skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What to do with a GDPR deletion request when the user can't verify?
We are starting to get GDPR deletion requests at work. However, there area number of requests where the user cannot verify their e-mail address. They either dont have access to that account anymore or they don't remember what e-mail address they used to sign up.

What should we do to verify when all we have stored is username, e-mail address, password and various login dates?
Anarchists. But with computers now.
The US government can back the USD with naked force. No faith is required.
In perspective, it hasn't really been that long since the Cold War - most of those lizards are (unfortunately) still alive and pining for the glory days.
It's interesting to see the management more aligned with the Trump admin's take on unionization and the union members more aligned with traditional union stances.

This has many interesting implications. At the moment many industrial unions like Trump's policies, so I bet there is some equivocation in some pockets.

The other thing I'm interested to see is if this strike will deal a final blow to Slate (basically see if they will go down due to principles, but at the same time risk weakening their company)
I've been using Ubuntu/Compiz for a couple years and it has some annoying quirks e.g. child windows that pop up on the wrong monitor! (thank goodness for WIN+SHIFT+arrow keys!!)

But... I have NO desire to go back to Win(10/8) horrible user/developer experience.
Who could have seen that coming
"Impartial" is an admirable aim, but ultimately unreachable and undefinable. We all bring our unique upbringing and view of the world to our creative efforts.

I think most media outlets like Slate gave up chasing this goal. Unfortunately, the consumers have rewarded them for doing so.
The writing is so good
Comixify: Transform video into a comics
Ha.Tossing virtual windows in VR to close is one of my favorite parts of the UI in Echo Arena. Didn't realize someone already implemented that on the desktop.
link to their paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03473
They could also download their Twitter archive which is just a csv https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...
I dont know if that means they didnt understand it. It reads like they were trying to solve the underlying problems with a different approach.

SSH is an awesome tool & capability as a relatively high level network channel. The defacto “shell” approach leads to a lot of problems when used as a management device. It encourages adhoc, unstructured, and opaque changes. Managing your hosts via Secure Shell simply leads to bespoke, unrepeatable, outcomes and crushing debt.

Moving to a well structered, repeatable, management paradigm is the only way to survive large or long term deployments. I see “systems configuration” and “orchestration” as the most common ways to achieve that. Personally Ive been trying to move linux/bsd host management off of SSH for 10 years now. I will be very very happy when SSH shell instantiations approach zero per day.
I've been using TreeStyle tabs for a few months now.

While I love the tool, it definitely has some rough edges with integration.

It has the same problem Firefox Multi-Account Containers has: Trying to change internal UI for an internal feature by using an addon simply isn't practical (yet).
No screenshots, no information, just a painting (the rape of the sabine women) on the landing page? My guess is you're not going to get a lot of traction with this posting.
Vernal pools are an extremely important part of the ecosystem and also play a role in carbon sequestration.

The background of all of this begins with a farmer named Duarte who plowed a wetland on his property and ended up with a huge fine. It became a divisive issue; some cried government overreach, others said he should have listened to the army corps of engineers.

But there’s a reason we have an Environmental Protection Agency — people by-and-large aren’t going to go out of their way to protect these natural resources. There are exceptions, and I know conservation minded farmers — but if you look at the aggregate of farming in America, well, it’s pretty terrible for the environment.
Is there a reason a dog would be more sensitive to flicker than a human?
If all your business logic and validation are on the client side, you have either a trivial app or a security disaster waiting to happen.
People demanding to see evidence are already falling for a trap of a narrow Overton window. The Internet is hostile noise, and it does not really matter "who" hacked whatever - what matters is who created and maintained such ridiculously insecure systems. And no, I'm not talking about the actual servers themselves - but the business practices of keeping a surveillance log of every hotel guest ad infinitum.
seeing "got into Walmart" used like "got into Yale" is so weird and strange to me that it reminds me how increasingly clumpy and centralized everything is becoming in the world.

Instead of a mesh network of equal nodes, we have a tree of exponentially larger nodes (from bottom to top)
I personally feel Expose hit a peak in functionality with 10.5, went downhill with the forced grid and gaudy glowing blue, became useless and slow around Lion or so, and is now finally about back to where it was with Mojave.

In the interim I started using Hyperdock which brings windows 7 style window previews to the Dock and I feel like it scales better to large numbers of windows than anything official from Apple.
I started using type hinting and I'm really loving it. Compared with Java and Scala, where I often feel like I'm in a typing straitjacket, it's really nice to add it gradually to a project as the code base grows. And props to the IntelliJ people; PyCharm makes great use of the type hinting for autocomplete and warning about possible errors.
This would define an AI that classifies if something has jumped the shark or not.
This is a fun visualization but it seems to me it achieves the opposite of what it hopes to - it hides much of the population from view. Vast regions of the world with low population density appear empty - but they aren't empty, they simply have low population density. In aggregate these regions might have more population than the cities, but this visualization highlights dense regions. An individual pixel with a height of 60 in a city might be surrounded by 800 pixels with a height of 1. This is visually indistinguishable from 800 pixels with a height of 0, eliding an obvious difference in meaning.
This looks like a neat idea but the use case seems very specific. I have always found history (which I always alias to “hh”) to be very useful, combined with !<number> to quickly execute previous commands. The README doesn’t do enough to explain exactly how to use it, besides 3 screenshots.
In the comment I replied to, you plainly try to invalidate a policy goal based on it being rolled out near an election, a thing that is pretty much always true (nationally significant elections occur every 2 years...).
[1812.03473v1] Comixify: Transform video into a comics
We're absolutely working with physical stuff still. However, if there's a continuum between mathematics and engineering, I think software is much closer to the former than the latter.

I think 'working with real physical systems which obey physical laws' is necessary, but not sufficient to qualify a discipline as engineering. Architects are not typically engineers by the title, and yet they design real things, and have to worry about some aspects of pragmatic engineering when they work. Neither are applied physicists, even though their work to defines many of tools that engineers use. I'm not sure that the task of creation scales isometrically. I think there's a certain allometric aspect that means that the kind of thinking required at 8 orders of magnitude has a radically different shape to that at 20 orders of magnitude; there are still some hard yeses and hard nos (you can't build a Dyson shell out of adamantium), but the amount of grey area is vastly, non-linearly larger, and requires a lot more ad-hoc construction to work within, and thus strips away the shared language of rigor that engineering has the benefit of operating under.

I hope I haven't made it sound like I think it's completely black and white, and also that I somehow don't think software is hard. I just think it's a different kind of animal, because of the scale that it operates at, and the number of abstractions it depends on, even if it can't embrace them fully and transcend into pure mathematics.
Ask HN: Are there any multiplayer terminal console ascii games?
I am looking for an online game that can be played on the command line and preferably with other human players. Preferably it’s text based. If there isn’t one I’m considering writing one.
I doubt you'd see Microsoft reinvent the wheel here. They'd more likely work to give WSL more ability to interact with Windows, and then let you just use that shell if you want to.
What's your sourcing on all of this?

Everything you just said--if legitimate and if identified via IC-contracted *INT--would with near-certainty be classified and appropriately compartmentalized. If it's research from an outside institution, it'd be more interesting to read it.
An independent one.
I guess that rules out any chance of a port to Wayland.
In this case the humility is unnecessary, as the linked bug report includes Apple WebKit folks acknowledging that it's a bug and pointing to our internal bug tracking it (turns out it has to be fixed below the WebKit level).
The theme of "too many screens/high tech gizmos in favor of doinf things by hand" seems reminiscent of other HN posts discussing the referred-to US Navy accidents. Couldn't help but be reminded of the "Children of Magenta" YouTube video mentioned in those threads on over-reliance on automation and technology in the cockpit of aircraft during non-standard situations.

Thankfully no mortalities in this instance. Will the repevant learning occur?
How did I not know about this keyboard shortcut until now?!? Being able to move a window between different monitors is such a great feature.

Thank you so much. Life will never be the same.
Do not underestimate the value proposition of a DVD player in 2001. It had a huge impact on sales.
They already had group policy for structured administration. What Windows was missing specifically was a non-GUI way for that unstructured "get in there and fix the problem" work flow. Structured workflows may well be better for you, but quick and dirty has a lot of appeal.

Sometimes you just have to give people the candy they want - even if its not good for them.
Which is a technique some memory athletes use to remember things! They often use spatial cues like mentally placing a piece of information somewhere in a room or town.

Maybe the brain prioritizes things placed in the world over ephemeral things.
I liked the Rob Ager video 'the meaning of the monolith revealed', along with 'Kubrick's cover story'. Although these are paywalled video essays.

The $5 version is that the monolith is the movie screen, and that the movie and actors are becoming self aware that they are in a movie. The hints are all in the details, regarding camera angles, lighting, camera positions, and all the arrows telling people to tilt their view.

What really sells it is the documentary/advertisement on how Kubrick is raising money to make the film, and all the industry people he is tapping and getting money from. People really thought it was going to be a hard core 'done right sci-fi' movie, but if you look closer you can see how much of it is stilted, and done incorrectly even though they obviously could have done better.

TL;DR Kubrick played the 'space race propaganda' hysteria of the mid 1960's to finance and make his art house film about actors being aware of how they are making a movie.
Wow, that's a throwback. It's amazing how little things like that can get you started tinkering.

I remember the excitement when my old distro of choice (Mandriva) added compiz support, and then it turned out to be so difficult to get it working (also on an Inspiron, incidentally).

Trying to get the kernel modules for Virtualbox working also took an ungodly amount of time for me when I was just starting to tinker with this stuff.
There is no such thing as "self sovereign".
Hold down the Windows key to get a nifty shortcut cheat sheet.
You can even offer 0 equity, but pretty sure if you offer a $180k salary you'll have a flock of new grads apply.

The reason you're not getting enough new grads is probably because your compensation isn't competitive enough.
$14B is ~0.4% of $3422B, not 0.004%. You’re off by a factor of 100.
It's called a MUD.
None of their leverage hinges on laws. Laws are a caching layer for rights, which are inalienable. Their leverage hinges on a capacity to organize one another and express their interests.
The number is extreme... but it's worth noting that Facebook and Google both manage more users, often with more complex information, including people intentionally trying to break and trick their systems - at very low cost.

(I'm not sure if Google/FB spend 0.10 per user, but it sure ain't anywhere near $100).

I think with a sensibly simplified tax code, and FAANG-level technical innovation, IRS costs could enter that range.
I don’t think they have to use xrays. I heard that they spin the boards and measure the angular momentum with very sensitive equipment. I don’t know how you could get around that.
If you enable anti-fingeprinting option in firefox you basically forced to spend minutes on google captcha training minefield. And sometimes you never pass it, it just refresh tiles indefinitely.
> Somewhat incidentally, but I believe this is a large part of why, to me, software development is not an engineering discipline. At the end of the day, engineers (I think; not actually being one myself) have to answer to physics

So do computer scientists! Random access memory isn't constant time, but logarithmic for physical reasons. Cache effects can dominate big-O for a surprisingly large range of input sizes.
I really wish someone had an answer for this. But I'm not sure there is one.
Internet was invented in 1983. Even before that, newsgroups already existed as UUCP. When internet appeared, UUCP was adapted to the internet right away.

So on year 1, internet provided unique and useful functionality -- one could exchange information with thousands of people all around the world very quickly. This was pretty revolutionary, there really was no similar services.

(fun sample articles: http://www.eightyeightynine.com/culture/80susenet.html )
"One less kernel" here didn't refer to them having a linux kernel and not needing it, it referred to them having and maintaining NT but not needing it (instead, utilizing an external Linux kernel).
Cheap, off-brand USB chargers often have poor or no circuit isolation. Some have even been tested to expose one leg of full AC current to the USB ground. Not a problem until you're between that and a ground.
Yep - because they're market economies.

Index of economic freedom:

Sweden 76.3

US 75.7

Norway 74.3

Finland 74.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
I’m not a sailor, but I was struck when touring various mueseum ships, including ships in service into the late 70s. They were pretty barebones in terms of equipment, comfort and distraction.

With the light distraction of screens, reliance on automated systems, reduced crew levels, and leadership focused on things other than sailing ships, it seems to be an argument that has some merit to me.
To add, Multi-User Dungeons are games you can connect to via Telnet.
This

The Dreamcast sold well at release and some time after (in North America at least), however Sega's financial situation was bad they didn't have loads of cash like Sony or probably even Nintendo at the time.
The system was selling well but not well enough for Sega to recoup it's financials.
Also EA boycotted the system completely and was not publishing games for it. Add to that the hype of the PS2.

Just a perfect storm for Sega, even though they really made good console correcting a lot of their earlier mistakes.

From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast

Moore stated that the Dreamcast would need to sell 5 million units in the U.S. by the end of 2000 in order to remain a viable platform, but Sega ultimately fell short of this goal with some 3 million units sold.

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The Gamecube sold about 3.8 million first year and the PS2 9Million something first year
AFAIK, the only way that you can even set a system wide environment variable without using the GUI is by using Powershell to modify the system registry.
Merry Christmas!

Now if someone can fix another bloody annoying thing i.e.: file dialog box... filename is highlighted... start typing... it directs the input somewhere else (into a search field). Such a basic and annoying UI faux pas!
https://www.digitalocean.com/customers/

A pretty decent list of high profile tech companies are listed on their customer page.
My now favorite example for what you describe is this blog post "I no longer understand my PhD dissertation". However, it's worse, even the same person experiences this - because over time we are different people.

To quote from the blog post:

> I was curious to see how much of the dissertation I can still grasp, five years after the fact. I figured it couldn’t hurt my ego if I refreshed my mind with past mathematical glories.

> How wrong I was.

> This was not the casual read I had in mind. The notation was alien. I even had to scour the examiner’s report to direct me to the key results. And while I could have sworn this was a well-written thesis, I repeatedly found myself bamboozled by my own prompts. “The result now follows easily…” may have made sense back when, but now the author-turned-confused reader can profess that it most certainly does not follow easily, at least in his own mind.

https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/ai-no-longer-understand-my-phd-...
You should consult your GDPR specialized attorney on these matters to insure you are in legal compliance. When this law came into effect you should have drafted corporate rules and requirements for user validation and processes for how to handle users that did not have all of this information to help determine if their requests could be legally invalidated or other means of validation. This would also help protect your company insuring you would exhaust all legal measures allowed to properly process requests while still protecting your company.

If you are not a company you should consult a GDPR specialized attorney to help draft up processes for handling these matters to help insure you are in legal compliance and properly protect yourself legally.
Finally a Google Shopping List App for Android
The dramatic drop in market value and paltry transaction volumes for starters.
You need to get into political satire writing :)
Wat? Who believed Romero was going to make anyone his bitch? That marketing was such a failure Romero himself won't even own it. In an interview he deferred responsibility for it to the marketing/PR folks and was apologetic to the gaming community.
Compiz was always about cool looking bling, it was never really meant to be functional, just something you could burn unused C/GPU cycles on and were usually only in a few places.

When animation became more ubiquitous (in app) it got toned down a lot and when those sorts of animations are turned off you notice the speed increase and that your brain can do the visual diff just fine.

There are still plenty of visual bling you can add to i3wm without sacrificing the "instantaneous" of it though.
The Economist is good, but tiring. They are sort of like an old school “chamber of commerce” republican version of NPR.

The writing is good and interesting, until to read for a year and realize that formula is pretty much the same, and you can predict the arc of the article after reading a paragraph.
You sound like a white nationalist ranting about the Jews.
In Crane Brinton's "The Anatomy of Revolution" he analyzes the English, French, American and Russian revolutions. One of the conclusions is that revolutionary events tend to occur during times of rising expectations. The tyrant gives the proles a little freedom or a crumbs of bread and they start to expect continued improvement.

https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Revolution-Crane-Brinton/dp/0...
TrueOS = PC-BSD

It's been ~10 years since I used PC-BSD, but it was certainly a nice distro.
Yeah, it struck me as switching to Linux so you could run glxgears.
Inside a Google Summit on Diversity and Inclusion
OPNsense. FreeBSD based firewall and routing platform
Silicon Valley meets Hollywood: Quibi to spend $1B on creation of 10-min content
They hit a balance of price, simplicity and I'm sure they will be there tomorrow though.
There’s a recipe in the new Appalachian cookbook by Ronnie Lundy, Victuals.
I would love to see an analysis of HN comments. I don't even know if there is already a dataset of all HN comments to analysis or if someone would have to scrape..

It feels to me either my personal bias of where I think the world opinion stands is off (e.g. # of ulta-defensive of China comments > I expect), or there is in fact organized pro-china comments. Maybe a mix of both!
I’m the farthest thing in the world from an open source zealot. But, I can’t think of a single company that lives or dies by its source code being a secret.

If I had all of the source code from any of the FAANG companies what would I do with it? The only one that may be valuable is Google and I could make a killing from knowing how to do SEO. But even then it would take an army of very smart developers to figure it out.
On the other hand the context of this discussion is

> back to the pre-George H.W. Bush era

The comment you objected to was, in my reading, mainly noting that this was reverting to the policy in place nearly 2 full presidencies after said era.
I know nothing about Rust beyond what it generally is, but how can one be expected to be proficient in a language in only a few week or even months? I’d say you need at least 3-6 months of solid usage in any language before you become “proficient” but it could take years or even a lifetime to truly master one. And of course that really depends on your background and previous experiences with programming languages in general. Is Rust really that hard?
Poor people should get slower internet speeds, American ISPs tell FCC
Looks great, simple tool to quickly see some info.

One note i have is the gif demo is so fast i can't see easily what content it is you show.

I often use http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/visual+event+2 as a bookmarklet to quickly see what elements trigger what events.

It would be great if your tool could be a bookmarklet as well just to reduce dependencies in the actual code.
> we actually ban those things in most situations due to the damage they do

We can disagree on personal liberties but not on history. The history of drug prohibition is rife with the oppression of minorities. Here's something to consider: http://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/race-and-drug-war

> "It's my body and I'll do what I want with it. You're not my mom!!"

That's really patronizing and doesn't help your argument at all.

It's clear your mind is made up so I won't push the issue, but while you are well-intended you appear to be rather naive about this subject.

Being that your attitude helps prop up this madness and actually contributes to more misery, I can't help but strongly resent your nanny-state inclinations.