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It's really funny because the blog post is far more ambiguous than the GDPR. He cites no specific provision of the GDPR, he doesn't quote the law, all he does is offer up the big scary $20m number.

It's pure FUD.

But since we're throwing out wild speculations it's more than possible this guy was doing something really shady. (He admits to affiliate links which are perfectly fine under GDPR). There would definitely be a market for user data even about who's borrowing what, where. Certainly the vast majority of these "the GDPR killed our free business" are precisely these shady businesses who knew they were dead anyways if they had to actually ask their users for consent in plain language.
GDPR is having a massive chilling affect at my job as well. I think some brand new web frameworks need to be born that focus on compliance. It feels like a solid opening to me to get some new ideas out.
I've noticed most people are not sure of what exactly they need to do to comply (me included). With the ambiguity, it seems the best way to cover yourself is to just be able to say you consulted a legal team in the past and did what they told you to comply. This has obvious costs associated with it.
I consider myself relatively well connected, and chat regularly with hundreds of different founders, both inside and out of YC.

I’ve never met anyone that takes those.

I have certainly met many founders that could be prescribed them.
the damn thing is more abstract than poetry. it s indicative that all these months, i have not seen a single article / presentation that provides a concrete example of how to shield a website.
Windows Mobile, BlackBerry OS, PalmOS, Maemo, Nokia S-Series all had the top 100 popular apps at the time. MS for instance spent $$$ ensuring that was the case.

Edit: forgot the Kindle Phone..
$20M fine. 80M users. Here's you 25 cent check.

Much like class action lawsuits, the end user doesn't make much. The lawyers or the state, which go to great expense may recover their expenses, or they may not. The largepunitive fine is to prevent the suits from ever happening in the first place.
I had a hippity hop as a kid. Does that count as a speed sport?
can he provide a list of all 3rd parties he's ever shared that data with? probably not?
If competitors aren’t willing to invest because the return on investment would be too low to make it worthwhile that’s one thing. It’s quite different from minimum efficient scale being so high that you can only efficiently have one supplier in a particular market. A local monopoly is not evidence of natural monopoly. A local monopoly has to worry about potential competition, a natural one doesn’t. Rail services in North America look like a natural oligopoly, not a natural monopoly. There are no particular welfare implications in those since if you can’t legally enforce collusion it doesn’t last. Plenty of oligopolies are competitive. Intel worries plenty about AMD.

If you search for Norfolk Southern competitors the following names come up, Union Pacific, Canadian National Railway Company, CSX Corp, Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern[0]. Whatever that is it isn’t a natural monopoly.

Violence has high fixed costs and relatively low marginal costs. If the efficient number of states, violence monopolists, is so much greater than one why would we expect anything else to be a natural monopoly?

[0]http://financials.morningstar.com/competitors/industry-peer....
that's not quite correct.... "The GDPR not only applies to organisations located within the EU but it will also apply to organisations located outside of the EU if they offer goods or services to, or monitor the behaviour of, EU data subjects. It applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location."

meaning you can be doing business with EU residents as a US only company.

I'm not quite sure how they intend to enforce the GDPR on foriegn companies, but they are making that claim.
Could you elaborate what is not compositional about it? I always thought one of the biggest attractions of anything point-free is its compositionality (from which follows easy refactorability).
You had to wait until goodvtelescope resolve the streak of the Mily Way was made of stars. Ditto that some the smudges in the sky were galaxies made of stars. That was one ofvEdwin Hubble's great discoveries.
Do you know of a good place to read about the GDPR and backups?

My concern has been the account deletion provision. Does the GDPR expect us to be able to go back and modify past backups? Years-old tape archives?
Unless I'm mistaken, you can't actually sue over your interpretation of the GDPR. You can report companies to the appropriate authority, who can then investigate, and with whom you can communicate. Just like the many other authorities of the kind[1].

[1]: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/get-more-help/how...
Amazing! But this is already realer than the satire suggests. Amazing article on rental friends in Japan: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/paying-fo...
And the curiously gender-specific invisible girlfriend: https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/
Oh, I know. (i meant i heard his voice, not "his" words, but that was probably not very clear).

This gets better, actually: the legend goes that when Dylan heard Hendrix' version the first time, he made a remark to the effect of "welp, it's his song now..." and performed it either never again or very very rarely therafter.

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Bob-Dylan-say-after-he-heard-...
i thought it applies to EU residents/ visitors in the EU, and to the users of companies based in the EU...
It's not like he ever intended to turn it into the next Facebook, though, is it? It's like your grandmother's unprofitable home-made scone business shutting down because she doesn't have a certified kitchen.
I think there's stigma around GDPR among some entrepreneurs because of a complete refusal from some people to see personal data as something they need to treat carefully.

Let's look at an alternate universe for a moment, where online shopping developed with very barebones regulations, PCI-DSS isn't a thing and fraud is far more rampant. Now the EU introduces new regulations much like PCI-DSS with heavy fines attached to it.

Suddenly you would have every small business coming out of the woodwork, claiming PCI compliance is a huge hassle, the fines are unreasonable, etc. Yeah, PCI compliance is a hassle (which is why we have companies such as Stripe taking care of it for you). But to protect and empower the users, it's needed. This isn't about your business, it's about your users and how they can, today thanks to PCI-DSS, generally trust that their credit card is safe to enter online (which is a net good for any industry that needs online payments).

But that universe is crazy because, who wouldn't treat credit card numbers as extremely sensitive data? Well, many companies who today aren't actually PCI-DSS compliant. Sometimes devs just don't know why, when or even how to encrypt the data and nobody audits that until there's a breach.

So my opinion is this is a success of GDPR. Clearly nobody in this comment section thinks the person in question would really have had a hard time complying with it, and probably wanted to shut down anyway. Either its users are better off because the service is a data vampire that doesn't care about compliance, or it's a no-op because it would have shut down either way. Make room for competition that does care, I'm all for that.
Looks like the guy who wrote this works for a UK bank, which kinda makes sense since we all know UK banks suck at IT. RBS, TSB, Natwest, etc all have serious technical problems and banks have been known for years of just plain sucking at building web apps.
He said the _site_ doesn't make money. He might make or have money from any number of other sources.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16949950
One threat with Keybase is that an adversary can wipe all data on your account if they just have access to your email (see https://keybase.io/#account-reset).

I haven't looked into it in detail but Tarsnap might be preferable.
>If they're unwilling to attempt to comply with regulations

This is an obtuse, bordering on malicious misreading of the post. They're not unwilling to implement the necessary features. They're unwilling to shoulder the risk.

> Personally I think fly-by-night websites should be the last people responsible for handling personal data. If they're unwilling to attempt to comply with regulations, then perhaps the internet is a better place without these sites.

This isn't a data broker, a credit reporting agency, someone with a giant sensor fleet, etc. It's extremely straightforward to not share data with a "fly-by-night" website like this.
I went to a conference recently and attempted to have a discussion about GDPR. Two other people showed up, none of whom had not done any research into the issue at all.

My fear is that patent-lawyer-style firms will start aggressively blackmailing companies for "settlements" or they will begin tons of GDPR-based violations aimed at your business.
sounds like you are willing to eliminate hobby websites and nights and weekends startups, forcing every new idea to incorporate first. that's the sort of thing that the internet was supposed to route around.
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My favorite is the Stephen Addiss translation, all the other ones try to shoehorn certain ideas/westernizations into it.
I see little distinction between a shitcoin ICO and a fart app on the App Store. A fool and their money are easily parted.
In 20 years in the industry, most spent in startups, much spent consulting with a pretty broad spectrum of other startups, I have never known anyone I've worked with to take modafanil.

That's just one data point. But: I don't think it's at all common.
How will you look it up when necessary during a programming contest (like the IOI/ICPC mentioned in the book)? It's usually not allowed by the contest rules to look up an entire book's worth.
>He said the site does not make money. So why would he spend more of his time to make the changes needed to be compliant?

I think you could ask that question about all the other formalities you have to engage in as well if you run a business? Managing his taxes probably takes more time than making that kind of business GDPR compliant
Docker doesn't do these things neither for you.
Pretty much any start up starts out as a "fly-by-night website". Maybe this guy's just an idiot, but regulations like this harm small businesses and innovation. You can debate the merit of them, but this is what they cost.
This is awesome! Thanks for the feedback.

Yep, that's the best way to check if a request is Authenticated. Alternatively, you can disable unauthenticated requests outright by setting the rate limit to 0 requests allowed via your dashboard.

Yeah; scheduled tasks are a paid feature of StdLib. I received your e-mail and will respond shortly, I don't think it's too difficult for us to allow for the intricacies around your use case. :)
It's more complicated than that.

Want to host the data on aws? You need a documented data processor agreement with them. Same thing with cloudflare and any other service you might want to use.

Want to use google analytics or some other javascript? Those cookies aren't required so you need a way to let users opt-in to using those cookies. And opt-out and delete any third party cookies. I'm still not clear on how the regulations expect you to delete third party cookies.

Amazon affiliate links also aren't necessary to use the service, and that sets cookies. Have to get consent before users can click on those links.

Don't forget that ip addresses are considered personal data.

And all of this might have to be written down and documented per Article 30 as well. The organization is smaller than 250 people, so that might be an out, but people are using the site daily so one could argue the processing is not occasional.
OK, I may have missed that, but not all illegal primes are content, so not all of them are subject to the copyright legal regime. Hence, the DMCA exists to close those gaps by declaring new kinds/classes of numbers to be illegal.
Possibly booster landings were judged much less reliable than parachute landings when they originated the concept. Nobody had propulsively landed a booster that had been to space until Blue and SpaceX did it at around the same time.

Before that things didn't always go so well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

SpaceX were going to land Dragon 2 with rockets and it looks like NASA wasn't interested. Parachutes are still the safe, proven option.

With orbital class boosters potentially being landed every couple of weeks and Blue having flown their vehicle multiple times I would guess future vehicle generations will benefit from that experience.

SpaceX's BFS is going to combine a second stage and crew/cargo vehicle. If successful, competition might be pushed in the same direction.
this is actually true, while in theory EU says GDPR applies abroad, it simply doesn't because its not law of the land. Only indirectly can it be enforced, e.g. a US based payment processor would want to comply because otherwise EU businesses would not be able to use it.
> PCI-DSS isn't a thing and fraud is far more rampant. Now the EU introduces new regulations much like PCI-DSS with heavy fines attached to it.

That would be amazing! Then we'd actually have to adopt a push-based or one-time-use transaction model, rather than living under the fantasy (disproven on a daily basis) that merchants should be in the business of keeping secrets, or are even capable of it. It's hard for me to take anything someone says seriously after they express admiration for the credit card number security model.
If you can see Neptune with the naked eye, you're probably a genetically altered mutant with eyes the size of melons.

Neptune is theoretically a naked eye object, barely, against a perfectly black background. In reality the sky isn't perfectly black, even with no man-made light sources. (See e.g. the Zodiacal Light.) So your chances of seeing +08 objects without binos or a telescope are basically zero.

I lived in a very rural area for a while with limited light sources. On a clear night, the sky was absolutely glorious, and going for night time walks under it was a favourite hobby.

But even on the darkest and clearest nights, with half an hour of dark adaptation, +04/5 was as good as the view ever got without binos.
Depends on the screwup. If he were directly involved in doing something malicious or extremely negligent towards his customers he could be liable. If he can't trust himself not to be in this category though, I would argue that shutting down is still the desired result.
In the US copyright trolls, for example, go after small sites first. They are not able to provide the huge amount of money needed to fund a solid legal defense. The trolls can use the precedent to attack larger more well funded targets. It is not unheard of for US law enforcement to do the same thing. That is why groups like the ACLU and EFF are so important here.
If the article seems messy, it's because it's about political rumblings rather than blockchain technology itself. Leaders are looking at it as a sort of "mechanism of the future" that they need to get in on. Per a quote from Gilbert Verdian, head of the British delegation at the ISO:

> To get behind it and back it now is going to put people at an advantage, either politically or economically.

That's pretty much politician catnip. "Yes, please. We'd like some of that." And that's how the people being discussed in the article are looking at "blockchain" (I'm using quotes intentionally here) rather than a technical-oriented perspective. The article isn't about a blockchain implementation. Think of the people in the article as similar to a stereotype of investors talking about the latest buzz-worth startup. They're excited about X, have some ideas on what X could mean, but don't necessarily have a deep understanding of X itself or how it's implemented. That's how some nation states are looking at future blockchain possibilities. The quoted Russians are basically saying "America won the internet, but we'll win the future (i.e., "the blockchain").
Where do you live that you can't see the milky way?
I can see it from my inner-city apartment on a clear night.
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I thought this, but for the last several years, it looks like Verizon and at&t have both grown faster than T-Mobile. E.g., https://www.statista.com/statistics/283507/subscribers-to-to...
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The compiler was never the problem; the API was.

> The Java language was released to the public in 1995, under the Sun Community Source License, making the source freely available but requiring that products using the code were maintained to the Java standard, and that any commercial derivative works were licensed by Sun.

> Over 2006 and 2007, due to pressure from developers, Sun changed the license of the various Java packages to use the GNU General Public License with a "classpath exception", allowing developers the needed access to make derivative works and with the ability to release applications with a different license. This led to the OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit), first released in 2007.

> Android, Inc. was founded in 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White to develop a mobile phone platform.[7][8] Google purchased Android in 2005 and continued developing the Android operating system.[8] During development of Android, Google wanted to incorporate the Java Standard Edition libraries. Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt had approached Sun's president Jonathan I. Schwartz about licensing the Java libraries for use in Android. Sun offered a licensing deal of between US$30 and 50 million.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google...

In other words, API were not exactly free (for an outwardly noble purpose), and Google reused them before they were GPL-ed.

So that everybody now knows: don't do that. Either use truly free code, or properly license it.
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That's true, but frankly I'd rather that the large companies I already deal with be forced to interact on better terms than encourage competition by well-meaning startups.

Once upon a time Facebook was the fresh new competition. Once upon a time Google took pains to maintain their "Don't be evil" motto. Everyone starts out starry-eyed, keen to destroy the oppressive incumbent. Very few stay that way.
Anyone can sue you at anytime for any reason.
I know a small handful of founders on a personal level and none of them take modafinil or adderall.
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>Doing this permanently? No idea how ops father did it, but I imagine I'll have a serious health problem before the weeks out at this rate (only half joking here, actually a little concerned).

I get about 5 to 6 hours per night as well on average and I'm feeling fine. I workout regularly and don't smoke and rarely drink, physically fine as well and don't feel tired.

Your mileage may vary obviously but I think a lot of association of health risk with reduced sleep is probably attributable to unhealthy lifestyles overall (interestingly enough there's also higher associated mortality with excess sleeping)
That wasn't the point of my post but what you're thinking about is actually in progress! Google PSD2 for more info :)
I think there's an important point to make (although I don't have empirical evidence of this), that ADHD is way more prevalent in startup founders than the general population. This is logical when you consider that those with ADHD are less likely to be fulfilled by a desk job and are more likely to be risk taking.

In general I've found that unmedicated ADHD founders seem more common than medicated, but I wouldn't count on that as generalizable or fact.

In terms of people without ADHD using Modafanil or amphetamines to get an edge, I'm sure that happens a lot, but it's less common than Wall Street or high-powered law firms.

Funnily enough, I just started taking Modafanil this week.
That was the one, and come to think of it we still had a baby that wasn’t sleeping too regularly right around that time.
No, other companies push the envelope. Touch screens and 360 hinges and fingerprint readers to name a few. Plus most motherboards in laptops are custom designed as well. Dell always designs the cooling system differently to try and be quiet but cheap for their desktops, I could go on but I'd rather just close by saying Apple isn't the only one who uses custom parts. Off the shelf to custom ratio is probably pretty close to the other big players.
Here's a better question: How many people at founder level actually have to take drug tests?

People at the bottom piss in cups all the time. I have a sneaking suspicion the top rarely does.
A lot of words in ancient Chinese are loaded with subtleties of meaning. Its hard to choose a single English word to translate it. In modern Chinese Dao mean path.

Modern Chinese has a lot more multisyllable words than classical Chinese. That tends to narrow meanings.
Thanks for this link! Great translation indeed.
I've worked with you, and it was false for me. I concealed it because of social stigma. (Adderall, not modafanil.)

Perhaps you're referring to founders specifically though, rather than people you've worked with.

There's immense pressure to say nothing. And that translates into you not knowing.

But the leap to "It's therefore not common" would be mistaken.
In 2016 I was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy — essentially epilepsy with little/no explanation for the cause. Prior to my diagnosis I had horrible sleeping habits. Though we have no official evidence, my neurologist and I both think that years of abusing sleep was a large factor in my development of epilepsy. Finally, sleep and fatigue are major triggers for my seizures (if I don’t get a good nights rest then I’m much more likely to have an episode).
According to this NHK medical frontiers show [0][1], Japanese researchers demonstrate that doing daily basic math exercises and reading aloud is good for the brain. So I built a basic math exercise generator app [2].

[0] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/medicalfrontiers/20170...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-5urj2WKY
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brainmath
I took modafanil while working for AWS and I never felt the need to bring it up - what makes you think everyone you interact with is listing all their medication to you?
"life is the place" translated from Google Translate?
It's a simple fact. It doesn't need to be planned or conspirated. The fact that root CAs are at the top, modulo self signed certs exchanged person to person IRL, is certainly no secret. The conspiracy would be that they might use the fact to censor or listen, whoever they are. The conspiracy would be not to tell anyone beforehand, because otherwise it wouldn't be a conspiracy anymore. What kind of exhaustive evidence do you expect for the claim that they are not saying something? And maybe you are right, this is extremely hypothetical, they would never take action to invalidate certs... Hey, wait a second!!!

The real conspiracy would be to know a better system and not tell anyone. Which is like sponsoring scientific discoveries and then hiding those behind a pay wall. Oh wait again.
I don't know of anyone in tech who takes these things, except for myself. I also don't know anyone who microdoses LSD, although I doubt those people would tell anyone. If I wanted LSD, I don't know anyone I could ask. I get my modafinil online.

This could also be a part of the media's unfortunate tendency to conflate "tech founder" with "software engineer", and "San Francisco" with "Silicon Valley" -- I wouldn't be surprised that you'll see more smart drug use among people in the former than the latter.