skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"GDPR has been the death knell for small and medium-sized businesses [...] Here is a partial list: [...] Unroll.me, inbox management app"

Don't know for the other companies, but for this one, good riddance, they had a notoriously scummy business model[1].

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...
GDPR does not affect public data. At all.
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How do you suppose one should function, if one approaches every single sentence of every published news (which I think includes research as well) as being possibly untrue (which, I assume, is what's meant by severe distrust)? If there are no credible sources, how can you know anything about this world with any degree of certainty, then?
> Never Split the Difference is amazing for negotiation.

I have done thousands of negotiations (for vastly different things) and have been paid to do so. [1] I have never read a single book on negotiations. I can always tell when someone else has. (Read that again). [2] I could most likely write a book myself on negotiations and my experiences. The problem is it's a seat of the pants thing. It's nearly impossible to be able to say what to do unless you are in the exact situation and reading all the signals. Also it's creative at it's core so if you are a narrow type thinker you are most likely not going to be good at it no matter what (very generally). And of course what you are negotiating for and in particular who you are dealing with and their motivations are super important to the process. That said I am sure a book can help with an adversary that is not particular difficult and of course better than nothing. But like with most other things it is in no way even close to a substitute for actual experience over time and the right base attributes personally. Some people just aren't perceptive enough of others emotions and reactions to be good at it. No way around it. Also their own emotions and the ability to control them.

[1] The largest fee I made (recently) was close to $200k and I've been paid as little as $500 (or have done it for free in some cases).

[2] Because their delivery and actions appear canned and predictably fit another pattern that I have seen in the exact same way over time.
To double down on the devil's advocate, when texting popped out, I was sad that I didn't enjoy having this to talk to kids my age because I was cripply shy. So that's true, to some part of the population, it gives something. But on the whole scale, it's too far from the mainstream effect.
Not per se, no. But there are many overbearing/controlling parents out there. It's easy to imagine scenarios where parental access to GDPR data could be a bad thing (and yet other scenarios where it could be a good thing).
I think that's the point they're trying to make - there is a certain amount of caveat emptor associated with theming. But they don't make it well when they say "don't them our apps".
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Who gets born in 2001 or whatever. 2002, I meant. You must feel embarrassed now. Jk
This is not a joke, because the European Agencies believe in teaching and learning more than in punishing. What they want is compliance, not making money.

They will give you warning and time to fix it more than fine you. A fine is solution of last resort, after you burned them and proved you can not be reformed.
What if some particular video doesn't?
If I have a file I can download a .srt and have the video player display it.
There's a trend since the ubiquity of computers and internet that the most important thing in life is information and truth. When you're face to face with someone, information is rarely the most important thing. What matters is how you share time and space to make for a good time for people involved.
Guessing Denmark, since OP mentioned NemID.
You can see this with how VB became much more monstrous and complex as soon as they tried to shoehorn in a multi-table paradigm.
is this what its always going to look like when we have 12000 of the things in the sky?

Astronomers are going to be going spare
I use an iPhone with a home button. I bound greyscale to a triple-click of that so I can switch on and off at will pretty handy if that’s possible on your end.
What if there’s nothing wrong with you?
I sure believe that they should have it to some degree, depending on age.
Everyone has to admit there's a lot of programming minutiae that could and should be thrown overboard.

If you show your language / app / webpage to someone and they ask "Why is X preventing me from doing work?", it would behoove all of us to honestly ask ourselves "Is X important enough that we should keep it?"

Otherwise, we end up with 10,000 gotchas and only someone who studies for 2 years can use things. And I'd personally much rather that surgeon be studying medicine for those 2 years!
China doesn’t ban American companies for that reason, they ban them because political dissidents could use them to communicate privately (gmail) or publicly (YouTube Facebook twitter....). Not all American companies are banned, either.
Miniwebapp request: Can someone make a webpage where I can enter my coordinates (or City) and the page calculates when I can see the satellites "train". Bonus points for indicating the general direction (east, up, west). Extra bonus points for a graphical approximated image, where it shows a few train position at different times.
Am I confident ethnic nationalists will be proven definitively wrong in my lifetime? No. But my confidence comes from basic math. All capitalist countries have to accept immigration at some point. Even China will have face a population crisis at some point if it does not accept immigration someday.

And once you acknowledge the need for immigration, you open the door for diversity. And once you acknowledge that countries in fact have to compete for these immigrants (specifically in the technology and science fields), you open the door for acceptance as a competitive advantage.

As an immigrant with a choice in the matter, where would you prefer to live: in a country that where ethnic nationalists will always view you and your children as foreigners, or in a country that values and celebrates diversity?

The US can fuck up in so many different ways, but as long as it doesn't fuck up in this one specific way it will always have a competitive advantage over countries that have longer histories and hence more ethnic baggage: it has to value, appreciate, and celebrate diversity as a strength and not a weakness. I am confident (or maybe just extremely hopeful) that the Trump era is the one step back before the next two steps forward in this regard.

I view what has happened in U.S. professional sports as a microcosm of what is happening in the world. Professional sports teams that embraced globalization quickly gained a significant competitive advantage over other teams. And that forced those other teams to follow suit. I believe the same phenomenon will happen all over the world, albeit at a much slower pace and with a lot of racists being dragged along kicking and screaming.
Yes, of course. Imagine a father who rapes his child and abuses his wife. The child is removed from the father by the mother who goes into hiding, but with temporary legal approval.

We don't want the father (who likely retains some element of parental responsbility until the court case has finished) to be able to get the child's location by SARs.

In Europe children are humans and humans have rights. Children are not the property of their parents.
To be fair, it says these are books that helped or influenced the careers of the founders not everything they read. If they like to read Thomas Mann in their downtime, that's nice, but maybe not related to being a founder.
You know, back in Mexico, we had school in two shifts, rite? It was a morning shift & afternoon shift. It was a way to fix the problem of "too many students and not enough time".

I always took the afternoons. It was great. Life made sense. I wonder if we can ever pressure the bosses to make overlapping shifts? Or is that even possible? A 6-hour workday sounds like an opium dream to me at this point in our timeline.
I'll just keep my Stephen Hawking albums from 3010 around to subtly let you into the trucking business. I use a real filesystem so the 3010 dates will not lie. Expected truck-driver +¹
> Fake news is the symptom. The disease is confirmation bias.

When your root-cause analysis turns up an intractable problem that can't be solved, then maybe turn the intractable problem against itself.

Instead of eliminating filter bubbles and confirmation bias, encourage them. Herd the haters, trolls and propagandists into their own subgroups and shadow-ban them so people outside the group can't see them.

It doesn't solve the problem of confirmation bias, but it might help contain it and prevent wider contamination.
Not saying these all reevolved, but convergent evolution is a thing and pretty common. Without DNA tests of ancient coelacanths and modern ones, how much can we say that it’s the same exact species with little change, vs a related species that evolved to be more like its extinct cousin?
To be clear, I’m responding to the affirmation that delivering app changes without any QA is acceptable.

I’m not against open software or user customization, but this approach does not result in quality software. Distros should be working with application developers and not against them. Here you have a large group of Linux app developers undersigning a plea to stop breaking their software and all they get is scorn and dismissal.

More Elementary, less winamp-skin-distros.
I'm using Selfhosted Atlassian Confluence - they have a $10 starter license which works nicely for this.
Or whomever has the most fake accounts wins.
yes you can https://medium.com/@chrislewisdev/react-without-npm-babel-or...
Waze users’ accident reports could cut emergency response time in half
Have you used Simulink? It's quite nice for doing realtime control programming.
It seems like there’s things from both sides of the camp on first glance, can you point out the bias you see? (Legitimate question, and I only quickly glanced.)
maybe consider another career path - theres far better opportunities if you broaden your search.
Internal drives are, too.

Gatekeeper (in a wider sense) actually is two things:

Firstly, it is a user setting choosing what software to trust: only software downloaded from the Mac App Store, everything that’s signed, or ‘everything’.

The first two settings require applications to be signed. That doesn’t say anything about whether they are safe to run, but it does allow Apple to find out who developed malware, if it is discovered.

Secondly, applications that download executables can opt in on signaling to Gatekeeper “the first time the user runs this executable, ask for user confirmation”. They do that by setting an extended file attribute on the executable. Gatekeeper removes it if the user indicates the executable can be run.

Neither feature cares from where the executable is launched. External drives are very common (think USB drives), so they ‘had’ to be included. I would guess NFS shares slipped through the net, but possibly, there are companies that use NFS shares.

Of course, that “opt-in” is a weak point. They couldn’t do a lot better because, when Gatekeeper was introduced, users already had lots of executables, and they didn’t want users to pick the ‘everything’ option after being bombarded with Gatekeeper dialogs.
Also Klout was shit. The negatives of social media magnified to parodic heights.

https://xkcd.com/1057/
The Walk of Life Project
Yes, an economy based on deception that uses it's customers in unknown ways, most of the time in ways entirely unrelated to the product, is failing after appropriate regulation.

All consequences seem entirely acceptable.

Businesses must act with responsibility for society. the regulator is usually lax, until all hell break loose.
Over one year later, social media and IM still banned in Chad
As a parent, yes. It's a gradient that starts at "no" when they are an infant to "yes, just like any other adult" when they turn 18. My kids are elementary age and I definitely respect their increasing right to privacy, even from me.
Asking someone (not) to do something without forcing them does not strike me as unreasonable per se.
I second this. The Iliad begins at a very cinematic pace that is very reminiscent of 300. The battle depictions – let's face it, the majority of the book – are relentlessly brutal.
Do remember that doing so will primarily lead to you loosing the ability to flag things for misusing the feature.
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“I like the children to realise how far they’ve travelled and see how the landscape changes. It’s just a thing we’ve always worked around. Your journey becomes part of your holiday.”

+1 to this! I haven't traveled much like this since I was young and I miss it! However, I don't remember if the CO2 emissions balance out. Would a plane load of people traveling from, say, London to Berlin create more emissions flying or taking the various forms of ground transit? Traveling less far, less often is probably the more effective message.
I checked out Known and it looks quite interesting. Surprised I’d never heard of it. How are you liking it? Is it well maintained/frequent releases?
The business moat is irrelevant. It should be handled with anti trust regulations and not at the expanse of pro privacy.
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I don't stop listening to the advantages of remote work. But it also has its problem, how everything... Why is nobody talking about it?
Used Teslas are now common – and affordable, according to data from CarMax
This reminded me of gold leaf used for cooking:

https://www.ebay.com/b/Gold-Leaf/41369/bn_55209815

I bought 2 sheets ($0.99) out of curiosity. They are so thin and fragile that they ball-up with the slightest "breeze".
Notice that the GP didn't include managers at the groups he created DSLs for.

And Visual Basic (or COBOL if you want to go back) are meant for what group exactly? It does not look specialized into any domain.
That worked, thanks.

Dev tools > Responsive Design Mode in the top right, then back on the main page, selected a phone model. I had to reload the page for it to show the phone version of the site.
P.S. I hate Gherkin, Cucumber and other DSLs that
let you write the tests that “read like English”

I'm with you there, friend!

But then the author mentions Rspec as a good DSL, so I don't know what their ideal of a good DSL is because Rspec's about as English-like as it gets.
You should then implement an automatic process. But why a large number of your users would start asking for their data at once? Maybe you did something wrong and they want to move elsewhere and in this cage you would like to keep them hostage?
Silicon Valley gamed the world's toughest privacy rules
My question is, if you're a US startup, and you simply ignore GDPR requests, what happens?

Does Europe have some way to require its ISP's to firewall you off or blackhole your DNS? Can they force Amazon to shut off your AWS account? Do your executives risk being taken away in handcuffs to a European jail when they go to Europe on vacation?

If there are no consequences, why don't US tech companies just completely ignore it? (Of course, big players like Google probably have EU-based datacenters and other assets that could be seized to pay their fines. I'm thinking of small, cloud-hosted startups whose employees, bank accounts and physical assets are all on US soil.)
Haven’t seen anyone fired in a year at my current large company. Have seen our process deployed many times to make sure work is coordinated to make that error impossible next time.
Even better. Though this particular example compares the difference between a general-purpose railway line designed for steam traction and a passenger line for electric ones.
Here, I just saved you 10 sec of your life - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_transp...
> Violence is one of the most basic interactions between organisms on the planet. Not only between societies (so that an Uber driver earning $30,000 can be in the top 1% globally), but within societies (the threat of violence is what makes everything from paying taxes to policing work).

That may work as polemical statement but is utterly disconnected from the reality of how power and society actually work. No, you are not kept in your place bc of the threat of violence. The law works only because so many comply with it despite the lack of coercive capacity instead of because - the justice system is simply incapable of policing everybody. We need to acknowledge the role of disciplinary power and biopower. For example, we self-discipline being subject to hierarchical surveillance, normalizing judgment, and examination, and also the productive. You don't run around naked outside, because the police could ticket (or, re violence, jail) you for public indecency, but because you dear the judgment of your peers, the potential loss of access to opportunities etc.
At the time, East Bengal was almost completely agrarian, and highly dependent on the industrial centers in West Bengal (which went to India), and Pakistan.
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How to win a trade war: When the US took on Japan
> another kind of white plating

yes. e.g. commercially available white roof coatings which contain ceramic particles do a pretty good job of cooling a roof and reflecting sunlight.

but it's interesting that this treated wood radiates energy in frequencies that the atmosphere does not absorb
User-Centered Design
> I do think we should use citizen data to schedule shifts though. It makes no sense to me, to have 10 nurses and 15 teachers do full time scheduling in a city of 60,000-100,000 citizens when an algorithm can do it instead. But we can’t, because the GDPR prevents us from using data that way.

Can you give more details on that case?
I think later-legacy-VB (eg 6) suffers harshly from failing to properly separate primatives.

Imho (open to disagreement), one should think incredibly hard before adding primatives to a DSL. Because what that's essentially saying is "My abstraction was incomplete over the target domain, and now I'm going to hack something in." And now you have a "domain + some other stuff" language, which starts to look like a general purpose language.

SQL vs VB is an excellent example of focus.

(Although I do think VB.net added sanity back to the mix, by saying more clearly "These are VB things" and "These are .net things", and if you want to do the latter in the former, just make a library call)
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People like to say that, but it does. Each member state has had to adopt the GDPR into their national legal system, it’s true that it’s called various things. In Denmark where I’m from we call it Persondataloven, but for all intends and purposes it’s GDPR.

I did mean public sector data though.
Looks a lot like the cloud ark from Neil Stevenson’s hard science fiction book ”Seveneves”.

The long of the short of it is that moon goes boom, kills life on earth, humanity survives onboard the ISS and a flurry of small habitation pods which are splayed out into a string so they share an orbit, but isolated in case they get hit by space debris.

The book came out in 2015, and despite having a fictional plot, nearly all of the science checks out.
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Thanks for providing more detail for my answer to mindgam3's question :)
Apparently, they can -- and do -- say whatever they want. It's easy to make up stories.

And, apparently, there will always be a gullible audience.
I had this issue back in 2013 so I have very little idea what's the current situation, didn't change my icon pack since then, however before I wrote the post I did check archive.org and it seems like last update was around 2011, so nothing's changed since then

The 0.8.90 is also wrong, since then there've been some changes - diff:

+ system-reboot The icon used for the “Reboot” item in the desktop's panel application.

+ user-available The icon used when a user on a chat network is available to initiate a conversation with.

- user-online The icon used when a user on a chat network is available to initiate a conversation with.
Now-a-days”biased” means “I brought evidence to support my opinion”. There is nothing biased in TFA; just a person who thinks GDPR is a bad idea.
I've used LegalZoom twice. Once for a corp, another for an LLC, it was easy both times. Other than that, I'd say it's helpful to have a good CPA.
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I’m not against reading at all — but, I think the reader needs to be aware of what they are reading, and the biases or potential lack of credibility involved.

One of the problems with human driven interactions and instructions is those sorts of guidelines can cause people to toss out their common sense. The very nature of some things mean step by step instructions, if followed by enough people, cease to work. This is especially true in marketplaces.
A personal journal does have some intrinsic value. Org-mode is nice for journalling.
Couldn't agree more. It's a biased presentation of the facts, and could easily be reframed. Take "compliance costs are astronomic", for instance, could just as easily be rephrased "Companies spend more money than ever to ensure the safety of customer data". I know that's certainly the case where I work: it's been a massive amount of work, but it's great for our customers. If it weren't for GDPR, I am certain that management wouldn't have allowed us to do it.

Cleaning up a shitty system is expensive, and there are bumps in the road. It's still worth doing.
I can't get this running at all, which is a shame, because I find the thing you're describing incredibly fascinating. Any advice?
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I never understood how anyone thinks being forgotten is a right. Wrong, false, liable, limited set of privacy related information should be correctable, removable. But facts about you and what you’ve done, no. I’m sorry you made embarrassing mistake. But it’s not worth losing so much public information and enabling bad actors to save yourself from your own actions.
Nothing to do with their size and number of users impacted then?
From a Gizmodo article:

"... the video will appear alongside a related article from a third-party fact-checking website (which, ostensibly, will point out that the video is indeed altered—though no such context appears directly on the video page itself.)"

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-scrambles-for-a-middle-ground-o...
>So a well known Dutch newspaper being bought //

It's possible I'm too cynical but I think here you're being too naive. De Volkskrant are cited as relying on "unidentified intelligence sources" which to me means their intelligence service contacted them and said "run this" (or some logical equivalent of that).

Occams razor is not truth producing, it's not capable of finding the truth. That said, either UK's or Netherlands intelligence are lying here as De Volkskrant refer to their being "evidence" and GCHQ (see my post history) said there wasn't (but were lots of holes that appear to be just bad coding).

The GCHQ spokesperson was a person interviewed on TV in a BBC interview, a noted rare occurrence.

The De Volkskrant source is anonymous with no evidence provided.

I guess you take your pick. Does GCHQ have cause to lie to promote Chinese intelligence activities that are proven to be actively operating in the EU? Or does USA have enough hold on Netherlands to get an "anonymous source says there's evidence but we won't show you what it is" pushed out by their intelligence service?

So, the day after Trump starts a propaganda war against Huawei just happened to be when Netherlands decided to make an anonymous no evidence comment?!?

I know which side I'm finding more believable.