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PoW is never used for private/custom blockchains, I've never seen it, it doesn't make much sense. If you insist on saying it's just like sql, you'd have to say it's "just like" replicated, multi-master sql database, with publicly exposed read only access, forbidden deletes/updates, inserts restricted/enforced by triggers/whatever based on asymmetric cryptography of currently connected user.

It's just not the same thing, completely different security profile.

The only way to forge transaction is to steal private key.

Nobody is saying that blockchain will force humans to not click "organic" checkbox for non-organic mangoes, this is absurd - but it can encode digital signature of somebody who checks it so it can be later traced back and allows to write logic that signature is required for the mango to go to the next step in the supply chain for example.

I think you don't realize (most people don't) how many problems this little thing solves.

It's not replacement for sql, big data or what not - it would be silly to say that - when designing blockchain systems you actually spend a lot of time on finding the most minimal thing that has to be stored on the chain for your contracts to enforce all required logic. It allows you to trust data in it without security ceremony/setup.
Perhaps it's because the end result would be both poverty and totalitarianism.
Are there other instances where I can demand people's time without compensation? Where I can demand they forget something all the way down to the fact someone visited their location? I see this is as a move in the WOGPC.
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It's called a severance package. The company isn't giving you money to quit - you're working at-will and they can terminate your employment at any time for any reason. The amount is usually equivalent to a few months worth of paychecks.

What they pay you for is you signing away your ability to sue for wrongful termination. Because they can't really fire you for any reason.
Hmm nah, I remember “blogging” explicitly meant drafting and publishing posts directly from a website form, as opposed to crafting HTML documents and uploading them over FTP (which was what people did at the time and obviously complained about.)
>> Why do I doubt they are the real losers here?

Because it is fashionable to assume everyone on Wall Street just makes tons of money at the expense of Main Street, which is a gross oversimplification of what is occurring in today's society.
Most seasoned OOP practitioners would agree with you. That's where the phrase "prefer aggregation over inheritance" came from.
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A $100+ million revenue company has the capital to comply with GDPR. The 1-5 man bootstrapped start up does not. They will be in the 3 felonies a day type of non-compliance and hunted by bureaucrats looking for easy targets. Other countries have a philosophy of exempting small business from complicated regulations because of this. The EU tends to not do this.

That is the fundamental issue and it has nothing to do with monopoly.

Just like you need progressive taxation to not choke out the poor, you need progressive regulation to not choke out the small business.
I have, in that for applying to jobs via job boards and postings, the algorithms eliminate you if you don't meet the minimum requirements. So, if you apply to a job requiring a degree in CS but don't have one, you often get deprioritized or flat out rejected.

If you get in without a CS degree, you often can get looked down upon as "not technical" or "more business than technical" unless you prove your chops coding.

Of course, one has to ask - how many people today have a CS education before they even reach college? It's possible that somebody already has CS education from high school and chooses to study something else to broaden their horizons.

Unfortunately, that can be a costly mistake when applying to jobs requiring a CS degree. But it can pay huge dividends in one's diversity and understanding of the world.

Places that really pay attention somewhat ignore your degree or education and focus on your skills and/or experience, IMHO.
It may be coming but it's unlikely to be coming to North America, Europe and India any time soon. After having been forced to turn over their technology to China to enter its market these countries are not willingly going to turn around and buy that technology back in their own markets.
if you liked watching this, then maybe you'd also like these videos, which i watched some time ago:

making a miniature vacuum tube triode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRI0ZLTP6_0

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxL4ElboiuA
Why not Linux? I would prefer Linux over OSX completely.

IMO OSX is much better than Windows for dev work and it's still terrible.
Delphi is almost as "native" as they get on windows and you still need to do a lot of extra work just to draw a checkbox on a grid.

Use of native controls and their benefits is greatly exaggerated and it all comes down to some murky-feely subjective opinion.
There's no privacy policy on this site (I did a custom Google search on the site to check if I'd somehow missed it). So my serious question is why anyone should trust this platform even for a trial. It's 2018, and it's unforgivable for a site, especially one that stores financial information, not to have a clear privacy policy and commitment.

@Ildar, if you see this comment, this is the first thing you should address before anything else (and also state how any policy you put affects past data collected).
This strikes me as a fluff PR piece to try to head off similar legislation in the US.
I still don't understand how this is going to be enforced. If I'm a website or app provider in China or Philippines or Russia or India, and I collect information on EU residents who visit/use my website/service, how is GDPR going to be enforced? How are they going to fine me 4% of my revenue?
Unless the edge of the valley we crossed was actually The Cliff of Insanity and there _is_ no end to it.
That's a lot of questions. To sum up, the GDPR is forcing:

- granular consent (like you might opt into a newsletter, but not retargeting ads)

- right to request what a company knows about you

- right to get that data in digital format (json, xml)

- right to know when your data is exposed in a data breach

- right to request that your data be deleted

- right to request that an organization stop processing data about you

fwiw - I wrote a bunch more about it (link) and am happy to answer questions.

https://blog.varonis.com/gdpr-requirements-list-in-plain-eng...
Well, for starters, if they raise their voice or a limb at you, you can have them done for assault. If they actually detain you, it's false imprisonment aka kidnapping.
"Home" is a place I can settle, start a family, go back to and live in.

I grew up near Geneva. My parents bought a house in France because it was cheaper. My dad crossed the border every day to work at CERN and take me to international school.

I can't be Swiss, because my parents weren't resident. I can't be French, because I wasn't born there. The nearest French hospital is 2 hours away through the mountains and CERN paid for Swiss health insurance. I'm British by descent because my parents are from there. Future children born outside the UK cannot be British from me, because I wasn't born in the UK. If I stayed in Geneva and met a wife there in the same situation (very common with UN kids), and kept living with my parents, future children would be stateless.

My girlfriend is Taiwanese. If she and I had children, they would be Taiwanese from her, and would have to go to the military and learn how to kill foreigners. There's a conflict of interest - I don't want children to kill me. She had a great time in Australia on Working Holiday and wanted to go to New Zealand too, but couldn't get one of the 600 visas even though we stayed up all night and applied as soon as applications opened at 6 am.

For her to move to the UK requires her to meet income requirements of £18,600 per year, which she doesn't earn with her CAD job, and it would take 5 years. New Zealand offers PR after 2 years, and New Zealand PR is enough for children to get citizenship. (some countries e.g. Canada give citizenship at birth to everyone, but then it's possible for parents to lose their visa and be separated from kids - I want PR before I marry).
No, it's a lot simpler. It can be reduced down to a question: How is humanity deciding who gets left behind?
You arrest company officers flying into the EU (even for a layover, even for emergency landings) for default judgements.

You block their companies from doing business in the EU. You confiscate bank accounts set in the EU, you confiscate shipments to/from the EU.
I did not see anything in GDPR which does not make sense to me, it looks like common sense applied to data management.(Edit: It's rare enough to have some legal text in IT which makes sense in real life, I'm surprised). I don't see why small businesses should be exempt for basic regulation, small businesses are not exempt from fire safety regulation either.

> The 1-5 man bootstrapped start up does not.

In my current company we are only two developers and we will comply with GDPR, it's going to take us a week or two worth of technical work, it's really not a big deal.
I appreciate that Citus Data is right out in the open that entry level is $800/mo. I know straight up I can’t afford it. But they also tell me the size of their minimum instances, which also tells me my product hasn’t yet scaled to the level to need their service. And by the time it does, $800/mo will be acceptable.
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is it just me or is the sidebar broken? Selecting a link on the sidebar after getting to the end of a page doesn't reset scrollY position
L3 at other companies is an L4 at Amazon (I believe only contractors or part-time employees can be < 4). L5 also has a much wider surface area and the gap from L5 to L6 is quite big.
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No worries! By the way, it's frowned upon if one person posts the same link repeatedly without getting any traction - eventually it just gets annoying, especially for people who watch the 'new' feed and keep seeing the same thing coming up. But the above posts seem to be submitted by different people, so it's all good.
How would anyone validate what exactly is running on the servers at any point in time so that you can trust it every single second? At some point, it comes down to trusting someone or the other.
The GDPR seems easy, but I get a feeling you haven't tried to actually properly implement the GDPR regs, talking to lawyers and everything. If you have you'll see there is far more involved than you think.

I wish it was easy as just manually looking for user data after an email, deleting it, and keeping that email request as part of the 'audit log'. And getting affirmative consent during signup.

Most small businesses would be fine with something that casual.

EDIT: If you guys winged it by actually just reading the regulations and winging it, you probably did something wrong.
Neat! This will be my first thinkpad since ~2005.

I’ve been eyeing the X1Carbon. What made you select T460? Do you feel that it’s portable enough to bike/walk around with and use in cafes etc?

I guess what I’m really wondering is, with all different models (7 different choices in the T series, and then X and P) how can you select one? I’m in analysis paralysis.
That is exactly the kind of cancer that GDPR is intended to remove.

As they explicitly said, there is no way anyone would volunteer this yet somehow they think it is ok to abuse it just because they could.

This truly is wonderful.
That's a pretty complex system. It may be easier to find a supportive manager :-)
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I have written a blog on this topic. It relates to work I have done working with Shaman and plant medicines in Peru. Here you go: https://goodroot.ca/post/2018/03/06/the-garden-axiom/ !
> Google Chrome (Safe Browsing checks etc.)

Probably more critical here is Chrome Sync. They can and do read your entire browsing history through that.

With Safe Browsing, they at least still promise (in a legally binding way) that they don't store the data.
From everything I've read/watched from the creators' side, what most of them really want is more clear communication from YouTube about why their livelihood is playing hide and seek seemingly at random. It's not about rights as such.
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Why do people keep posting WSJ paywalled content here?
and a slightly bigger ram vps could easily add buddypress with the "BP My Home plugin" and you could give all of your family and friends their own home page profiles with whichever rss feeds they want on their own profile page. This is something I have been kicking around for a while.

This past week I've been researching ways to incorporate the blacklisting and such from a different rss aggregator plugin to give people custom weighting options within them.
Good. Maybe some real competition can shake up the established car manufacturers. Right now they have to be forced by the government to modernize their lineup wrt emissions. I can't wait for cheap Chinese EVs in inner cities.
The startup could just respect their users privacy. It's only a matter of decency. Most people don't have much problems with it.
If you don't see any reason for a feature that benefits better than 50% of your users (according to the chart you posted), I'm really not sure what to tell you.
Normally you'd have independent party/institution that physically verifies and digitally signs facts.

Police officer would issue a request to that 3rd party to sign this fact.

Blockchain doesn't magically make people honest, but it can encode claims that you can verify.
WordPress still doesn't support postgres.
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There are a bunch of subsidies\welfare programs available for female children alone... Its much cheaper to raise a female child than to raise a male child, and dowry is no longer mandatory, it largely comes into play when you're trying to marry up (like say the groom earns 5-10x the wife's salary)
So as long as there are 1000s of companies like AdUX that purchase my data without telling me or acquiring my consent, I don't really have any hope of actually having my information deleted.

I suppose someone could make a service that lets you request every known company delete your info.
Compared to proteins (20+ amino acids, inclusions of non-aminoacid structures such as heme), yes, quite boring.
The word 'entitled' is loaded, and tends to derail these discussions. They want an explanation. To reduce their financial uncertainty. I don't know why every discussion needs to veer straight to legal policy and human rights. We're talking about 'good business' which I hope is still a thing.
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I think Chinese cars have been in markets like Australia for awhile now, as well awards developing markets. I don’t think they’ve been present anywhere else however. There was a scandal in Australia a few years ago with I think BYD or Chery lowering their standards after crash test approval.
The GDPR is inconvenient with many of the shady business models popular among web-centric companies.

In the long run, it's good for all of us if those business models are discouraged.
Even if the people are great, small (5-20 employee) companies often simply don't have scope for much career progression. You might have one layer of management between yourself and the company owner, so unless they start hiring or you plan on taking over the company, you can only be promoted once.
Google just reported record revenues up 26% from last year's quarter and almost double last year's net income at $9bn. Not to worry, it has plenty of cash to bleed and it increases every hour of every day.
Fine by me. Do we really need more “small ad firms”?
How will GDPR interact with the goals of intelligence agencies and their contractors? Is there going to be a wave of problems for intelligence contractors and their possession of data or are European countries going to let it slide?
I'd be more worried that my Amazon robot figured out how to order batteries, nuts and bolts on my Amazon tablet.
I don't know how you can say this. Go and try to get a low end job in a European capital, and then come back with an answer to "do immigrants directly lower the quality of life for the urban poor ?".

The answer, without any doubt, is yes.

Now you could say that the economy must simply grow to compensate, but it hasn't been doing that for decades now. Exactly when will this happen ? Likewise, government support has been shrinking while taxes have been growing.

Solve this problem and you make immigrants a solvable issue. Don't solve this and you might as well try to paint the sky a bright shade of green.

Don't solve it for another decade, perhaps two and there will be civil war.
he probably haven't heard the term "Revolving door". Simple study of antitrust policies would reveal him that this is the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
Tesla just bypassed the dealer system altogether.
There're various freemium RSS services that cropped up after Google Reader shut down.

https://zapier.com/blog/best-rss-feed-reader-apps/ lists a few.
I can corroborate. Career level just means you won't get fired if you stop advancing. There are plenty of people who still pursue L6 though out of pride though. It's extremely difficult for an experienced SDE to get hired on at L6 level too, so most have to work up to it.
I thought stealth aircraft is already visible on the latest Russian gear. They just use different frequencies to see it. The problem now seems to be not in seeing the plane per se, but homing the missile on a low observability target.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-f-22-f-35...
> So it’s more like saying that because you voluntarily walked into my store, it’s ok for me to observe your behavior while you’re there.

No, it's more like saying that if I phone your store to ask how much some item costs, you think it's OK to come over to my house and peer through all of my windows.
Im sure the core-ruptured politician caste wouldnt even consider such a sell-out.

Im reall trying to keep a straigth face here.
I like RSS given it provides the exact stuff I want, not more, not less. Or it can also be as simple as http://www.pxlet.com which I check every day for now to get the tech news.
Ask HN: Looking to create a plugin marketplace for my webapp. Any advice
We have a fairly popular SaaS platform that operates within the marketing industry (think Mailchimp).

We are wanting to setup an app/plugin marketplace and allow third-party developers to build extensions and integrations. These would then be submitted into the marketplace and our customers can then choose to enable them in their accounts.

Before we scope this project and build it, I thought I would post to see if anyone has worked on this project previously and if there were any docs worth reading. As well, are there any third-party platforms that can be used to make the process more easier and efficient.
> If global markets aren't transforming China out of totalitarianism, then morally, shouldn't we stop assisting the economic development of China?

I personally don't see any other way. Either it's this or exploitation. You shouldn't ignore the effects of your trading with China (and all countries). Doing so just legitimizes their actions and is entirely immoral.
Isn't what most intelligence agencies do illegal in other countries already?
I have been using a nodejs equivalent, named broken-link-checker
https://github.com/stevenvachon/broken-link-checker

I run it in a CI job which builds a static site. It works pretty well for me.
But again, that's the wrong tool for the job so of course it's not going to be well suited. When it's that obvious of a wrong tool saying it's terrible is still kind of silly. It's like saying hammers are terrible at screwing things or cars make terrible trampolines.
I wanted the answer to a similar question for myself to be f#/fable - but it turned out that getting up and running on Linux with dot.net core and cli tooling was a bit convoluted.

I did manage to bundle a ~32mb hello world with dependencies/runtime (with cross-compilation, yay!) - but I couldn't get giraffe or any other server (framework) running in a reasonable amount of time. (Side-note, I'd appreciate a pointer to a f# Web server stack that works in the above scenario - something light that's appropriate to build a json-api server in).

Many tutorials appeared to be a year out of date, with wrong details - leading to code snippets not working, things not building, dependencies not installing.

Since I know ocaml is solid, I now am a strong believer in reasonml (which fixes some of the oddities with ocaml, making it more pleasant - in a way a little more like standard ml).

Reasonml has a strong Web app side, and compiles to sane js.

The other great option is clojure/clojure script. It's been dogged a bit by jvm (startup) overhead - not sure how/if graal/truffle AOT compilation will improve that.
I think the duck curve is more about residential usage rather than overall grid usage. And this conversation is about home solar installations rather than commercial ones in offices and places of work.
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So we already have a very custom Jenkins setup that builds containers, runs tests and creates test environments out of our pull requests in a k8s namespace. This seems to come with so many things that we already have.

We have a few issues with it, like Jenkins suddenly deciding to build & test all branches/PRs in all repos, killing the server.

• What is Jenkins X exactly, and how does it relate to Jenkins? Is it just a CLI utility that generates git repos, k8s clusters and Jenkinsfiles for us? Is it a fork of Jenkins?

• What would we gain from switching to Jenkins X?

• How does it work with our existing setup?
When it came to Australia it essentially forced the closure of the Ford and Holden (GM) vehicle design and factories.

You can buy a brand new Chinese car with a 3 year warranty for less than the depreciation on a new Ford/GM/Toyota would be in 2 years.

So after 3 years you can literally drive the Chinese vehicle to the dump and buy another one, and you're still up financially.

Reviews so far say they're cheap, you get what you pay for, but they work and are reliable enough.
If China was serious they'd market solely electric cars to get a toehold in the American market.

I can hear a dealer now telling a prospect, you can wait another two years for a Model 3 or buy ours and drive it home tonight. There's a pent up demand for battery powered cars under $40K.

A Chinese SUV? It would have to be rather compelling to take a chance.
I'll stick with Japanese cars. I've been driving Toyotas for 35 years. And they're an ally.

My hope is that China will moderate and become less authoritarian and less of a threat to its neighbors. Most countries have over time.

And I hope the US will be less involved in foreign military adventures. There's no doubt in my mind that much of what dictators do is driven by what we do.

I also believe that trade helps prevent war. We tend to not go to war with countries with whom we have many profitable relationships.
It would be awesome indeed, but the disk cache can't grow indefinitely. I can't imagine anyone looking at their browser's 20GB disk cache and say it's ok.