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> The Germans really put up with a lot.

I'm sure they did. But they also had recent experience with what it was like to be invaded by the Soviets, and knew what was going on under Soviet domination in the DDR. You'd put up with a clipped corner now and then, too.

It's not really possible to have a well trained, ready military and not do lots of hard training, and the hard training inevitably results in damage and some deaths.
Probably not helpful, but here's how it went for me

I think I started out pretty well from school and my mom videotaping some "learn english show" on TV when I was a kid - but once I got my first computer and had to read stuff about problems online in English.. well that helped a lot. I've also been on IRC for like 17 years now, reading and writing at least 50% in English.
Reading books in English is really good once you can make enough sense of it (not so useful if you have to look up all the words - but I still did that for a while). Children's books for age ~10-12 are really good for this imho, they're usually not so complicated and can still have meaningful content (think more Harry Potter, less Teletubbies).

The final "wow, this helps a lot" was working in a company where the official language was English and thus using it for hours, daily, and we also had some folks with bad/non-existant German skills. I was lucky to sit next to a native speaker for a while who also shared a lot of my interests, so we were talking a lot about.. stuff in downtimes.
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Some of the criticisms of Meteor are out of date. Last year Meteor added exact code splitting, making it a cutting-edge and industry-leading JavaScript build tool. Also, the criticisms of Meteor as something that doesn't scale are out of touch with the current state of the product. Pre-2017 Meteor had difficulty scaling due to its method of oplog tailing wiht Mongo. But last year Redis-Oplog made that a thing of the past. With regard to SQL and other databases, Apollo addresses scaling concerns.

As a relevant data point, Qualia uses Meteor and recently raised $30M.

https://blog.meteor.com/dynamic-imports-in-meteor-1-5-c61304...

https://blog.meteor.com/modernizing-the-real-estate-industry...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/omribarzilay/2018/03/07/qualia-...
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I think it's pretty clear that they are the personal data of employees. What is less clear is to who has a legitimate need to have that data and for how long (and hence who can keep that data without consent).
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At the moment of writing this I can't find anyone mentioning CRC-cards(1) - have these been completely forgotten?

(1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-responsibility-collabora...
My new 15" MBP 2015 just arrived from Ebay in the US. $1740 total which is about $400 less than you'll pay at the Apple store.

I think the 2015 model has now replaced the older 2012 model (last that had upgradable parts) as the MBP that power users go for, even though it's almost $2k for hardware that'd be $800 on a typical windows machine.
If you compare to hybrid cars, landing is more like braking to a stop light (unless you need to gun it again to abort the landing). Takeoff is like accelerating from a stoplight (where you need the most power). If electric could take over at any point, it would be in the steady cruise at altitude (akin to overdrive on the highway).
I also use nvALT (and 1Writer on iOS tied to the same dropbox folder so I can add stuff on the go). It's where I store all my "information snippets".
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Precisely this. Once you’ve dealt with sensitive data where authentication is required (real life, signatures with witnesses and all), the surface area for attack when it comes to data request is huge if the burden to reply is based simply on an email. Sending an email request is practically free with automation, which provides a nice way for phishers to know where targets store their information. Anyone know of how some companies are authenticating requests?
> That letter is likely only a problem when selectively used by a malicious actor against a small organization.

Which is what is so annoying and economically destructive about regulations like these that are broadly applied to all companies, especially on the internet where single person companies are very popular. They are designed in a vindictive way against large companies like Facebook or major online retailers who burned customera due to minimal information security investment.

But they so often ignore the reality of the burden it places on small firms who account for 90% of businesses and 50% of employment, who cant afford lawyers or the legal risks of a 'piss off' letter.

The western economic environment countinually gets more and more structured favouring large firms, encouraging large scale merging, which usually generates the type of large oligopoly companies who most often does the things that cause regulations to get created, then imposed on smaller firms.

If Japan's economy is any indication we do not want to state heavy economy where big companies are the only sanctioned winners and smaller companies are heavily disincentived by the state (whether indirectly, by side effect, or overtly).

If not having these laws created isnt an option (seemingly impossible in an administrative heavy org like EU), I then hope someday these regulation start being structures like progressive income tax using size minimums or are contained to specific industries where it's clearly a problem (both of which would apply well to minimum wage laws for example). So laws are pinned directly to a specific problem area justifying the heavy-handed state intervention, not just blanket laws on everyone.
I think the same thing every time I see someone on HN recommend Lenovo. Glad someone is calling it out.

That said, if you're not Chinese/in China, the Chinese govt has little/no power over you, and probably isn't sharing what they collect on you with your govt, which does.
There are a few left from reputable sellers on Ebay and sometimes online vendors for around $1750. Without tax, that's about the same price you'll pay refurbished at Apple.
Watch lots of TV, shows, and news.
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If you need a complete IDE on a chromebook, you might check out Cloud9[0], which seems to have been acquired by Amazon. It gives you a decent editor and a small VM as a workspace, and the nice thing is that you can close the browser window and do something else, and the workspace will be exactly as you left it when you return, including any running terminal commands. I used C9 for a while before discovering Crouton[1] and subsequently GalliumOS[2], and it's still a pretty credible alternative to local development.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
[2] https://galliumos.org/

(I have no affiliation with any companies or projects mentioned.)
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Yeah this nice corporate PR

> We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources

"We're not denying it though. It is true. If they were false and we could debate and win the debate, we would"

> The unquestioned fact is that since leaving Harvard for Silicon Valley nearly six years ago, Mark has led Facebook's growth from a college website to a global service playing an important role in the lives of over 400

> [...] instead focus on how many users we have

Even more, it is interesting what they are implying here. If you can get people to give you their data and build a company on it, it somehow means you all of the sudden acquire a better personality, increased morality and are absolved of all the stupid things you said or did before.

Now sure, people do and say stupid stuff when they are teenagers. I've done it. It depends when and what was done and at what age, what happened before and after. I can see being forgiving some thing up until the early 20s. People are still developing and personality could change I suppose. Though when it comes to his "dumb fucks" comment, I give him less of a pass of being a "teenager" because he was 26 already. Additionally, if these were just isolated incidents and everything before and after pointed to him taken privacy seriously but the whole company is built on the opposite of that.
Ask HN: Will the U.S. ever have a law similar to the EU's GDPR? Why or why not?
Do you think the U.S. will ever pass a law giving its citizens the right to obtain information regarding their data from companies that operate within the U.S. - similar to what the E.U. has implemented with GDPR? Why or why not?
Most of the professors I had at my university also taught part time at the community colleges. I did all 5 years at a university but I can only assume that just like community colleges, every professor is different and their quality ranges quite heavily. So much of college life is about learning how to self-study anyway and knowing when you need to go to the TA, or spend quality time in the library.
Am a Finn.

For vocabulary and grammar: playing Runescape. I translated every single word separately using a translator because Google Translate is shit.

Pronunciation? You have to speak. I played videogames and talked to people online.

E: Also movies and series with subtitles!
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The author claims that for one-time visitors you're not supposed to have any 3rd-party tracking code but uses Google Analytics which Ghostery counts as a tracking code. How's that going to work out for practically every site in the world?
By far the most unique take on learning English
My company is one that everyone on HN has heard of, and they are interpreting it as "don't worry, we don't need to make any changes because _____". It will be interesting to see if they change their tune as May 25 approaches.
CC is great and it’s awesome people find it so valuable but an equally important topic to explore is why college is not longer affordable for large parts of the population in the US.
So do American constitutional protections apply to Americans living in France? I am having a hard time understanding GDPR jurisdictional power. US citizens in France aren’t protected by the US Fair Credit Act with French banks, even when those French banks have US subisidiaries because a French company in France isn’t subject to US legal jurisdiction. Even FATCA doesn’t subject a French bank to US law — it subjects French assets in the US to the withholding provisions of US law, meaning, if a French bank has zero US exposure, then FATCA has zero effect.

Are Dutch citizens in Oklahoma protected by Dutch narcotics laws? Of course not. They are subject to the jurisdiction in which they are physically present.

However, a US citizen can be subject to US laws overseas, however, that’s between the American and the US government — the intermediary country has no involvement unless it’s an extradition request.

This idea that EU citizens are protected worldwide is just ridiculous. EU jurisdiction doesn’t extend beyond the EU. The idea that GDPR requests have to be honored by some local ecommerce company in Idaho is just nonsense and not supported by any international legal precedent.
You are comparing very different things. While I agree a lot of bad people are doing bad things out there, not many if any have the reach and control Zuckerberg does. I wonder if there is a resolution where Facebook can be fixed without government regulations that would likely have adverse effects on the internet at large. I don't even use Facebook and yet I am vulnerable as they doubtless have a complete profile on me based on tracking pixels and people with whom I socialize having accounts with them.
That's of course the rub with any regulation touching internal processes (just as it is with financial regulation, anti-discrimination laws, workers rights to some extend, ...). If you don't make a mistake revealing it, aren't forced into an audit and have no ex-employees holding a grudge, you can get far violating them.

Part of GDPR effect is that if you get caught, you can't talk it away with some blanket claim in your EULA, you need to have a detailed justification, and there is potential for painful fines, so the risk increases.
Well it's 50% the cost of the Nikon and looks like there's a fair number of AF problems with the 135/2 DC.

Also, the 135 DC looks like it has really poor chroma aberration[1].

[1] https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample...
No, those are not equivalent at all.

"Valid" means, intuitively, that if I skip the compile-time type checks, and run the program with the types checked at runtime. If the type system is sound, and the compile-time type checks all pass, then it is impossible to hit a runtime type error. More formally, a program is valid if the execution within the operational semantics (basically, the semantics of running the program) do not lead to an error. This is distinct from type checking correctly.

Similarly, in formal logic "true" and "provable" are not equivalent. We'd like them to be, for sure, but the various incompleteness theorems ensure that we'll never be able to prove every possible true statement.
This is so messed up.

A company I work with used to have everyone use MBPs, bought for them if they didn't bring their own and people were actually excited to receive them. No one seems where to go next but it's pretty obvious no one wants a new MBP.

I've had a 2013 i7/16GB/1TB from new. I might be tempted by the coming Dell XPS with Linux but the last Dell laptop I had have me electric shocks until the day that the plastic hinges finally gave out, which puts me off a bit.

I just don't understand the need to push so hard on keyboards that you can't replace keys on, ports that are so widely used, slow upgrades or at least out of step with processor release cycles and above all Touch Bar. Is it really all down to Cook's direction?
If you're going with Dell, pay extra for professional support.

In the US, it was very good. Basically you aren't talking to offshored tier one customer support. Instead you get US based support who are empowered to get you up and running - they replaced several keyboards and a mobo next day, no questions asked.

Hopefully it's the same in Switzerland.
It applies to EU residents. So someone who's Spanish living in US would not be covered, but an American living in Spain would be.
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Why not something similar to railgun but at a slower speed.

This would involve few things on the plane.

The draw back is that airports needs to install this system.

During take off, if there is a problem, the system could be stopped.

Perhaps it's not usable in this context ?
Unrelated, but this reminded me of my very first real, salary developer job where I added logging to the web application. I remember logging failed password attempts specifically; I didn't give a second thought to simply logging the values of all form fields, seemed easiest at the time in case the developer changed the names of the fields.

It wasn't until a review by one of the senior devs that saw passwords in the log files - and with eyebrows raised asked "wth are you doing" - that it dawned on me, "oops". I'm glad that never made it out to production.
The letter is a nice mix of asks that are specifically covered, rights that might be covered & things that are not covered at all.

In that sense it’s a great way to rattle someone without specific GDPR guidance. But all things being equal, the large orgs that are capable of systematic data collection, are not at all troubled by it & certainly won’t be answering it with direct point by point answers.
> a failure of leadership and resources

Why is it more expensive to teach, say, calculus than algebra? Offering more advanced classes should not cost more.
True, but where's the DSLR that cannibalises the high end by offering the software power of a smartphone camera combined with a APS-C sensor?
Cute, I just noticed the headline is written in the format of a Jeopardy clue.
I would imagine that only legitimate businesses have to be GDPR compliant. Government agencies almost certainly fall under some national security exemption.
I played an online text-based roleplaying game that was in English[1]. Grammar, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions flew through the roof, but pronunciation could have used some live action.

[1] http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/
> The idea that GDPR requests have to be honored by some local ecommerce company in Idaho is just nonsense and not supported by any international legal precedent.

This is true. GDPR would only apply there if they were "offering goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to data subjects in the European Union". [1]

This is understood to mean they must be marketing to the EU, for example by offering their site in European languages (apart from English), using European currencies, or using a European domain.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
I bought a NEX-6 for ~$450 4 years ago and am shocked at the total lack of improvement at that price bracket since then. Of course this was right after the price dropped in response to the A6000. The A6000 is definitely nice but actually has a few regressions compared to the NEX-6, with a lower-resolution viewfinder and losing the electronic level.
I’m not convinced IP addresses are automatically personal data. Granted, they CAN be personal data, if they can be linked to a specific person. But assuming I just keep generic log files, and that I would not in a subject access request be able to tell someone the IP addresses that the user has used, is it really personal data? Also, it is not clear to me what other laws require in terms of keeping log files. It is possible that by keeping no log files at all, you risk breaking some other law (UK).
The XPS'es can be configured to be preinstalled with linux, so pretty much as good as it gets from a major OEM.
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It's not perfectly true, but it doesn't matter.

I bought a Nikon DSLR (Most expensive purchase till then), thinking that I would take it around whenever I go out for fun trips.

I did take it out often. I had some great pictures with it. No problems, not even today.

But after I got the Pixel 2 XL, the pain points with DSLRs are obvious for regular shooting. They need to be charged, the SD card needs to be put in a computer to transfer files, and they're bulky so carrying them is a problem.

So now, when I want to take a nice quick photo, I wish I had my DSLR, but I take the photo with my phone anyway, and I don't think much about it.

I'm not saying DSLR are going to be completely irrelevant. But they're getting so close to the ideal picture quality for normal photos (i.e. no shutter speed or focus requirements) they're just fine. And the problem is they're getting better.

They won't replace the full-frame cameras with have large ecosystems around them, but they'll make people like me think twice before buying a DSLR.
Problem is, if the review is public then it means the article is also in the public and some (most) publishers are not OK with that. At least yet, hopefully it will get better.
No. If it's just lots of files & lots of regular users, and you're not running anything illegal/abusive, then it's fine.
> High schools may have trouble finding teachers who are qualified to teach advanced subjects

One wonders about such teachers who have advanced masters degrees in education. Why are they not qualified to teach freshman college material?
Which things that are mentioned do you believe are not covered?
Wider aperture means bigger lens, especially zoom. This can be a negative for the non-professional who wants to minimize size/weight when travelling or just walking around town, especially if they already have a smaller, mirrorless body. Professionals, obviously, will use whatever size equipment they need to get the job done.
The article inconsistently uses Latner and the correct spelling, Lattner. Does no one proof-read these things?
My wife and I decided to move to Ireland this summer. Once you’re there, you have no choice, and must talk. We have prepared out 8yo kids with a year of english lessons and they are excited to move there.

What I mean is, if you have the opportunity, go to an english speaking country. When you have no choice, your english will improve automatically
Community college worked so well for you... but you had to transfer and go to a university instead?
The day I decided to watch series and films in VO ( with subtitles in english too )
Sound advice. Also, try to get to the next step as soon as you can, while still working on the previous ones. We are surprisingly quick to adapt even when facing complicated challenges, so take advantage of that. And always do something that you like. It will keep you both motivated and focused.
The question is whether your ads really need to be targeted to individual persons (requiring a huge surveillance infrastructure) or if you can just sell ads to some sponsors and everybody sees the same ads.

I prefer the second option. Nothing wrong with ads per se.
> Given the expense and difficulties of complying with these rules and enforcing them

To know what data do you have and to able to manage it is not difficult nor expensive. It is a short-term cost for long-term benefits. The fact that most companies don´t have this in place shows how bad data architecture and governance is around.

> but if surveillance is cheap enough, how do you make sure that no one is amassing reams of private information?

Laws don´t suffice, but there are mechanisms to enforce laws. Whistleblowers protection, in-premise inspections, public claims, etc.

That is hard to assure food safety, doesn´t means that you give up. Time to time you find really bad transgressions, but it was worst before this laws.

> This information wouldn't be available only to the powerful or well-connected, it should be available to everyone.

The problem is the asymmetry of usefulness. For me, to know that you went two days ago to the supermarket and that you have a post about privacy is useless. For a marketing company may provide high value.

There is the risk that the powerful will become more powerful having data that they can use to increase their riches. While the poor will continue as poor as they can´t use the data for anything useful.

> but we do need to prioritize what aspects of our lives should remain the most private.

This is true, thou. To have public salaries, for example, may help employees to have as much information as companies already have. To give access to everyone to some data, can help to improve society. The difference is that I will prefer it the other way around. We protect our data and decide what to show, instead to make everything public and fix what breaks. So, I´m not so far away from your view. But I see it from another perspective.
I use a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu and I love it. Most of the complaints I have seen are either nitpicky or because the early versions did not have good HW support in the kernel. The latter has largely been fixed, and the former is only relevant if you are also nitpicky (which is okay!).
This is my main question actually.

While most of GDPR is common sense and shouldn't be much of a burden on companies[1], I was always confused about jurisdiction. While most larger companies have a legal presence somewhere within the EU that can be held accountable for this, I do wonder how the EU is supposed to be enforce penalties on a company outside of the EU.

[1]: well, the difficulty grows the larger your company/product is, but chances are you have more resources available to dedicate to it anyway