skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> right to be forgotten is to onerous to implement and not present in other domains

Not always, but it definitely is. Take the legal system. The UK has something called the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. After some varying time - dependent on seriousness of offence - I can legally answer "no" to a potential employer asking "have you ever been convicted?".

Google makes a mockery of that. If the law says a 7 year old minor offence is spent, why not search and media too?

> They do make it harder for smaller businesses to compete

As someone working mainly for smaller UK businesses over my career, I don't see this at all. Complying with GDPR, and its very similar Data Protection Act predecessor has been fairly trivial.

> a credit bureau or an insurance company and say that all my past history should be forgotten

For both credit rating and insurance history, they age out after 5 or 6 years.

Seems like it's online that is wanting the exception of "everything, forever".
Automatic rebalancing of a custom portfolio is a value. I wouldn’t bother otherwise myself. Tax loss harvesting gives you a tax deduction also.
I've noticed several side effects such as decreased attention span, decreased sociability, decreased desire to do anything other than your preferred method of attention capturing.

Frankly I just think that many of these things are simply addictive and, with an appeal to naturalism, I don't think it is what humans were meant to do. Increased smartphone use or TV watching or video games probably almost never results in increased happiness over the long term.

Not to mention the ability to use attention capturing as a way to hide from one's own emotions.
Hi, thanks for taking the time to explain in detail why you think the proof is wrong. I think this kind of discussion will go a long way in trying to find the solution. Will pass on the comment to the prof. He will like that someone took the time to critique. So far most of the time all he gets is,"the proof is not valid because no one has done it so far" :).
Adobe also has a very interesting color picker:

https://color.adobe.com/

But, unfortunately, it too only serves as a partial solution (since, as far as I know—someone please correct me if I got that wrong—it doesn't address any of the matters discussed above), PLUS it seems highly likely that Adobe has software patents on it.
Sometimes only "mistake" you do is to be born into wrong minority.

Also in lot of countries punishment is more of a corrective action not revenge. This means even convicted criminals have right to hide convivtion after some time.
So, all sides do it except only one side actually did it but you're pretty sure the other side did too because you personally believe they'd want to so therefore it must have happened ... ?
Cambridge Analytics is a data portability exploit. It leveraged your friend's ability to send your Facebook data to third party apps. GDPR enforces more data portability, which in some sense allows for a larger attack surface for such exploits. The article mentions one example of hackers extracting all your personal data after a takeover of your account.
Speech2Face: Learning the Face Behind a Voice
Since I'm a freelancer I sleep from 2/3 - 11/12 without a alarm.

Feel much better now.
Same thing happened in Mexico: Last government sold privatisation of gas and other energy promising lower prices and no increases. Fast forward 2 years and of course now we have shell and bp gas stations with higher prices...

Who would have thought that for profit companies would want to profit ?
If you are a US-based startup and don’t sell to EU customers, then I guess it doesn’t really matter if you attempt to comply.

However, most US SaaS-type startups very much want access to EU markets. Ignoring GDPR won’t matter until it does, and then when it does, it will matter very much. For example, you grow and want go establish a presence in the EU, investors with EU ties may be hesitant to get involved, a potential acquisition is ruined because the buyer has an EU presence and isn’t willing to take on the historical liability.

Yes, there’s a lot in GDPR. If you’re a startup that is making money by selling user data, the cost of compliance will be quite high. But if you are selling an actual product or service that generates revenue by collecting fees from your users, compliance is probably not as hard as you think. And building your startup with user data protection in mind, you’ll find it can be something you use as a selling point.

With more than a year of history, it’s not hard to find easy-to-digest articles that put GDPR in terms that an average person can understand. Integrate those principles and processes into your business, document what you’re doing, and then stick to it. Even without a huge compliance budget - if you do that and nothing else - you’ll be in a much better position than to just ignore it, even if you don’t fear punishment.
True, but my experience is that managers are not so great at recognizing consistent good results but often remember someone coming through in a clutch situation. Because measuring developer performance is hard, the consistently good dev is often overshadowed by the one who put out fires (even if they were the firestarter).
But did they all “evolve” in the same place?
Making sure the right staff gets to the right citizens at the right time is a massive undertaking. It’s where 60-80% of our staff works. We have something like 1200 teachers out of 7000 employees for instance.

It’s also an area that’s subject to a lot of requires/shared resources. I mean, you have the regular schedule which takes up a lot of time on its own because you need to find replacements when someone is missing. If I get sick, no one really cares that we go a day without an Enterprise Architect, but if a teacher goes sick, multiple classes will need an replacement. Then there is the irregular stuff like rehabilitation, special school events or a range of things.

Basically it’s so complicated that it takes up the time of several full time positions.

It’s not the kind of complicated that’s not solvable by ML though. Our neighbouring municipality did a PoC on it, and I’m not sure how the procured the rights use the data for it (they probably didn’t), and it turned out that they could automate almost all of the planning and scheduling. Humans still had to make decisions, but it would suggest available resources or alternative schedules making the process much smoother.

That’s a lot of nurses and teachers you could actually put to work, nursing or teaching if it works.

It works by knowing what resources are needed though, and in the case of rehabilitation that involves knowing that someone needs anti-suicidal therapy at 10 am at a certain address. Which is extremely sensitive data, that the algorithm isn’t allowed to access under our adoption of the GDPR.
Are you in the US?
The Mona Lisa Lives
You can also use the KISS launcher[0] and simplify the process, while reducing memory usage as well. It has some options to make it as minimal as possible.

[0]: https://kisslauncher.com/.
I would look at the stripe atlas guides:

https://stripe.com/atlas/guides
I suspect the issue isn't the time you wake up, it's if you're artificially waking up.

(Ex: if you stay up late on weekends then struggle on Monday due to lack of sleep vs simply choosing to wake at 10am daily because you have a flexible work schedule and sometimes like to go to events that are in the evening.)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufo

Already happening.
Was going to say similar. "Don't dig for gold, get others to pay you to tell them that they'll be successful and cool and attractive for digging for gold."
MailHog – Free Open Source Web-Based Local SMTP Testing
Is it uglier than telephone poles and huge cell towers everywhere? Of all the infrastructure humans build out, this is probably going to be one of the least eyesore.
Zero to One was stupid... just not every good.

Also... Peter Thiel was a huge Trump supporter. Dude obviously has some blind spots.

The Lean Startups is great...

Thinking, Fast and Slow is amazing but not sure it's really a startup book.

E-myth is great.

Art of war is awesome as is The Prince

A+ on "How To Win Friends and Influence People" it's an amazing book.

One of my key takeaways from this book is that if you hold people to a high standard of ethics and talent they usually won't let you down. Saying something like "I'm going to appoint you to this project as everyone on the team says you're responsible, motivated, and ethical" ... they won't let you down because that's how they view themselves inside.
Technically time is decimal in the SInsystem because the unit is the second s and the usual decimal power names apply. It’s just that we have standard names for various non decimal multiples.

Yes, as with anything that lies beyond the clause “well technically...” this actually kind of vindicates the opposing campus point, so yeah...
How about we stop focusing on “winners” and “losers” and try to focus on mutually benefitting each other?
i don't have any experience with Stripe Atlas. here are the highlights of their offering.

Enables founders to assign relevant IP to the company at formation, formalizing ownership of key technology.

Is designed to make conversion to a C Corporation as simple as possible. (We can connect Stripe Atlas users to a lawyer to manage the conversion process with discounted, flat-rate packages).

Provides a simplified process for adding members after formation.

Is organized in Delaware, the jurisdiction of choice for many new LLCs.

https://stripe.com/blog/atlas-llc
Reading up on Loki, it seems it lacks full-text search, prefering something called 'distributed grep'.

I'm also looking at sonic, which is a new full-text search engine in rust with less overhead than Elasticsearch. It's lacking a gui focused on log search.

Could they work together somehow, maybe as an alternative backend to you distributed grep?

Sonic does not store the original content, so it could store a reference into your compressed chunk.
Ask HN: Spot SpaceX Starlink Tail
I can't wait to see the tail pass over the roof of my house (Italy). Does anyone already have a ready app? (input: coordinates - output: visibility date and time)
Single member LLC wasn’t as hard as I thought to setup. 100 bucks online in Oregon, near instant approval too. Make sure you sign up with the IRS for an EIN.

Signed up for Azlo just recently after keeping money in my personal, no big deal just makes taxes a little harder.

Make sure you keep records of everything. Get yourself a good receipt scanner that does OCR, like neat. Keep the physicals around too.

I’m not bothering with a lawyer, CPA until I start having a lot more cash flow. Right now it’s enough for me to manage, but I will get professionals to manage in the future.

One thing I wish I did was not use my residence as the address. Oh well, too late for that.
Thank you many times! The minute you posted this I've wanted to write that I've discovered your 2007 interview (1) where some details (but this answer is more detailed, many thanks!) were able to give me some overall idea how it was done.

And what I was missing there were exactly these "alignment" problems: I couldn't imagine that the pictures and "big letters" could work on 5000 dpi when only a two letters were formed at once and something had to mechanically move all the time.

So yes, please more details, and also about APS-5 and "actual bitmaps"! And please try to also write (as much as you can estimate) the years when you used the said technologies. Which year was Alphatype CRS used? And which APS-5?

1) https://tug.org/interviews/fuchs.html
Not what Im advocating. just providing a counterpoint to the argument that the only outcome to staying up late is that you are making choices that shorten life. Staying out late certainly can contribute to the OPs theory, but that isn't the only outcome. Reduction of stress, finding a community/partner/etc is definitely something that hanging out late can provide. the time of day you feel most awake doesn't mean your default is self destruction.
Do you trust your government more than Microsoft?

That’s what I meant to say, but I should certainly have voiced what I meant better.
It's impossible to judge whether those articles should have been removed without knowing their content and context.

Removing the article about a doctor being suspended for poor care is perfectly reasonable if he was later cleared of wrongdoing.
> including information from 2014 about a Dutch doctor who The Guardian reported was suspended for poor care of a patient.

FWIW, according to the Guardian article they reference, that case was not about getting the fact that the doctor was investigated and temporary suspended (that's public record), but a website taking such records and publishing a "blacklist of doctors unfit to treat patients". It's more a libel-like case than a privacy one.

> "The judge said that while the information on the website with reference to the failings of the doctor in 2014 was correct, the pejorative name of the blacklist site suggested she was unfit to treat people, and that was not supported by the disciplinary panel’s findings.

The court further rejected Google’s claim that most people would have difficulty in finding the relevant information on the medical board’s Big-register, where the records are publicly held."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/21/dutch-sur...
What if you invest $200 in Bitcoin every month for last year?
TypeScript Strict Null Checking in VSCode – Why and How?
Those businesses seem to all be doing fine. They just implemented one of those annoying pop ups that you have to agree to before you can see their site, and they’re still doing all the same things with your data. But with your “permission” now.

All the other businesses, though, the ones who were never planning to do anything bad with your data. Those ones still all had to do a bunch of work and show that same stupid notice that drives their customers away. And they’re a lot less able to defend themselves against the mean spirited user behaviour outlined in the article.

And for added fun, the eu now knows that it can pass silly laws like this as often as it likes, and the whole software world will need to devote a team to do a full sprint implementing another piece of user hostile code that doesn’t help their business.

I’m not a fan.
Great idea.

Would make sense to pool volunteers for code reviews similar to what Stackoverflow does for questions, answers, edits etc.
Thank you so much for overleaf! It’s been such a great tool for multi-author papers but even for writing on your own it’s better than standalone latex. Unlike typical latex that would just refuse to compile if you forget to close a brace, overleaf/sharelatex will make a best effort and just mark the part of the source where you made a mistake
Prime Numbers Twitter Bot
I just made a Twitter Bot (@PrimeTweetBot) which is able to tweet a prime number every day, forever.
I tested my "nth prime number" algorithm against big integers (up to 1M) and it seems pretty scalable!

OpenSource implementation: https://github.com/micheleriva/PrimeBot
I noticed that the author called out several contracting firms instead of "real" tech companies. Can't help but wonder if things really are that messed up on that side of the fence.
I am pretty ok with most of those. However, article 17, the right to be forgotten sounds extremely problematic.
We don't have set hours at our office and about half the people come in early around 8-10am and the other half come in around 1pm. There's enough overlap for afternoon meetings and plenty of time when the office is quieter because half as many people are there.
"aid/relief work". Holy christ. That's the equivalent of someone saying the chinese communist party is putting ugyhurs in re-education camps as part of their universal education program.

I'm guessing the US military is doing this for the same reason China, Russia, UK, etc militaries are doing it. To better manipulate and control domestic and foreign populations. To be better wage war against domestic and foreign populations.
Not in Africa where Chinese devices rule
but it works out that way - india is following a similar strategy now and some south east asian countries are following suit
Wasn't this how banks, automakers, etc. were liquidated at about the same time in ~2009? Say General Motors simply offloaded all stuff it didn't need into Motors Liquidation Co and that one was bankrupted, all good stuff moved in new General Motors.
Usually it’s just the regular stuff: Browsing the web or watching TV-series/movies.

I also try to see some local music gigs once in a while, I find that very rewarding. Doesn’t have to be a world-class performance, it’s nice just seeing friends, listening to some music and grab a few beers.
885M Records Exposed Online: Bank Transactions, SSNs and More
I would think that an LLC would be the simplest thing to manage during early formation. It is simple and low maintenance. Then convert that to a Delaware C which has greater reporting overhead, ..., when necessary.

Any downsides to that approach?
That makes more sense. Thank you for replying.

I'm pretty blind to video ads at this point; how do you get videos in front of people that want what you have?
I have no idea what that means but had to upvote because it was so unexpected.
> I can't go to my school or a credit bureau or an insurance company and say that all my past history should be forgotten. Why should we enforce such a regulation online?

GDPR makes no difference between online and offline businesses: They can keep data if they have a proper justification for it.
I think Xaw (the X Athena widget set) is not so bad. It supports bitmap fonts, and you can use the X resource manager file to alter the stuff.
Great to hear...hope it helps!
New research is revealing how human intelligence changes and develops over time
The ones that leaked it are First American Financial Corp.
Pay attention to the annual filing fees in your state for LLCs. That makes it prohibitive in some states for small side-project type endeavors. (MA filing fees are $500 registration and $500/yr for the annual report filing.)
Which is a different way of saying that most computer UI still sucks for most users. I agree, and I think that one of the key reasons programmer-y people are successful at navigating computer tasks that stymie the proverbial grandma is this: faced with a question about how to accomplish a task inside some UI, we're just inherently more likely to follow a similar train of thought as the person who wrote the program in the first place, and reach the correct conclusion. (And case-sensitivity in a username is exactly the kind of keen (textual) detail that we're both wired and trained for.)

In other words, we're just iterating on trying things [as xkcd observed][0]. The key is that inside that first decision box, locating an action to try, we have a huge leg up on the "...which looks related to what you want to do" part. I sometimes describe this as "knowing how computers think", but really it's knowing how the people that wrote the program think.

Not that it's an easy problem, but I think we still have a lot of work to do as a field, to make stuff accessible to people whose brains don't follow the same patterns as ours.

[0]:https://www.xkcd.com/627/
1) Doing taxes correctly as anything other than a sole proprietorship is a huge pain in the ass, especially if you're selling things across state borders, and doubly so if you're in California. I recommend finding a tax professional to handle that for you (the time it takes to do it yourself is generally not worth it). Also don't forget that if you're actually making money you'll need to pay estimated taxes quarterly.

2) Either learn basic accounting (if you don't already) and keep excellent records of all revenue and expenses business-related (ideally categorized into standard business categories) or find a CPA to keep your records straight monthly. A huge number of people get burned simply because they didn't keep proper records and then ran into tax or regulatory trouble later.

3) Definitely keep your business finances as separate from your personal funds as possible. Different checking account, different credit card, etc.

4) Think really hard before you hire anyone for anything, and if you do, make sure you're either doing 1099 correctly or get a professional to help with W2 stuff. Again, this is something that often comes back to bite people.

And lastly, remember that most businesses fail and that failing at business is not something to be ashamed of. If it's not working out, don't make yourself miserable and mortgage your future to try and save it indefinitely - walk away and try again with the lessons you learned.
True, and that would be interesting to know how the other books influence them as a founder. The thing here is this list of books is what tells founders what to do as founders, so probably the biggest part of their influence.
Well, I think it is a bit more complicated. Humans typically do not remember as good as machines. So the intention is probably to bring the internet experience closer to the real-life experience. And the GDPR doesn't seem to make a difference between embarrassing Youtube videos and simple facts about what someone did (would probably take decades in court to make such a distinction).

Nevertheless, it seems, the real problem isn't the impossibility of achieving such a 'delete-from-the-internet' mechanism, but rather the low value for average people and the high value for deceitful individuals.

I mean, I like having a legal right to make Google/Facebook/E Corp delete all the data they have about me and my usage, but there will be few occasions when I will make use of that right and even fewer for people who don't even care what they share online. Imposters, on the other hand, will find that right most valuable.
India won’t block Facebook. Or YouTube or even twitter. They would have huge riots on their hands if they did.
If you look for evidence to prove yourself right, then you will find it. Even if you're wrong.
Link for the lazy:

https://www.x.com/

(just put a trailing / at the end)
I didn't see any sales books. Are there any good sales books? Especially on details like how to generate leads? Every sales book is like "go into the office during your key hours for selling and start making calls, then when you're talking to a prospect do x,y,z". Yeah, great, where do I get this list of prospects to call? Some books have said to look at publicly available personnel lists for places you want to sell to and then start cold calling, determine who the decision maker is for the organization from there, and then get to that person. Really? Maybe, I guess. Others wave this away by saying some other person will generate qualified leads through advertising or something. OK, what if I don't have some other guy to do that? How do I do that? Any books that make this a little less magical?
>It's more a libel-like case than a privacy one.

Definitely not libel-like; libelous statements are by definition false.
From a reddit thread[0], there are preliminary TLE data here[1] and you can enter that into gpredict[2] to show when you might be able to see a pass.

Edit: I wasn't able to easily find newer TLEs from the NORAD database, and I don't know how off the preliminary TLEs from [1] might be.

Edit2: Updated TLEs are in a later email on satobs: [3].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/bslrii/will_s...

[1] http://www.satobs.org/seesat/May-2019/0193.html

[2] http://gpredict.oz9aec.net/

[3] http://www.satobs.org/seesat/May-2019/0207.html
I have my personal theory about the Assange arrest. I'm betting that Assange is going to be floated an immunity deal for cooperation into the ongoing spygate investigations. Assange probably knows a lot about it.
The Comeback of the Century
I mean, the context is actually available. They link to the original news story. It's definitely not impossible for us to know.
I have neither mobile phone nor laptop computer.