skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People confuse GDPR with ePrivacy.

GDPR is not about cookies and it’s not about mere informing of users, but about getting consent for data processing. Publishers and service providers are required to ask for consent, with clear language and the default is opt-out.

Also from what I understand you can’t block users from using your service when they opt out of any data purpose that isn’t legitimate and the definition of legitimate data purposes is very narrow. For example it doesn’t really matter that ads profiling is how the company makes revenue, making more money is not a legitimate interest.

Some companies, like Facebook, are of course trying to resist this. But I’m pretty sure they’ll end up with big fines.

On popups, IAB’s specification uses the consensu.org domain for the cookie, so that consent can be shared between multiple domains. A publisher cannot share that consent with other publishers in case the list of partners used is custom of course, but you can still share it between your own domains. The purpose being to minimize the popups.

Given that publishers have a legal obligation to get the user’s consent, I strongly believe that ad-blockers blocking GDPR popups is legal trouble for both publishers and ad-blockers.

Blocking ads wasn’t deemed illegal thus far and it wasn’t for a lack of trying. Blocking GDPR pop-ups on the other hand will imo not have that same fate.

Also some users will legitimately want to have their data used for personalization and you can’t regulate against that.

This might be an unpopular opinion however given the choice between personalized ads and a paywall, I predict that most people will choose personalized ads.
"No moving parts" sounds like a really big deal for long-mission drones.
"We're going to ask you to move to New York, but don't use that to personally gain housing"?
You're definitely not wrong. I can (and have) ridden my cyclocross bike for hours, which I have no desire of attempting on a Citibike, what I was using before I bought my own bike.
Could complex gamification of payment structures amount to worker misclassification?

i.e. if an Uber/Lyft driver must meet a complex set of job requirements in order to earn a reasonable wage, e.g. driving at particular times, in particular places, accepting certain minimum percentages of tasks assigned, etc...

...might it not be more appropriate to call these folks employees than contractors?

The counterargument could be that if they are allowed to participate in the platform without "playing the games" so to speak, then they aren't "job requirements", but if it's only possible to earn a reasonable wage by playing, could it be argued that they should be considered as such?

EDIT: I see a couple of comments in this thread stating that they are employees and not contractors however I believe that is not the case (i.e. that Uber has fought to maintain the contractor classification and won so far) ?

EDIT2: Ah, I now see that there have been some recent court cases going the other way, at least in California (https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17308178/uber-lyft-drivers...)...not sure if any change has actually been effected yet?
End-to-End-* is typically just a buzzword. Interpretation is different, depending on who you ask and what is the subject.

Regarding end-to-end encryption, back in 1984, Saltzer et al. [1] argued that "functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value". So, proper email encryption is best achieved at the client application level. If we had got that right, ProtonMail would probably be irrelevant.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoe...
If the user isn't the sole owner of the key, encryption is pretty much worthless for such services. At this point users can do the backups themselves.
HTML did stagnate, in part because JS was available. How many sites expose the built-in file upload element these days? It's clearly terrible, yet hasn't improved in many, many years. Tables should have (optional) built-in sorting, obviously, but it's not there because you can just use Javascript. And so on. All they've done for, what, going on 20 years now, is prettify the tag names a bit. HTML is de-facto dead anyway, or at least on life support, just a supporting technology for a spying platform that's only there because no-one can be bothered to replace it with something better suited to that purpose. Meanwhile there's no safe-by-default way to browse hypertext. That's dead. Mixing it with app distribution already killed it. There's nothing there to lose.
If JavaScript or actually the DOM didn’t allow for that we would now be running Flash.
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The internet is based on trust.

There is nothing stopping anyone that has an e-commerce website from recording a clear version of your passwords along with all of your billing address and credit card informations.

There's no audits or anything.
Not "insider trading," no.

I do wonder if the seller of the condo might have recourse (under the outer edges of deceptive trade practices laws), or if Amazon itself would have recourse (by some kind of corporate opportunity doctrine).

And if Amazon does, can shareholders act for it, or force Amazon to act?
> Winzen said his priority was to do a full analysis of the log files

I wouldn't have thought a darkweb hosting service should have any logs?
How? Maybe they are the employees that have to move to oversee construction or whatever other reason Amazon needs them there so they had advanced information. In any case Amazon is under no obligation to inform everyone about something like this.
Broken:

<html><body><h1>400 Bad request</h1>
Your browser sent an invalid request.
</body></html>
Not a great month for USPS and security.

"U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service"

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/u-s-secret-service-warns...
Site is timing out for me. Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20181121181539/https://www.braut...
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> Doesn't society determine how wealth is concentrated based on how they use their wallets?

Only when consumers actually have a choice. That's why monopolies are bad.

This is something many people miss about capitalism. The way it is supposed to work is that if Bob starts to make a ton of money, Alice notices this and enters the market herself so that she can capture some of the market currently being served by Bob. The resulting competition drives prices down so that eventually goods and services become available at the lowest possible price. If one person or company is getting fabulously wealthy, that means that the market has failed.

Society has a lot of mechanisms for preventing this from happening. Progressive taxation. Anti-trust laws. The laws of physics do not lead inexorably to laissez-faire capitalism.
20000 pages a year comes to 54 a day every single day. 5-6 times that amount would be 250-300 pages a day. I don’t think many people read that much.

Also note that this is in the context of the typically more valuable video ads. On eg YouTube if you say 1 ad per 10 minutes it would take 9 hours of video watching per day to rack up 54 ads.

I don’t know what rate of ads one can expect from a mobile game but maybe it would be more. I think you would still likely need several hours to get so many. And presumably you want to play less if there are more frequent ads.
Interesting. In law school, I learned that the exact opposite way--the arsonist wasn't responsible for any damage, because the bigger fire would have consumed the target house anyway. (Edit: I believe the proper term is "superseding cause". Note that with all things involving case law, this is highly jurisdictionally dependent. For example, in California, intentional acts can be superseding causes but not unintentional/negligent acts or acts of god.)

With the mink case, the issue wasn't that blowing stuff up is a high-liability task. The issue was that it was a nuisance. Nuisance activities can be legal, and even first-in-time (like say, cow farms predating housing developments). Very nutshell version, but basically the issue with nuisance law is that the activity's effects transcend the boundaries of one's property and so the doer can be held liable for those effects.
It's kind of like yelling "Fire!" in a building, only to say "surely there's a fire somewhere in the city".
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I'm very happy with my Moto G5, and it's $150 on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Generation-XT1680-Single-Factory-Unlo...

(I got the 3GB version for €119 thanks to a sale, but the 2GB should be more than enough for what you're planning)
Ah. Now we understand what "agile" is really about.
Sophos blog spam for actual ZDNet report from over the weekend: https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-dark-web-hosting-provi...

Maybe a mod can replace the link with the actual source.
Our families chose to have us. In the vast majority of families, children are biological progeny of the parents, and so carry their parents genes into the future.

The fact that you're trying to compare disjointed people within a nation to a family where parents support their own children really shows the amount of non-voluntary collectivism you want to impose on society.

>>I assume you live in SF and have generalized all homelessness to what you see in certain parts of SF?

I realize that not all homeless are loitering drug addicts, but they form a significant percentage of the chronically homeless, and a situation where no-strings-attached aid is provided to them at the expense of the taxpayer, while others make the sacrifices to be independent through back-breaking work, is unjust.

It's not just a matter of competence. It's also a matter of choice. Some people choose to take responsibility. Some don't.
Can we send a bunch of these ion-powered planes to fly on solar power in the stratosphere, more efficiently and rapidly generating ozone than the natural process?
Interesting idea, although I'm left wondering what's in it for the operator of this service? There doesn't appear to be any "about us" or information about what's happening with the data I pipe to this url.
I'm not pitting two people against one another - I'm indicating the sad hypocrisy on the part of all of you arguing corruption here.

The indication is that because he was part of a private non-profit - is that there is some kind of inherent shadiness - which is wrong.

The radical partisanship here has thrown all of the otherwise great debaters on here into a hissy fit.

There is no story.

He was part of an advocacy group from years ago - it likely has nothing to do with anything.

He could have been a private lawyer, or worked at any other private firm and it would indicate the same degree of ostensible corruption.
The traders are better off than those whose trades are executed 0,001 seconds slower. That’s why they make it faster.
So if this fell on someone, would it electrocute them?
Taut (FKA BetterSlack) is back
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Possible I'm unusual, but I actually like writing documentation as a way to learn a new codebase.

When I started a new job earlier this year I actually jumped at the chance to grab some documentation tickets, because it meant I had to not just halfheartedly skim through the relevant code but actually read it in detail and understand what was going on.

(and, of course, I ended up finding a bug)
Taut is the Refined GitHub of Slack. It has been taken down by Slack in August [0] and is back live since September.

[0]: https://g3rv4.com/2018/08/bye-bye-betterslack
Given how this thread is going I thought I'd mention a resume review robot I actually like.

I use Novoresume.com to build my resumes and I find it's resume suggestions to be pretty useful. It's free for one page resumes too. I am not associated with novoresume in any way, I just like the product.
Foucault, of course, talks about this. In Discipline and Punish:

>But the Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used as a machine to carry out experiments, to alter behaviour, to train or correct individuals. To experiment with medicines and monitor their effects. To try out different punishments on prisoners, according to their crimes and character, and to seek the most effective ones. To teach different techniques simultaneously to the workers, to decide which is the best. To try out pedagogical experiments – and in particular to take up once again the well-debated problem of secluded education, by using orphans ...

It's interesting to note that the argument made in this post is exactly what Deleuze said two decades after Foucault [1], that the mechanisms of "discipline" are moving outside of enclosed spaces because of the ever-longer trails of data that we leave everywhere.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/778828
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I'll try to tackle the idea that you have nothing to hide. Let's assume that every last moment of your life has been collected, indexed, then either sold or hacked. It's all out there, for anyone to see. If you think this is implausible, consider that most people are never outside of arms reach of their gps/microphone/camera and that much of the data that's ever been collected has already been hacked or sold.

Would you prefer to hide:

-recordings of your sexual encounters from your family?

-the raunchiest porn you've ever looked at from your co-workers?

-your live GPS location from home burglars?

-your bank account balance from friends?

-your tax filings from scam artists?

-your off-color remarks you made 15 years ago while drunk from the person conducting your job interview?

-the drugs you tried in college from law enforcement?

-The minor legal transgression you committed from the person looking to shut down your political protest?

-the psychological trigger even you were unaware of from the deep learning algorithm designed to addict you to gambling.

-your sexual orientation from the autocratic government of the vacation spot you visited?

The only people who truly have nothing to hide are those who truly have nothing to lose. If that's you, then I'm sincerely sorry.
I wonder how many proxy requirements are pre-optimizations with no empirical support?
After hearing various people point out that the democrats got ~8M more votes than republicans in 2018 I wanted to see the data myself. Inexplicably, it doesn't exist in an easily consumable format on the internet.

So I grabbed the json that was being fed to CNN's election results page and extracted the data out into a simple spreadsheet. I figured I might as well share.

PS - Regarding the 8M "house popular vote" democrat edge... The democrats had 39 uncontested seats (ie no republican in the race). Those races add up to 6M votes and explain it rather well. (not to mention that they did win more seats in the house so it would make sense that they had a "house popular vote" edge).
Also, it's about giving thanks and being a good human being more so than saving money.
All programming conferences are C conferences, if you think about it.
I'm sure you understand that there's a difference between normal, personal human interactions, as you've just described, and a complex technological system designed and implemented for use in a business setting?
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That's the number in the week after the announcement, by my reading.

> Amazon announced last week that it would be splitting its second headquarters between Long Island City in Queens and Arlington County, Va., ending months of jockeying between cities and speculation of where the tech giant would land.

> There are no exact numbers on how many units have gone into contract in the Long Island City area since the announcement, but the Journal reports that one brokerage firm sold nearly 150 units just last week, 15 times its normal volume.
> The human mind just can't handle perception!

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

More to the point, however, I think that human minds often handle perception in general, but the problem of objectively observing the subjective is somewhat less tractable.
Can not unseen.
Oh man, I remember that site! Used to be way different, though. I built a lot of those things, though not the lifter.

Back in high school I spent a lot of time on sites like scitoys.com, rimstar.org, Bill Beaty's site, etc. I really miss those days. Now similar content is all on YouTube with clickbaity thumbnails that start with "WHATS UP YOU GUYS".
They are going to arrest the fishermen who took the man to his death. I just hope that man was not infected in any way..
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Hey thanks for the feedback. Sorry that you feel duped - it's not our intention to manipulate a user into getting their email to market to them and is why we ask people to opt in to our emails.

I'm going to change the main button to read "Try 5 Free Sessions" to be more direct!
Having less but more profitable customers is a boneheaded move. Developers may increase their prices to account for the reduced number of users, sure, but the niche target market that the developer is targeting may not exist any more.

If you look at history of game consoles, the ones with the higher quality hardware and software usually lost because of the high prices.

Exclusivity works up to a point.
Good question, but a majority of this post is links to cppcon videos. (I do appreciate the shoutout to LLVM).

I think the C community:

* Should have a C conference.

* Actually be more aggressive in adding features to the language. For example, there are some really great GNU C extensions that are long overdue be added to the standard. Compiler vendors should work with the standards bodies more, rather than shipping language extensions, compiler builtins, and various compiler plugins in isolation outside of standards bodies (because then codebases become tightly coupled to the compiler; ie. the Linux kernel).
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Because it is too broad for a targeted conference.
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> humans are competitive (and also cooperative). we like to know how we are doing, and gamification facilitates that

That was already known via driver ratings. No one considered that "gamification" because it's a basic KPI.

The "lab rat" aspect of this comes into play with some computer-generated BS "challenge" like "“Complete 34 rides between the hours of 5am on Monday and 5am on Sunday to receive a $63 bonus.”

In videogames, this is called "grinding", aka gaining experience points doing tedious, repetitive tasks, in order to proceed to the next experience level. The difference is, video game players aren't doing something that requires the same level of attention and duty of care as a car driver.
It's interesting to try to compare finance and tech on whether or not they are beneficial to society. epsilon improvements can be quite useful to society. Clearly some amount of both is useful, but I'd argue that finance has run its course in the sense that pretty much all incremental "improvements" made by finance are basically hurting society.[1]

This is because while things like market making are obviously necessary, you've got to ask yourself: does making trades on a timescale of microseconds or even less as opposed to making trades on a timescale of minutes lead to better outcomes in the real economy?

The answer is almost certainly "no", but at the same time, trading firms that are engaged in zero-sum games are still able to siphon a lot of money from the rest of the economy that goes into just that. So the net outcome for society of that is clearly negative.

We shouldn't be kidding ourselves, though. A lot of the incremental improvements in tech these days are also net negatives to society. Mostly this is because so much of tech is driven by advertisement.

However, there are large parts of tech, including some very traditional parts, in which improvements are clearly beneficial to society, e.g. when it comes to building more powerful and efficient hardware.

[1] An exception might be entirely new sub-sectors of finance that explicitly target beneficial outcomes. Climate finance comes to mind.
Related tweet from last week: https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1062740353533513728

Observation: Before 2014, iOS conferences were iOS conferences and was mostly about how to use the frameworks. After 2014, iOS conferences renamed to Swift conferences and everyone tries to figure out how to use Swift - like this is the main pain point or what?
It wasn't just inputs, it's not enough, weak types. Using == instead of === they could brute force guess a session, it took multiple exploits to escalate till they got shell access.
I work in an Ad Tech company and this week is crazy. We also try to make a code freeze but the reality is many deploys in production to fix things thursday evening...
If you're hosting illegal content, traffic analysis could be used to catch you.
Every major tech company has had this problem, yet people still keep sharing their personal info (even home address, phone numbers, social security numbers) online. Don't share anything you wouldn't yell out on a crowded street to strangers.
The main problem with that is there is no single C community.

Imagine trying to get ANSI C, Win32 C, GNU C and every flavor of embedded C together.
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Someone once told me you're not supposed to make rockets with guidance control (in the US) because they are then missiles. Is that true? Is this guy in the US?
Hi Dan,

Any chance to have a Black Friday lifetime promo this year? (for those that regrettably missed before) Thanks!
You just need to sell it as the little brother of the new hotness, and not as a two generation old leftover.
Maybe it's the argument that we can't avoid wars, so it's best to make them as quick as possible? One way to do that is to make sure you can eradicate the other side's military might with overwhelming force.

I think this is the kind of question where it is good to ask what the alternative to the terrible reality we're creating would realistically be.
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Because ioccc is either too cheap to rent a ballroom, or they're not too cheap but in following their theme and long practice, they aren't telling you when and where they rented one.

EDIT: It's true. HN has no sense of humor.
> A lot of it produces ZERO economic returns.

Exactly.

> the fallacy is that we need top-down institutions to move things forward

That might well be true. And it has nothing whatever to do with what I said. In fact, abolishing top-down institutions would, if anything, make it more difficult to have a scheme like universal basic income (the topic we're discussing here) at all.

> of course Property is a coercive institution just like government. It has to be enforced

Is the only thing preventing you from appropriating your neighbors' property the fear of enforcement?

Property rights are agreements. If it is a net gain for all parties to follow an agreement, they will follow it, even in the absence of coercive enforcement.
The Django doc does that, actually they encourage newbies to triage and give pointers
Hey I'm happy to cancel your account if your reach out at privacy@brain.fm per our GDPR stuff, or shoot me an email directly and I will delete it.

We are redoing our whole platform for January with a brand new account page. This functionality is included now.