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Largest economy in the world per capita? Where did you get your numbers?

GDP per cápita in the EU is around $37k. The US is $57k per cápita.

That puts it at 46th in the rankings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Unio...
Homework: find the bit when signing up for a FB account that explains how they use tracking from buttons loaded on non-FB pages you visit while logged in.
Yes, what you wrote violates the guidelines, which ask us to post civilly and substantively. Information-free religious flamebait is pretty obviously not that and leads to accounts getting banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for the link. I have been planning on doing this since most people don’t keep their machines with public IP.
I love SQLite and am currently working on a project that makes extensive use of it. In the book "The Definitive Guide to SQLite" it says that SQLite can scale to 2TB of data Looking at the website it says

An SQLite database is limited in size to 140 terabytes (247 bytes, 128 tibibytes).

That's ludicrous. I wonder if anyone has come close to that in day to day use.
Except for the article in question which is about the EU fining a US firm.
The GDPR isn't actually as bad as people claim. The law is actually pretty reasonable. It is the result of years of discussion and deliberation. In fact, privacy watchdogs are complaining that it doesn't go far enough - it leaves plenty of holes.

Most of the GDPR is about informed consent, having a valid reason for processing personal data and individual rights.

Facebook will do just fine, they had years to prepare and an army of lawyers. It will force them to be more transparent, which is a good thing.

Many EU member states like Germany already had very similar laws in place (like the BDSG), the GDPR unifies and standardizes them.

Here's an excellent introduction:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
What impact will this have on my selection of cars over the next 20 years?
Will Facebook remove all of my personal data and attest to no longer collecting any future data from my online of offline activities?
This is a fair point. Here's my thinking: Just because a paper is hard to find does not mean that it doesn't have valuable data or ideas. To give an example, I spent a lot of time tracking down Russian papers in my field because I found their theory to be better developed in some areas than the west's. Should I not cite these papers because most people won't be able to find them? I don't think so. What they say is unique. There is no alternative.

Instead, I translated the most important papers into English. In a conference paper I'm writing right now I cite quite a few of these papers and I've tried to be extremely specific in their citations, going so far as to include OCLC numbers that I used for interlibrary loan. (Librarians will know what to do with this information.)

What's easily found today may not be so easily found in the future. Today, I find that many researchers can't find a paper that's not available online but is available in any decent academic library.

It's also possible that a hard to find paper is cited wrong or cited ambiguously, and having the correct, unambiguous citation is all one needs to find the paper.

To address papers which are practically impossible to track down, as gms7777 suggested, at least people can contact the author of the paper citing the hard to find paper in this case. (For the Hinze paper, as I recall Shell had a NDA as a condition of downloading the paper from their system, so I can't share that one.)
There's one already somewhere, someone mentioned it in one of these cases here.
You don't need a trade deal to import stuff.
Let's assume 25% of the USA population is on Facebook (2.2B of ~8B in the World apparently are, it's probably higher). So we have about 80M USA FB users. About 40/320 or 1/8 are in the 20-24 age group; but they're more likely to be represented on FB, so let's say 1:6 of USA FB users are 20-24.

So, back of the napkin we can expect around 13M/5 or ~2.5M Facebook users to age out of the under-25 age-group in USA in a year. It's around the same ball-park.

Disclaimer: I'm recovering from flu.
"""The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, 'Do you think we can do this?' I say, "Try it." And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances.[34]"""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#Post_retirement

Really like that part about following up/through and stirring them up. Folks lacking motivation and direction can really benefit from such stirring.
Thank you @foxylion and @homero for mentioning Chargebee.

Krish, Cofounder of Chargebee here. A lot of our customers use Stripe + Chargebee combination as we complement them by leveraging the best features of Stripe. We like the way Stripe.Js, radar and auto card updater etc is beautifully built. (ex: you can pass Stripe token to create a subscription in Chargebee). We continue to build in a way that we let you use those features while providing a full fledged billing system that integrates all the way from CRM, helpdesk /intercom to accounting. Your finance or sales can collect non card, PayPal payments without any changes to the code. Enabling those business users post implementation with support is our core value prop, so that developers don't have to worry about giving internal solutions afterwards.

Give it a spin and for the idea launch stage we have a freemium tier for first $50k usd. If you have any feedback please write to me at Krish at Chargebee.
You have to lean on your board/investors to find a buyer (they can frame it as acquihire or whatever).

If they are seasoned investors or VCs they'll have the connections to do it relatively easy, as they'll want out as well... It's not going to be the first time big company acquires something that does not make any sense for hundreds of millions of dollars - the VC cycle must and will continue...

Use the VC force and "circle of friends" in your advantage...
This is exactly right and largely why I have not launched any subscription webapp on my own (b2c, b2b). I haven't yet invested enough time for an adequately starter backend infrastructure.

I should look into Laravel Spark tho', I hadn't heard of it before and it looks like it might be just what I need.
They are the bulk of its revenue, but my point was that average daily/monthly were already peaked by most counters and growth markets were a higher priority. Why do you think they paid so much for WhatsApp.
> b) Languages.

Another thing. I buy most movies I like on iTunes, but I have an issue with the films one of my favorite directors; Werner Herzog. The company that distributes his films on iTunes has decided to mostly make his films available with only a dubbed English soundtrack rather than the original German with subtitles. Even though I don't speak German, hearing the original actors voices gives me a better feel of what the director was doing. Herzog actually shot and edited two different versions of Nosferatu, but his ear for english, or his actors comfort with English make the english version clunky and stilted. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the voice actor doing the English for Klaus Kinski can't convey the delusional desperation in the closing speech to the monkeys on the drifting raft the way Kinski's voice can.

Interestingly, I recently bought Almodovar's Women on Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. It defaults to a dubbed version, so every time I watch it, I have to reconfigure my AppleTV to play the Spanish, but add english subtitles (a setting that I have to back out when done because it screws up all my other films). Its funny because several of the characters in the film are actors that do voice dubbing, and there are several scenes where they are dubbing an American film into Spanish. Translating that to a english language film it seems like she is dubbing an English language film into English. kind of absurd.
They are collecting information about me even without my consent, without having registered.
"Nimby's dont derive power from the ballot box, they derive power from distinctly undemocratic processes like courts and arbitrary middle of the day planning meetings. The biggest NIMBY tool is CEQA, the "california environmental quality act" which allows anyone to sue a project for "environmental" reasons."

I agree that these things are annoying and selfish (and possibly mean-spirited) but they are not undemocratic. They adhere to the laws and regulations of our state. They are the (unfortunate) results of a democratic process.

I reiterate my objection to non-democratic solutions to these problems.

Further, as someone who lives in a design-reviewed community in a NIMBY county (Marin), my firsthand experience has shown me that these roadblocks and inefficiencies are applied equally to everyone ... it's not like there is some class of people who get streamlined approvals and fast-tracked homebuilding. Everyone has to deal with the same bullshit, as far as I can tell ...
At least on the Android app, this is incredibly broken. Not only does it often not actually hide the item you try to hide, but most of the options that are available for this menu on the desktop web app are missing, so you can't actually unfollow the person 7 out of 10 times.
Or, and this is crazy, I know, but Facebook could follow the rules.
So you're effectively stealing then? Your data is your payment to Facebook.
I don't see download option on my TV running Android. Is this only for PC? On the other hand video files work seamlessly (there is MX Player for Android TV).

Sure, there is extra hassle for getting them in the first place but Netflix still has small library for my family (e.g. has Frozen but not Tangled).
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1. I don't think that they have enough images taken in front of a green screen. Just changing the background has diminishing returns because the network may start to memorize the foreground images.

2. The network may rely on differences in lighting, etc, and fail to generalize.
If only! Facebook collects plenty of data about non-members.
They do raise this in their discussion part: "Fourth, vaccines are only active while pathogens are inside hosts, but drugs can remain active in environmental reservoirs [89], suggesting that the strength of selection for resistance may differ for drug and vaccine resistance. However, drug resistance readily evolves even in pathogens that lack environmental life stages such as HIV [8]."
For them. Fortunately for the rest of us, they have a solid foot on the ground both in NL and Ireland.
That's why it is sql "lite". It's great for certain things because it's generally lightweight and manageable.

But you wouldn't want a single file format on enterprise level systems where enterprise level performance and stability is required. At the very least, you'd want your data and transaction log files to be different files on different disks. Especially when IO throughput is important.

Also, since DBs tend to have important data on them, being able to copy a file (db) and move it anywhere you want isn't much of a selling point on serious systems.

Having said that, sqlite is great for application/client side storage.
So they're basically saying "our citizens are so stupid they can't even read properly while becoming a customer of a company based on the other side of the world, and we fine you for their stupidity". Just LOL. I live in the EU and I feel the socialism coming back. I need to get away soon.
Nowadays "Reality TV" is in the same position.
I'm not talking about safe assets, I'm talking about what to buy now in advance of whatever crash is coming :)

For example leading up to the 2007 crash the pros that saw weakness in the mortgage market created and bought "credit default swaps" allowing them to bet against mortgage-based securities
>Torrents don't really work for music.

Redacted has almost anything that's not the most obscure of the underground.
That explains why Snapchat and Instagram, which offer features for sharing photos and videos that disappear, are growing in popularity among this demographic

Instagram is owned by Facebook. That's why I don't think Facebook is worried about migration off the parent app, they can just spin off endless trendy social apps and market them to target demographics under new names.
Certainly worked for Steam. Totally revitalized PC gaming. The hassle of downloading games, applying constant cracks, and what not. Now you pay $5 for a humble bundle full of steam games.
I dunno, I find some of the less-serious indies to be the most entertaining. Example, in Chikara, Eddie Kingston had a move called Backfist to the Future that he used on Archibald Peck that, in-story, sent him back in time to return later with a new gimmick. That sort of silliness would never fly in the more 'serious' promotions, but it was funny as hell and really differentiates them from the indies like Ring of Honor that focus more on technical wrestling.
I remember reading this when it was first published. I was a freshman student taking physics at the time, cranking out truly boring and awful "lab reports" once a week.

I think this got printed up and hung in the dorm common room as some cathartic exercise.

I dimly remember some other reports of a similar style on other subjects, but I don't recall what they were beyond that.
http://are.na - check it out
I have a hard time considering it "voluteering" considering other people can put data about me up on Facebook and I have no recourse.

Further, I fail to see why "voluntering" it is relevant at all.
I see. For a second it seemed you were defending Facebook!
That's definitely true, but I'm not too worried about it. It will be a short-term headache, but I think eventually processes will be refined and new models of responsibility will evolve.
On that bit of history, I stand corrected.

Thanks for pointing it out.
Oh you can, just hit the "power off" button on your device and it'll have zero effects on you.
I read it to mean the books, but I still see this as a problem. It's the dismissive attitude towards something that concerns men. If you read enough of The Guardian you can't help but think that this dismissiveness is because it concerns men. If they were genuinely interested, they would have found plenty of titles.

I really don't want to come across as a "what about us men?" type, but I resent that The Guardian - a paper I once loved - seems to be making a concerted effort to turn me into exactly that sort. It's so incredibly at odds with their feminist/gender equalitarian agenda that I can only assume that they do this to provoke outrage and generate clicks. You only have to read the comments to see that they do a good job of provoking many of their readers.

Anyhow, this is getting a long way off topic.
Also, there have been rumblings of taking away California's power to legislate their own standards [1]. It is unfortunately clear to me that the penalty for people not voting the 'right' way will be high, whether it is in terms of tax burdens (SALT deductions limit), off-shore drilling (Florida exempted but not California), and emissions standards. Edit: 2018 elections can't get here soon enough, starting with the primaries next month.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/trump-ca...
Leaving the EU would have very strong network effects and is IMO not an option for Facebook. The entry barrier to social networks is so low now that this could trigger a mass exodus in the rest of the world.
Mfw Giving them the data yourself isn't consent.
30 years ago everyone had the freedom to choose between restaurants that allow smoking and those that don’t — except that no businesses wanted to provide the latter. Without government intervention we’d still be wading through cigarette smoke in bars.

Facebook’s reckless use of private data is a public hazard not unlike passive smoking. It’s not going to be solved by an asymmetric fake free market where customers are free to choose an option that doesn’t exist.
This is solved by rolling the hardware enablement stack forward on 16.04. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
Just because emissions standards are needed does not mean fuel standards are. Customer can decide how important fuel consumption is when purchasing their cars, it's not a tragedy of the commons situation.

CAFE != any sort of reasonable or cost effective way of limiting CO2 emissions.
I just checked and I don't have a single app installed from Mac App Store. It always felt weird to go through spaghetti of prompts to get basic functionality available.
I'm happy with apps like 1Password, Fantastical having their own autoupdate functionality. I'm happy that I don't need to think about having some apps on Mac App Store, and some someplace else (Docker or Microsoft Office aren't even available on Mac App Store).

So yeah, choosing between using `brew cask` and Mac App Store — former clearly wins.
> Purely from principles, one might consider it important to credit people for the ideas that they contributed.

That makes good sense.

> From a practical sense, it gives readers a way to find it for themselves -- contact the author that cited it.

Right, but in the case of a paper this old the author is most likely dead or extremely hard to reach. Maybe a standard part of any paper citing other papers should be a reference to an archived copy of the papers cited?
Have fun trying to get it unfrozen. I work for a financial services company. Every time I speak with someone about unfreezing their credit, I laugh and tell them "good luck but I can't open a new account for you until your credit is unfrozen. I understand you froze it for identity protection but your credit is frozen. You told the financial companies to not open any new accounts, even for yourself. There's nothing I can do for you right now".
This plotter worked for me: http://bl.ocks.org/phil-pedruco/9913243

I'm stuck on 11, it's a real headscratcher..
That would be great if it were true, but even if you don’t use Facebook, that does not exclude you from their marketing activities.
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/08/involuntary-profiling.html
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Link is not working for me, but if you mean the UK

1) GDPR applies to the UK even if Brexit happens. It is already a matter of UK law. In fact it seems the UK is leading the way to GDPR adoption.

2) It is totally unclear that Brexit is going to cause any changes to the UK/EU regulatory arrangements in anything but name.
Wow, I didn't know it was that bad. Being denied utilities based on credit score... damn. Do you have prepaid meters by any chance?

It's the standard option for those who fail to pay their bills on time here.

With a prepaid, you load up money and it turns off your gas/electrical once the prepaid amount is exhausted.

Water is exempt, no one can turn off the water at a residential address, no matter how long you haven't paid...
AFAIK it follows all US laws to the letter.
That's not true. There is a cost to every regulation or it would already be a market standard.
FB can stop to have a corporate presence in the EU.
Before Hopper, SW did not have bugs. ;)
Perhaps not so surprisingly, most people that would want to pay money for data on European data, resides in Europe. And if you receive payments from Europe, you are definitely in the jurisdiction.
I think it's a huge stretch to say that nothing is flawed.
Wrong link :-)
Not only bots are ruining Instagram, their algorithm showing you posts from 3 days ago and an ad every 8-10 pictures is a killer, pretty much forcing me to only see stories.

"Oh let me show you this picture that you missed 4 days ago when we where showing you pictures that are 8 days old."
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A thought I was having recently: any communication medium (Messengers, social networks, email services, contact apps, etc) that does not use end-to-end encryption and has access to the data, may be in violation of privacy/data laws or moral obligation that will soon become law.

For example in email, people can, and do, send everything including documents with sensitive information, pii, account/payment numbers, etc. to each other - which are likely not being stored in pci compliant, and/or other responsible ways, by the providers.

Social networks run platforms that facilitate others to provide information about you when you did not agree: whether you're on Facebook or not, you're on Facebook.

Same with contact apps where you fill in all your friends' contact info then simply pass it all to a company without the consent of your contacts: mass legal doxxing.

Any communication medium where the platform has access to the contents of the communication might be susceptible to serious future legal/moral ramifications. There is a non-zero possibility that today's business models might be fully illegal at some point. Perhaps replaced by decentralization/encryption/privacy/crypto/etc.
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Uhhh, last I checked Lottie supports macOS.
> This sounds suspiciously like the Smalltalk image.

Lars Bak was a major contributor to both V8 and StrongTalk.
The auto-fullscreen and no-controls on the video demo are suboptimal (seems unlikely you're going to get people sitting through an 8 minute play through, especially when the duration bar is missing)

Cool software though.
Dunno man, did you give them your personal data? If yes, then according to the TOS it's theirs. If not, there's no problem.
I think also is a kind of great. They do there own thing. That's cool.

Sub-cultures in the age of like-counters. It looks like some still exist, but you can't see those easy on the web because the have not so many likes and they don't even come up (except you do a special search) on Youtube or Google searches.
First gig was summer after my freshman year working for a EE professor who was researching why the Bonneville Power Administration power distribution network would oscillate in frequency and eventually trip one or more breakers systemwide. This involved producing a state vector of 500 elements and evaluating the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a 500x500 matrix on a CDC 3500 computer with approximately 35k of memory. To invert the matrix, he would need to read in a handful of rows and calculate the inverse of the matrix incrementally. No small feat.

My contribution to this effort was to read in values for the C matrix and produce it in the format that the rest of the program required. One summer's work.

I met with him a few years ago and he showed me the current version of the program--not much had changed in 40 years, to my astonishment. Also he noted that this whole system was used to decide where to locate Fermilab.

Turns out that the result of the computation showed where the poles and zeroes were for the system. If too close to the y-axis, the system could slip into being an oscilator. Too far to the left, and there was too much damping.

This was my first astonished exposure to the idea that we could build something and not know how it was going to operate. "That thing I built does what!?"
I'm 25, so right on the edge of the demographic mentioned here. I have been using Facebook for 10+ years now, and I was pretty closed to quitting entirely about 2 months ago.

And then suddenly ... my Facebook has been fixed. I had recently started "unfollowing" people who annoyed me and also un-liking all brands. Facebook has also done some recently algorithm changes.

A year ago my Facebook was a randomly-ordered stream of nonsense that was 80% branded content and 20% of my most antagonistic "friends".

Now it's a seemingly chronological view of what my Facebook friends are doing. If I leave Facebook and come back an hour later, it's basically the same feed with ~5 new posts on top. This makes it something I can actually check and not a black hole.

I hope they continue in this direction. They've got fantastic ad targeting and if they keep users around they can probably keep their ARPU really high.