skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GDPR applies to a lot of things that are not mediated by the data subject's web browser. For example, when your grocery store takes your purchase history (from your rewards card) and sells it to a marketing or credit reporting agency. Or when housing or job applications are rejected by error-prone automated background checks. The website stuff may be more visible, but it's not the main thrust of the legislation except insofar as it has exposed how many websites are collecting and trading in your information.
This reminds me of Mark Twain's "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" [0].

The volume of knowledge the protagonist displays is phenomenal, in my opinion.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86
Here's salawat's comment on a flagged thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19382641
PayPal adds instant transfer feature for bank accounts
i don't think i ever saw that. which browser?
https://www.reddit.com/r/RimworldArt/

i.e. https://i.redd.it/hkb0dqet17k21.png
Argentina: Whatsapp works for text, but any type of media takes very long to send.
I've had good luck with the HP zbook studio line. The latest g5 version is quite polished and high end.
A nuclear war could take out an AWS region and we'd get an "increased error rates" informational message.
That doesn't solve the

> [...] my expert says your expert is wrong and so it is/isn't fraud.
I experienced issues with Drive last night but it was never fully down. I was trying to work on a 500GB file and the API would drop the link intermittently. I could parse the directory no problem, just couldn't reliably access the files.
Do you need a fast laptop? No one I know actually does (although I’m sure some people do). Text editing and web browsing don’t require much horsepower. In my opinion, compiling shouldn’t happen on a laptop in the first place: this is why one of my friends has a mega-sized server than he just runs builds and trains ML models on.

An old laptop will run any Linux distro flawlessly and be equally snappy (as in, low-latency disk reads, fast boot times, many applications open) as a current-gen one if you put in a fast SSD and max out the RAM.

I know that this topic is controversial, but it strikes me as odd how many people seem to equate software engineering with a monster laptop, when many of us get lots of work done on smaller, less beefy client devices, offloading the real heavy lifting to a machine that can handle it.
I think it has more to do with an anti-authoritarianism attitude than anything else.
If a third 737 Max 8 were to crash before a root cause of this crash can be determined, would you then say it's a prudent move to ground them all? What about a fourth? Fifth?

Is your position that any grounding of the planes is unjustified until the full root cause is determined, or that "only" two crashes isn't enough to justify this action?

While I would always rather understand root cause -- and it's absolutely essential to get there eventually -- the world is full of imperfect information and assumptions are sometimes all you have.
This is shameful. I have no words. It's practically a verbatim copy. Of course, getting the font sizes wrong, because it's Android. But other than that, just shameful. It doesn't even look like Material design. I seriously hope they change it before release.

It's like the engineer in charge of the feature couldn't get a hold of a designer and so had to make the design himself... so he just took if off his own phone.
I'm pretty sure the cookies thing predates GDPR
Along with the proximity to the American border and the duty-free purchasing allowed, CETA opened up broader quotas on importing dairy products from Europe without tariffs, _and buyers are not availing themselves of the full extent of it_. There is no extraction of undue economic profits because consumers can, and yet do not, access other markets without tariff.

There is no monetary or financial assistance provided, none whatsoever.
I disagree that "instability is not a problem". In military aircraft that are unstable it's common for everyone in the plane to be in an ejector seat or to have a parachute. Can you provide statistics on how many (or what proportion of) military planes with inherent instabilities routinely carry passengers without parachutes?
He's really gone off the deep end and I'm wondering if this isn't a little bit of mental illness.

I'm WAY less bullish on Tesla than I was a year ago.

His behavior is insane. The value of the Tesla just isn't there either and it COULD be but the over-promising and under-delivering needs to end.
Argh! Confused it with median. No kudos then!
Have we got to the point where we don’t know where our friends live, their phone numbers, their email addresses and Facebook is the only way to contact them? Social networks didn’t exist not too long ago. People met up.
Come off it. Being closed source has nothing to do with it.
Helicopters scare the hell out of me because they resemble nothing that's natural.
I’ve been hearing this since 1997 when the first Data Protection directive happened. The enforcement never happens unless it’s serving a political goal, such as singling out a Chinese company or whatever.
Yes. If you would balk at multiple SWE years worth of work to move to microservices because of all the opportunity costs for your business, microservices aren't for you.
>In fairness it can add up pretty quickly on popular sites.

Aye, if they're only looking at it from a "cookie placement/tracking or nothing" hard-limit perspective, which is what the OC posited it as.

...but if other sites can absorb the costs, case in point: NPR, why is it such a dastardly evil thing to point out? Is there some foolhearted belief that if we cut tracking, tomorrow, the internet would cease to function? Is there absolutely no room for advertisements without cookies/pixels in the modern world...? Do we really believe that it's that expensive to serve webpages?
Do you think that Oracle's lawyers missed that when they said in court documents that Google made $31B on Android? A number that Google didn't dispute...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-google-lawsuit/ora...
Joe and Jill are fairly efficient in keeping their scopes narrow on usability.

So, if signing were properly featured, then the failing emails would get burried in Spam folder, even more, the email client could block the 'Click here so I could screw you' links in such emails, and more choices how to integrate it in common user's flow.

However, the other question is rather if the email signing would still serve the purpose in case when the system/server gets compromized, keys stolen. Did any major company paid off fully what's due for losing away scores of users' private details?

The errosion of trust may be more detrimental to Joes and Jills outhere.
I like to invite people to climb into the pool as opposed to just tossing them in at the deep end :)
Jokes, typically hint at a truth or belief of the comedian. I'm not saying it's a bad joke, I actually liked it. I was merely making an observation which apparently a lot of people disliked, and it looks (based on the upvote/downvote feedback) I am probably wrong.

It might just be because a lot of people around here read thishttp://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html and think that any joke means it's a bad comment. IDK. As I said I thought your comment was funny.
Have you looked at Thinkpad? You could run linux on Carbon X1 and have ultra-mobile package with i7. $1500 but you have one of the best laptops in the market in my view - keyboard, screen, size, weight, feel, specs, battery life, etc. I own the latest Macbook Pro 15 and Carbon X1 6th gen. I want to pick up my thinkpad more than the MacBook. I find Aluminum not a good material for laptops - it is uninviting, heavy and cold to touch. Thinkpad Carbons use magnesium and carbon fiber body thats light and coated with soft touch paint. It is just fantastic.
Agreed, and this is where some set of standardization is needed for antitrust law.

Store doesn't mean much. There needs to be a difference between hosting an online store that sells your own products and services, and hosting an online platform that sells your own things but also allows other businesses to sell on it as well.

The latter needs more guidelines on how the host ensures competition, especially when it starts to get market dominance and abuses control of the platform to promote it's own products.
That was a great read. I was looking for more recent background regarding Qatar's involvement. What befuddled me is why the US needs to be involved with Haiti selling its debt to Qatar? Is that out of comfort, necessity, or something else? I can see the US playing the role of a broker. However, the powers-that-be in Haiti must want to stay aligned with Venezuela instead of the US/Qatar if they do not want to sell the debt to Qatar.
2/18 and 1/9 are equal.
I'm sure they mean something like "if the user chooses no, make your website work without cookies".
> it applies to pages being served to EU citizens, wherever they happen to be at the moment.
So geolocation is not a satisfactory option.

Completely false. Citizenship has nothing to do with GDPR. It's all about location.

An EU resident visiting the United States is not covered by GDPR while in the United States. An EU Citizen living in Los Angeles is not covered by GDPR. A Tunisian illegal immigrant in Berlin is covered by GDPR.

The 2012 draft of GDPR founded jurisdiction on the passive responsibility principle, which, while highly controversial, would, in fact have applied GDPR protections based on nationality of the person and not the location. However, that's not in the final version of the law. In Article 3, "resident" has been replaced with "data subjects who are in the Union."

"In the Union" means, inside the European Union. Which means the law's protections do not extend to those not inside the EU. The jurisdiction is unambiguous and crystal clear. Not a single word in Article 3 suggests that a Frenchman in Peru is covered by GDPR. Which means that your statement "wherever they happen to be at the moment" is false.

Here is the actual text of Article 3: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/

It seems that there still exists an incredible amount of ignorance about GDPR. It feels like people are reading analysis from others who are reading analysis from others and very view have actually read the actual law themselves. Or worse, people are using their memory of years-ago discussions about provisions or language that isn't in the actual final regulation and contributing to this completely wrong narrative such as "The law doesn't just apply to pages being served to the EU, it applies to pages being served to EU citizens, wherever they happen to be at the moment." That's 100% false. It's the exact opposite of the truth.

The fact on territorial scope is that GDPR covers an identifiable natural person inside the EU. It doesn't care about nationalities. It only cares about location. Geolocation is absolutely a satisfactory option, because an EU resident, citizen or whatever sitting in a Starbucks in Seoul, is not covered by GDPR. No matter how badly people might wish that to be false, the words in the actual regulation say otherwise.
I think there is no alternative because it pays to much. It works both ways.
Even if you look at the 3 month chart. They are still above where they were at the end of January.
SOA also brings up memories of soul destroying ESB's.

I would love a resurgence of discussions about services and how to best build and govern those without always resulting in a focus on the micro versions.

How are people building a modern IT landscape consisting of different services and system?
I mean, you don't have to download apps through a website if you don't want to.

It is everyone's full legal right to do whatever they want with their phone. Including downloading apps from websites.
Ask HN: Does YC ask for option pool and pro-rata rights for their standard deal?
I have received an angel investment offer from an incubator in SV. They are offering 125K at 4m valuation using original YC safe style docs. They have asked for pro-rata rights, 10% option pool and 3% common advisory stock(post-option pool).

I am looking to apply to YC this week. I am afraid that my current offer might not wait until I hear anything from the YC application process. So, choices for me are take the money now or wait for YC application process and probably get nothing. One thing I would like to know if any YC founder is reading this post, does YC also ask for option pool creation and pro-rata rights for their standard deal(7% for 150K)?
GDPR is actually 0% about cookie warnings, because that's an entirely separate piece of legislation. But yes, the online stuff in general is maybe 10% of GDPR tops, and half of that is what goes on behind your back.
You walk down the street and pass by me waiting for the bus. I write down in my diary "Today, scrollaway walked by me while I was waiting for the bus." Who owns what I wrote in my diary?
diff, branch, merge, blame, stash
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What is it about Dell that you hate? Anyways, Thinkpads are also held in high esteem for running Linux. I'm currently using a Dell XPS (2016 model) at home and a Thinkpad at my current customer project, both running Ubuntu 16.04, and I can recommend both. I chose the Thinkpad over a MacBook Pro, and would do again, but the display and touchpad is no match to Dell's, much less Apple's; that's however no problem because the thing is hooked on a docking station/two monitors/external keyboard.
Especially one that isn't currently making money, presumably if Apple wasn't engaging in anti-market strategies they would have more revenue.

How much, I have no clue - but if they can't even have a "get premium now" button in the app then that's insane to me. The 30% fee Apple would take isn't a real alternative either, it's still not profitable.
Not to start the flame war, but whats the appeal of Linux for software engineering, if you want the "it just works" approach of designed from the ground up experience?

Don't Chrome books provide you what you need for software engineering?
Are you saying that a cold-war-era system like the internet/arpanet meant to survive a nuclear war might be vulnerable to an attack if we take all the code and data and store it in the same place?

:-)
Hahah. my bad.
The difference is that for a mobile app, it's either apple's way or highway(more like nothing). You can't very well be a significant app developer by ignoring iOS. And apple does not allow users to sideload your app on the store. So the amazon analogy is disingenuous at best. You can still operate a website or dozens of other ecommerce platforms to sell your goods. But without app store, there is no way for you to reach iOS users. iOs users are almost 50% of mobile users and contribute much higher percentage of revenue.
This isn't narrowing down markets until we find a monopoly. This is a trillion dollar company abusing access to their captive market. The only option for users is to leave their ecosystem and lose access to all of their purchases. If that isn't covered by current anti-trust law, then the law is outdated and should be changed.
I consider my relationship with Messenger separate from FB. Most of my conversations happen there. I've deleted FB from my phone, but I don't think I could ever go without Messenger.
Boeing Flies on 99% Ada (2010)
> There is nothing to suggest that Vulkan is now required.

From the article:

"We're working together with our device manufacturer partners to make Vulkan 1.1 a requirement on all 64-bit devices running Android Q and higher, and a recommendation for all 32-bit devices."
Not that this really helps.

The moment someone else puts up a picture that you happen to be in (esp. family, friends) and then tags it with your name -- your image and name be scooped and cataloged.
See this PDF: https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf:

"On March 13, 2019, the investigation of ET302 crash developed new information from the wreckage concerning the aircraft's configuration just after takeoff that, taken together with new ly refined data from satellite-based tracking of the aircraft's flight path, indicates some similarities between the ET302 and JT610 accidents that warrant further investigation of the possibility of a shared cause for the two incidents that needs to be better understood and addressed"
By that point, though, the people who had guns (i.e., the military) supported the overthrow of the existing order. It certainly wouldn't have happened with their active opposition.
Previous discussion in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250646
Here's a clip of the Hotel Hell episode featuring the credit card book: https://youtu.be/0dtZ7a8K1Ow?t=136
Cells are extremely crowded. In fact, some processes like protein folding require crowdiness, if it's missing it can misfold.

Realistic animation: http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/28234
Worth noting: 150 of the A320 count may be Germanwings Flight 9525 (unless you already accounted for this) - which was suicide by pilot.

Not really fair to blame the plane in that case.
The Pixel slate didn't fair so well in all the reviews though.
With one sensor you have no choice but to simply trust the reading and hope for the best.

With two sensors you can compare, and if they disagree beyond some epsilon of tolerance you can fail safe by deactivating the system.

With three sensors, you can compare them, and if one is out of bounds vs the other two, you can fail operational by continuing to operate the system while also alerting the operator to the needed maintenance.
Unless you can "earn your keep", you will not have any time to follow your aspirations because your entire existence will be dedicated to basic survival. You are Baker and Charlie[1] spending all day fishing, while Abel can follow his aspirations because he has capital and does not need to spend his entire waking hours wondering whether or not he's going to be hungry tomorrow.

I'll give that there is no point in "work for the sake of work", and that bullshit jobs probably shouldn't exist, but the real question comes down to this: If you are not going to earn your own keep, who is going to earn it for you? Why the hell should somebody else's effort be spent sustaining you when they could be following their own aspirations. A 5-year old can understand this, but apparently many college educated westerners cannot (It usually clicks after they start paying their taxes)

[1]:http://freedomschool.us/how-an-economy-grows.pdf
Designing novel algorithms is very hard. You can borrow some ideas from the existing literature, but you have to figure out how to apply them to your problem and that can take some nontrivial inspiration.

I have one paper with a few new algorithms in it and that took me several years to write in grad school. The algorithms themselves aren't that complicated, but the concepts and theorems we had to come up with to support them required some genuine insight.
Thanks for this, found a review of Authentic8 Silo: https://uk.pcmag.com/password-managers/3921/authentic8-silo

Looks like they have been around a while (5+ years), and from their website https://www.authentic8.com, they are focused on the improved endpoint security aspect:

"The Browser for a Zero Trust Web"

> Traditional browsers run on blind trust. Silo assumes zero trust by running the browser in the cloud.

> Web code can’t be trusted. Organizations know that every page view means risk to the business. Silo restores your trust in the web through isolation, control and audit of the browser.

> Isolate: Silo executes all web code on our servers. Nothing touches your endpoint, and untrusted endpoints can’t corrupt your environment or your data.

> Mitigate risk: Shift your attack surface area off your network and devices to disposable, anonymous cloud infrastructure.

I am intrigued, wonder how well they are doing, and how well it works. Somewhat expensive, I've heard $10/month and $100/year for individuals. No online live free demo, but available on request.

With the Epitactic Cloud Browser, I'm only running the VPS temporarily as a demo, the way I envision it end-users can run their own instance either on a home server or virtual server, maintaining control and privacy.
In fact there's some work done to support them. For instance, it calls SDL_NumJoysticks once per frame to give DFHack a convenient hook location... ...

...that's my fault.
It's easy to tell who's pulling their weight in a company of a couple dozen, but beyond that it's near impossible. And frankly what I've seen is that a company is more likely to use it's capital to block competition than to become more efficient. And even efforts that are on their face about becoming more efficient like layoffs, instead tend to be more about internal power struggles than gaining efficiency.
If supply and demand matters then it would seem employment does not exist because of societal wish for people to justify their existence with madeup jobs, but rather because of many independent decisions between workers and employers. This was my point.
Since the article doesn't really make it clear, the author "MRY" is Mark R. Yohalem (https://www.mto.com/lawyers/mark-r-yohalem), whose RPG writing credits include Torment: Tides of Numenera (https://www.inxile-entertainment.com/torment) and Primordia (http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/p/primordia.html).
Maemo's Web used to do that if I recall correctly.
Nope. Even if it were true in avionics (not my trade), not « any » safety system need triple redundancy to be safe (e.g. safety relays).
iOS users have a web browser, no?
Even Boeing itself started calling for the grounding of the Max 8:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/boeing-requests-faa-ground...

Something is terribly wrong when the regulator that's supposed to keep people safe is less willing to do that then the company that stands to lose the most from the bad image of a product.
I feel we're about due for another round of

"It makes programming so easy that anyone could do it because it's basically like writing English!"
> This shows utter incompetence and detachment from reality by European legislators.

> Surely there are solutions that don't require a popup on every webpage you visit? For example enforcing no tracking by default for advertising purposes?

Wait, what? There are such solutions. GDPR, and the "cookie law" before it, don't "require" any popups.

They allow cookies, 1x1 pixel images, browser fingerprinting, Flash supercookies, browser local storage, etc. without any need for stupid popups... as long as that's required to implement the site's functionality. Consent for these things is implied by the user's use of the functionality (e.g. game scoreboards, saving word processor documents, keeping track of a user's shopping cart, etc.).

What these laws do require is that handling such personal data without such implied consent, should require explicit consent. This acts as a disincentive for sites who want to continue spying on their visitors, by forcing the UX to be more annoying and dissuade visitors from staying.

> the only practical significant impact is that browsing the web has become more annoying.

Sounds like the dissuasion is working. Hopefully that is causing spyware sites to receive fewer visitors (and perhaps revenue), and potentially rethink their decisions.
Fast / accurate floating point division with known divisor
And Boeing recommended it, which was (finally) the smart move on their part. It's the only way to regain the public's confidence. If one more 737 Max had fallen out of the sky, it would have meant the end of the company. At least this way, Boeing is getting out in front of the problem. Better late than never.
Uhm, you know how Xerox got famous only a few years ago for messing up when scanning some characters? E.g. 9 and 6, or 8 and 0.

Of course things should be good with that method. But they should also be good with some proper crypto.
Linux has high DPI fixes and moves to GTK3. Great to see my favourite text editor cares about Linux!
And once you learn to love the TrackPoint, the touchpad won’t matter any longer.