skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how often we'll repeat the error of treating user privacy as something the user cares deeply about (against all this observable evidence to the contrary) before we accept that the well-demonstrated-and-documented default is users do not care (and if we want the behavior of websites to change, step 1 is educating users as to why they should care and what the risk models are).
How graphic do you want me to be?

If you know, you are obviously one of the people who has that data. If you don't know, you aren't.

If I was an ad network I would love to hear about your porn habits. I would absolutely love it.

Such networks don't have to know whether or not and the exact moment a given user jerks it. Though, it would actually be better if you were actively browsing around and not jerking it currently. I guess that's why discovery and AI are so bad on porn sites. It's actually better for their ad revenue!
GDPR absolutely does not do "more harm than good". It extends well, well beyond these dumb cookie warnings.

GDPR puts the citizen/customer in power of their own data. They can ask for their data, they can ask for it to be deleted, they have (however shitty the UX) control over where it goes. They can contact large corporations and request these things and be heard out.

I don't know how to explain it any other way: These things are fucking important.

As for your organization's GDPR expert who doesn't know anything about anything, this sounds like a "your organization" problem. Replace GDPR with some other acronym such as HIPAA, PCI or even SEO or PHP, it's still your organization's fault for hiring someone who doesn't know their stuff. How is that GDPR's fault?

Edit: Yes, keep downvoting facts. GDPR isn't just cookie warnings, how is that controversial?
There shouldn't even be any such thing as normalized strings, i.e. two different Unicode sequences that are supposed to be the same character.
Beginner oil paint set < $30USD: https://www.amazon.com/Oil-Painting-Deluxe-Art-Set/dp/B07813...

Bob Ross: https://www.youtube.com/user/BobRossInc
> I don’t think it’s a simple as saying the US airlines and FAA are simply being greedy and placing profit over safety.

No. It all comes down to as simple as "better safe than sorry" philosophy. FAA have generally very conservative about air safety tolerance as they should. The normal response should be "we know 737 is safe", because we have data showing that over 10k+ deliveries and less than 3% had hull loss. Can FAA say that to Boeing 737Max8 today?! So instead of being conservative they are being bold and saying "we don't know if 737 Max is not safe because investigation has not been concluded." You see the difference now?

More and more evidence revealing that FAA/Boeing are placing profit over safety. Do you think FAA have a problem grounding AirBus planes with non hull loss accidents? Absolutely Not! In fact, they did exactly that in 2018 to AirBus 320neo [1]

> Let the downvotes begin.

This is the behavior to directly violate the HN rules. But having a minority opinion doesn't.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/pratt-sai...
So, all of them?
Without Android, Apple would likely have the vast majority of market share on mobile. Apple would be charging Google even more than they do already (billions) to be the default search engine on safari.
I'm sure there's some good reason not do it, so I'll ask if anyone here knows: why doesn't the law just require some technical implementation that can be automated? Why can't the law just specify something similar to the DNT header (finer grained) and require compliance with that?
I'd be surprised if that is not the case. No way they could have gotten this far without at least this minimum level of version control.
It looks like the US has reversed its position and the 737 Max is being grounded. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/business/canada-737-max.h...
OK, people have to be fired from such jobs, because they produce negative value. It's not these people's fault, though.

Imagine that they are fired. How do they earn their subsistence? Earth is now too crowded to live by hunting, and subsistence farming is even worse than wage slavery. The only available option is some kind of organized work for the marketplace.
NixOS kind of fits the bill (it can generate complete OS images from a recipe which is IIRC statically typed and "compiled")

If it looks waaaay different to puppet, ansible and chef, there's a reason for that :) Doing provisioning "properly" means managing every file on the drive...
FWIW, Trump just ordered the 737Max to be grounded, not sure whether it's despite of FAA decision or overriding them.
You would think so, but this graphic says otherwise

https://i.imgur.com/ir65AOr.jpg
The FAA Just Grounded Every 737 Max in the US
I'm looking forward to the upcoming announcement of a Google game console in 2019 [0], and the subsequent announcement that it has been discontinued in 2022.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/all-signs-point-to-a...
While this is axiomatic: "It would be nonsensical for parents to not provide for their children." It is equally true that governments, if they want the best-performing society and economy, should heavily counter-balance the privilege of the children of the wealthy with scholarships, public education, training, tax policy, and anti-discrimination policy.
Except there are limited resources. We haven’t learnt to exist without a parasitic relationship to something/someone else. And that ‘host’ as it were..is constrained and not limitless. Even the sun will disappear after a time..admittedly after a very very very long passage of time..but even solar energy ..our sun’s energy..isn’t ‘renewable’ in the bigger picture.

Also.. about the occurrence of more Mozarts..and Einsteins...they will be tempered with more Hitlers and depressingly even higher proportion of ‘average joes’ who will all consume more than they produce. That’s when the cart will tilt and tip.

I fear we have all passed carrying capacity long time ago. For our planet, about a billion is a good number. If we want to be ‘fruitful and multiply’ we will have to find other suitable habitats for ourselves or alter ourselves(genetically is one way) to be compatible with our new environment.

This is assuming there is no other life forms out there that is already completing and searching for resources.

Having said that, I have become more comfortable with the notion that rather than numbers, quality of being is better. Human evolution is random mutations. We are products of a chaotic unpredictable fickle system. That’s scary. I wouldn’t want to perpetuate or encourage it unless we have some understanding or grasp over who we are and where we are..
An expired certificate, for instance.

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/expired-certificate-ericsso...
I want that to exist, too. Skype gets crappier with every release, and there's nothing out there like a modern-day ICQ/AIM.

I worry about how hard it would be to do these days, though-- in addition to the Windows/Mac/Linux clients that you've always needed, your app has to work on iPhone and Android (including their many variations), and don't forget the web app! Plus audio/video chat.

Image/file uploading is pretty tricky, too. If you dragged an image into an IRC channel, nothing would happen and that was normal. But now people except it to be automatically uploaded to cloud storage, resized, stripped of metadata, and shown in the chat view for all to see. Features like this are deceptively hard, and there are many of them.

All of that is just to be feature-competitive with the stuff people are already using, before you get to the absurd difficulty of getting people to switch away from Discord.
Man Who Grounded Dreamliner Says FAA Should Ground 737, Too
Only if you consider the total amount of time during which the plane has been in business an irrelevant detail.

Which it is not, of course.
Since the OP touches on serial fiction and the types of dynamics that might arise if length restrictions on books were removed by technology, this post [0] by successful web serial writer Wildbow provides an interesting response. The relationship with the audience and the need for consistency become paramount for a successful serial fiction author.

[0] https://wildbow.wordpress.com/2017/05/22/thoughts-on-writing...
... and users appear to disagree on whether there's a wound to seal.
The omnipresent "Please accept our privacy policy (or leave)" is worthless cargo cult GDPR pseudo-compliance. If it's neither freely given nor informed, it's not consent under GDPR.

See Art. 7: "When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract."

See Recital 32: "Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data ... This could include ticking a box when visiting an internet website ... Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent."

If you want to use external tracking and be GDPR-compliant, you must offer a clear choice ("yes/no") and you must not use pre-ticked boxes (i.e. an opt-out approach).

Please feel free to downvote this if you don't like it, but I'm merely telling you what the law says. If you disagree factually, I'd appreciate a comment though.
I think Troy's point though is that if you understand the situation. You already have lots of tools at your disposal to opt out. It's not easy, but you know and can to some extent do it.

Meanwhile everyone else doesn't understand these pop ups, doesn't know anything more post GDPR, and they just roll through them and get tracked just the same.

In effect we have big annoying pop ups and little seems to have changed. If we care about the ideas behind GDPR, I think we have to recognize that it may be failing miserably in practice.
Do you have Clang tests which are more recent than 8 years ago? Or, especially, any which were validated and accepted upstream?
I have tried to pick up drawing/painting as an adult, I felt it to be much easier to make progress than trying to learn a foreign language or learn a musical instrument.

Most important thing is learning to see things better, to gauge their shapes and proportions more clearly so that one can represent them on paper. I also felt it is surprisingly easy to emulate from how other people are painting/drawing esp from youtube videos, etc.

John Ruskin wrote that "But I have never yet, in the experiments I have made, met with a person who could not learn to draw at all; and in general there is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly as all persons gave the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree, if their lot in life requires them to possess such knowledge."

I heartily recommend John Ruskin, "The Elements of Drawing" to all. A chance reading of that book, lead me to trying my hand at drawing/painting.
Thanks!

That was essentially my envisioned use case, as well. Not only for devices that won't run JS but those where you might not want to. For example, a lot of news websites are surprisingly JavaScript heavy, slow and buggy, not something I necessarily want to run if I merely want to read what the news is talking about. Public read-only sites. Granted, arguably services like outline.com and archive.is already cover this use case better.

As for sites requiring credentials, the way I see it users could run the cloud browser on their own server. This has benefits even for public sites, adding additional privacy. However it is not something this Cloud Browser really supports yet, since there is no support for forms, text fields, or other interactivity with the exception of hyperlinks.
I thought that was up to the FAA, but maybe it is an executive order.
Maybe Intel should only allow Apple to run Intel approved apps on Intel Mac's, because it's Intel's CPU running the show? And what about the modem chip vendors? Shouldn't Qualcomm put a firewall in firmware and filter all traffic on the iPhone that it hasn't approved? What about the ISP carrying those packets? Shouldn't they lay claim to packet ownership?

This platform ownership piffle Apple has sold for eons is pure horse shit, and the EU regulators will rule as such. Simply put, a fridge manufacturer cannot control what items get stored and cooled in the fridge, after the customer has paid in full for both the fridge and the item. And the fridge manufacturer certainly cannot restrict items only sold though it's own stores
Lots and lots and lots of devices with google services and chrome. That bring ads. That bring money. A lot of money.
Yes, so?
* Simplistic world generation that doesn't really have a concept of weather or geography/climate.

* No liquid simulation (water/lava) with little physics simulation (falling/flying objects etc)

* Simplistic combat simulation

* No world politics simulation that dictates what happens in the world

* No 3D is the biggest one. RimWorld is Dwarf Fortress as it was a decade ago with a single 2D sheet.
This shouldn't be Trump announcing the ban. Either FAA or Secretary of Transportation should be announcing the grounding of flights. Its just odd to me that Trump would be involved...
Building Angular and React Applications Together
the problem with rimworld is that there's too much micro and that the amount of emergent behavior is extremely limited compared to DF. There's no freedom to create and there's no serendipity. There's randomness but it's not nearly the same thing.

Rimworld took DF and removed all the innovative elements to fit it into a more traditional base building game. Then yes, if you restrict yourself to some very specific elements of gameplay they can be comparable but you don't play DF for the production chains.
I think that's true to a point, but we are way past that point. We're at the point where when the government works with the private sector, a worse result is created than if the government had created it alone, or if the private sector had created it alone, where you could form a total ordering. There is no recognizable gestalt, and whole point of public/private cooperation is to generate those gestalts.

Another way I look at this is, "what needs to be true for this situation to be the best possible situation for the parties involved? How does this make sense?". When I look at it this way, the FAA not grounding this plane doesn't make sense if you follow a path benefiting the general public, barring some extenuating private knowledge. It seems to be a long path of short-term optimizations.
Given that 3rd party apps can scrape sensitive data, I'm glad the barrier to entry is high..
Just admit it? Being a "sports car" doesn't make it any better, in the same way a Ferrari is not better than a Lexus.
Yeah I fear that is the case.

Unless users really become educated and then care ... this is all for not.

If it ever happens (people caring and informed) maybe we're a generation or two away from it being a thing. :(
Trump gave into the pressure: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/business/canada-737-max.h...
Also smuggling gold, literally having competing businesses burned to the ground, buying a ton (1000kg) of meth from North Korea, tried to smuggle it out in a submarine, having people killed for smaller and smaller things as he grew increasingly paranoid, then hiring another hitman to kill his main hitman, because he was stealing from him.

Under the podcast is a transcript you can skim.
I do understand the need for the difference between NFC and NFKC, but in hindsight NFD and NFKD seem entirely unnecessary.
From Google I got an error clicking on instagram and Quora links today.
What scientific studies would those be? And by what standards are they scientific?

Until a randomized controlled study can demonstrate real differences between acupuncture conducted with real needles and sham needles, I will happily call it a placebo. Ditto for acupuncture conducted per the way that acupuncturists think it should be conducted and acupuncture conducted per the way that they think it should not. Those studies have, in fact, been conducted. Acupuncture did not, in fact, do anything detectable. I am therefore on the side of calling it a placebo.

See http://www.dcscience.net/2013/05/30/acupuncture-is-a-theatri... for more.
When you ask a legionnaire why they joined the legion they will simply reply “to forget”.

When asked what they want to forget they will reply “I don’t know I have forgotten”.
recently found these videos by MoMA[1]. they're more entertaining than instructional but they may be useful to get you familiar with more concepts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/MoMAvideos/search?query=how+to+...
No. Not even a little. My post was a bit unclear. One company I worked for has lots of older guys and it was clearly good for their products.
lol. you either mean Colombia or oil money. otherwise nothing you said make any sense.
> I don't know how to explain it any other way: These things are fucking important.

I believe that thought is treated as an axiom by some and an under-tested hypothesis by others.
I know that you didn't say that. Hence the question. I didn't claim you said it. But rb808 sort of did claim this:

...if we relabeled health insurance as a tax, US tax rates would be very high...

Your original comment doesn't appear to be relevant or to add to the conversation to me because VA, DOD, Medicare, and Medicaid spending are already taken into account when computing tax rates. I really don't understand what you are getting at with your original comment. The healthcare expenditures you mentioned are already part of the calculation for the tax rate in the U.S. So there is nothing to add with regard to the programs you mentioned when making the comparison to OECD average tax rates.
Is passing configuration through userdata considered bad practice?
I wasted so much time trying to figure out how to get books in the iOS kindle app. When I finally figured out that I had to use my laptop, I was still confused at so why the iOS app was not saying anything about anything.
The guidance given by the lawyers at my last company was "everything we do is commercial activity, even research", thus prohibiting the use of anything tagged "not for commercial use". I expect that it's the same way at IBM.
It sounds like he had to go to an Executive Order to get the FAA to comply.
> They take backups, name each folder based on the date, and what feature that was just completed (or just about to be started) that prompted the backup. I bet you a pound.

All they need to do is to compress those folders with zlib, and then they've reinvented git.
As a web developer I gotta say the only true solution to this is to stop using the internet altogether. Might as well shut the internet down.

We can't authenticate you without cookies or some other form of identification, so that throws out any site with an account.

Even if I am not even remotely interested in tracking what pages you view on my website if I need to have you login and authenticate I need some form of cookie / session ID.

If you need to be anonymous use a browser like Firefox Focus or similar but understand that you won't be able to log in for longer than a single session, if at all.

Cancel GDPR and similar privacy laws before we outlaw the [useful] internet completely. These laws are a mess written by people who honestly are not remotely qualified to make these kinds of decisions.

I'm all for the option of privacy but it's your own responsibility -- stop using the internet leave all your electronics at home and go ride your horse into the wilderness and breathe some fresh air if you want privacy.
> "...to sustain that person in government-managed housing, with government-managed food, clothing, ect."

This sounds like a nightmare and to me it wouldn't feel like I'm free at all...being so dependent on the government seems like a terrible idea...Who would want to be so reliant on the government for such basic needs?
The discussion has moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381931, since there is new information.
What about something like kdb+/q? I realize it is proprietary software, but it is an array language with super fast vector operations designed to operate on distributed data. I was actually thinking about how well graphBLAS might map to this system. I work in academia, so the non-commercial license is applicable, but I see how it might be an issue for some.
The GDPR offers a general privacy framework. Technological specifics may (or may not) become part of the upcoming, heavily embattled "ePrivacy regulation", which was intended to come in effect simultaneously with the GDPR. Right now, we have a somewhat unfortunate limbo.
As my biology teacher put it: a cell is a factory in which workers are constantly kicking each other and workpieces around. Sometimes they bump into a workpiece they know what to do with, so they do some work and then throw it back into the crowd.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381931
But you can use Spotify in a web browser. They have a web player at open.spotify.com .
It's good but it doesn't have the same kind of emergent feel that DF has. It feels a lot less alive compared to DF.
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> How would Android be called a successful strategy?

The monopoly that Apple does not have on smartphones as a whole, and the consequent constraints on its ability to dictate the functionality of the mobile web, to capture mobile web and app advertising revenue, etc.

That's the success of Android.
Despite the rules, the current title is completely meaningless to me. How many people here have heard of TrueCrypt, vs The Mastermind?

I only clicked because of your editoralization, and I'm very glad I did!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19381931.
Trump says U.S. and Canada are simultaneously grounding 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft, and have been coordinating it. I'm biased so I read that as Canada did it first and dragged the U.S. into it. Nevertheless, these planes are grounded once they reach their destinations today. And boy does this hurt Southwest the most of U.S. carriers.
That they're not important to everyone doesn't make them unimportant for everyone.

It's kinda like other rights such as free speech. Some people don't need/use it. Some specific people might arguably be better off without it. But Everyone needs it; as in, it needs to be available to everyone for it to work.
American passengers, assisted by SV technology, have been encouraged to be and demonstrated that they are totally indifferent to anything but price and will book with whichever carrier is least expensive. So don't complain that in order to stay in business, airlines are cutting costs to the bone and not carrying extra capacity anywhere that it's not essential.
It’s kinda absurd that a single sensor malfunction can lead to an accident like the lion air one. It’s also kinda absurd that critical sensor failure monitoring be sold as an up-sale.
No. No. No. Not another website that demands I zoom and scroll just to read text. I'm not reading. Who's with me!?
I have Chrome for one purpose, and one purpose only: vSphere installations that have yet to be upgraded to include the HTML5 version. Chrome is the "Flash browser".

Over the last few years DuckDuckGo have become so good at handling my queries that I only occasionally use Google. That typically happens when DuckDuckGo doesn't find what I expect, but it always turns out that neither does Google.
It was inevitable at this point. Sad that it had to happen due to the external pressure of every other country in the world banning it first.
Verizon also had SMS issues yesterday:

https://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-outage-on-east-coast...
The reason it hasn't been super successful is that there haven't been big punishments.