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> (e) Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities.— This section does not prohibit any lawfully authorized investigative, protective, information security, or intelligence activity of an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State, or a person acting pursuant to a contract with the United States, a State, or a political subdivision of a State.
> Just to be clear, the Indo European migration is presumed to be a trade/culture migration

Not the case. You're making the "pots, not people" case, which ancient DNA evidence has thoroughly debunked. Changes in material culture usually do indicate large-scale population movements. Yamnaya remains from the Caucuses, for example, are genetically almost identical to the ones buried in the Corded Ware culture that spread through Europe ~5000 years before present. The Yamnaya, a steppe people, completely overran Europe, and today, contribute just over 50% of the ancestry of Western European populations and who spread Indo-European languages there and elsewhere.

The idea that prehistory was full of peace, love, and gradual and voluntary cultural change is ridiculous and indefensible, especially in light of modern genetic evidence, but also on the grounds of common sense.

Why wouldn't you expect to see large scale folk migrations? We have historical records of large-scale movements (e.g., Germanic tribes from Tacitus), and one would expect similar movements, of even greater scope and intensity, to have occurred in prehistory. This kind of movement was the norm, not the exception, in prehistory.

Post-1970s thought in this area seriously annoys me. It presumes a gradual, peaceful transition everywhere at all times despite stark evidence to the contrary. Read Ward-Perkins for a good rant on how fellow historians believe, against all historical and archaeological evidence, that Rome never fell. He's as frustrated and baffled by this thinking as I am.
Why are you storing IP addresses in your logs? The web server my college computer club ran made a point of not storing IP addresses. We would respond to legitimate requests from campus police / the deans / other people who could kick us out of the college (usually when someone was, like, making threats of violence in the comments of a WordPress blog or whatever), but we would often answer with, "No, we don't have that data, it never got logged."

If the GDPR is forcing businesses to abandon dangerous logging practices that they don't really need, it is hardly going too far.
Its looks especially damaging to the already frail EU startup ecosystem.
> or pedestrians could just not step out in front of vehicles that have the right of way

Please note that in my original comment I was talking about bicycles which do not have the right of way, because they are going through a red light while pedestrians have the walk signal.

I was quite serious when I said "I rarely see bikes obey traffic laws at all". If you live in NYC you know what I'm talking about. They fly through red lights and stop signs putting themselves and others at great risk.

Bicycles are the reason that I carefully look both directions, usually twice, even when I have the walk signal when crossing the street.
If they're allowed to by contracts and the law, sure.
I apologize if I did something wrong. It's a political post and I am just trying to make the point that we should hope and expect FB to be moral and do the right thing. They control so much of our information that they should make sure far right ideologies (ok, far left also) should never be able to manipulate the data for their purposes.

If such a discussion is not expected on HN, I am probably in the wrong place.
The Western Roman Empire existed on its own for 83 years, not 500. It split off in 393 with the death of Theodosius and was conquered by Odoacer in 476. That's hardly longevity.

>The senate had no actual power starting with Augustus, who turned it into a ceremonial institution.

Early Emperors cared what the Senate thought, even if they didn't have to. Later ones didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate#Senate_of_the_Rom...

>Around 300 AD, the emperor Diocletian enacted a series of constitutional reforms. In one such reform, he asserted the right of the emperor to take power without the theoretical consent of the senate, thus depriving the senate of its status as the ultimate depository of supreme power. Diocletian's reforms also ended whatever illusion had remained that the senate had independent legislative, judicial, or electoral powers. The senate did, however, retain its legislative powers over public games in Rome, and over the senatorial order.
Apparently you can only use it with Google Analytics, so it is indeed encouraging you to give up your analytics data to a third party. :)
"does not have to be equal" != "can't be equal".

The set of all possible rectangles have w and h that can be different (or the same) values.
The context is an "early-stage startup with just a couple founders."

It's unlikely that the number of requests of the type referenced in this article would be sufficiently large enough at that stage that it wouild "eliminate the value proposition."
> If there is a chronic disregard for particular laws due to the fact they cannot be enforced on a large scale by humans, then what do you propose as a solution if we're discarding video surveillance?

I see your point... cameras everywhere to catch all the non-violent drug offenders then?
> How much did Putin pay you to gas light articles?

That is an egregious violation of the guidelines and a bannable offense on HN. If the rest of the internet is losing its mind, that makes following HN's rules more important, not less.

> Let's not forget about that one time you

This also crosses into personal attack, which is not ok. Heated political arguments are bad enough without users trying to take each other out like this. Please don't do it on HN, regardless of how strongly you disagree.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your account history unfortunately contains many examples of personal abuse. You've also broken the guideline against using HN primarily for political or ideological battle. We ban accounts that do these things, so would you please re-read the guidelines and use HN as intended from now on?
At the same time, people purposely dwell on stinker ideas and strategies where an ADHD person might be pushed by their condition out of that box. I agree that rabbit holing is pretty frustrating otherwise because it is unplanned.
I underwent cognitive testing for ADHD,and it was more rigorous a process than I expected.

They administered a battery of tests, among them a few controls to screen for malingerers. Each was narrow enough of a task to believably evaluate a specific aspect of cognitive ability.

The results were evaluated against the broader population of people with similar levels of intelligence

So, for example, in one test, the task is to sum a continuing stream of spoken digits. Apparently, the test includes a distribution of other' performance,and that distribution defines 'normal.' performing worse than the mean (or whatever measure) is therefore abnormal and, potentially, indicative of some disorder or another.

Tl;Dr they use ostensibly reliable statistical methods to define 'normal'
Yes, and that's directly related to immutability. Immutable objects are timeless; their initial state is their final state. Any property that holds for their initial state can be encoded in the type and placed somewhere above it in the inheritance hierarchy.

You can think of a mutable object as a collection of immutable and mutable properties, where only the former can be moved into the type and become part of the type hierarchy.

This distinction isn't really about inheritance; it's more about what a type is in the presence of mutability. The type represents the invariants.
Since the content of the request is very generic and applies to almost any individual and business, it's not unthinkable that it will be automated on the other end, so anyone can push a button and send the request to hundreds of companies of their choosing.

I certainly have several businesses in mind that I plan to send requests to once GDPR is in place.

EDIT: Although I suppose small, non-EU businesses that mostly do not deal with personal data are unlikely to receive any requests. So you are probably right that "most companies" are unlikely receive GDPR requests.
As a non-observer, what timescales are we talking about here? These statements don't mean much without context. The last storage price spike I recall was the great 2011 Thailand flood. Have there been fluctuations the common man should know about since then?
I once had to go around a car stopped in a bike lane, slid and fell badly while trying to re-enter the somewhat elevated bike lane (about two inches from the road -
it's like a red painted sidewalk, two feet wide, with a bevel on the edge). The driver was inside the car having a phone conversation, so he was probably stopped there for just 30 seconds -
enough to cause a bicycle accident.
Agreed. Having both the intro to programming MOOC down and a GitHub is really the way to go. This way if you apply to somewhere where the primary business is not programming you will have something to show HR and also something to show whomever is interviewing you.
>I‘m intrigued where you got that info. As an iOS dev, I can tell you that an app should not access UIKit stuff off-main-thread. Facebook does off-main-thread layouts [1], but they still rely on backing views on main thread.

Right, I wasn't implying UIKit stuff is done multi threaded. I just meant that the best practice is to do all your UI work in the main thread, and use GCD for any blocking operations which shouldn't be on the main (animation) thread.
I believe this view also does not consider economic and government system hegemony as a good reason to end lives. Many of the people who lived those massacres, from Vietnam to Iraq seem to agree with this view. Since I come from a country that has also been victim to American interventionism I tend to agree, our lives are more important than capitalism, communism, war on terror or whatever it is the excuse of the times for invading sovereign nations and slaughtering its people.

I believe we who see that "metaphor" rather see it as the truth: US soldiers go to countries they know nothing about and kill everyone. I do not fancy being murdered. Killing people is wrong, plain and simple.
A person earning minimum wage may be concerned about all sorts of things, and the degree of his concern can be entirely unrelated to (1) the likelihood of the concern being legitimate, (2) the potential monetary harm to the person, (3) the cost to society of investigating and reporting on it, and (4) how fairly this cost is allocated.

It is utterly unfair to compare subsidized access to an employment tribunal (potential harm: months of undeserved unemployment, loss of home and possessions; cost of investigation: spread across the entire nation's taxpayers) to almost-free access to your GDPR privacy report (potential harm: a little bit of mental discomfort; cost of investigation: borne by one organization, potentially ruinous for a small business or solo project).
I'd expect "with reasonable certainty" to mean something different to pedantic lawyers/regulators than to pedantic cryptographers. Although perhaps an actual lawyer might suggest another phrase there, like "industry-standard measures" or something.
ADHD and testosterone have helped shape me into a successful and peculiar person because of the sheer amount of risk I have been willing to accept (versus my peers). I moved away from home at 17, have lived all around the country and I made out it out of my small Ohio suburb where most people stay until death. I feel like ADHD necessitates intuitive responses to problems and highly deprioritizes rote memorization and recall.

I have a distinct feeling that my ADHD brain doesn't have the ability to remember details with the same fidelity as my peers. I am constantly forgetting all but the most critical details, but I have a ability to intuit solutions from the details I have forgotten.
Tracy is a two hour drive in traffic... Seattle and Portland are closer by travel time.
Obviously, most people might not but some will.

In some countries and sectors it's a legal or contractual requirement that you keep audit trails for x years. I've worked on accounting systems where the insurers and banks have both had separare requirements here.

Not that this is relevant here. My point was that if people demand retroactive notice of a breach —and you're not otherwise required to notify them— even if you have that data, you can tell them to bugger off.
No, see, I answered your question directly. You can't pretend my followup question was that answer and then play the "2 wrongs" card. Can you please first acknowledge that, then, if possible, actually answer the question I asked?
No it wasn't
Tail call optimization is a neat idea, but I have always felt that it is too magical. You cannot opt out of it. Clojure's approach strikes a good balance: Clojure doesn't do TCO, but it gives you "recur" as an explicit way to do tail recursions that don't consume stack space: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/recur

Clojure has also had "trampoline" in core since 1.0, which was released in the same year this article was written: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/trampoline. I have no idea how well it performs though.

If your language has "goto", it is very easy to manually optimize mutually recursive functions. One of the few valid use cases of "goto" today. (As someone who writes a lot of Go, I have always suspected this use case is why Go still has "goto".)
Berkeley Council Approves Surveillance Technology Oversight Ordinance
The Last Rites of Quotient Lorenzo-Lochbaum
There certainly is no dearth of high-falutin' tone to this piece...
It’s almost like the veterans have a difficult time being objective. I’ll wait for your dad’s review before getting too critical though.
Milk is calcium. Colder climate - bigger body. That needs calcium. Thus milk and vitamin D, both are necessary. Thus pale skin and lactose. Either alone isn't enough.
> who says that people with ADHD are incapable of working in a modern corporation

ADHD is a disorder whose primary feature is the inability to control concentration. It's a disorder because the feature is strong enough that a person has trouble interacting with society without help. So, someone who is diagnosed with ADHD has trouble interacting with society without help.

There is no modern institution which supports an inability to control concentration as a money provider. Paintings need to be completed. Novels need to be completed. Abstract thoughts need to be written down.

Any advantage experienced by those with ADHD is also experienced by those who have trouble directing their concentration, but not to a severe enough degree to require assistance interacting with society. I can bet a lot of folks with ADHD would rather live at that point on the spectrum.
Early-stage startups with just a couple of founders who are too overworked to give a good answer about data protection are probably too overworked to actually protect the data itself, law or no law. We generally don't think it's reasonable for an early-stage startup to be too overworked to get their security right - you still have to write secure code, patch your servers, set up HTTPS, etc. Why is this different?
"If you were disappointed with Vue.js, React, etc... If you want something super simple to build UI, just try DisplayJS! We hope you'll choose DisplayJS next time you do something great!"

I think it's really hard to be disappointed with Vue.js. Or will hardly find anyone that is.

(That's from DisplayJS' homepage at https://display.js.org/)
On the other hand, I like unconst on first sight. A symmetrical form to do specialization would be nice too. What about making the loop unrolling configurable, whether with a compiler flag or some form like Lisp's declare.
It hasn't obviated the need for a build system, but this is a traditional feature of Lisp [1]. With modern security requirements, though, I'm not sure how popular this approach is going to be.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html "The whole language always available"
I always wondered about how you could get your name on something as simple as the laws of binary combination, and I suppose there had to be some depth to it somewhere to merit this.
Sadly, the downside of the consumer data culture in which we live is that you don’t really get to make that call. It seems like data is really an all or nothing game at this point, regardless of how society feels about it. Not sure how to change that, either, and I don’t personally think legislation is the answer.
This really resonates with me, especially the constant context switching and only being able to do tasks that provide immediate reward. That said, I've always gotten the impression that this is something that a lot of people, with or without ADD, suffer from, probably exacerbated by the constant amount of information we are exposed to.
Vietnam was never meant to be won, it just continued the Korea and WW2 bleed out strategy. (With a side of MICC profits and deep state drug running black profits) Read up on Robert G Thompson for more on the bleed out comment if you are genuinely curious. All these wars we get into, people need to focus on the "advisors" influencing policy. What ends up happening is people debate about the trees and miss the forest.
I like an elegant VM, but the ones I find the most interesting are the ones you can actually employ as a compilation target.

For example, there's a C-like language for SUBLEQ machines: http://mazonka.com/subleq/hsq.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-to-scale-back-targeted-face...

Not hard to find information, although it is typically couched as brand reach and advertising spots. The big data sales side of FB and other sites is more sensitive and less overt

https://www.facebook.com/help/494750870625830?helpref=uf_per...
To a certain degree, this is a problem that Facebook has already taken steps against in the last years.

Remember that Facebook gives you zero access to users’ data just for being an advertiser. This scheme relied on users granting access to an app.

Data access by apps was curtailed two or three years ago to no longer include friends’ data. The permissions dialog has also become far more granular. From my observation, apps seem to mostly respect facebook’s rules on data scarcity, i. e. asking only for the data they actually need.

GDPR will enshrine this principle in law at least for European citizen, and it’s somewhat likely that it will have some effect far beyond the borders of Europe.

Regarding elections, first steps will likely align the law with that for TV advertisement. Clear information about an ad’s sponsor should be required, as well as the selectors used to target you. I’ve also heard some chatter about requiring a public repository for all ads. Right now, there might be waves of, for example, racists ads that never get reported in the news because the targeting never hits those people that would consider the ad problematic. The Atlantic is running a pilot program with a chrome extensions that records all advertisement you see on Facebook for such a repository.

In the current political climate, it’s unfortunately unlikely that the US will lead with new regulation. But there are a few decent agencies in the US that can squeeze a lot of mileage out of laws already on the books (the special prosecutor, and even the FEC). Social media companies are also quite scared, both because they fear a hit to their business, and because most of their excecutive do retain some humanity. You can also expect individual European companies to get out the big guns, seeing Trump and other Russia-backed populists rattling the core of the current consensus on liberal, open, civil societies.
Non sequitur. You're having this conversation because the current political climate in the USA leads to conflicting opinions on this subject.

How come you're so confident that "that’s not how things work"? Do you have any idea about epistemic standards in social sciences? And if qualifications are not completely measurable, then how much more qualified is "slightly more qualified" and thus disposable? Lastly, on what grounds can people that promote diversity claim to have enough expertise to regulate this process of affordable exclusion?
Yep, this is exactly the point economist Julian Simon made in his essay, "Can the Supply of Natural Resources - Especially Energy - Really Be Infinite? Yes!" [1]

This exert from the conclusion sums up his argument well:

> Incredible as it may seem at first, the term "finite" is not only inappropriate but is downright misleading when applied to natural resources, from both the practical and
philosophical points of view. As with many important arguments, the finiteness issue is "just semantic." Yet the semantics of resource scarcity muddle public discussion and bring about wrongheaded policy decisions.

[1] http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource/TCHAR0...
While I imagine most people won't care enough to repair their objects, maybe there could be room for a business that would offer money for objects one would otherwise throw away, and then re-sell them to those who don't mind second-hand items? Maybe it's just me, but I think more people would be more incentivized with cold, hard cash.
One discrete math book I liked was this one
https://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/dmfp/

It's heavy on sets and functions, turning sets into types to manipulate in Standard ML so the reader can understand what's going on intuitively. I also liked Knuth's crash course in The Art of Programming and it is hard to read other books when you're used to Knuth's clear and precise explanations mixed with dry humor keeping you engaged.
The nice thing about recur in Clojure is that it won't even compile if the call isn't in the tail position. I've inadvertently made a code change that moved the recur call out of the tail position and the error became immediately obvious. With TCO you might not even notice until your stack blows up on a deep nesting.
Which is a good thing.

If you phrase it as "large companies," then it sounds bad - but it forbids incompetent large companies too. It enforces that only companies that are competent enough to answer questions about data protection can be in the personal data space. If a small company is inherently incapable of answering those questions or handling the data properly, it shouldn't be allowed in that space.

It's like saying that there's a "government enforced monopoly" keeping newcomers out of the food business by not letting them just make things in their apartment and hand them to Uber Eats. It is a technically accurate description, but most people who believe that government has any legitimate functions at all see health inspections as a good thing.
European GDPR is going to help a lot when it kicks in this May
I don't need an EE degree in order to calculate peak and continuous energy use for a load.
Feelium ICO – How will it work?
Is there a law saying you have to sell a product? Seriously asking, I've never heard of that and it sounds odd to me but honestly I have no idea.
It seems that all the example urls get redirected to the same blockchain channel.
Nearly 0 in practice. It's great if you want to get a CS PhD and off to high-paying jobs in SV/WS. Rite of passage mostly.
read a few of the FMRI studies on ADHD activation of the substantia nigra and frontal lobe during task oriented behavior before forming an opinion
All about Elastic Network Interface (ENI) for AWS Exam and Later
If you’re talking mechanical drive prices, the best deal I’ve seen around are the wd easystores sold at Best Buy. When they go on sale for under 150 for the 8tb version, hard to beat that value. I filled my entire storinator up with them.

Can’t wait until ssds can compete with price/capacity.
Was going to say the same thing. I work in ExtremelyBigCorp, and people are obsessing over GDPR.