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I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that 99% of the companies out there affected by the GDPR and the OP in particular do not have a DPO (yet), and may not realize they need one, and even if they do know that then they likely won't be able to fill the seat either in time or with someone competent.

Every year we look at quite a few companies, this is the first year that I've spotted a DPO in the wild, and impressively, they even knew their stuff.
Most German banks should finish rolling out ICT in summer, so things should improve in a few months.

And often banks have copperations, where, between cooperating banks, transactions already run much faster.
The downside to this approach is people. You risk other (well meaning or otherwise) developers trying to help fix your misunderstanding or telling your supervisor that you need help. Others may need to be in on it and sometimes that sort of environment breeds cut-throat behavior. If the business has the power to dictate unreasonable requirements people that break ranks to tell them what they want to hear can gain a political advantage.
Cripes, that introduction is laying it on a bit thick:

> “…the photographer knows he’s getting the last shots of those wharves, steamers and warehouses before they are replaced by imagined hotels and marinas, the proto-blueprint for the new world dominated by leisure, tourism and heritage replicas. These post-dockland utopias are soon to be upgraded into big business steel and glass, craven monuments of late capitalism. The future was in a distant haze, just around the corner.”

These photos should remind us that East London has always been changing, that progress is real but slow. Those "craven monuments of late capitalism" are every bit as utopian in their own way as the blocks being built in these photos, and in my experience much nicer places to live and work.
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I would assume this is how the company will treat me after being hire.
Spot on. There are two major issues with the law as written, backups and conflicts with (possibly local) data retention laws, so right now the local data retention laws will likely take precedence and backups are not going to be in-scope until a lot of low hanging fruit has been plucked.
It's not nonsense, it just isn't quite put down in a way that is practical, on top of that it just makes demands and does not even begin to give guidance on how to comply with those demands which does not help for smaller companies.
About the GDPR, can anyone recommend a company in the UK they have dealt with, that brought them up to compliance?
The take away for me is that we need constant reminder that there are people in our own states and towns, the story they mentioned of the apartments in Atlanta is something I read in our local paper and seen in local news. Yet it is so easy to dwell on what is wrong in our own lives, so easy to see a wealth disparity that exists between us and the Gates of the world yet completely be oblivious to the gap that exists between us and people like those in the apartments mentioned.

Every generation seems to always have a family that steps up. The question becomes, who do we think will step into their shoes when gone and make the next big contribution to bettering the world around them?
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Paying the workers a decent wage caused the US auto industry to fail? It was about time, then.
Company gets hacked x time into the future, data that should not have been there hits the streets, E250K/violation?
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If you aim to do this before May 15th you will find that anybody that is capable is fully booked for the remainder of 2018.
They weren't only slow about revealing it, they straight-up lied.

Smoke on deck clears, no core visible, deck empty. Both go "oh." and after a pause, while looking at the empty deck: "we're waiting to hear what happens. [...] we'll let you know as soon as we find out" and "we'll [...] know [...] whether it's standing". All while looking at the empty pad.

They saw it didn't land, they found out immediately and didn't let "us" know. Instead they claimed it might be possible it is standing despite seeing the empty deck.
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While I'm really, really happy that Bill and Melinda are doing Good Things with their wealth these days, it's easy to overlook the mechanisms by which they (but mostly Bill) acquired their wealth. I find people under the age of about 35 really have no clue about Ye Bade Olde Days, and seem to consider the Microsoft Corporation to have always been a force for good.

Look, it's clear that he's changed a lot, but how much of this is genuine altruism rather than some guilt mitigation.

For anyone unfamiliar, Bill's deposition (part 1) on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_2m1qdqieE

There's myriad resources on the net that describe the USA's DoJ's case against Microsoft, and their three days (!) of deposition recordings with the guy.
$500 million a year in United States.

$4 billion we spend to help developing countries.

So .00125% of the money? I hope I'm wrong.

O.K.---no matter what I say; I'll be accused of something sinister, or greatly misinformed.

It's almost like they hate this country?

I think Melinda/Bill need to walk around any big city, and see for themselfs the little problem of Homlessness.

There's nowhere to shit, and sleep if you don't fit in, or have a hiccup in life.

Even as a kid, I knew being an American is also being selfish. Hell--it's not selfishness; It's charity begins at home. I don't like it, but I don't like becoming immune to stepping over people on our streets.

(My percentage might be wrong. I'm just another lazy American who can't sleep because I'm close to driving to that one patch of desert land in Imperial County that I can pitch a tent without breaking any law.)
Thanks! Actually it wasn't too difficult. It's all in C++ but the Adobe Illustrator SDK came with some examples that were pretty close to what I wanted already. Once I'd figured out the maths I had a prototype working in about a day.

The one thing left that I can't figure out is how to have the curvature comb update live as you drag the Bezier control points. Currently it only updates when you mouse up.
There's a Stack Exchange site for that: https://patents.stackexchange.com/
Also, how to deal with down the road queries wrt; churn when you have deleted the data. I'm calling self inflicted technical debt because of shortsightedness or, dare I say it, lack of acumen. :D
I speculate less than the latest ASIC device.
They were awaiting this review. They could've designed it to butt up against a $400 setup and sold a similar number of units. Given the current limitations on Siri and AirPlay this could even out the criticism, especially from the usual crowd that despises anything coming out of Cupertino. Sound is subjective but you can't argue against that response curve, awesome work Apple.

I wonder if the next iteration will be portable, possibly capable of any Bluetooth source and at a similar price.
Brushfield Street is pretty cool - you can see the painted sign on one of the buildings is still there in street view.

Its the first picture on the Guardian's version of this: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/13...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5190638,-0.0760875,3a,75y,...
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16359015
Usually what you're doing in those cases is that part of the image are stretchable and other parts are fixed. It's a technic that's been used for rounded buttons for ages, and can be applied to pretty much anything. That's also part of xcode (unless it's been removed).

But generally, you can easily have those kinds of design work with any kind of screen dimensions. It won't look completely similar from one size to another, but still look realistic (bigger screen -> bigger objects, or more space between objects).
Ask HN: One macOS desktop computer, stand-up desk and sit-down desk
[This might be more appropriate for Stack Exchange or Reddit, but I wanted to try here first.]

I have a macOS desktop computer. During the day, it's a work-work computer and my stand-up desk is where I use it from. In the evenings, I do side gig work, project stuff and other things that invariably happen when I'm at a second (sit-down) desk, which has a comfortable chair and that helps my mind think.

I have 4x screens, each is a different model. Two on the stand-up desk, two on the sit-down desk. I have macOS set up to recognise them individually in a horizontal 4x1 array.

I have one user account because sometimes side gig stuff becomes work-work stuff and it's more convenient to have it all in one place.

When I start my evening stuff, I log in and move all my windows to the screens on the sit-down desk. When I'm done, I shut down. In the morning I log in and move the windows back to the stand-up desk.

There's a lot of moving stuff around, and my morning peak of motivation and focus is offset by rearranging screen furniture. Every. Single. Time.

I'm looking out for a way to harness two working environments/zones/etc on a single-user, multiple-desk macOS system and save myself some of the repetitive work. Re-reading this, I hope I'm not coming across as some sort of lazy or entitled tool (I'm not).

I am very grateful for input and ideas, and thanks for reading.
If that were all there is to it, would this not be an issue for all Windows applications, not just Skype? Is it just Skype that puts the current working directory in the list, or at least in a position where it can be used to preempt the loading of the correct DLL?

The link you provide as an example suggests that this sort of thing might be done to facilitate testing, but again, that doesn't seem to be a compelling reason for not fixing it now - 'ship what you test' is a good principle, but it does not preempt 'fix known security holes.'
It would be interesting to see Google Project Zero’s take on it. It’s a shame they didn’t discover it because I’m sure the back and forth between them and the Skype devs would have been really interesting.
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Facebook is indispensable for me because of groups. A group for my running club, a group for my cycling club, other local groups. All activities are coordinate using FB & Messenger.

However I also have a zero friend policy on Facebook. Having zero friends, plus the "only friends of friends can send me a friend request" setting, means nobody can send a friend request. I suggest you try it, it's glorious.
I agree that it does look disproportionate. But my understanding (I'm by no means an expert) is that it could theoretically become less disproportionate as more transactions are being processed.

Proof of work is not a per transaction cost. It's a per block cost that doesn't depend on the number of transactions per block or the size of the block.

But still, the way the incentives are structured in this whole game seems somewhat perverse. Otherwise we would never have gotten to a point where bitcoin mining has a country sized energy profile.
> This is why Bill Gates is Bill Gates and you are and always will be a codemonkey

Bill had a rare opportunity (wealth, access to equipment, an opportunity to take advantage of IBM and Tim Paterson, etc) and a subsequent disregard for the laws of his nation that led him to acquire massive wealth.

There's lots of differences between him and most people, and not all of them are unfavourable to 'most people'.
Yes, you summed up perfectly what I've been experiencing in my professional career for quite some time now.
> "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans"

I absolutely despise these statements, that are perpetuated to the present day. I'm from near the Balkans, from Romania.

They depict the Balkan region as being some sort of backwards warmongers, which is not the case (yes, the region is not very developed but it's far from the poorest regions on this planet; also, yes, I know about the Yugoslav Wars, but that's a rather extreme scenario and even people in the region were appalled at what the Serbs did, especially).

Anyway, the reason I don't like it: it was foreign empires vying in the region that made the mess. Turks, Austrians, Russians, Brits, Italians, Germans, French, they're the ones that started the wars. There was no way the local conflicts would have ever become global conflicts. The locals just didn't have the desire or resources to escalate such a conflict. Instead these empires just used them as battering rams against the other empires.
> But when the topic is optimism, foundation spending, education and other topics, the size of the embedded JS is simply not interesting.

Okay, look at it this way. If it was all about the foundation and the content of the page it would look like a Word Document. Just a wall of text, maybe some graphics with stats. But this is not the case here. Somehow the Gates Foundation decided they need 17MB of sugar to get this message out. If the JS to content ratio is that blatant I'd argue that they know they don't have anything of value to say.
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The "eventually" points at a new steady-state, after these changes have settled down:

Previous: 2 Old / 4 Adult / 20 children born, of which 10 survive = 3 dependents per adult

"1. bigger gen" = 2 Old / 4 Adult / 20 children, all surviving = 5.5 dependent / adult

"Next generation" = 4 Old / 20 Adult / 60 children = 3.2 dependent / adult

"eventually" = 20 Old / 20 Adult / 20 Children = 2 dependent / adult

(Real numbers are better than this b/c productive adulthood is more than 1/3 of life. It's simplified here to make the math easier to follow).
Indeed, the vast majority of this cryptocurrency was not lost, but remains in circulation.
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The great Vaclav Smil wrote about the Haber process and its relationship to world population in a Scientific American article in 1997:

http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/Smil_SciAm_N2cycle.... [PDF]

It sort of blew my mind when I read it back then
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> So have predefined, approved functions that achieve 90% of required functionality, who's composition may not be TC.

Aka declarative configuration, which we have already: HTML.

Define new tags for if necessary.

> Anything custom requires permission.

You generate that server side.
Thank you so much; that was exactly the explanation I needed =)
Who says it was lost? I suspect quite a few of these 'hacks' are inside jobs to take coins from the general public and move them to the founders/owners/employees of exchanges.

Yes, that's a pretty harsh accusation to make, but there is plenty of evidence that this happens with some regularity and the number of instances is high enough to make that claim. And it will continue as long as gullible people place 100's of millions in unsecured accounts without oversight.

Who knew that regulatory oversight was a good thing?
I’m gonna guess that the non-splitting country has a much flatter distribution of wealth?
> Then they proceed to drive the team as hard as necessary to make sure that they actually deliver what they said they were going to deliver.

Sounds like really healthy practice
Ugh. That would work, but it’s such a hack. There should be a mechanism specifically for this. Is there’s no other good way?
What you mentioned is part of evolution's natural selection through selective pressures. But it isn't precluded that an AI could be created with none of these biological hallmarks of past evolution.
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Another step toward “OS as a service” like many games and softwares.

I hope they will not fall in that pattern.
Thanks for doing such a wonderful critique of me. You are right, I am an utter wanker.

I forgot no-one's allowed to be curious or go off on a tangent on HN, because the H means Homogeneous, not Hacker.
This is absolutely true...
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i will say that I like your pricing model. Free to try it out yourself and only $20 (or whatever the currency rate is in AUS) for each time you use it with no monthly fee.

Personally this is how most online services should be, pay per use.
The border checks are the main reason for the delay in extending the Eurostar to Amsterdam. There's going to be a border check on the platform: 15b. That's the same platform currently used for the Thalys to Paris, which doesn't require a border check.
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Touche

Reminds me of the Hamming's "You and Your Research"[0], the part about fighting the system. Quoting a fragment:

> Many a second-rate fellow gets caught up in some little twitting of the system, and carries it through to warfare. He expends his energy in a foolish project. Now you are going to tell me that somebody has to change the system. I agree; somebody's has to. Which do you want to be? The person who changes the system or the person who does first-class science? Which person is it that you want to be? Be clear, when you fight the system and struggle with it, what you are doing, how far to go out of amusement, and how much to waste your effort fighting the system. My advice is to let somebody else do it and you get on with becoming a first-class scientist. Very few of you have the ability to both reform the system and become a first-class scientist.

But damn, the system (the web, in this case) is utter garbage, and it's so tempting to nitpick and try to fight it...

--

[0] - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
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The young ones have to eat something and they need proteins.

On a more serious note, I assume that they compare the situation with the previous generation.

Generation one dependents: 2 parents, 4 grandparent's, 6 kids, let's say.

Generation two dependents: 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 2 kids.

I'm guessing this is what they mean, maybe I misread it?
If you're interested in this, RadioLab did a great episode on good and evil and really took note of Fritz Haber. It's called The Bad Show. Fritz Haber was a really conflicting character, he seemed extremely patriotic and made a lot of personal sacrifices for his country.

Every time I see someone who is described like that, I have to wonder how much of the disdain we have for him is because that wasn't our country? If we had a brilliant man who invented a solution to the worldwide fear of an impending food shortage, but they also made a disturbing wartime weapon, would we feel the same way?
I’m afraid I fail to see the relevance of this post to the matter at hand. Did his company do some despicable things, and did he have anything to do with it? Yes. I think most corporations of a certain size do.

The good he has done the world since then so dramatically outweighs the bad that posts like yours above just seem catty to me.

I’ve found it kind of funny and ironic that Bill was always the evil one and Steve Jobs was the cool “think different” upstart, but looking back on their entire lives, Bill has done so, so much more to make the world we live in a better place for everyone.
Few years ago after not logging into Skype for few months when I have launched Skype I was logged in automatically to another person's account (similar in name to my own, but with additional prefix). It happen few times in period of 2-3 years. When I tried to report it, support staff supposedly handed the info to their supervisor and that's was it. Fortunately web client had resolved such issues.
My understanding is that it's going to be platform 15b, the east side of the platform closest to the IJ.
There's multiple efforts along those lines.

Mapillary provides sign detections to OSM:

https://blog.mapillary.com/product/2017/02/06/towards-global...

Telenav is doing similar through their OpenStreetCam project (but no good link). I'm not entirely sure, but I think they have the goal of running the detection locally.

Mapbox recently used Bing Streetside imagery to detect turn restrictions (which are important for high quality routing):

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/daniel-j-h/diary/43242

Mapbox and Telenav also compare their incoming position data with OSM and flag discrepancies (missing roads, turn restrictions again, stuff like that).
A very simplified view.
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Suppose there would be a test which gives an objective measure of consciousness. Now I store all possible inputs to the test and corresponding outputs which would lead to a positive test result in a huge table. To exaggerate I would carve this table into stone. Would the stone suddenly be conscious, as it would pass the test for consciousness after I carved in the table? (The claim I'm trying to make is, that there can't be an objective measure of consciousness; same argument holds for any measure of intelligence)
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If it's in the same ballpark, I definitely prefer the train. Much more comfortable than a plane.
To put some of this into context, there were a lot of people saying that the world was going to run out of food soon and we couldn't sustain our growing population. It'd be as if someone today invented a solution to global warming, it was a problem everyone knew about and worried about to some extend.