skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You encrypt the data before it’s stored with a unique key, then destroy the key when the user requests it.

That makes selects & joins on the data quite a bit more complex. Per-record & per-subject keys are … tricky.
This sort of argument is like saying you can commit murder then flee to Algeria, and the US will have no mechanism of enforcement. It's true, but heaven help you if they figure some mechanism out.
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It might be that the EU willingly rejects certain business. Maybe, if you aren't GDPR compliant, you are not wanted by the EU.
This is nice. A little hesitant to migrate to something that may not be around in a few months ... Not to be the voice of doom, but it's a legitimate concern IMHO (this isn't the first note web app) ...
They had a support/stress dog at several of the bases I spent time at in Iraq, which I thought was pretty cool. They were part of the combat stress medical units if I recall.

I don't know the true efficacy, but a close friend of mine who was in pretty bad shape said the dog helped cheer him up. If nothing else just having the opportunity to pet a dog and forget about things for a bit must have been nice.
by deleting facebook

They still have your photos in their training set
I can think of a few reasons why most blockchain technology won't take off.

1) Centralized solutions are cheaper. Consider Amazon vs. Filecoin. Amazon can buy hard drives in bulk and receive large discounts. They can pass those savings onto their customers. The Filecoin users providing storage to customers will have to 1) convince customers that their technology is safe 2) offer cheaper service. There isn't a trust issue with Amazon. So why would customers move to Filecoin?

2) Centralized solutions are much faster. Yes, there is a bunch of work being done now to allow for smaller transactions (lightning networks, plasma). There's no proof this is going to work. High level scaling solutions remain academic.

3) Development takes longer because the software has to operate in a trustless environment. Every update, no matter how minor, requires an independent security audit. There are quite a few examples of why security audits are not optional.

4) Because money is involved forks can be contentious. The default is to do nothing. A centralized solution with a board of directors and CEO can outpace a blockchain community in development speed and time to market.

5) If the private keys are lost or stolen the consumer is screwed. That makes blockchain technology incredibly risky. It's still safer to pay friends with Chase QuickPay. Banks also have insurance. How can a blockchain be insured?

EDIT: Thought of one more.

6) Smart contracts are too rigid to replace the legal system. One option is to use an oracle as a source of information. However, using oracles to pull data from outside the blockchain means most of the logic is centralized.
>Having been alone and suffering from this for a decade prior, I can say for sure my dog helps me.

>What croc of a psychiatrist can't see this.

Did you read the article? Your comment is basically the very first question the author asks the psychiatrist.
The implication being that OO is the same thing is imperative? I'm in strong disagreement with that!

I've tried to learn rust a few times, but never with much tenacity. It's on my list because it seems to hit a good point wrt expressiveness and performance.
The extension I saw in the docs, but I didn't see code linting as one of the features. Is there code linting included?

Thanks for the plugins link. Any idea what Google's stance is on supporting or expanding support of platform plugins? There's no issues for plugins so I can't tell how stable those packages are. So even if it's a combined effort, I feel weary repeating what the early stages of React Native felt like.
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Construction companies circumvent this by going bankrupt all the time and setting up the next shell company. Big projects will often be done by a pool of companies. Which would you hold accountable then.

As well, some things are so bad that you don't want to punish after the fact.
Just watched KEDi on Youtube Red [1]. Made me cry. I love my cats so much but they live the best lives when they have the freedom. And I don't know how to deal with them getting sick or dying. With kids, you usually hope you are the first to go. But with pets that have shorter lives, how to cope? There is a lot of wisdom in the movie with regard to the special relationship and insight cats give us to life itself. I have such a deep respect for Turkey now, I even have new respect for Islam. Allahu akbar. May peace be with you my friend.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpG0z-npFIY
If the unknown company is offering everything you just listed, will the unknown company be considered?
The biggest issue to user's privacy has traditionally been data breaches.

I'm not convinced that's true, but let's assume it is for the sake of this discussion.

In that case, wouldn't a better approach be to mandate reasonable safeguards to protect against data breaches, and to penalise those who are seriously negligent in that respect?

Otherwise again I think you're aiming at the wrong target. Deleting stale data might have some marginal benefit in terms of privacy in the event of a breach, but the risk and consequences are surely much greater for the organisation that has only recent data but uses admin:admin for their root credentials. Meanwhile, the overheads of updating long-standing logging or backup systems where that older data might lurk to fully isolate everything could easily be among the highest practical costs for compliance, particularly for a lot of smaller organisations.
The thing about "nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM" is that going with an unknown alternative is a risk to you personally and most of the benefits go to the company. When you over-spend on a well-known brand, the company suffers the costs and they barely even notice. The only time they care is if something goes wrong, and then they want to know why you chose an unknown brand.
Chavez definitely dismantled democracy in Venezuela. (If you want to be technical, he started the project, and Maduro finished it.)

Specifically, vote count manipulation, the Supreme Court refusing to allow opposition legislatures to be seated, the constitutional committee stripping the legislature of its power... that's dismantling democracy.
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Oh, so in construction business, you don't need to prove your plans are statically safe, you just build a bridge and no one cares until it colapses? Don't worry, you are far safer here, no one will ask you anything until it collapses. But after it does, you will need a proof it didn't happen becoase of you. That you did all you could. Is there something wrong?
I'm sorry, but the big flatscreen in the middle of the dash is just moronic.

I don't want to have to take my eyes off of the road to see my speed.

Humans like controlling things via touch. Ironically, since touch screens are smooth, there is zero tactile feedback. It's impossible to use it without looking at it, and if the driver is looking at the screen, they aren't looking at the road. This is especially true because of the touch screen's position relative to the driver.

A head up display projection directly on the windshield, directly in front of the driver (with control buttons on the steering wheel) should be the bare minimum for any modern car.
Anonymous speech in your own home?
As somebody on anxiety meds...they help, man. At least they help me.

You wouldn't begrudge somebody for being dependent on cancer medicine, would you? Or heart medicine? I would rather be dependent on meds than suffer the quality of life issues I used to have. Not sure why your opposition to treating anxiety pharmacologically, but I would encourage you to at least talk to a doctor and explore what medication could do for you.
I am really glad Flutter came out as beta and finally ReactNative got a good competitor, so maybe it will encourage both sides to improve itself and polish various (annoying) edges.
You'd be paying a lot for bandwidth on S3 and Cloudfront.
I don't think there is a logical answer to this question. Why is everything priced either 1 cent or 5 cents below round numbers (9.99 or 9.95 or 3.99 ...)? Human brain is weird I guess. It would be better logically if things are priced whole numbers (including tax) like 10, 50, 100. We don't have to worry about pennies and it will probably be easy for accounting purposes too.
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That would be a plausible theory if the EU even realised that many thousands of these smaller businesses exist, but as we learned with the VAT mess, they literally didn't.
... and a President who says he'll cover their legal bills.

Civil disagreement on matters of politics and philosophy seems to be waning in the West.
The PCEngines APU2 boards[1] are x84_64, run around 10W, and have a smaller than mini ITX footprint (6"×6").

1. http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
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This is one of those cases where I wonder if the traditional Chinese Healthcare Payment Model might be something that could be applied to other industry sectors.

That is: traditionally in China, you paid the doctor when you were well. When you were sick, treatment was offered without payment. The alignment of incentives is for patients to be healthy (or, for the cynical amongst you: for the doctor to be able to credibly claim this).

If various services were offered not on the basis of inputs consumed (as with electricity), but on the basis of outputs enabled, this dynamic would change.

For employees, this is the difference between measuring based on hours worked (or worse: present), and on deliverables achieved.

There's some complications to this: piecework payment is something that's long been criticised (Adam Smith argues against this in Wealth of Nations, 1776), largely in that it tends to overwork, even in the absence of overt coercion. Prices ultimately are meant to cover costs of provisioning, and there's the need to see that those costs are met. Measuring what is directly transacted is easier than measuring either complex inputs or often-at-a-remove outcomes (Smith also discusses the former, the latter is the topic of many decades of Monitoring and Evaluation theory and practice).
Are IP addresses actually considered "personal data"? They are how computers talk to each other. Anonymizing them doesn't make any sense to me.
I work for an competitor to an AWS product. We've grown rapidly over the past ~7 years in a generally competitive (lots of startups, some really old tough incumbent companies). Without revealing too much on our end, here's some lessons learned:

* AWS is bad at customer service, even for their large or premium customers. If you position yourself, and _seriously_ invest in making your company's culture rooted in exceptional customer service, that's a foothold.

* Don't compete on price. This is hard for most tech startups, as pricing is a very difficult thing to do properly, but resist the urge to drop price to compete. You'll never have the scale, the supply chain masterminds, or the financial modeling to compete with AWS on price, so position yourself as a premium or luxury offering and don't be afraid to price accordingly. If you do the first step properly (a deeply rooted culture of service) you'll be able to justify the price.

* AWS has great uptime, but often the actual operating performance of their service isn't that great, especially when you push the products beyond the 80% use case. They know that for the majority of their customer base, best-in-class performance isn't actually business critical (despite how flashy it sounds). However, there is absolutely a market for people who truly need best in class performance, or product flexibility, or some other best-in-class trait (latency, interaction design, etc.). Find who these people are, and optimize for that ruthlessly. This focus, in combination with the culture of exceptional service and positioning your brand as a premium provider, puts you into a completely different market space than AWS.
You're risking a large evil to solve a small one (people being "assholes" it appears).

Also, I think "anonymity paired with speech" is older than you think, and probably arose soon after the invention of the printing press. One notable instance of centuries-old anonymous speech are the Federalist Papers from 1787-88 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers#Authorsh...). Anonymous speech is also important for attacking oppressive regimes, even if it's more often used for far less lofty purposes.

Even good, trustworthy regimes go bad, and any surveillance system designed to be powerful enough to expose assholes can be perverted to serve oppressive ends. I'd rather those regimes have to build their surveillance from scratch rather than finding them ready-made.
I agree with that in the interpersonal realm. There are downsides to over-sharing. But maybe it was confusing for me to frame it as trusting. It's more like permission to be investigated. Or the absence of penalties for investigation. That is, reporters and police have the right (and indeed the duty) to investigate the powerful.
While I understand your frustration, shutting down a service — especially if you have no money to spend a lot of time on the shutdown — is always hard. It looks like these folks have provided an export option and a reasonable shutdown window, which is worth commending.
Depends on how many people know about it and might interprete it as some kind of association. I would be sceptical to use 88 as a designation, at least in Germany. See 4 or 13 for numbers avoided in other cultures (for non-political reasons).
Somewhat of a counterpoint, though with a huge caveat because I was just a grunt:

I used to work at Etsy, and Amazon launched a competing product in 2015. Cue the frenzy about Etsy's imminent doom. Hasn't happened yet.

Etsy's gone through troubles, obviously, but while I was there at least the general feeling/consensus was that Shopify is by far a bigger threat than Amazon. It's incredibly unclear, at best, whether Amazon has siphoned off any appreciable part of Etsy's market.

Different products and spaces, obviously, but just a reminder that Amazon doesn't get it right 100% of the time (see also: fire phone).

Also worth noting that SES hasn't put Mailgun/etc. out of business completely (though that's a bit of a stretch of a comparison, I'll admit).
We already know Uber is cherry-picking users it suspects as working for competitors, so precedent is set for what you are suggesting. It's doable obviously, and if it's doable, companies have already either implemented it or having somebody working on it.
Related advice given by Marc Andressen:

What do you recommend for pricing in SaaS before reaching product market fit?

Pricing is highly specific to the product and the market, so it is hard to give general advice.

But if I were to give general advice, I’d say that we see far more SAAS startups underpricing their product than overpricing.

The problem with overpricing seems obvious—we in our daily lives as consumers are more likely to buy products if they are cheaper, and so pricing higher is presumed to reduce sales.

But that’s not how business markets tend to work—in business markets, where customers make what’s called a considered purchase, the result of a reasonably objective and rigorous analysis of options, startups that underprice tend to have the problem I call “too hungry to eat”—by pricing too low, they can’t generate enough revenue per deal to justify the sales and marketing investment required to get the deal at all. In contrast, by pricing higher, the startup can afford to invest in a serious sales and marketing effort that will tend to win a lot more details than a competitor selling a cut-rate product on a shoestring go-to-market budget.

TLDR: When in doubt, double prices. :-)
In case you don't know, Hixie used to be the editor of the HTML specification, so I'm pretty sure he's familiar with what that HTML and CSS are like and isn't likely to inadvertently recreate the web.
Wait, THE ring? Of another ring?
I wasnt the owner of the business but I worked for an "email infrastructure" company (think Sendgrid but not US based). When amazon launched its SES offer, things started to get pretty grim.

- Their infrastructure was better (stable)

- Their price was much, much lower (pricing)

- They are Amazon and they're global. (company image & trustworthiness)

Going to meetups and developer conferences people would always ask "why not use SES haha it's a no brainer"
Pricing yourself in between Mailchimp and SES was a good fight and ultimately it did help convert a lot of "Mailchimp" affectionados.

Luckily getting emails delivered in the inbox of your customers is a bit like dark-magic - there are a lot of factors that a regular joe wouldn't consider, and because email marketing is still one of the best channels with the highest ROI ever - companies really care about setting up their email campaigns with companies that know all of the tricks and rules to optimize campaigns and ensure maximum open and ctr rates.
Another thing: Data protection laws in US and EU are different, the company had the advantage of having datacenters exclusively for EU customers (where more rigid rules were applied) and then all the others...

The business focused on creating frictionless experience with stellar customer support (24/7) and also worked a lot on its dev-first marketing approach (im talking about developer experience, plugins, wrappers, integrations etc).
One of the advantages of owning your own infrastructure and whole stack is that you can build and configure your product to fit every client's need. Something that Amazon has never managed to deliver out of the box - especially because email is a tool used by developers and marketers at the same time. It's really hard to make marketers happy!

The business is still around today, I learned a lot but I ultimately moved on because like I told my friends "email isn't sexy"
Email is painful, email is great.
You better have not a breach in this case...
OPs point is that if you act responsibly in good faith you'll probably avoid any issues, and likely be warned before they target you for maximum fines :)
>Do your children dream of YouTube stardom? Do them a favor: Crush that ambition now.

Ah, Bloomberg - always full of good parenting advice.
Amazon now has Blink and Ring. I wonder how soon "You're out of paper towels" and "Your paper towels are on the porch" will come about?

Bonus points for "the neighbor kid just stole your package" alert.
My argument is that wouldn't that apply to $X.99 pricing as well? If everyone knows it, why do it? Why is it bad?
And not a single mention of Rust, while even Python was considered.

IMO, Rust is currently the most interesting candidate for C replacement for embedded systems.

And now back to work, writing firmware in C and assembler...
I'm guessing he didn't do that because he's a prominent .NET/Azure guy and I don't think that stuff is well-supported in that environment.
We've been uploading photos with location data for years.

Any social site knows your whereabouts. Seriously, they even tag you without asking :)
Yeah, except Intel are doing their best to make those lines extremely confusing. I can still find mobos with the Atom D2550 for sale ?!? And the Celeron J1900 that def- mentioned with that kernel bug.

And what really scares me is they have Realtek network chips. Or are these good these days? I need to route 1 Gbps of internet, and when I bought the D2500 you needed Intel network chips to do that without using 250% CPU.

Edit and sadly an ALIX apu2 won't do for lack of enough SATA ports.
I don't think there is much motivation for people to realize this. Being creative is more painful than not. The thesis of this article is absolutely true, and the most creative people know it. But, it's so much more comfortable to not be creative, and being creative has very few rewards. Conforming to norms is far less risky and not without rewards of it's own.
>> In the US, the current party in power is always on the verge of instituting totalitarianism.

> And I'm pretty sure that you didn't mean it like people are taking it.

That blanket absolutist statement is at best false, and is easily disproven with the current situation. Then the whole argument is undermined by the last paragraph about angering the social media mob.
Thanks for the link.

> potential subsequent use of personal data processing techniques

Not a lawyer, but doesn't every access log with IPs and urls have the /potential/ to be parsed to aggregate a profile of site usage?

Even if you aren't actually doing or intending to do any profiling, the potential still exists.

You may well be correct about all this (and I suspect you are). I'm specifically trying to push back against the assertion: "I really don't think ... that anything in GDPR is hard to understand"
It is possible to be a non-drinker and yet work for the beer factory. You recognize that other people has the right to choose options that you'd rather not pick up for yourself.

Now, if you're a belligerent teetotaler, taking such a job would be very hypocrital...
Is the reach more absurd than what US court claim?
Oh man that's my dream. Something heavy that's not hot. I get hot very easily but I love the feeling of weight. I'm not understanding what you are using. You get the weight and little heat?
Then be prepared for your sales to suffer. There are no shortcuts. Get on the phone and have a conversation.
"huge fall in heavy industry"

That seems a little extreme.

http://theamericanenergynews.com/energy-news/american-energy...

The huge fall seems to be from 35 quadrillion BTU all time peak around '97 down to around 33 quadrillion BTU today. They predict a 0.7% growth rate in the future based on the consistent increase since the '07 recession.

They expect commercial to keep growing, with the death of brick -n- mortar retail and general economic decline for non-elites, that sounds unrealistically optimistic.
If only it were as easy as that.

Open sourcing it might be the most straight forward option, but there could be complicated intellectual property issues behind the scenes that make that prohibitively difficult, or expensive.

A paid option? Isn't that what every single commercial business attempts to do? The option of using a product or service in exchange for paying money. The failure rate for businesses is huge. What makes you think a paid option would actually work? It isn't a sure thing, nor are donate buttons, and in the time you need to take to test pricing models, tweak copy, increase conversion etc, you continue to lose money each month, and have no guarantee of success.

I think you drastically underestimate the effort involved in "post a paypay link or a bitcoin link".

What about the cost of compliance? The cost of accounting? Customer service? Cost of mitigating risk? There are a heap of costs to running a business. How do you know if the donations you (probably won't) get will cover them? Then what? You've lost more money.

At some point you just have to call it a day.