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> It might be an unpopular opinion here, but I'm not entirely sure that the GDPR is going to be a good thing

Feedback from the trenches: it is a very good thing. Suddenly corporate people are beginning to care about security and privacy: we receive spontaneous inquiries from customers about compliance as well as various questions about password storage policy and proper encryption. Previously the very same people were laughing in our face when we told them passwords must not be stored as plaintext. Whatever the content itself, the message of the GDPR is clear: companies have to care about their users privacy and security, or they'll get a wild kick in the guts.
The one does not preclude the other, for instance in the case where I want to run something for philanthropic purposes, but death duties may force it to close.
More like one place to manage subscriptions without having to create 20 different accounts and enter credit card details over and over
It's too bad the US is still dealing with the simplest of issues - gay marriage, abortion, mandatory vaccination, immigration, prohibition of marijuana - and just doesn't have any room left to discuss things like public transit.
Here in Belgium, it's not so much an issue of 'going above your station' (=doing things you don't seem qualified for?).

The potential failure is more of an issue. People don't want to look stupid.

The "What will the neighbors think?" question is asked a lot in peoples minds.
>because obscurity is a valid defensive measure. It's how passwords and authorization tokens work.

This is extremely dangerous thinking. Passwords and tokens are not in the 'security by obscurity' category because you can observe how the entire system works, review its source code, read its deployment configuration, and do packet captures of the encrypted valid traffic and still not have a way to gain access to the system.

Security by obscurity refers to hiding how the system actually works, and that's a lot harder to keep a secret because you are one compromised device away from revealing all of that and it can't be easily changed.

Do not call passwords and tokens "security by obscurity" or claim security by obscurity practices (e.g. Running on non-standard port numbers) is on the same level as passwords/tokens/keys.

There is a reason the strongest crypto is using public algorithms and only private keys. Obscuring a system just means that your silly bugs don't get found and exposed early.
There was a cool visualization from data produced on nanopore on /r/dataisbeautiful recently [1]. It really shows the strengths of the device - ~50kb region with 3kb imperfect repeats. This would be impossible to align properly with <1kb reads from illumina. The paper is worth a read if you're interested in sequencing. They basically did a de novo sequencing of a bacterial genome on the cheap. And in the assembly they had more than 1000 reads longer than 100kb. Using this in combination with an Illumina sequencer is probably the best though.

[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7rpdr0/wev...
Depth competes on a different level. Depth works when a market becomes cheap enough to cater to (or the market is so large that a small fraction is worth it) that you get long tail economics. The benefit for the producer is less cost petition. We're almost there with television. We're almost or possible already there for some select markets for YouTube, but coming from the other direction (high production vs low production).
It might be a benefit economically but I'm not sure having more people sat in congestion is a good thing.
I had a similar problem where I was stuck in automated response hell for several months. I finally decided to threaten legal action in the support ticket and surprisingly enough, I was put in touch with a human within a few days.
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It might not match your expectation that "number of trees planted === number of mature trees" but that's because you're assuming things that they're not saying. You can't reasonably make an incorrect assumption and then claim to be cheated when it's wrong.
Your measurement seems to match up. It makes a difference in the fact the meCoffee PID can adjust its P response 100 times a second, it can react much faster.

Dimming such heavy loads is not within spec in all jurisdictions though.

It also includes normal interval behaviour.
> Code is a liability

Code is an asset, like any other piece of capital. Like physical capital, using it and maintaining it may have costs. Like physical capital, the costs associated with it are not worth paying if you don't have a productive application for the capital asset that justifies those costs (and, also, the amortized cost of acquiring the asset in the first place.)
Well yeah, better start regulating them, and quickly. At least the exchanges.

Crypto currencies are ideal if you want to launder money.

Not to mention the volatility of it might keep doing damages.
Polymer will not require you to use TS - it just provides you with a way to use it if you want.
Well, I built my PC with gaming in mind and chose the i7 8700k. But I got it a week before the spectre/meltdown spectacle. I decided to keep it because of its superior singlecore performance.
It will get fixed - modulizer is still being worked on, and some elements are not being converted correctly as far as I can tell.
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> I don't want 15 different subscriptions. I'll pay a premium for 1.

Is the premium you'd pay equal to or greater than the sum of the 15 services you'd subscribe to? If not,then you've answered your subsequent question (why haven't they done this) -- between one and all of the 15 would take a hit.

Sure, it may be overall better for each to do this, and obtain your patronage, but it's a trivial assumption to make that they've collectively run the numbers and determined it's not that compelling a path.

What's the problem, by the way, of having 15 subscriptions? Is it the 15+ emails a year to renew, the hundreds of spam emails you're likely to get (you'd still get those with an aggregated subscription model, I suspect), or some other factor(s)?
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Exactly this. Software is complex because users have complex needs, or more specifically: users have varying needs and the union of those needs is complex.

Also: quality and dev cost are always factored in and complexity wins. As a developer I always argue for the simple, clean, maintainable, performant solution - but the business need of the customer is such that they’d nearly always rather have the slow, expensive, buggy and bloated solution (that is - given the choice at fixed cost). Even after pressuring customers on this - the answer in my experience is always “yes we accept poor performance, poor reliability so long as the features are there. Make it complex, we’ll pay for it with money and we’ll pay for it with accepting poor quality. Go for 10 features working 80% rather than 3 features working perfectly”.

And the reason they want this? It’s because their existing apps (from the ”good old days”) might be fast and so simple it’s superficially bug free but it just doesn’t solve their problem. They have to do manual work instead and it’s costing them.

So in the end we are making apps with complexity so high that making them properly (I.e with the kind of thought and care that goes into e.g a compiler) would take at least ten times as long. But customers would reject that product either on cost or lack of features or both.
Well, a route taken regularly at 3 am is almost certainly not someone taking an off duty stroll. I do not know if you can readily figure that out from the data available through Strava. But if you can, this is bad.
The EU didn't start this.

I may remind you of the Megaupload case, where a German is under arrest in New Zealand for breaking US law by offering his site to American visitors.

The US has created the precedence for enforcing local law internationally during both the piracy enforcement cases, and the NSA cases.

As result, it is just expected that other countries will use this tool for their own purposes — in this case, the EU is using it even for ghe benefit of the people. Something you can't say about the use the US made of it.
As some that works in this industry the most amazing thing is the original sequencing technology (Sanger) is still going strong and about as much Sanger sequencing is being done now as back in the early 00s [0].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanger_sequencing
Where there's brass, there's muck. I doubt it's even possible to create a system that's universally useful while not being susceptible to scams and all the other crappy bits of humanity.
> And local news will have to jump on this too, and form groups with national/global.

Local news already is largely owned by a few very large conglomerates, which often also own major national outlets. In fact, that's a big part of what was killing newspapers long before the internet came along to help; those conglomerates cut local newsrooms to the bone as cost cutting measures to boost short-term numbers, turning local newspapers into a thin layer of local customization over shared (often mostly wire-service, even the national news desks at the papers were cut deeply) content.
His point is that if you make going by car more attractive by simply widening the bridge for everyone, people will switch from public transport to private cars. So his solution would be more "make a separate bus line on the bridge, so that they are more attractive to use than a private car".
No one seemed to like the redundant joke :>
People don't generally give up and stay home, they find ways to go about their lives. Driving to downtown San Francisco is awful and congested, so people simply take the train (because it exists in a useful capacity).

Widening that bridge has an opportunity cost. LA ramped up road infrastructure at the expense of useful public transit and urban densification, and it's a stressful and sickening experience to get around there.
Facilitating more trips absolutely should be the goal of any transit system. Getting yourself from point A to point B provides you value - else why would you go? "More people sitting in congestion" just means that the facilitated trips are limited by capacity and density rather than geometric distance.
I remember that time when I tried to play a 4k video (x264 or x265, I am not certain) on my Mac Mini. I was pleasantly surprised that it actually ran smoothly, but the poor thing nearly melted.
I would continue to do nothing special to support the EU's provincial laws. If EU citizens want to send me money, fine. If the EU decides to block its citizens from doing so, that's also fine.

But I will take no actions on my end to implement EU laws, and it's laughable that some people in this thread imagine the EU has the power to coerce me to do so.
You can get external ref to payment providers. Depending on the business you might need KYC and anti laundering procedures and then it's harder.

However if you have some direct business and do accept payments - by all means make it secure and transparent to your customers.
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> You'd just need a compelling enough application.

Pshhh, easy: Gattaca

kidding
Strava has trivial to use controls to shut down this type of data gathering. You simply define zones on the map as privacy zones and voila, any travel in those areas will simply not appear publicly, and will not be part of public heat maps or anything like that.

Of course, the original point of that is to avoid people knowing where you live to come steal your expensive bike. But it's useful for other reasons too.
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I love my brewing water to be perfect temperature, too!

I am currently writing model-predictive controller with moving horizon estimator for my Silvia!

The idea of the controller is to model boiler water temperature based on current brew head temperature and previous heating/brewing history. Then the model-predictive part settles the boiler optimally, without any over/undershoots.

The estimator (general case of what is also called Kalman filters) monitors the operation to update model parameters. It is detecting the scale buildup over time! Kinda neat.
I got a speeding ticket in Germany last year. I want them to delete my record. I own the data, they just tracked me over-speeding.
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To help put it all together, there is currently a book being written about Deep Learning and the game of Go. It is currently in MEAP at Manning [https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-and-the-game-of-...]

I am finding it quite useful. (I'm not the author, just a happy reader! :-))
I have spent more than a decade working with US colleagues in this sector. Overall, three things come at a disadvantage for US that explains overall this puzzling productivity problem.

First, management. I don’t exactly know where it comes from, in the land of Westinghouse, Edison, Tesla, and the likes, but being an engineering project leader is not seen as the career path of a winner. It’s all about business, storytelling, laws and politics, where the power and the money is. Compare that to Germany where the chancellor is a PhD in physics and there you go.

Second. Individualism. No. Team. Spirit. Everybody wants to be with the best at what he/she does and recognized at such. There is no willingness to fill cross functional gaps, people are absurdly specialized, resulting in very inefficient performance at the collective level and surprisingly high level of bureaucracy.

Third. Protectionism. US established market is protected against foreign competition. The net result is that the US consumer is never benchmarking what he gets against real alternatives. His appliances are crap. His social protection is bad. His car is a good laugh compared to most Japanese or European models. As a consequence he as no notion of how good a deal he is getting on such things (and in most cases, he is being ripped off).

The combination of the three explains quasi all of the shortcomings noted here. I believe these problems were not as acute some decades ago. I think these behaviors have been pushed to the extreme through the various US tax reforms that have allowed very few to capture most of the wealth, thereby promoting the above behavior.

It’s not the first time in US history though. I believe it will be fixed eventually because it’s becoming too absurd. :)
I remember reading a couple of years ago about swarms of drones that would be used to police an area, and I feared that some governments around the world would REALLY love this idea.. mass control, mass spying protests etc.

Reading about deploying a swarm of drones to make this planet a better place makes me restore a bit more faith over human kind.
Old Microsoft Speech API would be a good fit here. I miss it. Back in 2007 I made myself a voice control interface for changing music playback. Trainable, completely off-line. Worked like a charm.
> if they spawned a minimal VM for just the game

They don’t even need a full-blown VM, windows 10 has pico processes. That’s how windows subsystem for Linux works: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/05/23/pico-process...
There is the interesting hypothesis that the first people to reach Australia were the Denosovans and African peoples came much later. It would explain a lot of interesting observations about the peopling of Australia, not least evidence of there being people in Australia before African peoples had left the Middle East and why you can only find significant Denosovan genetic ancestory on the Australasian side of the Wallace line.
Wenover productions does a great video on how increasing traffic lanes makes traffic worse in every city. People who normally wouldn't drive, will now drive thinking they'll be less congestion.

Atlanta had some major closures recently and the city migrated around the problem, people took different paths to work and more people decided to get on public transport.

The fact is car lanes can never reach a fraction of the capacity of a train running at regular intervals. Even if you had nothing but self driving cars running bumper to bumper at 120kph and all filled to a capacity of 4.2 people, on a four lane road, you wouldn't even approach 8% of the capacity of a single rail line running at 2 minute intervals! Singapore's trains are automated. They're already self driving and run at <1.5min intervals during peak hours.
I'm pretty sure it didn't, though I can't find it explicitly for Alpha Go. For Zero they specifically mention that it took the self playing a long time to learn ladders well.
How can you be so sure?
Patrol shifts are normally rotated to prevent exactly that among other reasons, while someone having a regular non-patrol late shift (or early) and doing his exercise regularly at 3 am is also not unheard of.
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It’s ironic that for all the praises Linus gets on HN, he would have been banned within minutes by these guidelines.
Isn't gene expression dependent on environment though? Is there some reason to believe that these differences are inherent, and not the result of gene expression being affected by the environment?
I like Jarrett Walker. He does come at the problem from a certain perspective though -- he wants to solve problems with mass transit. Just like he talks about there being immutable laws of geometry, there are some immutable laws of transit. Mass transit fundamentally depends on having a lot of people who want to get from point A to point B, all at the same time. Since this is never true, you have to relax the requirements. You can make people wait until there are enough of them, you can make them walk to or from a stop, you can make them detour, slow down, stop and then speed up to let others get on and off, and you can make them switch vehicles. Fundamentally those are your options given some set of vehicles, whether they're planes, trains, or automobiles. All forms of transit exist on the tradeoff surface between these possibilities. As population density goes up, it's easier to find lots of trips that are close enough in the five dimensional space of origin, destination, time.

Where I perhaps differ from Jarrett is that I see no problem in having transit options that have one or two people per vehicle. The 2-5 person capacity mass transit vehicle has been a very underexplored space because someone has to own it and someone has to drive it. Services like Uberpool and Lyft Line are exploring this because smartphones make it possible, and this will only increase when you don't have to pay someone who isn't riding to operate the vehicle.
... between Paris and Lille, a distance of 230 kilometres (about 143 miles) ... The first symbol of a message to Lille would pass through 15 stations in only nine minutes. The speed of the line varied with the weather, but the line to Lille typically transferred 36 symbols, a complete message, in about 32 minutes ... [1]

So a short message could be sent at around 450km/h, like two orders of magnitude faster than the postal service it partially replaced, or, I guess that more likely for that kind of communication, still more than on order of magnitude faster than messenger pigeons. Then again, snail mail obviously still had vastly greater throughput.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line
> You could add 'free at the point of service'.

Do you really think there's someone out there who wouldn't be aware of this fact without that added clarification?
Speed of evolutionary change is basically proportional to the population size. Thanks to the huge increase in population size after the rise of agriculture, more human evolution has happened in the last 5000 years than the previous 500,000.
Data retention policies in GDPR specifically address the case, if there is a legal reason to keep the data it should take precedence. That's it you can't tell that you wish your 10k euro bank credit to be forgotten.

Accounting logs might need to be kept up to seven (in some cases 10) years, so the data related to them should be kept. The data is sort of field based and some might need to be able to be forgotten earlier.
>as they aren't considered marriageable as they can't afford a house

It's hard to imagine that this belief is somehow more deeply rooted than pair-bonding. I can understand homeownership being an advantage relative to other men, but will women really rather give up on marriage than marry renters?
It does say "over 3000 sq m." 6280 > 3000 ;)

(The article also says that it's eroded and diminished recently)
Heh, people living in a city prefer malls to factories, who could have guessed?

BTW, according to their five-years plans, China now considers that industry-wise, it is set and is planning to develop more its tertiary sector and R&D.

Wages will rise, so will cost of components. The race to the cheapest will now increasingly rely on automation rather than poor labor.
At what point? There was no change in the last maybe 3~4 years. Heatmap wasn't kept that up to date, but that's about it. There are privacy settings you can set (and the app is nagging you to do so) to avoid these problems. If it is a problem.
I really wonder about the relations between the earlier hominides and the brainiacs.
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It does exist in some of northern Europe, though I think "most of western Europe", while somewhat better off than the US in this regard, have very much been moving in the direction of the US over the past few decades.

In terms of different outcomes as a result, I have absolutely zero hard data on it, but my intuition would be as follows:

Rags-to-successful-job-creating-entrepeneur stories are a lot more common, and by that metric success rates are higher, but rags-to-riches is still relatively rare by simple virtue of the fact that greater success != rich because success rates and broader competition mean very big wins are rarer in general. Market regulation also affects this somewhat: it's harder to dominate.

Extra disclaimer: the above is intuition, would love to see actual data, whether it contradicts or correlates.
Exponential growth means just constant growth rate. Doesn't mean it's a big growth rate. 2% a year will double the starting salary in... 35 years.

;).
The Guardian and tax avoidence goes hand in hand. The Guardian Media Group is based in the Cayman Islands and notably used the tax haven to avoid paying any tax on the £302 million in profit it realised from the sale of Auto Trader in 2008.
I wonder if publishers with income from reader subscriptions (voluntary or paywalled) have a competitive edge post GDPR?
I disagree. I think OO can make things a lot simpler. But the fact that I disagree is just an example that there is no one 'correct' style, it depends on taste and the team should decide based on their needs.
> You might just wake up one morning with your bank accounts frozen and your credit cards revoked if you violate the GDPR.

Please, spare me. I'm no more worried about EU laws than I am about China seizing my accounts for mentioning Tiananmen Square. You overestimate the EU's reach.
Not following Janteloven basically. Although I agree that that was more of thing a generation ago.
So why are you so nervous? Just ban all those 500 millions "provincial" users and feel free to ignore GPDR. It's nothing new that countries extend protection for their citizens and business entities well beyond its borders, for example, US routinely extradites foreign citizens that have nothing to do with USA for DMCA violations, hacking and whatnot.
What's the connection there? I asked a friend just the other day if he thought the pyramid numerology kooks and the "cosmic A432" kooks had ever joined forces. Would love to watch a 50 minute youtube video of a guy rambling incoherently about it into a bad microphone.