind if they have to follow anyone else's rules and can't just lobby the US government to force their laws on everyone else.
And therefore saving the data is allowed.
What you have posted is a link to a second-hand opinion piece that was copied from an old Tripod site.

Here's a peer-reviewed journal article that provides real data:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682994/

Note that they found that a) Vitamin A is readily absorbed from the golden rice and b) their estimate is that 50 grams of golden rice per day would be sufficient to provide the RDA for a child.
You are right that I should have included a qualifier in that statement that it is not 100% funded by private business but that percentage is probably pretty close. Yes, DARPA got things moving but like you said their investment was in the millions. Google, Uber, Tesla, GM, etc have invested billions into the tech. Once again if this is a question of the effectiveness of the money spent, DARPA's investment in driverless tech greatly exceeds the potential of billions being spent on high speed rail.
A later golden rice has a bit more than 20x the beta carotene.

So like 100 grams of rice by dry weight, a modest single serving (300 or 400 calories).
To be fair, part of this is natural and seasonal. Most of natural marine biotoxins are seasonal and the department of health tests regularly. I don't know to what extent the biotoxins are affected by pollution (e.g., fertilizer runoff), but they are a natural occurrence.

Separately, they also have permanently closed the tidelands near Seattle due to pollution. Crabbing is still open each summer, but bivalves are closed.

I was just out on Whidbey Island a couple of weeks ago where I found and ate raw oysters on the beach, then dug clams and brought them home for dinner. The pollution does concern me, but I do trust the government testing.
Its also worth noting that the oysters & other bivalves you eat in restaurants come from the same waters.
Data privacy isn’t trivial, but the core concepts are pretty straightforward. Like cash, data is both an asset and liability. The business model of tech insulates the investors completely from liability, so there is no incentive to self-police.

The contempt shown for us collectively as users and people is what triggered the regulatory backlash.

The 2016 electron demonstrated that better than anything why this is important.
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That's fine when you only hurt yourself but when you are dealing with personal data you can hurt others because you want to take the quickest path.

These same arguments could be applied to just dumping waste from manufacturing in the rivers. Does "If I have to spend 50 days disposing of my waste in a way that doesn't harm others I'm not gonna do it. I'm just gonna dump it somewhere else" sound acceptable?

Modern society has mostly decided it's not
Small sidenote here. I'm the creator of https://documentation.agency/ and I've seen quite a few devs actually choose their tech/libraries based on the quality of the documentation.

I agree with you in everything though, everyone should be reading and following the law!
I would be more careful in pentesting any infrastructure than letting a worm run loose on it.

There is a list of exploits this code is testing. Why not run the tests yourself instead of using each target as a launching point?

Unless you're testing 100k servers and don't have the horsepower to drive the tests, how could this be any faster?
Not if you are rich, and a many small business owners labor under the delusion that they will be the next Gates or Zuckerberg
Curl has had a Windows version for a while but they used to alias curl to Invoke-WebRequest which was super irritating. I just use curl via WSL now.
Developer wants to learn ML but don't have math background. Where to start?
I'm less interested in using existing libraries to hack together some project and more interested in truly understanding ML and knowing which technique to apply where.

Using things like Google's new library feel like being a script kiddie with respect to ML or NLP.

I often get frustrated with tutorials because the math becomes difficult to follow.

My plan is these courses:

Differential calculus
Integral calculus
Multivariate calculus
Linear Algebra
Statistics/Probability

I've already started and am almost done with the differential calc course on Khan Academy and am also concurrently working through a statistics course from Duke University on Coursera.

What other things should I be doing?
Suppose you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child.

Given the context, my mind jumped to the other `cat' and how I would explain it, before I read the rest of the paragraph... and I started imagining the analogy of multiple trains waiting to enter a single track, one after another.

To put it more generally, generalizations are best made by abstraction from experience.

In other words, the value of an abstraction is best understood by seeing the cases it abstracts over. A stark contrast to the "always abstract even if you don't think you need to" attitude that is unfortunately often taught in computer science courses, which leads to overuse of abstraction and the accompanying proliferation of accidental complexity.
Yeah because the Tea Party didn't exist under Pres. Obama. The Birth Certificate truthers exist, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Anti-Bush, and the No Blood For Oil crowds have existed forever across the spectrum. The only thing that's happened is that the internet has made everyone willing to turn everything into politics louder, less willing to listen, and easier to find an echo chamber. People talk about politics because it's the only thing that's literally relevant to everyone.
It seems like this thread proved the opposite of the point you were trying to make -- that Americans are indeed migrating to states with no state income tax?
If denying would mean that I am denied service of their apps, then that would be a violation of gdpr. That is the point of the regulation.
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I've heard that they're common in Europe, actually! Just that they also don't dry well.
It wouldn't be immediate, but the second you put on a trade with any kind of size that far out of the money, the market makers will wise up.
You asked if OP was sure they are android devices and suggested they may be spoofing user agents but it would be relatively easy to tell if they were actually mobile devices on a mobile network by the IP address. Assuming that they are mobile devices on a mobile network, the next question would be how would someone do this other than a botnet of mobile devices, which is essentially what luminati.io is, albeit a little more legitimate. My comment was really just suggested reading for anyone curious.
So they do some research and then let some american companies that can't even imagine why you'd create safety regulations do the practical testing which kills American citizens instead of European ones when the inevitable mistakes happen.

Then they get access to the technology through partnerships. This sounds like a win-win for the EU companies
> In the real world, it's not your data, it's my memory.

This is where there's been a divergence on thought. In the real world you have limited capabilities to collect and store the data that is currently being collected. You're physically limited in how much you can retain and retrieve. In your old timey example I assume the diary to be sitting there in the back of the shop just being a record of my name and what I bought, but that's not how a lot of data is being used or being collected online.

The equivalent would be you making the diary automatically write down a potential unlimited amount of data on me and then using it to sell advertising the moment I enter the shop.

If I went past your store and it automatically retrieved physical details about myself, what I'm wearing, my interests, hobbies, location and you then built a profile and then sold this information to advertisers there absolutely would be regulations regarding this in the real world.

A better example:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23425297

Privacy limits
As retailers trial such tech they are well aware there is a risk of a privacy backlash.

Clothes store Nordstrom recently cancelled a scheme which tracked customers' movements through its stores using their phones' wi-fi signals after complaints.

"Are we willing to accept our everyday movements being monitored and analysed, not to keep us safe but purely to allow advertisers to target us? I think people will start to say no, our privacy is worth more than a few advertising dollars."

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You say shop with a diary to present the most innocent of examples but for every shop with a diary there's billions of stalkers following people everywhere they go to learn as much about them as possible in order to sell them products and influence how they think which they never agreed to.
> No, the idea is to taint anti-GMO activists with the accusation that they're killing third world children

670,000 kids a year die from vitamin A deficiency (and, of course, many more than that "only" go blind). Golden rice has been around for 18 years now, but "activists" have prevented its widespread use.

That's 12 million preventable deaths.
The TeXbook has a lot of examples too, and Knuth makes very good use of the fact that it was itself written in TeX to illustrate the functionality.
Yeah, I wish I could be more help. I'm not in a position to quit my day job, even though I'm highly under utilized myself. I don't have your runway, but if I did, I'd be very tempted to take 9-12 months off to work on some projects that would make me either more valuable, or more competitive for a more interesting position. Personally, much of what I'm interested in working on next, I'm lacking in credibility that I can do the job, and just having a related project goes a long way in most fields.

Since you mentioned wanting to work on a product though, I suspect one more year runway will decrease your chance of failure significantly (like maybe in half). But I'm so risk averse you probably should never listen to my risk assessments...

I do like a lot of the comments suggesting working on the next thing for a while before quiting your high paying job (maybe even try to take a month off after your next project). I know your free time is at a premium, but there are a lot of things that just take calendar time when starting a business. Things like waiting for government papers, or responses from prospective customers. It's nice to be earning money while some of that is happening.
If you're a small company and making a good faith effort to acquire express consent from your users for data collection, follow best practices to secure that data, and allow users to delete their data (even if it's a manual customer service driven process) then I don't see why you have any reason to be afraid.

You're not opening yourself up to litigation from random 3rd parties -- they can only file complaints to regulators who will decide how to respond.
They serve different purposes, and you'll often want to use both for different pieces of the layout. Flexbox is for laying things out in one dimension, Grid is more for two-dimensional ones.

This video might help show the difference (and all the Layout Land videos are great if you want to look more into CSS grid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs3piaN4b5I
Unknowable? It's can check your browser footprint and ask Facebook/Google if you are on holiday.
For some reason when I read your comment I had a vision of the Reddit founders in the very early days, waking up in the middle of the night to restart the server when it had crashed. Their sanity was very nearly wrecked because they didn't know about the existence of daemon supervisor tools yet. God help them if they'd had to deal with GDPR while still sleep-deprived.

Early-stage startups do not, in general, have their shit together. A straw may not break a camel's back, but a camel embryo would have a harder time with it.
If you're using the data to make money, and the user is generating that data, why do you just get to keep and sell it? How is that any different than you owning some forest land and I just come in and take some animals from the land to sell for meat?

You might call it poaching, but that only became a crime when society made it one, and that's what the GPDR is doing now with personal data
> paperwork notwithstanding

thats the main point for me. Some of GDPR is good: right to delete in a reasonable fashion is great. Right to not be personally identified is awesome, but that's much easier to do in the ISP level. Adtech creates problems - that should mean you have to regulate adtech. But GDPR is more about documentation, bureaucracy and Vista-style popups than about how to protect data. You need a lawyer just to put ads on your site. It's a draconian law designed by a single-issue Green leftist, which relegated IP addresses to the status of some kind of fatally dangerous information. It breaks the web from a "web" to a series of tubes with doors in between. The severity of the law is out of proportion with the average internet user's concern about privacy: time and again people have shown they just don't value it as much as the law suggests.

After a few days, when the cheerleading has stopped people are going to be faced with some unpleasant realities: small business switching to facebook (because otherwise their website would contain more legalese than content) and ecommerce turning more towards the large marketplaces. In this sense, Facebook, Google and ebay/amazon become one-stop shops for GDPR-compliant solutions. The reason: GDPR removes options but offers no alternatives.
Why do you think that likely? I don't think it is at all likely, the CIA et. al. like facebook too much.
Why are people empowering the EU as a one world government by legitimizing their world wide law? This is flat out dangerous.
The Jungle is a widely misunderstood book. For one, it's fiction [1] [2] [3].

The milk scandal is interesting tho. I don't disagree that there are people/companies out there that are horrible human beings (or run by horrible human beings), but these are exceptions. There is also a market-based recourse for consumers. Lawsuits and liability is a big deterrent for example. It's also illegal to harm someone (as it should be) so jail time for the offenders is quite possible without having enormous and onerous regulations. And haven't you noticed that it's the giant companies that often push regulation? Because it raises barriers to entry for competitors. Big companies have the resources they need. Using the government to hurt your competitors is one of the oldest traditions in countries with governments big enough and powerful enough to do so.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about...

[2] https://www.libertariannews.org/2012/11/15/meat-packing-lies...

[3] https://www.zeroaggressionproject.org/uncategorized/upton-si...
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If you store emails or people's names, you need to care. It has nothing to do with the type of business you are.
> If all you do about my PII is “set delete = 1” (which one could argue isn’t even the best practice in every scenario), then I probably don’t want you to handle my PII at all.

Are you aware that setting “delete=1” is essentially what file systems do when deleting a file? What file system do you suggest companies to use when they want to comply with GDPR?
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"it's" ALWAYS means "it is" or "it has". Therefore, the title should be "its", which surprisingly is a word.
No shit, you could save a ton of work by just ignoring a ton of things society and the government have decided are necessary for a business to operate inside of that society?.

Why not throw your trash on a neighbor's lawn? Why not enslave your workers so you don't have to deal with turnover and hiring replacements? Why dont you stop paying taxes so you don't have to do work to get the same amount of income as you would without taxes?

All of those things would be less work, right?
I rather think that when it was the norm for most humans to never go outside their small community, you couldn't, practically speaking, walk over to the next village and start again. They would probably eat you or something. At least, if it was easy to travel and integrate with others, it would be by definition a larger scale society.

Edit: however, I just thought of the story of Cain in the Bible, so that stands as presumably a pretty ancient archetype.
That would be a violation of the current policy. I don't wish to be rude, but it doesn't seem that hard to understand, and i'm a little surprised by the number of people making mistakes like this.
My Japanese anthropology professor once told us a story about when he and his wife went to Japan for a research trip with his wife sometime in the 70s or 80s.

In Japan, when you move into a new apartment, it's customary to give a gift to your neighbors. Being a new professor, he and his wallet welcomed any chance to save a little money. When he and his wife were walking along a beach in the Tokyo Bay area, they noticed a ton of shellfish.

Thinking this would be a great gift and a budget dinner, they got some buckets, went back, and started pulling up shellfish for dinner and for their neighbors as a present.

The Tokyo Bay was much more polluted in that era (not that I know whether it would be safe to do this now), so when everyone ate those shellfish, apparently everyone got terribly sick.

So yeah, I'd be super leery of edible things in those kinds of areas in general. :(
The problem with carving out exceptions for small companies is that larger ones would simply subcontract out all their data handling.

Like encryption, data privacy is either all or nothing.

And personally? I'd rather live in a world without tracking-enabled Google and Facebook business models than the one we're currently in.

Holding personally identifiable data is a toxic externality: Experian simply exposed a clear case.

If you want to do so, you should have to bear that cost. Or design your business model differently so that you don't.
I'm pretty sure crime is far lower in Seattle than other large US cities, especially violent crime.
While I see your point, YouTube doesn’t work if you get demonetized or banned.

I’ve played in other company’s ecosystems twice and went out of business both times when I got the boot. One doesn’t actually have a business when relying on another party’s ecosystem, it’s just an illusion. An illusion that ends suddenly and with no recourse.
This is largely because the law doesn't care about implementation details. If a grocery store had a system which meticulously logged every customer that came into their store, when, and what they bought (i.e. loyalty card profiles) then we have to deal with issues related to privacy and data protection. Doing the same thing with pen and paper won't be seen as a meaningful difference.
It’s not all that surprising if you think of “its” in the same vein as “his” and “hers”.
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There are literally hundreds of laws, some very large, that tech startups must comply with from day 1. Yet somehow we still have startups and small companies, and the world goes on, round and round. Why no complaints about these other big laws? None of them get the vitriol hurled at them quite like GDPR. I suspect this is because having to comply with big laws is not really the issue. The real issue is that GDPR hits Silicon Valley right in the soft spot where it hurts: Callous and unrestrained collection of user data. Everyone is complaining "I don't want to have to comply with big laws!" but what they are really thinking is "I don't want to get busted for the crazy amount of data we suck up (or want to suck up) and store!"
Lots of existing ones, but not a lot under construction. This[1] talks a little bit about why there haven't been a lot of projects in the last few years.

http://thelens.news/2018/01/10/the-need-for-condominium-liab...
This. Make it probabilistic, though, do not log them in every time.
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The problem isn't the odd paranoid submitting a delete request once a month, it's when some influential person publicly requests a delete for whatever outrage is going on that day and causes his 10k followers to do the same
See, to me, that looks like an intolerable imposition onto my basic humanity. It's legal for me to remember you, but not to write down anything about you in my diary? Does that not seem unsound to you? Does it not seem to trample all over common decency and common sense, to in some way cause harm to older people who can't just rely on their grey matter?

I freely admit that keeping a diary is not the same as keeping customer details, but that's the point here: why are they treated the same?
My neighbor's grandfather worked on this and she drunkenly told me about it last weekend. I don't have anything else to add.
Only on that site? Most comments on this thread are quite cringey as well to my ears...
Undo seems to be a concept in Android apps sometimes, but I'm not aware of a universal way to access it, like Ctrl-Z.

And once you have Undo, it's nice if you always have Redo, in case you Undo once too many.
Oh, if you use a Suica card the system still gets confused. So they haven't really fixed your problem. Also, the notion of paying for access purely to a rail platform was super foreign to me...
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I agree that the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle should have been prevented. I'm not totally sure what's the best legislation to have helped that while having the minimum side effects.

As mentioned before, size limits is probably good for compliance costs; if the problem is political influence, make that a key part of the law. Making part of the law liability per privacy breach can be useful too (to deter companies from lax security that end up with them hacked).