skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another good page with stats [1] including this:

$63 million in fines issued

$57 million of that issued to Google

[1] https://www.varonis.com/blog/gdpr-effect-review/
Under PECR, a cookie being essential means necessary to provide the requested service, not necessary to stay in business. If the user wants to view a news article, and you can serve the article without using analytics cookies, then PECR doesn't allow the cookie. (The situation for paywalls is complicated.)
Nothing says GDPR is something that can't be improved upon. Better enforcement, refinement of laws, everything is possible. It has to begin somewhere and that beginning is rarely perfect. Every failure is also an opportunity to learn what to do better. As some other people have commented, the intent is right, the execution has to be improved. Edit: Fixed grammar and some words
That's not really the point. Regardless of your political view the issue is the same.

If you want to be editorializing people's content then you are a publisher and then you are responsible for the content they write.

The point of social media is that each person is their own publisher and own their own words.

Oterwhise lets just regulate Twitter and FB and Youtube like a publisher and lets see them handle the lawsuits.
Yes, one only need to compare the police treatment of predominantly white, armed brigades storming government buildings in Michigan to what happened to the first wave of predominantly black, non-violent protests in Minneapolis to understand there are other forces at play here.
And ndiswrapper ran binary drivers. Literally ran the machine code and provided hooks to make the driver work.

Of course, that meant you couldn't plug a Windows-only USB Wifi stick into an ARM machine (say, a Raspberry Pi 1) and use ndiswrapper. Luckily, Broadcom added Wi-Fi to the newer Pis...
The "soft on crime thing" was a lot more effective in the 90s when there was a lot more actual crime and so people were more afraid of it.

At this point I'm basically waiting for a politician to adopt "soft on crime" as a campaign slogan and rebrand it as a rehabilitation program where you turn drug dealers into docile flower shop owners as opposed to opponents who "make crime tough" by sending people to "crime school" prisons and turning them into hardened career criminals with switchblades and facial tattoos.

The real problem is the same as it is in general -- special interest groups (in this case police and prison guard unions and private prison companies) are the ones who spend the most effort lobbying on the issue. It also doesn't help at all when we disenfranchise "convicts" because we're then disenfranchising the victims of the system whenever it makes a mistake (which is often).
what are you referring to? I fear I am one of these incompetent devs since I don’t understand the implied transgression.
Interesting idea. I assume you're buying that time with post-tax money? As opposed to an unpaid holiday which would lower your taxable income.
> 2. 15 minutes of full body exposure in noon sun is equivalent to a dose of ~20,000 IU D3

For someone who claims to have done a masters on Vitamin D, I find this generalized statement disturbing. What skin tone the person has, what season it is, what latitude the person lives at, age of the person etc., are factors in how much Vitamin D is produced by the body on exposure to sunlight. I’m afraid I can’t take the other points seriously because of the brevity and lack of nuance.
Here is a pad of paper with 31 numbered lines and 9 columns which makes it easy to track habits on a monthly basis:

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B006OI27QC/ref=ppx_yo_dt...
Ask HN: When to claim you know a programming language?
I find it particularly difficult to assess my skills in a specific programming language.

Even if I've done some projects solely in one language, I feel like that's not enough for me to say that I'm comfortable with that language.

Then the question is: when and how should I say I know a language? More precisely, when should I add one to my CV?
Isn’t that plan only to eliminate the specific species responsible for disease carrying? There are many mosquitos, the mosquito they’re targeting is just one.
That garbage site is providing opportunities for millions of developers and clients, and personally feeding my family for over a decade. I tried freelancer.com, rentacoder.com, elance.com (before merging with odesk and the 2 of them becoming what is today's upwork), fiverr, peopleperhour and toptal. Of them all upwork is the best. Maybe you can make a better one, huh?

where is dang when you need him, eh?
That is inaccurate. I have disabled image loading in Gmail and this is reflected in the web interface, the Gmail Android app, the Apple Mail app, and very likely in all other mail clients. Just to be clear, you do not need an iPhone to shut off images in gmail.
> But if cookies are disabled, then there's no point in asking for consent.

But the only way to determine if cookies are actually disabled in the browser is to attempt to store cookies, which is the thing you're asking consent for.
Given limited resources, you don't think it's undeniably "ethically correct" to direct those resources where they are more effective?
Came here to make the same comment.You're not the only one who was immediately struck like that. That said, I still hope to enjoy this game.
I think you also have to know if the tweet was reported. Obiviously twitter isn't going to read all tweets so only ones that are reported can they act upon.
> Unfortunately, what you are saying lead to anarchy.

That is a big, and unjustified, leap. Can you explain this assertion?

> You just said that we live in democracy.

I didn't say that, though it is a statement I'd agree with.

> In democracy disputes are settled in court.

This is not actually required to be a democracy. I'm not sure where you get this idea from.

Many things are already settled, either in law, the constitution, treaties, or, yes, court decisions, but do not require further court decisions. One of those is this: Military members are not obligated to follow illegal orders, and can actually be held accountable for failure to disobey.
> So when people feel like justice no longer exists, there should be no surprise that they get angry.

I think this is the key here. The whole BLM movement has been going on for years and, for the most part, it seems like a lot of people are more aware. It doesn't seem like anybody from the top cares to do anything about it though.
You should investigate the racial history of the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” and also consider whether property crime deserves loss of life.
I keep reading about people using games for meetings. Set it all on easy so you don't have to worry about really Playing The Game, and you have a nice little limit on the length of your meeting: it all ends when you get to the target and Ralph hits the bomb button.
You're not responsible for what someone else does, but you are responsible for what you do. If you accept a submission to your newspaper and publish it then you may be liable for any libelous claims because you are the one who published it. You think that HN is different because it automatically publishes anything anyone writes, but that perception isn't shared by many people who are old enough to remember a time before the World Wide Web.
The antimalarial prophylaxis which is infamous for mental-health disturbances is lariam (mefloquine). Are you sure you weren't taking that instead? When malarone appeared on the market, one of its big selling points was that it does not have the drawbacks of lariam (or doxycycline).
I believe his point is that if the user disabled cookies, there's no point in showing the banner. If you don't show the banner you can't track the user, of course.

It's not hard. It's just a matter of checking for navigator.cookieEnabled.
I do agree with you that Dawkins doesn't know much about population genetics. (Which I think is one thing you're saying, right?) At least, I've never seen much evidence from him that his understanding of population genetics is at all deep, and I know how difficult and large that subject is. (And he often admits that he's not very mathematical).

I don't know whether you're right that "it doesn't make sense". I think what he was saying is basically:

- humans are sexual organisms. They're a bit slow to get to sexual maturity but otherwise they're like horses.

- We can breed horses for traits.

- There is nothing in our understanding of the mechanics or dynamics of horse breeding to say that it wouldn't work for humans, given sufficient time and disregard for ethics.

Now, are you saying that "eugenics" isn't simply "horse breeding", but rather that "eugenics" is defined to mean a specific type of manipulation of reproduction within the population? I'm not going to argue about the definition of "eugenics" -- I expect neither of us are very invested in that. But maybe you could clarify again what it is you're saying wouldn't work or "doesn't make sense" for humans, and also clarify whether it would work for horses/cows etc? I.e. is there something about the human species which makes it not make sense, or does it not make sense due to general population genetic considerations that would apply to any mammal (or indeed sexual organism)?
I wonder about how much of my information is contained here. Maybe I can ask them for my info if I lose it and use them as a free backup service? /Sarcasm
Dice, not dices!
Where did I say they can't go against the President? I simply stated the reality of the situation and then my idea of why he'd do it.
CVS Health tests self-driving vehicle prescription delivery
Because the EU says you have it backwards? Ignoring European users is perfectly fine, but if you want to monetize them, you better play by their rules, unless you are more powerful than the EU. In theory. In practice do whatever you want.
lobste.rs
It tends to be more focused on computers and programming than HN is these days.
> and they get work doing private security for movie theaters, events, etc. Probably at a similar rate [...] That's not even getting into collusion by the department to defraud tax payers.

I once helped to organize a permitted bike race. As part of the permitting process, we needed approval from several city departments, including the police department.

In the prior five years of attending races, I never encountered a situation that would call for on-site security. Despite that, our permit required us to hire 4 security people. Oh, and the security people were required to be officers from the local jurisdiction.

It really felt like paying protection money to the mob.
I find the images very off-putting and unclear.

https://obedparla.com/static/1c6caf6685f0bd3381d84a8166579de...

What's with the wavy lines as representation?

Similarly for an image titled 'Javascript closures visualized', we get https://obedparla.com/static/e0caedb67992235db77271808958da3...
Not even close, but keep telling yourself whatevwr you need to to justify violent riots and indiscriminate looting. Never seen an HD TV looted in self defense before, but hey the media owned by God's Chosen People trying to use blacks as violent foot soldiers for marxism is just a conspiracy pushed by bigots and idiots, right?
And all the Trump bots seem broken with the situation.

Normally a lot of botlike responders with a generic message on a message of Trump.

Not on this tweet it seems.
My first instrument was also piano (classical). I never really thought of hand shape while playing chords either, but I understand the parent comment - since your hand position does change, it makes the absolute key much more important, and it makes it more difficult to see the relative jumps.

I don't think I ever had a good feel for how chords relate to each other before I started playing the accordion recently. On the left hand of an accordion, every chord interval is identical - C major to D major is just two positions away, exactly the same as D major to E major. It's also arranged in the circle of fifths, so any chord progression can be arbitrarily transposed (until you run out of range on the ends) That really helps me feel how chords progress and for the first time I'm feel comfortable playing chords by ear in real-time.
Is it acceptable to store a cookie that defaults to "false" provided it is generic? That would solve the problem of not being able to detect if cookies are enabled in the browser until you try to store them.

added: person down thread indicated that there's an API for determining if cookies are enabled for the host on your page's origin called navigator.cookieEnabled which I am shocked I've not seen nor heard of even once before today. Hallelujah. I now agree that everyone who doesn't check that before pestering people about cookies, when JavaScript is available, is literally satan.
What I'm wondering about now is: does that 'adc' opcode have any other useful application except for adding numbers bigger than the width of a single register?

Because it does look a little bit as if it was engineered for that particular situation, and if that was the case, with this situation now in practice being solved much more efficiently without a single 'adc' instruction, the opcode might suddenly be completely useless bloat - which of course still had to be maintained forever, even though nobody uses it in practice, because it's part of the spec.
On mobile, some of the opt-out toggle switches don't even function. You literally cannot disable the toggle in iOS Safari.
Nice site but I encountered an issue... popped you an email
Thanks!

Yes, it's a self-hosted platform, so you pay a one-time fee and you can download the product. You then have to upload it to a web server (I use a $5/mo DigitalOcean droplet) and use the auto-installer.
There is short installation guide here: https://docs.usertrack.net/installation

If your already have a server running the LAMP stack you can add userTrack to it instead of getting a new server, as it's pretty efficient.

I was planning to also add a hosted (SaaS) variant, but if you think about it, it doesn't really make sense: you can just spin up your own DigitalOcean VPS (for cheaper than I would offer it to you) with a few clicks and have userTrack already installed on it. It's better for you for privacy, cost and performance. I am thus trying instead to educate the public more and promote the self-hosting movement, as nowdays it's really easy to run your own services (Docker, cloud-init and image marketplaces make it very easy to setup a server in a few clicks with the software that you need). I see this as the future, where every person can just run one or more virtual servers with the software that they use, instead of paying large monthly fees to big companies for a worse experience, companies that also sell their private data.
Those are both from before the final, 56-byte version was added, though I expect they probably prompted / were prompted by the addition of steps 12–19.
> Microsoft is now a OpenJDK contributor

so what?

MS also ships a complete Linux distro now.

> Java has had several talks at Build and has parity with .NET on Azure SDKs, Office doesn't dictate all business lines.

And Linux is the most installed OS on Azure...

I can buy milk from my butcher, but his core product is still meat.

you still fail to see the difference between what they offer to potential clients and what they use internally.

They are expanding the offer but are still a software house in the end.

It also means that MS is using its weight on free (as in free speech) technologies, like Google has done before with other OSS projects and we all know how it ended.

> Office doesn't dictate all business lines

Obviously, it doesn't.

It only generates 33% of the revenues and 39% of the operative margins.

The second largest segment for revenues, behind computing (mainly HW), the first for margins.

Cloud comes third - and last - for revenues and second for profits with a pretty strong growth - less than 2018 but still strong -, but keep in mind that they include the Office 365 online offer and Gaming cloud in the segment.

> And I bet you weren't reverse engineering Office to discover which ActiveX were implemented in J++ instead of VB 6.

Would you bet ten millions dollar on it?
If you're not satisfied, you can refresh to get another one ;)
Big tech hasn't figured it out either.
If you're actually concerned about keyloggers and unsafe sudo, use 2 factor auth. You can set it up with hardware keys or something like duo.
Not really, there's also navigator.cookiesEnabled now.

And even if there wasn't, attempting to store a cookie with a dummy value just to check if cookies are enabled does not break the GDPR for three reasons: first, if it's a dummy value it's not really personally identifiable information. Second, it's a functional cookie required for the site to work. And third, the site can just delete it afterwards the checking. No consent required in this case.
> in the real world a lot of people/sites rely on ad revenue

I want to start a car rental business, however that requires upfront capital to buy the cars and I don't have that, so I'm gonna break the law and steal the cars to offer them up for rental. Is that what you're advocating for? Being in business is not a right; if your business model isn't sustainable without breaking the law then find a different one.

> ad revenue for the most part, requires tracking built in

Magazines are essentially full of ads and people actually pay for them and yet there's no tracking other than very generalized targeting (a car magazine will have car-related ads in it). Just because web advertising became the wild-west doesn't mean we should now legitimize it.

> and use my website/product for free

The biggest offenders (Google, Facebook, etc) don't even allow you the option to pay for it to decline tracking (and a lot of them track non-users as well; Google Analytics and the social media networks track people regardless of whether you're a user and agreed to their ToS/privacy policy).

> Why can't I say: "accept that my site is ad-supported or don't use my site?"

Because it's the law and the same reason why I can't walk into a store, start shoplifting and when caught say "sorry, should've read my ToS and not let me in if you disagreed with it".

You are welcome to vote and nag your local politicians to amend the law if you believe it's wrong but until then you need to respect it regardless whether you agree with it or not. The advertising and marketing industry has proven it is unable to self-regulate so the law has now stepped in. The industry had many chances to clean up their act (the do-not-track header was one of these chances) and they clearly told us all to fuck off so now the GDPR is a stronger solution.
When I was a kid at camp we used to catch them and make them fight other bugs. Those things are creepy.
>bootleg Adderall

You mean meth?
But what force of law does it have? People seem to be responding to the executive order as if it has the force of law.
The law does not forbid you from storing any cookie, even if the user declined. The user can decline cookies that are not needed to provide what the user asked for. Even after the user declines, you are allowed to use cookies to keep track of what's in the user cart, whether the user has logged in or whether the user rejected cookies.
FWIW, even in the most far-right audiences I know of, I don't recall a single instance of people taking issue with the "rioters'" reactions against the police force.

I see a focus on the looting and destruction of private property that is unaffiliated with the police: a Target and an Autozone in particular. If anything, I'm seeing broad support for what's happening with regard to the MLPD.

This is not a simple partisan issue. Not even close.
Fair enough; that artistic aspect means that for me, the design is part of the message so it's worth keeping. I think I do a similar thing with unstyled websites a la https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ ; the content has to look very interesting to me to be worth copying and pasting in CSS a la http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ to actually read the thing. It's interesting to think about the wide range of tolerances out there for different kinds of visual presentation.
There is a privacy benefit to adding friction to spreading personal data around everywhere. At the margin, some services will decide not to bother processing non-essential personal data just to avoid the paperwork. And really, that's one of the excesses that GDPR was a reaction to: that the "default" was "track everything in case the data magically becomes valuable," and now the it's become "perhaps not."
Ask HN: Front-end solutions for data/ML annotation?
I have a problem with annotating data -- the project managers I work with tend to want us to use a spreadsheet to mark a column with yes/no/maybe (or another set of answers). Are there faster ways to do this? What are best practices for data annotation?
Biosensors May Hold the Key to Mass Coronavirus Testing
It could have all been ended before the rioting started if the police officer was charged for his actions. Obviously looting is wrong but peaceful protests obviously aren't working either.
Sure reads to me like it’s advocating for violent revolt, albeit far more eloquently. I think this is the fundamental problem: it’s all subjective.
I really enjoyed it. I might never use what I learned by reading it but it was so well explained.
Bravo!
The argument goes, if the monetization model is unethical, then it shouldn't exist. I'll demonstrate this by taking your post and rewriting it about a different industry. I am NOT saying these are the same situation, because most people have different views on tracking vs child labor. I am demonstrating that the argument makes sense IF you think tracking is similarly immoral.

> Ok, that's nice in a fantasy world, but in the real world a lot of people/clothing companies rely on cheap manufacturing, and cheap manufacturing for for the most part, requires child labor. So now if you legally force clothing companies to allow consumers to decline "child labor" you are basically allowing consumers to reject clothing companies' monetization model and get their clothes at a loss to the company. And why should clothing companies allow that?

edit: maybe I've couched my argument a little too much. I think it's a pretty good comparison, actually: I think most (but not all!) people agree that tracking and child labor are bad, but turn a blind eye because they enable cheap/free stuff.
No, it won’t, but that’s only after a certain limit that’s much higher than 5000IU. Even if you spend all day in the sun, your body will stop the synthesis at a certain level (10000IU in the day is what I had read long ago, but that may be incorrect or outdated).

In other words, 5000IU is much lower than what the body would naturally produce when exposed to sunlight for long durations in a day (assuming good latitude, sunny season, lower atmospheric pollution, around noon, lighter skin tone, etc.).
Thanks for bringing some of those non-existant thoughts to the surface!

I used to imagine how to improve game play in the X-wing series, but not really outside the existing mechanics (just tweaking max speed, weapons load, or shielding). I have such fond memories. I started out in web programming largely to the web community around the game.

The Mighty Eighth reminds me of a take on Star Wars space combat game play that I wished was explored more, like the gunner role in a Y-wing, or what it's like to be the crew a Corellian Corvette taking on other similarly sized ships.
Companies have some of the same rights as people. Why should we expect companies to be neutral when we don't expect people to be neutral? Governments must be neutral, including armed forces and police, but even then neutrality doesn't mean letting one group break rules (laws in the case of government) with impunity just because they're the ones who most frequently break those rules.