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by vgf 9y ago
For months now. That is not credible. Seems like you actually need legislation as a deadline.
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by vgf 9y ago
They "do not support that". Agree that it would be a nice workaround. Should also be technically trivial.
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by vgf 9y ago
The GDPR only cares about privacy, not quality of internet threads.
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by vgf 9y ago
A particularly ugly thing happens if the HN mods for some good or bad reason decide to ban an account: their contributions will be there forever, with no ability to append explanations to previous posts. This will after May 25 be illegal fo
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Ask HN: Does HN respect the GDPR?
81 points by vgf 9y ago|97 comments
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by vgf 9y ago
At a previous temporary job posting in northern Europe/Scandinavia I worked with some Japanese men and women (three individuals in total) - all fantastic people by the way, I still regard myself an active/actual friend of all of t
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by vgf 9y ago
I bet people at Volvo are feeling a bit anxious at the moment for that deal: https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-us/media/pressrele...
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by vgf 9y ago
For some reason the byte counter represents number of saved files when you do a "Save complete web page" in Chromium. It still displays like "4/53 B, 5 secs left". Weirdly sloppy.
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by vgf 9y ago
Weight loss for people who hate arithmetics. The author of this piece really should know and understand the basic scientific concepts that are involved here. I suspect he may just be doing a dumb-it-down thing that goes a bit too far .
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by vgf 9y ago
When i visited the Computer History Museum in MV a while ago there happened to be a live play session going on with the original hardware, with a bunch of excited people in this little room (the door had to be closed to create enough darkne
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by vgf 9y ago
As I wrote, I don't have any solid proof for why they hired those people. I suppose the counter-case is that the FB partner program people could just have been very impressed with their negotiation counterparts? I am merely pointing
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by vgf 9y ago
I was involved in one of the non-FB companies who pushed for this weirdo program. If I were to guess the stats: I would guess FB got 99% of the traffic, even though wikipedia was the key thing of the marketing message, at least in the west.
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by vgf 9y ago
They even have a cute little lounge there for the premium passengers nowadays (shared with BA; a couple of flights a week to London Gatwick).
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by vgf 9y ago
Ok, humor me. What is the strongest plausible interpretation of: "One that had a referrer as a thread on Hacker News kept insisting I couldn't be a real person, and wanting me to do basic math like 2+3 "before he would talk t
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by vgf 9y ago
Apparently in this context it is. Basically, if I read dang correctly it is not possible to disagree, because a) she identified as being female, and b) said it was gross, c) it was mentioned in the context of abuse. I feel like HN just jump
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by vgf 9y ago
> One that had a referrer as a thread on Hacker News kept insisting I couldn't be a real person, and wanting me to do basic math like 2+3 "before he would talk to me." It was gross. I'm sorry, but I literally laughed
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by vgf 9y ago
The manipulation in this case is that a naive user assumes there's a real person on the other end who has noticed them browsing the site and decided to take some time out of their day to initiate a conversation with them. It's a c
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by vgf 9y ago
> especially since Drift asks users to enter their email address and people are worried about spam. Huh, okay. (Why bring up some other site?) > Our website is a video editing tool, so we decided .. I don't quite follow - how doe
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by vgf 9y ago
The companies used to mostly act in a nonpolitical way though, as the article notes. That has clearly changed.
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by vgf 9y ago
He updated his web site quite recently though: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html "2018 began for me with an absolutely incredible 80th birthday celebration called Knuth80, held in the delightful
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by vgf 9y ago
https://infographics.economist.com/2018/DemocracyIndex/
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by vgf 9y ago
That seems like the... wrong issue to highlight. In this case it's all about the skin color of the people pictured in the data sets. E.g. the potential "victims" when this stuff gets inevitably gets misused. Not about the ski
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by vgf 9y ago
From a privacy perspective I would personally see it as a positive if my skin color made it harder for me to be accurately detected by facial recognition algorithms. This seems like severely misplaced outrage. Be careful for what you wish f
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by vgf 9y ago
I guess this incident makes it more widely known.
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by vgf 9y ago
Seems like Canada's largest daily newspaper is stopping just shy of accusing NYT of manipulating their best seller list for e.g. political reasons. This is getting interesting...
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by vgf 9y ago
It felt like relatively high-amplitude lateral movements, but at the same time they weren't violent. No shaking - it was more like the building was moving around on a giant waterbed.
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by vgf 9y ago
An annoying detail with the iOS implementation is the lack of a "copy message text" function - I wanted to paste the text into Google Translate...
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by vgf 9y ago
I'm visiting Taipei at the moment. Received these alerts on the phone a few minutes before the earthquake woke me up around midnight: https://i.imgur.com/v08yD9l.png
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by vgf 9y ago
Over the course of several companies, I have noticed something special regarding China (in the context of expanding there, from a western country): 1. You inevitably hire a local person to handle this market. 2. Because of the combination o
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by vgf 9y ago
NiMH is probably more reasonable? But still, about half the energy density compared to Li-ion. http://www.epectec.com/images/battery-comparison-energy-dens...

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