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For months now. That is not credible. Seems like you actually need legislation as a deadline.

They "do not support that". Agree that it would be a nice workaround. Should also be technically trivial.

The GDPR only cares about privacy, not quality of internet threads.

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 explanat…

Specifically, does HN/Y Combinator plan to allow contributors from the EU to request their contributed content to be deleted after May 25? Note that they currently do not allow bul…

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…

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...

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.

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 …

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 li…

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 …

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 t…

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).

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 d…

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…

> Since the parent mentioned that in the context of an overall pattern of harassing comments, you're in the wrong here. That logic is pretty amazing. It's a brand new world.

> 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…

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 …

> 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…

The companies used to mostly act in a nonpolitical way though, as the article notes. That has clearly changed.

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 calle…

https://infographics.economist.com/2018/DemocracyIndex/

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 ge…

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 lik…