skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. Connecting the producers and consumers is a field that's been changing in the most radical way for the last 15 years, and whole humanity has reaped enormous benifits from it. A lot of people I personally know started making jewellery, cakes, and other small artisanal items and selling them on Instagram. Quite a lot of others - importing small hiche items from China. Most of my friends started buying some items like that.

All these people got their lives improved thanks to engineers that enabled worked on selling ads. There's a popular stereotype that "ads" is some evil capitalist thing designed to manipulate you to buy some shit you don't need. Looking at the world around me, I see something different.
It's not a question of size, it's only needed if processing your customers' private data is your core activity, ie. if you operate an ad network that builds personal profiles of people.
10% for writing the game? you maybe too optimistic :D

I found myself having the same problem, luckily I don't know how to write a language.

I'm currently working on a part-time project in Go, it involve a HTTP service.

As you may already knew, there is a built-in HTTP server that came with Go, so I COULD just took it and go ahead directly start to implement my service logic.

But hell no, it's too slow. So instead, I made my own HTTP/1.1 server, which is bit faster than Go's.

It was pretty fun to write that server indeed, but I don't think it's worth the trouble. In fact, I really really hope somebody stopped me when I was creating that `http.go` file.

Now, I'm wandering around, thinking the `html/template` is too slow ...
I haven't exactly done a scientific survey here, but what is interesting is to
click the links and see what response comes back (I'm in the UK, still part of the EU). Here are some of them:

* Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

* The precondition on the request for the URL / evaluated to false.

* Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to the EU market. "

* 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

* Error code 16. This request was blocked by the security rules

* Apologies! The site you are trying to visit is not available in your area. Please note, to comply with GDPR we have purged our newsletter lists and databases for anyone located within the European Union. Thank you for your interest.

* 403 ERROR The request could not be satisfied.

* We're sorry you’re not able to access the site at this time, but this is a temporary measure to ensure we can best protect your data under new privacy regulations. We value your support; thanks for your patience and we can't wait to have you back!

I find it interesting that some present the problem as a technical problem whereas others explicitly mention a region problem or even GDPR

I also found a couple of places where the sites are in fact accessible, e.g. instapaper.com

The vast majority of the sites seem to be US local news sites, so perhaps to them providing access for EU citizens isn't really a key goal
So much this. You have a business with an online B2C component and your contract with your suppliers and/or service providers requires you to comply with the GDPR. You are in no position to comply because your primary area of business isn't the EU, sure your website is accessible but no one is realistically going to engage your services from Germany. Meanwhile the GDPR has extra territorial reach and is so broadly worded that you don't know the ways in which you will be impacted. Your legal counsel is telling you "they ain't budging, why not manage it practically, by explicitly not target the EU?"

So you block access to your goods/services/website to EU IP addresses. Your suppliers and service providers are happy, your legal counsel is happy, and your business is not impacted in any meaningful way at all.

I haven't looked at the sites on the list, which may well contain "shady" websites, but bear in mind that these are the entities who have looked at the GDPR and concluded it was somehow or other better to expressly tell visitors that they do not comply with the GDPR.

A shady business wouldn't even bother putting a notice up on their website!
Birds won't be flying around in a desert where they can't find water.

Maintenance problems exist with dams or for that matter with any power generation mechanism.

None of these are show stopper problems.
who knew it wont be that hard to crush your competition when you have the backing of your authoritarian government.
One major annoyance is that one of my Firefox extension, either the ad blocker or the "I don't care about cookies" finds and remove the GDPR javascript pop up from CookieBot (which is GDPR compliance as a service for people who don't know what they're doing").

Because I can't see the CookieBot pop up anymore I can't dismiss, but it prevents scrolling from working on a large number of websites.... All news websites interestingly enough.
> No, that's not the only requirement. At the very least there are additional record keeping steps, policies and procedures to draft, the appointment of a DPO that responds to requests for access or erasure

That only applies if you illegally track users.

You know what a simple solution to that is? Yup: Don't illegally track users. Pure magic, I know!
Vodafone Blocks Libgen Following Elsevier, Springer and Macmillan Injunction
Where's the benefit in that? End the people responsible for this, not the institution that still provides invaluable services for the country (if run properly).
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Women in audio: A Growing Trend
> Without knowing exactly what the difference is between wholesale and retail rates, I feel reasonably confident that desalination technology is currently sufficient to avoid civilization collapse and/or war.

The problem is you're gonna need energy to operate these plants and you can't scale stuff up infinitely as the brine will kill off marine life and eventually, the water sources will become so salty that they can not be used for desalination any more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

Which means, once Peak Salt hits, there will be problems. Oh, and desalinating water for drinking purposes is one thing - using it for agricultural demands is a whole different beast. Egypt, for example, already had problems in 2010, and the issue won't get smaller over the decades. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/11/09/egypt.water.s...
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> they've been advised that because they have an email subscription, they'd need to hire a full time DPO, and their outside counsel quoted them several thousand dollars a year.

I think a large part of the scare that can be observed among American companies is due to legal advisers jumping on the opportunity to make big money by misleading their customers into thinking there are enormous, complicated and unlikely requirements for compliance, and huge risks to making any mistake.
> two years+ out of each

That's… just about nothing for a keyboard. I bought my wireless apple keyboard in 2010 and it's behaving perfectly, my MS Ergo 4000 is 10+ and the only issues with it are the plastic's paint going.

And I don't consider these old.

I wouldn't accept a fucking battery lasting less than 2 years, how can it be acceptable for a keyboard you found anywhere outside a walmart bargain bin?
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Kind of follows the model of a lot of geek toys - case in point, synthesisers - which have gone through many cycles of the above, many times over the years, and it doesn't look like its going to change any time soon...
> effect of the negative discrimination on the affected individuals

It's worse than that.

What doctor would you go to, a white man, a black man, or a woman, if you knew that there's affirmative action for blacks/women, and you wanted (and could afford) the best doctor?

Mind you, picking white man isn't even racist, it's rational in the Bayesian framework (the white/male had to have better exam scores to be admitted to the school than blacks/women).
A different kind of data collection for this Finnish city
> 1. A pop-up notifying the visitor on the website's cookie policy (required by EU law). 2. A pop-up asking the visitor to consent to its privacy policy (required by EU law).

That is both not required. Just don't collect PII and all is good. Apple for instance manages to run a website that does not involve any stupid cookie warnings.
I think OP's beef is high school vs college.
A newspaper from Aiken, South Carolina doesn't need to worry about complying with GDPR in any regard what-so-ever, not under any realistic circumstance. It can safely entirely disregard it.

The Aiken Standard doesn't have to worry about GDPR just like a small town newspaper in Spain doesn't need to worry about complying with every privacy law that every US state decides to implement in the coming years (following in California's footsteps).

There is a vast misunderstanding of how jurisdiction works and how it's going to play out in the near future. The vast majority of the world will disregard GDPR and comply with their own local laws instead. Small and mid size sites from any given country are not going to attempt to comply with 407 different privacy laws from every country/city/state/region/zone/province/whatever around the world.

There is no alternative to this future. The sole, sane approach is to disregard Internet privacy laws if they do not apply to you in terms of jurisdiction. You will not be able to comply with the zillions of Internet-focused laws that are going to get created across the globe in the coming decade. GDPR should act as the training wheels for people building online sites/services/businesses to understand jurisdiction.
> That is basically the end effect of any regulation: life gets harder for small players and newcomers.

I would offer the opinion that anti-monopoly regulation is a counterpoint to this.
That’s absolutely not true in my experience (mostly around Europe).
> after some US corporate lawyer overreacted

Given how US techies here on HN seems to constantly overreact and loudly proclaims how the GDPR means they need to hire 20 new employees and how they all will be suited into bankruptcy anyway...

If they are now stuck in a needlessly rigid legal regime, it's hard NOT to say they brought it on themselves.
The new Snap design is awful. It's confusing and difficult to use and overly pushes promoted content onto me. I am a young male, I don't care what snap chat stories some women's fashion magazine (or any other 'mainstream media' for that matter) are publishing. Why does Snap try and push it in my face?

Snap could have been something amazing, a true rival to Facebook perhaps, but now instagram just does it all better.
I think we should rephrase, it's not "because of GDPR", it's "because of their incompetence".

I have made a few sites GDPR-compliant, and honestly unless your business practices are based on exploiting people's data, it's not that hard.
Baidu has some (nice?) open source packages(google stack clone), like tera (bigtable clone), bfs (hdfs clone) etc. Anybody tried using them ?
FakesApp: A Vulnerability in WhatsApp
Mouse Chording
When I see that I simply open the website in private browsing (in Firefox at least no cookies are shared between public/private), consent to all tracking, read what I want and close the window.
Its a done deal apart from the shareholder vote apparently

"Investor support is confirmed. Only reason why this is not certain is that it’s contingent on a shareholder vote."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026914941004001280
I just wanted to put in a good word for WASD Keyboards. Mine has been solid as a rock, I'm still very pleased with it after 4 years of ownership.

I think it was Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame) who turned me on to them in the first place.

(No association at all, just wanted to share my experience).
> Has Slack's attraction ever been that it's an innovative product?

Yeah, it's just IRC with a new hat, but sure, I'm willing to say it was innovative. Nothing like it existed and now many things like it exist. It was an innovation in the smaller parts - that judging by how things have gone, are maybe not so small.

> Making your program meet what really should be a minimum acceptable standard is considered innovation now?

It's not ~disruptive techmologi~ but it would require genuine innovation in terms of creating a proper cross platform native UI framework, or at the very lest a large shift in their product to move to multiple frameworks (innovation in the company rather than in tech generally.)
I’m glad they finally got this technology to work. They attempted something similar in a (far larger) Brooklyn development, and all that happened was that it took 4 times as long to assemble as other buildings of similar size in the same neighborhood, AND was plagued with problems like leaks and difficulty hooking up plumbing due to poor alignment.
I'm not familiar with CookieBot, but from the sound of your post alone, it sounds like what's blocking you is a DIV element that is expecting a JS script to remove it once the person clicks the button? If so, the DIV element should be the same for all sites that use CookieBot (I'd assume. JS libraries usually dictate what your DIV should be called), so you should just be able to block that DIV ID in your content-filter-of-choice?
It is possible though to build your own stack from the ground up (hard part is to be smart about what exactly "the ground" is). Look at Knuth and TeX. And today we have even better tools to write programs, and much better turn around times in terms of compiling etc. Obviously, there is some added complexity for there are API's like Apple Metal you will need to learn, but I think that more than evens out in total.

I think it is important to have a big goal though (like TeX) to keep you motivated and moving forward.
How is it laughable, again? You know what Nazi stands for, don't you? And if you accept the premise that America is probably the most culturally right wing society today, then which was Nazi Germany closer to in its policies - America or the USSR?
A high-end keyboard failing after 5 years is "not a bad track record" ?

I have 40-year-old keyboards at home that still work great - one or two are even the awful membrane type.
the vast majority, as demonstrated by their engagement, prefer the algorithmic model

All engagement measures is time spent on the site. Or how much people are prepared to tolerate.
By the way, some of them are not accessible from Russia. :)
But Russia is not in EU/GDPR. <sic>
> The vast majority of the sites seem to be US local news sites

That's even more weird since they are explicitly not covered by GDPR, because their target audience is obviously not based in the EU (and they most probably don't do any business in the EU either, so are completely out of reach as well).

It seems to me like they are the very websites for which this exemption was intended.
Fever is an abnormal elevation of body temperature that occurs as part of a specific biologic response that is mediated and controlled by the central nervous system. (See 'Pathogenesis' below.)

The temperature elevation that is considered "abnormal" depends upon the age of the child and the site of measurement. The temperature elevation that may prompt clinical investigation for infection depends upon the age of the child and the clinical circumstances (eg, immune deficiency, sickle cell disease, ill-appearance, etc); in most scenarios, the height of the fever is less important than other signs of serious illness (eg, irritability, meningismus) [35-38].

●In the otherwise healthy neonate (0 to 28 to 30 days of age) and young infant (one to three months of age), fever of concern generally is defined by rectal temperature ≥38.0°C (100.4°F). (See "Febrile infant (younger than 90 days of age): Definition of fever", section on 'Definition of fever'.)

●In children 3 to 36 months, fever generally is defined by rectal temperatures ranging from ≥38.0 to 39.0°C (100.4 to 102.2°F) and fever of concern by rectal temperatures ≥39.0°C (102.2°F) if there is no focus of infection on examination. (See "Fever without a source in children 3 to 36 months of age", section on 'Fever of concern'.)

●In older children and adults, fever may be defined by oral temperatures ranging from ≥37.8 to 39.4°C (100.0 to 103.0°F) and fever of concern by oral temperatures ≥39.5°C (103.1°F).

Oral thermometers average one half of a degree Celsius lower than rectal.

The above is pretty much straight out of UTD, as I am far too lazy to retype it for anyone’s benefit.
It isn't in the EEA either.

The page you just linked literally says that.
"One EFTA member, Switzerland, has not joined the EEA, but has a series of bilateral agreements with the EU which allow it also to participate in the internal market."
High uptime headaches due to floating point high resolution timers
Considering the strong video game culture style in Discord, using it to organize a group of hateful white supremacists is almost at the same level as using a penguinville chat room with cute penguin avatars where they plot and scheme against society. It's a comedic, ridiculous place that may be perfectly suited for buffoonery.
We are considered as actors/comedian and are paid accordingly

Maybe you should bill yourself as "speakers." They get paid better.

:)
> The software in the Model 3 is famously buggy. Did you see the Edmonds review?

The Tesla software also way more better feature then most other cars. Compare Tesla software experience and the interaction of the car and the app is not even comparable to anybody else and most reviews reflect that.

Also, Tesla can update over the air and they are consistently fixing these bugs.

Clearly it has not hurt Tesla sales or the consumer rating they are getting.

Comparing that problem to the Bolt complete lack of integration of the different system and losing money on every car, are not even comparable in terms of how problematic it is.
> 1. A pop-up notifying the visitor on the website's cookie policy (required by EU law).

> 2. A pop-up asking the visitor to consent to its privacy policy (required by EU law).

You never need both. GDPR superceded the "Cookie Law", so the cookie policy pop-up is no longer needed. You may not even need the explicit consent popup.

You do need user consent for storing user personal data, if you gather, store, and process personal data. Even then, you only need explicit consent if none of the other implicit authorizations apply: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
i honestly like the fact these sites block access, for me its a sign they don't care about users privacy or are just too lazy to comply. I have several projects that need to comply with the GDPR, i did not feel it to be a big effort to comply.

I currently block sites with annoying pop ups or show failure to comply.
Well, yes, except other kinds of regulation really work =)
If they're doing no business in Europe, they do not need to worry about complying with GDPR at all and can freely track European users any way they see fit.

The EU has no jurisdiction over newspapers in South Carolina. It is that simple legally.

If I visit a random popular Chinese site, landing on a Chinese mainland server in the process, the US Government is not going to get to tell that Chinese site how it can legally use my data in their country. Shouting that I'm an American citizen and that they must comply with US privacy laws, will do no good: the US Government has no jurisdiction over the matter. It works exactly the same way for the US-EU-GDPR as it pertains to a newspaper from South Carolina.
Also you could just get one by Cherry itself.

I have 2 Cherry MX Board 3.0 i am quite happy with those.

Not even that expensive and of course no internet of shitty things.
Very simple, as the fight of big oil against tesla seems to have backfired as Musk still has resources to buy back the company. It's better for them to hedge their exposure to oil.
There's nothing there yet but expect r/mechanicalkeyboards to light up shortly
So technologically the non-tracking website is very very simple.

Business wise, not so much. How do you monetize such a site? Even a simple commerce site needs to keep tracking of users, and to do any kind of marketing you need explicit user consent.
This concept is called Demand Response and is quite prevalent. Consumers receive a discount for reducing their load at peak times.

This frequently targets very high demand customers rather than residential for the simple fact that it's easier to ask a company to delay starting a single piece of machinery than to reduce the load on an equivalent but large number consumer appliances like refirgerators.

Doing this at a residential level will require significant costs to support at a residential scale. Technology is the key in solving this problem.
Also see https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/9571bb...
You're right that you'd need to trust the certificates on each machine, but really, you only need to trust a single CA on each device. With an SSL-replacing proxy you create and give control of a CA certificate and key to the proxy and set it between your computer and the network. It replaces the certificate of any (or some small subset if you want to specifically target) site with its own on the fly. Then it can inspect and manipulate the contents of that communication. If the machine trusts the CA, and the CA trusts the certificate (because it replaced and signed the cert itself.. so not so much trust, but.. you get the idea. You could probably limit it to certs signed by CA known by your browsers), the machines would trust the certificates.

Enforcing use of the proxy could even be automatic if your router supports it. eg, LEDE can redirect all traffic outbound to WAN on 443 through a specific endpoint (your MITM proxy or pi-hole or whatever).

It might be problematic for guests who have never seen the CA before, but that's what guest networks are for, I guess.

I've seen this technique used by some large multinational and security-sensitive companies to help monitor data egress from their networks. Probably via some overly-expensive software, but the software doesn't have to be expensive. They tend to have better automation systems than your typical home user, though.

However, for a small network, it's fairly straight-forward to get a CA certificate onto each device. If it's you or a few people on individual machines you or a few people you can add it manually in less than a minute on each. Or for the larger case there are automation tools.

One such open source project for an SSL replacing proxy:

https://mitmproxy.org/

> Write powerful addons and script mitmproxy with mitmdump. The scripting API offers full control over mitmproxy and makes it possible to automatically modify messages, redirect traffic, visualize messages, or implement custom commands

I'm sure there's a way to make this live side-by-side with pi-hole or something similar, but I unfortunately have other things on my plate.. Would make an interesting weekend project someday, though.
Link to the case? if this hack actually doesn't work as far as law is concerned then I'm surprised it's still there.
They had a lot of drama with the production of the 5Q keyboard also as it was crowdfunded. Still don't quite understand why an established keyboard company needed to crowdfund a keyboard...
"You don't have to obey this law if you really need to violate it" is a common tactic in EU lawmaking and it's about as helpful as unlimited vacation policies are.

Nobody knows how EU DPRs will define "need" and therefore, to be safe, you just always show the warning. The cost of the warning is low. The cost of being found in violation is high.

Avoiding this sort of outcome is basic stuff, law-making 101, but the EU's output of low quality rule-by-law not rule-of-law regulations makes it seem like they either don't know or don't care.