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The article mentions that "stuff you learned right before bedtime [is] easier to remember". Perhaps you should have read it just before bedtime.
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Deletion of backup-data is also an interesting topic
Is there any Free Software VCS that specifically targets monorepos?

If not, which of the "usual" VCS are best suited for monorepos? CVS? Subversion? Darcs? Bazaar? Mercurial? Git?

Should one use Mercurial simply because Facebook uses (and patches) it, or are the better choices for small-to-midsize organizations?
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Old-school SEPA transfers take only a few hours between modern banks, even across borders.

SCT inst is gradually coming. Bear in mind the SEPA area covers some 500 million people, it's no small feat compared to much smaller domestic markets (Nordic European countries have been ahead of Australia in this regard).
My guess is they made that atom very, very, very bright, among other things...But I'm no scientist
It's a decision that makes perfect sense if you read the preamble to the Charter (my emphasis):

> This Charter reaffirms [...] the rights as they result, in particular, from [various pre-existing sources].

The opt-out specifies that the Charter does not _extend_ the ability of the courts, but does not limit the powers that the ECJ already had prior to the implementation of the Charter. Even if the UK had a cast-iron opt-out (e.g. "The Charter, in its entirety, is not applicable to the UK, no rights are granted under it to UK citizens, and no court may refer to it in reaching a decision affecting the UK"), more or less the same results would likely be reached.

Also note Article 51(2): "The Charter does not extend the field of application of Union law beyond the powers of the Union or establish any new power or task for the Union, or modify powers and tasks as defined in the Treaties.". This is broadly similar to the UK/Polish opt-out, further suggesting that the Charter did not grant powers that the UK had not otherwise agreed to.

> In other words, this part of the treaty does not allow the courts to overturn UK laws. Stated twice, for clarity.

It does not grant them _new_ abilities to do so, and the second statement only refers to a subset of the rights considered under the Charter.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:120...
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Edit: And several hours to clear
If you don't want to add them yourself, be sure to leave a note.

Notes are basically bug reports for OSM. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes
I was in this situation many times and I have always replied with "sorry, I keep my facebook friends only to the closest group of friends and family". Never had any negative reaction to it(apart from my friend's crazy ex who decided he should absolutely break up all contact with me immediately and never talk to me again because I refused to accept her invitation literally within 5 minutes of receiving it).

I also frequently go through the list of my friends and remove everyone I haven't spoken to in a while, keeping my friends well below 100.
Expensive as in, if you apply it to everything, the booster doesn't work.
Population growth has seized in industrialized countries, and is plateauing in others.

Humanity’s foremost achievement is overcoming its biological roots, and any view of the world based on supposedly unchangeable evolutionary mechanisms is deeply flawed.
The "joys" of keyword matching.

"Children killed in terror attack" matches "children", ergo diaper ads.
What would be the sort of dispute you envisage?
author here. I agree with what you're saying in broad terms. And yes, you're right that handling sales tax perfectly at launch won't kill your product.

What's the killer is all of the work _surrounding_ that small task.

Actually charging sales tax didn't long. More or less

if address.region in TAXABLE_REGIONS:
subscription.sync()

What took the longest was developing and deciding how the screens surrounding will work. Answering things like:

- Which fields do we want to capture for an address?
- How do we want to store states (or provinces, or prefectures) in a standardized way?
- Is there a library that will let me select countries and prefectures? (Answer yes, pycountry is pretty great)
- How do I integrate this library into my backend / front end?

In my mind it's just fit and finish. Like making the motherboard and inside of the case as beautiful as the outside. If I try and half-ass it or skip it, I'm just going to have to double back and make it right.

I do appreciate your final sentence. I'll keep that in mind going forward. :-)
Which will still get you mowed down on unprotected bike lanes (or streets without protected bike lanes). And confiscated / fined in NYC. Oh well.
I just went through the same experience trying to set up paid ads. My account was suspended for "suspicious activity" and despite sending in a photo of my credit card with my thumb over the first 12 digits they still denied me. In the end after multiple engagements it was approved.

It lasted 24 hours before it was suspended again and had to do the whole thing all over again with the same copy/pasted responses.

Their fraud system is an absolute joke.
While I don't disagree with your basic point, you need to get out more if you think owning guns/hunting automatically equals "right-wing" in much of the US.
Well it’s pretty fucked up.
> In each case, the researchers simply asked the participants to sit in a dim, quiet room, without their mobile phones or similar distractions. “We don’t give them any specific instructions with regards to what they should or shouldn’t do while resting,” Dewar says. “But questionnaires completed at the end of our experiments suggest that most people simply let their minds wander.”
There should be " (2015)" added to the title.

(BTW, I was slightly confused not to find a single date on this blog post, and the HTTP headers were also useless. But at least there are rough timestamps at the main site.)
It's for agency banks that aren't full FPS members. They have to rely on the full member banks to clear for them - the maximum allowed time for this is 2 hours.
The backend is still IBAN/BIC, but some banks also use this to offer phone number transfers.

So if you use the phone number transfers from the Sparkassen, the transfers themselves will run over SEPA ICT
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All it needs is faking the available computing power to any process created by the browser, or run it into a VM with extremely limited resources.
What's not to like? Lightweight, multiple interoperable tools (MUAs and editors), no barrier to entry, easy to review and comment. Compared to shitshows like Gerrit and the awful clunky workflow of Github, I'll take an emailed patch every time.

Does it scale to huge patchsets? ... well not so much. However Gerrit is not the answer to that (in fact, no tool I've found provides a good answer).
> The maximum sentence for arson in the UK is life imprisonment, something you are unlikely to see imposed. That doesn't mean that everybody is going to start torching their houses for the insurance.

And if you did see that, I suspect you'd start seeing that maximum imposed more - there's no reason why the ICO wouldn't do the same if lower fines were ineffective.
I just launched my 2nd side project this year (incl. live updates)
You probably already add a "time created" column/field to each row/document (at least, I personally do this to all data I store in a database).

If you want to expire something, you can now easily calculate it and you can even easily change the timeout/lifespan without having to update the data in the database.
> I'm hoping eventually Android will wise up and follows their lead.

Settings -> Developer Options -> Drawing

There are various settings there for animation styles and speeds, including 0 speed ( none ).
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Once the armies were assembled it was going to be
impossibly difficult to move them all back so they got
put into action instead.

I read a more subtle theory in the book "Arms and Influence" by Thomas C. Schelling [1].

In short, at the start of WW1, the Russians had two plans available: A plan to mobilise against the Austro-Hungarians only, and a plan to mobilise against them and the Germans at the same time.

But if they went for the Austria-Hungary-only plan, they'd be extra-vulnerable to German attack. After all, the troops and trains are all in the wrong place!

So although they were _mostly_ worried about Austria-Hungary, they were moderately worried about Germany, so they went with the mobilise-against-both plan. And as soon as Russia started massing troops at the German border, what could Germany do except respond in kind? Hence there was an escalation to war despite the fact neither side would benefit from it.

In other words: The logistics played a part, but it wasn't _just_ using the troops because they're here now - the logistics forced the Russians to choose between two bad options, forcing them into a choice that would inevitably trigger the escalation to war.

[1] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TX_yAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT161&lp...
And the bbc. Everything I know about Isis, I got from the bbc. Even What it’s flag looks like. imagine if you could use the bbc world broadcast to tell the whole world, what Isis is, and what Isis does. Every day, and behind the ‘breaking news’ banner and panick sound effect
>How do we know other humans aren't "very sophisticated programs"?

We don't. Most people assume that other people have consciousness, with various justifications, but no one can know that.

>a magic thing with no measurable properties that makes us oh-so-different than a crude material object.

But it does make a difference morally speaking. If we consider a Utilitarian model of morality, then what is good or bad is that which causes the experiences of happiness or suffering. But if a philosophical zombie does not experience pleasure or suffering, then there is no moral consequence to harming them, any more than there is moral consequence to watching someone die in a movie, or to splitting a rock in half.

And this becomes even more worrying when we start to think about AI. If an AI can develop consciousness as a result of our actions, then perhaps it can also experience suffering as a result of our actions.

Of course, since we cannot identify p-zombies, possibly by definition, one can argue that there's not much point thinking about it. But, well, you could say that about a lot of philosophy. Personally, I think it's valuable to think about these things as an intellectual exercise, even if we can't really conclude anything from it.
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Not only Google slurps all your personal information to better target ads it shows you, you have to do extra work on top of that to keep them relevant. That's rich.
This is significant because:

"... scientists now have observed evidence validating climate model projections, as well as providing policy-makers with a "data-driven assessment of sea level change that does not depend on the climate models ..."

In other words, this is the validation of the predictive ability of climate models that skeptical folks like myself have long been demanding.

At least as far as sea level rises go, we finally have a solid basis for cost - benefit evaluation of emissions control policy.
There's so much wrong in this statement, it's a wonder how this was possible.

Inter-country and intra-country transfers are all identical (all running via SEPA) and should make no difference.

SEPA transfers are legally limited to 24 hours already.

SEPA ICT is being rolled out right now, from summer on most banks should support it, which transfers up to €15'000 in 10 seconds.
Cyclomatic Complexity isn't specifically an agile testing metric.

Nor is counting the number of escaped defects.

And, it looks like the author gave up numbering after #2?
That’s not “skipping the country”. That’s fleeing a failed state, where diplomatic immunity generally no longer applies but neither do whatever other “skip the country” plans one might have had since infrastructure is likely disrupted as well.
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Cut ad spending in two (random choice) and put that money into product development, or just cut prices. Win win.
No need to downplay it: it is a rant, and I knew it when I wrote it, but I wanted to get across the raw frustration that I think a lot of users feel. Plus, as I said at the beginning, it was more to illustrate a more general problem.

You have my respect for taking it in stride and listening to the critique! I already mentioned it does look like a good app, and based on skimming through that lightning talk (not to mention this reply by you), the dev community behind it looks open too.
I would think it's fairly easy to keep all calculations in C in 128-bit and just mask out the top few bytes when retrieving and storing. You could also argue that >64 bit values will be rare enough that they warrant their own code path if they are encountered as an optimization (perhaps they already do this?).
What's really worrying about this to me, is how deep this goes. Hacker News is a relatiely well informed audience about this topic. We understand:

* that the false positive rate is going to result in more legal material being taken down than ISIS propaganda by an order of magnitude even if what they claim is true.

* That the success rate on the data set you've been training on is highly likely to completely mis-represent your true success rate.

* That the processing power required for this is likely prohibitive. Not capable of being run real-time, and any actual implementation will have much worse results due to performance optimization.

That's laying aside the deep and obvious problems with the government forcing private companies to censor legal speech with no over-sight or even a human in the loop. Let alone law enforcement in the loop.

What this press release is, is a calculated attack on free speech. Deliberately misleading the public about the capabilities of technology to attack the technology companies they claim to want to work with. To apply public pressure to private companies to do police enforcement jobs.

The only response to this is to state the obvious: If the government wants something censored they can apply to a court injunction as is due process, and in the mean time, let's get rid of this abhorrent stream of Home Secretaries.
> Court explains that "read and understood" clauses like this one are invalid. Clearly, the user didn't actually read and understood the whole thing - but the language in the terms forces him to admit he did, which would disadvantage him by implying informed consent about everything in it when he didn't explicitly consent to anything.

I wonder if that renders most terms used by modern services invalid since, again clearly, nobody reads those 100 page terms or even understands them - regardless if it's Facebook, iTunes, Google Mail or most other services. Adn if so, what kind of language and how many pages can we expect a user to read/understand?
> The service that's trying to strip the +'s are trying to prevent users from using their (usually free) service in a way that will cost them more money, but never convert to and profit.

I can always create multiple email accounts, you know. So I don't see how spending development efforts to parse and detect + and . is effective.
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Yes and no. I don’t think the slate gets wiped clean when a new leader is installed. If the Tories are still carrying the legacy of Thatcher then Labour must held to the same standard with Bliar.
The problem is that people keep trying to map non-American political systems onto the American political spectrum. Tory vs Labour is a completely different horse race to Republican vs Democrat in the USA. Same goes for most other country's political systems.
Really enjoyed the article. I don't do ML but I'm a React Developer, so I was interested in reading the article cause it said React Native.
To my surprise, I read it entirely, understood most of it, and best of all, React wasn't part of it until the very last part.
I encourage you to write more posts like this, I learned a lot.
On that subject, I'm surprised that we haven't seen a clash between journalists and the "tech elite" yet.

Sure, there's a lot of crap written about Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the like on printed media, but given how reliant UK broadcasters are on social media I'm surprised a negative reaction hasn't led to Twitter banning journalists, or Google de-listing a publication for hate-speech.
That’s exactly when they get on a plane and fly home. Declaring a diplomat persona non grata means they need to leave. It doesn’t mean they are suddenly subject to prosecution. If it did, then diplomatic immunity would be meaningless.
Blocking porn => blocking "Xtreme" Content => Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, never at war with Eurasia
Cat videos and daytime television waste less power while providing much more value.

Ultimately cryptocurrencies have some value offering, but it's of dubious utility, because you can get 99% there with a little bit of trust, and then you don't have to pay this humongous upkeep in electricity.

Popularity of cryptocurrencies is almost entirely driven by greed, so it obscures the actual value of blockchain tech.
But that's exactly the point, isn't it? To me, people trying to censor media are extremists, because of how I view the world. In the same way, they may flag me as an extremist because of this.

In the end, the problem with censorship is that it gets defined by someone who decides what is extremist and what's not.
I believe (not a lawyer, etc.) that you don't have to delete from existing backups as long as you have a process to immediately wipe the customer details again if that backup is restored (and before any other processing can happen.)

[edit to clarify that you wipe the customer details]
The accompanying theory is that Germany had long planned for the eventuality of fighting a Franco-Russian alliance, and their agreed military strategy for dealing with this potential situation was to attack France first, in the hope that they could knock France out the war before Russia was fully mobilised. The need for speed in executing this plan necessitated an attack via neutral Belgium to avoid France's border forts and easily defensible territory (which was what brought Belgian ally Britain into the war)
and if I understand correctly, the 'log' of your activity is basically a blockchain!
I don't know about _strong_ network effects, but part of the appeal of Facebook (for me) is that it's universal - visitors to the country (e.g. exchange students) and people I've met overseas (holidays) are all in one place. Further, it doesn't result in you being introduced to (possibly better) Facebook alternatives in those situations. It may not a strong effect, but there is definitely small cross-country effects IMO.
He is talking about five years old. Kids who learn to read, read slowly at first. Very very slowly and with a lot of effort. And by the time they finished long sentence, they have no idea how that sentence started. This period is notfun, because they cant do it yet. This period also takes a lot of time, it is long enough with 6-7 years old and even longer with five years old.

The interesting stories as motivator works for kids that already know how to read and need just some more practice. And when the books the child is inclined to read are already collected and available - when the kid is starting, it takes multiple attempts to figure out what it is that child will like.
Not sure that would comply with the "without undue delay" requirement unless you always set the expiry date to be today and then you might as well just wipe them immediately.
Unless I'm literally trying to race the beam, by the time I move my finger from the home button to a position over the screen the animation has completed.

My brain can't identify the icon I want to tap while the animation is in progress. I have to wait for it to finish then parse the screen for my target.

You just type <space> which triggers the animation yet merrily continue as the animation proceeds while you are already inputting the next words.

Again I can't identify the word I want to tap while it's moving around. I have to wait for the animation to complete, then figure out if I want to tap any of the suggestions or keep typing.

I agree animation can be functional, but both of these animations are purely there for aesthetic reasons, get old very quickly, and actively slow down my use of the device. If I have to use an iPhone for any extended period of time I turn off animations at the system level and use GBoard for typing.

As for 3D touch. I always forget it even exists because it has zero affordance. It increases the manufacturing cost of the device for very little user benefit for the typical user. I think it also forced Apple's hand on FaceID and drove the cost of their flagship device out of the range of a lot of people that would otherwise buy one.
I had a similar issue just yesterday - my app can produce xls files with links back to the app. However, if the stars don't align correctly when user clicks the link, the browser won't send user's cookies so they are always just shown the login screen. You can implement a server workaround to refresh="0" and when the refresh happens cookies are sent again

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2653626/why-are-cookies-...
If you don't want things like this to continue to happen, refuse to work for companies who develop such technology --- and advocate for others to do the same. "Stop making the nooses on which to hang yourselves," as the saying goes.
The way I'm handling it (probably non-compliant) is to store a list of the internal keys we use for people in a list as GDPR requests come in.

If I restore a backup it will go via this list and ensure that content in my backups which are keyed to deleted accounts are never restored.

In theory we have the data, but it's never reachable by internal systems. -- Anything else is essentially compromising the integrity of a backup.
If it was that it would be a 2.9% return per year and massively underperfom the S&P500.
Not always in Europe. On some routes Lufthansa and Austrian allow booking of bus or rail transfers to the hub as a leg on the air ticket, which also means they guarantee the connection even in the case of delays. Examples: "Lufthansa Express Bus" which used Deutsche Postbus routes between Salzburg and Munich (now sadly defunct since Flixbus took over the route), and Austrian Airlines selling tickets on OeBB trains between Salzburg and Vienna (though personally I'd still prefer the 40min flight over a 2.5h train in that case).

I always found it particularly amusing, while riding the SZG-MUC bus route, that a lonely little bus stop on the edge of Rosenheim, Bavaria has its own IATA airport code (ZPR).
I'm wondering is meditation is the best possible way to take a break after learning new things...
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What should software engineers know about GDPR
These analytics are really dumb considered Facebook Inc. still holds these users in Instagram...
Soft deletes as you describe aren't allowed under GDPR.

But a possible solution may be to disassociate the data from the customer (as long as the data itself isn't considered 'personal data'). For example, if the reason the data falls under GDPR is because it is connected to the customers email address, you could clear the email address. But that wouldn't let you ever re-associate it. But you could maybe (but don't take my word for it) one way hash the email address (bcrpyt, etc.) and if a dispute arises in the future scan the hashes for a match of the person raising the disputes email address in order to re-associate the data.