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I've never been hit by it personally, but I know two people from different companies that found themselves in the same situation.

The first went through the stages of grief, and "acceptance" meant shutting down. The second company had the option to pivot and focus on a specific feature that AWS lacked, but the company decided against that plan. According to my friend over there, management is still in denial over the severity of the threat. He's looking for other work, and so are most of his co-workers.

Unfortunately, this is not good news. On the plus side, you're cognisant of what you're facing, which means you can start looking for ways to pivot. Failing that, you can decide to bail before things become critical.

I'm really sorry to hear you're in this situation. For what it's worth, you're in good company.
Amazon acquires smart doorbell maker Ring, reportedly for over $1B
In a market I used to run a startup in, $1000 was a very common point in our industry at which individuals with purchasing authority and a credit card (i.e: the people we wanted to convince to hit Buy Now) needed to go up to the next level for expenditure approval.

$999 (or in this case $995) meant they could whack it on their card and not go through approvals process etc.

Obviously this price point will vary with industry and time, so suss it out in your industry (if it is applicable at all).
> It's important to note that popularity of diesel is the doing of the German government. The fuel is subsidized for the sake of the environment because it's more efficient. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/eb8be120-de5....

That's not true. Diesel was a byproduct of gasoline production, which was cheaper because in less demand. This is changing slowly.

> Now Germany spews out about same carbon as before giant investments in solar, electricity is four times the price as in US, plus they now have to buy from France cause they don't produce enough.

That's disinformation. Germany has a high and growing percentage of renewable power, and it exports electricity - for example, frequently to France, especially in the summer, because scarceness of cold river water to cool the french nuclear plants.

Then, renewable energy in Germany is subsidized to some degree, a subsidy which is paid by a small percentage on the bill of private households. On the other hand, there are numerous companies which are except from this tax.
Also, every time there is an oversupply of wind or solar energy, the price at the energy spot market goes to zero. In the net result, companies are paying much less for energy.

And what you also are leaving out of the equation: Renewable energy is now cheaper than nuclear. There is only one nuclear power project in the EU, Hinkley Point in Britain, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the whole project is likely to make a net loss. I guess the only thing that keeps it alive are the nuclear weapons ambitions of the UK government.
> the current right to be "forgotten" doesn't remove the source material but only inhibits the lookup-path.

Is that true? Google, for example, keeps your data but merely prevents people from seeing it? That's a pretty weak level of protection. In fact, in that case Google (and other companies in possession of your data) don't forget you; they still remember your data - and that is a very large exception.
> The behavior of your basic int primitive is dependent on the VM it's running in, that's a pretty bad language design decision.

What would you do instead? Any choice other than the underlying platform's native number type will significantly negatively impact performance and make interop much harder.

It doesn't matter how much nicer your preferred number type is, if you make "a + b" or "getNumberFromPlatform()" slow, your users aren't going to be happy.

Scala.js uses JS numbers for Byte, Int, Float, and Double (though it implements correct overflow for operations on fixed-size number types).

Kotlin.js does the same.

TypeScript uses JS numbers and has no integer type at all.

Elm says ints are 32 bits, but uses JS numbers to represent them.
Mobile development is hard to get in. Maybe it's that I'm an outsider, but yet, on the second most popular platform it costs you an Apple computer and $100 for the IDE (IIRC), and on the other one the development experience is godawful (tools are slooow and janky, hard to integrate with your usual tooling, the program structure is incredibly complex, lots of XML, and then there's Java). Having looked around a bit, it seems to me that it should be easier to start with Flutter, the filesystem layout, the project configuration, the language, they seem managable, and I've seen some youtube videos where a guy only used VS Code and the Flutter command line. If I can just get going with Emacs and the Flutter's command line tool, that'd be awesome. Mobile app or game development seems to be a nice way to earn some money developing software solo, just from your laptop. And not having to deal with JavaScript is a nice way to spend more time for oneself. So definitely going to re-try this (tried it before but my impression was that I needed Android Studio, and that's a show stopper).
Do they really shut the reactors down during the weekends? My dad worked in nuclear, and the plant would be down for a few days if it ever tripped, planned outages were about two weeks.
Do you have a source for a definition of capitalism? It's definitely not like Marxism -- one man's idea. Capitalism really is an evolution ("what you get when ...") of Dutch and British economics of the 17th century or thenabouts through today. The key characteristic is: private property and freedom to trade (goods, property, services).
They may have phrased it in a hamfisted way, but I do not see anything wrong with the core of that advice.

I guess it all depends on how old those "kids" are. If we're talking 10 year olds, it can be dismissed as a (mostly) harmless hobbie, and their ambitions will get crushed on their own on due time (or not).

However, if we are talking about young people in their late teens, it would be utterly negligent for a parent to not ask all the hard questions about what business model are they pursuing. Sillicon Valley lottery is bad enough as it is, and computer programming is a socially-appreciated skillset and craft. Artsy types, on the other hand, are ripe to be taken by the first promotor/predator walking down the street.
A DNS request/response, TCP handshake, SSL handshake and last but not least an HTTP request/response is an awful lot of 210ms round trips.
I inherited a non-OOP C# web application where instead of using Master pages, they leveraged iframes for achieving similar (with a lot of trade offs). It is a nightmare, needs to be rewritten but no time available to do it. So in order to fix something, takes forever. In order to add something new, takes forever.

I couldn't care less about respect considering I'm the only developer on it and I feel my manager and I have a good, respectful relationship as is. I just hate having to do fubar math to quote how long it will take to add/update something and having to put out a number I'd be embarrassed to quote on any other project.
My own favorite is a table that can selectively show hide columns. Just make the button to show/hide a label that controls a hidden checkbox which then controls the display property of cells.
GDPR, I guess?
I'm sure it's hundreds of people. But the majority of smart home fans have shown that they are more than comfortable with an amazon device in their homes.
There was just another example of this - A company called Plated, Cuban agreed to invest during the show then backed out during due diligence.

I guess Mr. Wonderful found out and called them up to invest later. Plated just got sold to Albertsons for 300m, and O’Leary claims to have made 1300%+ return on his investment.

Poor Mark.

I love the show, I don’t think any of the sharks are “dumb money,” but I don’t think it’s an accurate representation of what a good investment for most businesses should look like.
When it comes to programming, I think I've found that modafinil (and doubly so for something which must be metabolized first) is not as helpful as I used to think it was. My problem tends to be getting started; but once I'm started, continuing is relatively easy. So for my purposes, a bit of nicotine gum is just as useful: cheaper & legal, doesn't last as obnoxiously long as -afinils do, and doesn't require as big or long-lasting dose. I've often wished for a modafinil which had a half-life of half an hour or an hour...
Why do you need the permission "View your contacts" (Google Contacts) when signing up? I would sign up and try the product but I'm not going to disclose all my contacts.
It's not easy at all to understand. I'm a developer and have spent 40+ hours in meetings with lawyers because the interpretation of the law isn't easy at all. There is a whole team of lawyers looking into this. 40% of my team is working on GDPR implementation.

Just figuring out if users are allowed to use my service is hard. There is a different age of consent in different EU countries, and apparently some haven't even decided on an age of consent yet. What happens if I am in a country that has age of consent of 14, but then they vacation and use the app in a country that has age of consent of 16? We are required to offboard users if they aren't of the age of consent. What is the support flow for letting those users back into the app if they accidentally said they were born in 2016? What if the company owns multiple apps, and the user users the same OAUTH account to login into each app? If in one app they enter their birthdate as underage, now I have requirements to delete the user from all apps.

My default mindset is to avoid collecting any data that I don't need so my app stores almost no info about where users are located. But EU regulations have told me I need delete all EU user accounts who don't agree to the new terms in X days after May 25th. Does this mean I have to go delete all user accounts who haven't logged in since a certain date since I can't differentiate EU vs non-EU? Those users aren't going to be happy. Some users log in through email so we are able to email them, but other users use phone number login where we can't contact them. We are potentially deleting huge numbers of accounts.

We host our help center site using a third party service. Does that third party service happen to store IP address in the logs? Now I have to care about that as well.

Lets say my company built an Apple TV or Xbox 360 app two years ago. There is a small group of dedicated users but it doesn't make us any money and we haven't updated it. Now we have to go build an interstital making them agree to new terms before they can use the app. None of the developers who built the app are still around, I guess we need to just delete the app now.

It turns out that there were a bunch of Russian accounts who tried to manipulate the election and we only found out months later. Good thing this happened before GDPR. After GDPR all they have to do is claim they are in the EU, and then delete their account, and there data won't be completely unaccessible 30 days later.

I am a big advocate for privacy and a member of the EFF for a decade. Maybe my company just already has good privacy practices, these regulations are making development much slower, without providing additional privacy benefits. If you want to see some change, I would think massive fines for data breaches would be the way to go.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603542/ai-software-juggle...
I hope so. Unfortunately, that won't necessarily be the case.

Small businesses have been specifically and routinely targeted by dubious law firms for not complying with certain regulations like legal notice requirements or disclaimers on websites.

The EU and local as well as member state authorities also often are oblivious to problems smaller companies might have.
Linting is included with the extension (I think it's way down in the list of features on its page, but it're there). The flutter command line tool (included with the SDK) comes with a formatter, so it'd be insane not to hook into it.

Re: plugins, I hadn't noticed until just now that the instructions for the plugins repo say to file issues under the main one. There are plenty there, though. A search for "Firebase," though:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=f...

turns up ~350 issues.

I can't speak for the team, but solid support for platform APIs is going to go a long way toward adoption, so I can't imagine it's being overlooked.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation

Spoilers follow:

This is a theme in Pohl's Gateway, as the protagonist shoots his friends into a black hole to give himself enough velocity to escape it's pull. Later, he realizes they're still falling in, as the immense gravity of the black hole stretches time for them.
The newer Tinkerboard S seems to have sorted the 4k issues too. Should be a capable media playback device with the new hardware decoding support.
It's probably worth mentioning that this is from October 2014.
> - CFPB -> all consumer corporations

CFPB is very new; is there really evidence of revolving door hiring going on there?
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Coal plants in Germany have the same problem as elsewhere: They are becoming too expensive.

Renwable power in Germany is mostly a mix of solar and wind energy. In the summer, the curve of solar production fits nicely the daytime of the highest demand, while the higher production of wind energy is in cold stormy winter months. What needs to complement the mix are gas power plants which can be ramped up and down quickly. Coal plants are too slow for that.
Depending on your industry, or your global customer requirements, you might have to have an audit that shows that you have such procedures in place. If you are small, don't get breached, and attest that you have done the deletion.
Montreal->Toronto corridor has complete coverage (unless you take the route through Windsor). 4G LTE the entire way.
On OS X 10.9.5 and iOS 8. Latest versions right now are macOS 10.13.3 and iOS 11.2.6.
Most of the purchase departments need one plus additional level approval for say 500, 1000 limits. So if you keep pricing at 999, the department purchasing your product need to go through one level less approval, hence chances of you as a vendor getting paid earlier is better.
My suspicion is less cost cutting and more designers not being allowed to do good work. A lot of the interior decisions feel like the results of edicts from the top by someone who has no design sense.
Ah, that explains it. They want to use it for their delivery men to get access to peoples homes by image recognition tech.
It paints it in a very negative light. Does not mention a single positive anecdote

Only says we don't know so they could be doing harm!
Edison, is that you?
The effect they're measuring, in this case, is the weaker gravity field at the top of a mountain, less than the field intensity at the Earth's surface. So the clock ticks faster in the weaker gravity field.
Yes exactly. It's always inspiring to see how (in his case) you just start doing things simply and methodically with focus, and eventually you get very far and become better than anyone else.
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I have a Ring. I like it because its outside my home. If it were inside, I wouldn't want it.
The GDPR gives you this out for that[1]:

"the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the
purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed"

The data you submitted to a blockchain database is inherently needed
forever for it to function, so I think there's zero chance that this
will be interpreted as to make Blockchains illegal.

What might happen is that this in combination with the "Conditions
for consent"[1] will force people who ship blockchain software to have
prominent warnings saying that you're about to ship data that'll be
public forever.

1. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

2. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/
Ask HN: What would you pay $10,000 for right now?
What service have you always wanted someone to provide, product have you always wanted someone to build, skill you have always wanted someone to teach you, that you would pay $10,000 today for?

Please don't say random things, especially if you don't have $10,000 to spend right now. The whole idea of this question is to try to potentially discover value and to price out those that want "Snapchat for dogs for $500".

Edit 1: Requests like "Lifetime Access for" also don't qualify as viable responses....for obvious reasons.
Before contrasting religion with science, one should first disentangle 'history' from 'science.' That is, much of the 'conflict' between science and religion stems from differing opinions about past events. That is, history. Whether it be evolution or cosmology generally.

I'm unaware of any conflict between any religion and science in its strictest sense; that is, a reproducible phenomena backed up with expirementsl evidence.

Its a fallacy to think that use of scientific tools to support a historical theory makes the theory scientific.
Nope.

However, it is easy to expose C methods (not entire opencv interface) to your app via PInvoke.

I do this often, and allows me to quickly pop in any native library how I want.
2x, 2.5x, 3.4x, 3.5x, 5x, 6.2x
The frame of reference in which the mountain peak is stationary is not inertial -- due to the Earth's rotation, it's actually constantly accelerating toward the center of the Earth. Hence, the quote on special relativity you posted doesn't (directly) apply.

However, time passes slower the deeper one gets into a gravity well. The center of the Earth is the center of Earth's gravity well, so the closer to it you are, the slower your clock ticks.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation
I don't think it is quite that bad. It is certainly less than going full ISO 27001, and less than a major breach.
Why would anyone want this? Like Alexia? Put tech in your house so NSA/CIA can spy on you easier?
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Is this still accurate with the release of the new ryzen apus? I have my doubts.

Specifically in the 1500x price point, the r5 2400G seems to have performance on par with a gt1030.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12425/marrying-vega-and-zen-t...
BMW E88

Nokia 8800

Ericsson GS88

Motorola Focus 88

Seems like marketing people care less about fringe far-right numerology than you buddy.
> Can software engineers become P.E. in the U.S ?

Yes. Most CS/CE/SE programs in the USA are part of the school's engineering college and are ABET accredited, which is the governing body of professional engineering in the USA. To become an PE in the USA, one needs to first graduate from an ABET program, take the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, work for at least four years in their field of study, then they make take the PE exam.

Now, almost nobody does this right now. Only 32 people took the Oct 2017 exams in Software, and Computer & Electrical Engineering. For reference, about 4000 people took the various Civil Engineering exams.

There's really no incentive to become a licensed engineer the USA. I've never seen a job posting mention one at all. So I think the exercise would be purely academic (though, I'd love to hear from someone who has a license and uses it).
No. I'm saying that your face is more public than your fingerprint, and that makes your phone less secure. That's not my primary reason for being against FaceID, but it's an obvious truth that Apple has engaged in a lot of misdirection about.
Something I've wondered: is there a way to buy a barebones PC (or even just a motherboard) with an Intel Core M processor installed? Presumed experience level: I'm willing to write an ACPI DSDT from scratch for it. :)
I am always bitterly disappointed in HN's views and understanding of graphic API's. HN, what I largely assume is a community of programmers. Not Khronos idealists. The OpenGL dream died long ago. I think we can thank CAD and GPU vendors for that.

Yet here we are again. If Valve had to port software to Nintendo or Sony; they would be using the native, supported API's. Not porting over Vulkan or OpenGL.

Just use Metal. It really is, very good.
What other library tells you about complexity? And as you tell, if you don't know algorithns well, I'm pretty sure your implementations won't have better complexity.
"I didnt get any mail. I also havent checked my mailbox for packages."

"I didnt get your email. I have not logged into my account lately."

It seems like semantics. You expect facebook to send an EXTERNAL notification to an operating system like ios/android or to an email provider like gmail/hotmail. Other people consider it not silent for facebook to make sure it shows up in their newsfeed.
Rewriting software from scratch can often be the only sane thing to do when it gets messed up by quick and dirty patches, but doing that using the latest "thing" is the worst mistake one could make: by doing so one would simply swap errors due to bad problem analysis and time constraints with others due to bad knowledge of the new platform, paving the way for the next rewrite from scratch, naturally by using the then newest "thing". Just don't do that; there is no framework/library/language in the world, or any other place in the known Universe, capable of replacing good problem analysis and familiarity with the 10+ years old tools the programmers know best.
It doesn't have 3d touch.
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Sorry, I didn't ask about the timeline. My guess is the price increases were over about two years on average.
The ad network is complicit, at BEST.
It's a different business, but Instacart recently had to deal with Amazon offering home grocery delivery. According to [0] it's working out because every other grocery chain realized they needed same-day home delivery in order to not get killed by Amazon, and they mostly went with Instacart.

By analogy, your strategy could be to provide the service for every other cloud provider. They watched the AWS conference too, and don't want to be left behind on any features.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2017/11/08/amazon-who...
By "some", I meant transparency proportional to power. And what I describe is common in societies like the US. Presidential candidates are expected to release their investments and income tax returns. Federal judges are required to disclose conflicts of interest, including their investments. Political contributions must (in theory) be disclosed. Reporters are free to investigate public officials, and to publish their findings.

Even normally private sexual activity is discoverable, as evidence of questionable moral character. Or at least, lying about it implies more general dishonesty. And overall, efforts to frustrate transparency are presumptive evidence of corruption.

There is the risk, I admit, that the Constitutional rights of public officials will be violated, beyond requirements of transparency. But arguably that's a risk that one knowingly takes in seeking political office.