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Thanks for the example, I actually like this FOR macro. It was mostly the things like 'typedef long long ll;' or 'typedef pair<int,int> pi;' that bothered me.

And I don't mean to say the whole thing is bunk. I found some really good info farther into the book, especially about algorithms, which I think will help towards interviewing candidates.
Thank you for the response.

> I thought it was clear that I was expressing my own opinion

I didn't get that sorry. When you said "I don't think [it] would be considered a good poem", it sounded like you were using a passive modal verb to suggest universality.

If it was intended as personal, I withdraw the rest of my comment.

> Also, windows and transparent walls as artistic device in a 21st century poem?

Since you've offered me the opportunity of being gloriously pedantic :) I can't resist saying that it was written in 1980. (Of course, that makes no difference to your opinion, I understand.)

When were transparent walls a suitable artistic device?
Are there no exemptions in GDPR for small-time operations like StreetLend? Was it a problem because of its affiliation with Amazon?
I'm not going to use my real account. I do use Modafinil occasionally as a perk me up and it is easy to acquire. I use about 50mg. I do use it to complement my life and I find that it does make me a better person.

My days are hectic between full-time work, sideline hustle, having a child, housework, exercise and spending time with my partner. I do it to help me stay focused and bang out the necessary tasks that I need to keep my life in order. I try to get 7-8 hours of sleep and I do maintain a healthy diet. The only side effect that I have noticed is that if I use it too often I do feel my immune system get weaker.

Overall, I've had a positive experience with using Modafinil as a supplement.
The key development was growing up with an always connected smartphone. There was a period between the early 90s and the mid 00s where kids grew up with a concept of the internet, but not everyone had it, it was hard to get access to so you treated your time in it preciously, and because of this you had several other methods of communicating with friends (like actually calling their landline and actually asking their parents if they are free to talk on the phone.)

Kids who grew up in the 80s were too early to have had the internet at all. But kids who grew up in the 00s, notably after the iPhone came out in 06, grew up very differently. The internet wasn't a precious resource, but an always available utility ready to be consumed at will.

This generation is growing up in a never ending onslaught of advertisements and peer pressure the likes of which we didn't experience. They are all guinea pigs for the Facebooks of the world, subjects of the A/B psychographic targeting grind. Their dopamine receptors have been primed since birth to go crazy at the sight of a like.

Anyway, that's my take on it as someone who grew up in this tiny golden era of the internet.
My question is, if the choice is between shutting down or just completely firewalling out all citizens of the EU, why not limp along without the EU market instead of dying out completely?

If a site makes it very clear EU citizens are not welcome on the service and will be banned on site, can they really be held liable for any EU citizens who get in anyway through proxies?

Our company has stated it has no plans to comply with GDPR and if faced with litigation it will simply be ignored unless the United States government gets involved. Complying is simply something we can’t afford to do right now, especially for a market that makes us a lot less revenue.
Upon cursory inspection, the single fact that user don't seem to be able to delete their account data from here would make it not compliant. Similarly the inability to delete posts after a certain time may also conflict with the data removal stipulation of GDPR.

But as a corollary to that, GDPR laws seem to only apply where there is data that can personally identify a user. The usage of nicknames and throwaway accounts on here may mean that GDPR requirements may be able to be ignored as long as there is no piece of data that can be linked back to an identifiable user (such as an email address in their profile etc.)

Note: IANAL - So please take this as my opinion, and not a legal finding.
Firefox on Android with uBlock Origin is amazing. Best mobile browsing experience on any platform for me.
A year in a hostel is impressive! In NZ it blew my mind how many people lived very happy lives yet almost never mentioned money, career trajectories, and to a large extent–the internet. I found this really refreshing as I had never been exposed to that kind of thinking before, the polar opposite of startup culture in the US. I specifically remember staying with a group of fruit pickers that were some of the happiest people I have ever met, even though none of them had more than a thousand dollars in the bank.
I’m a serial startup junkie and I am usually one of the first 20 employees.

About half of the startups I have worked at the founders were abusing Adderall. One company even offered it to developers. It provides an edge but the fallout is usually terrible. I won’t tolerate it anymore. It’s just too crazy.
Deep fakes to get genuine look positive reviews from previous dates. All you need is a few seconds of video and audio of their face.
Would be legit if the job required tasks like implementing red-black trees or sorts.

As is, it's more like advertising for python, then surprise java.
It seems better to ban EU citizens from your service than to shut down entirely.
Should have incorporated to insulate himself then.
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> One of the goals of this law and similar efforts is to make it clear that you need to consider the social, ethical, and legal ramifications of the things you create.

One often wonders whether lawmakers heed their own advice here with what they create.
I would actually love to use the non-satire version of this service.
One important thing to not about some of these points is that they don't have to be made easy for users. For example, in relation to "Abilty it export data", there doesn't necessarily need to be a feature on the website for it to be compliant. They simply need to do it if you ask. So if that means having someone manually run a query to get a data dump every time someone asks, it's still considered compliant.

Of course that doesn't actually scale. That's why most all the big players are providing export features.
This can only be good for TMobile clients like myself. Hopefully now they become a real opponent to Veshitzon and ATT.
Why would it need to be compliant? Ycombinator is not a European company.
I was not precise enough.

The problem stays: the licensing terms were not clear at the time, so while the source was available for looking ("open source"), it was not free enough (required licensing). Such was the understanding of both sides, because they talked about obtaining a license.

I should have said "before Java the platform had a permissive enough license".
Not the intended audience but now, technical interviews now have a lot of competitive programming in them so this book can help you.
Sometimes when moving fast it is tough to see clearly. People say 'vacation', but it is two weeks where you are forced to face the reality of the situation instead of distracting yourself with 'work' and getting no sleep.
Nah it's because most of us are cheap as fuck and book flights by whichever is cheapest. So it's a race to the bottom for pricing which means cost minimisation ie. Shit support and service.
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Yes, regulation changes. Companies that infringe consumer privacy cannot continue business as usual and will be hurt. It's a good thing.

McDonald's has it easier to comply with food safety regulations than the cozy mom and pop cafe down the street. Would you be willing to shit your guts out because the ambiance is better there?
Right. Driving while drunk slows your reaction time. Falling asleep negates it. So sleep-related accidents are actually more dangerous.
Because it has people from Europe accessing the site.
See slide 5 of this presentation:
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> If your revenue is less than €20m their fine is flat €20m,

As I posted elsewhere, this is NOT true.

>The $20 million fine is not automatically applied. Here's a flow chart which details the process of a GDPR breach: https://40uu5c99f3a2ja7s7miveqgqu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp...

>from https://www.i-scoop.eu/gdpr/gdpr-fines-guidelines-applicatio...
This is a FAQ https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gdpr%20hn&sort=byPopularity&pr...
Unfortunately GPDR effects any site/company that has EU visitors which is nearly all sites.
China policy is pro small business and EU is anti small business.

I am pro small business, and I am against censorship.

I see however historically opposite trends over the last 20 years: China is getting more free speech and is getting more pro small business, and Europe is the opposite. And it's not a coincidence. I think eventually the censorship curves of China and EU will cross. Small business friendliness curves crossed perhaps 15 years ago.
Without being presumptuous, do you know about Sugar Surfing?

Learning this management technique has made a massive difference in the cognitive load of the disease. The toil is still there, but the burden is reduced.
But if they hold and manage data for users who reside in the EU (which they do), then I believe the rules apply too.

From what I can gather, if a user in the EU approaches HN and asks for their profile data and posts to be removed, then that falls under the GDPR laws.
Agreed. I wouldn't expect anyone would be able to spot Neptune. The comment was basically about proving to yourself that you're not seeing more than ~5k stars.
> If your revenue is less than €20m their fine is flat €20m

Rubbish, this is just spreading FUD.

From the UK ICO: "It’s true we’ll have the power to impose fines much bigger than the £500,000 limit the DPA allows us. It’s also true that companies are fearful of the maximum £17 million or 4% of turnover allowed under the new law.

But it’s scaremongering to suggest that we’ll be making early examples of organisations for minor infringements or that maximum fines will become the norm."

Look at the track record of the UK ICO - how many small businesses and side gigs have been fined £500k? How many businesses of any type have been fined the current maximum of £500k?

So where does this ludicrous assumption that everyone is always going to be hit with the maximum fine from here on in come from?
I'm a bit rusty on my physics, but the general idea is that with both methods the total impulse (force over a time interval) is the same. The capsule goes from 16mph to 0mph.

But, if you let the ground stop you, you end up with all of the energy transfer in a few milliseconds. Because the time is so short, the force spikes to crazy high levels. This breaks equipment and people. The rockets firing spread out that force over a longer period of time.

For example (all numbers made up):

Time the ground takes to stop you: 25ms

Time rockets fire before touchdown: 100ms

Landing capsule weight: 2000kg

Impulse needed to stop capsule: 7.15264m/s * 2000kg = 14300Ns

Assuming in both cases the force is evenly applied over the time period...

Force from the ground stopping you: 14300Ns / 25ms = 572,000N

Force from the rockets + the ground: 14300Ns / (100ms + 25ms) = 115,000N
I would like an enterprise version of this. Say I want to rewrite my entire career, the service could build up an entire resume and educational background that turns me into a perfect candidate for a company I’m applying to, or makes me look like a big shot that everyone wants to network with or invest in my companies. And if people want references there could be live operators waiting to take calls and give a glowing review. Yes!
Fortunately GPDR effects any site/company that has EU visitors which is nearly all sites.
Well, we are at the center of the observable universe.
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It's not over stepping. Don't like the laws? Don't do business there. States in the US have different laws that affect operating businesses in them, too.
Sue you for what? Gdpr grants no new right to sue. The only thing that's changed is that if someone emails you saying "delete the stuff on me please" you have to do so unless you have a good excuse. And if you refuse, it goes to arbitration and if you refuse unlawfully, you get a fine.

All you have to do to be Gdpr compliant is delete user data when asked. There is no "trap card" provision.
Can this chip only use the harmonic series as the tuning, or is it only specific to this rom's interface?
Set a goal of 100% growth per month, achieve it and you'll be profitable in about 3 months. My point is, maybe make a spreadsheet that has various growth rates and see how many months it takes at whatever growth percentage, and see if you can stand that.

I think taking $100/$200K from VC when you're making $700/month is going to cost you a TON of equity.
It will be interesting to see if hacker news shuts down or starts blocking/banning EU. They certainly aren't compliant today.
Yes, it does require you to protect the data:

> (83) In order to maintain security and to prevent processing in infringement of this Regulation, the controller or processor should evaluate the risks inherent in the processing and implement measures to mitigate those risks, such as encryption. Those measures should ensure an appropriate level of security, including confidentiality, taking into account the state of the art and the costs of implementation in relation to the risks and the nature of the personal data to be protected. In assessing data security risk, consideration should be given to the risks that are presented by personal data processing, such as accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed which may in particular lead to physical, material or non-material damage.

also:

> Section 2, art. 32, Security of processing:

> Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, the controller and the processor shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk, including inter alia as appropriate: [..]
What happens if a non-european comoany doesnt comply?
I get and somewhat agree with your point, but on the flipside, excluding certain types of data means that companies will focus on abusing them to skirt regulations. I can see why they just went all-in on the types of data that are considered PII, because in different contexts, different data are possibly PII.

It's not a perfect solution, but I'm not sure there is one.
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If that it truly the case, then I suspect we will see more and more sites refuse service to Europeans.

Are Europeans permitted to decline to be covered under the GDPR? (In exchange for being permitted to use such sites?)
Presumably that was in the US. In the UK, which is where StreetLend.com seems to be located, costs are generally awarded to the prevailing party in the judgement.
I have a little birth control pill reminder iOS app I made like 7 years ago that I still maintain in the app store. I don't make really any money off of it but I keep up with it because it has a good amount of users. I don't THINK any of the GDPR stuff falls under anything the app does, but I sure as hell aren't taking any chances. I just removed it from any country that fell under "Europe" in the app store. I guess my point is I agree with what you're saying, and here's an example of a little hobby app that GDPR killed for EU countries. It's not worth my time, money, or risk to bother with it.
No, laws don't work that way. American first amendment rights, for instance, don't extend to websites based in Europe.

You don't get to bring your laws and rights with you when you visit a website that's hosted and run in a foreign country.

edit: clarified European based websites
Not bad? He is obese and incoherent.

His reported go-to order from McDonalds (and he loves to eat fast food) is "two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fishes, and a large chocolate shake." Do you want to go ahead and calculate the calories on that meal or shall I?

Even if he were in good health, it would be in spite of his lifestyle, not because of it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-mcdonalds-order-review...
It sounds like a more fundamental question is, "Who authorized this Max Weber dude to dictate who may legitimately use force?"

He has an opinion, I have an opinion, you have an opinion, Charles Koch has an opinion... everybody has an opinion.

At some point, the answer to questions like this always comes down to "God," or "Nobody," or "Whoever has the most money/biggest weapons." It's an unsatisfying debate.
So you're saying we should bitch even louder when people say 'space' without saying 'suborbital'?
Oh GDPR, what have you done
Is there any reason why HN would be bound by EU laws, if it's not a European organization? What other countries laws should it be bound by, other than the ones it operates in?
Hah, what a coincidence as well. This is the best joke on HN I've seen all day.
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I regularly switch between Firefox + ublock and Firefox Focus. Both are great in my opinion, just for different purposes.
It doesn't sound like such a great alternative to me. The derived class should have maximum flexibility. If I have to struggle with some OOP system where the chain of control is backwards and my derivation gets the control last, I'm just gonna throw my hands up and write my own thing from scratch and not use the inflexible stuff. This end-result is counterproductive, resulting in more work and code duplication.

Or else I will wrap their objects with mine such that mine have new, unrelated methods that do not automatically yield control to those underlying object. My methods will call theirs at any point in the processing that I wish.

Basically, I will get the last word no matter what, so either work with me by giving me a normal OOP system, or I will build detours around you anyway.
American businesses should add a clause that all authorized access is predicated on a user knowingly acknowledging that they are not a resident of the EU. If GDPR becomes an issue they could abuse the CFAA to get the persons of interest extradited to the USA for prosecution of unauthorized access. It would be funny too because the data the lawyers would collect to proceed with a case would be from unauthorized access too and they could be extradited and prosecuted too and they would probably lose their jobs oh what fun lawyers bring upon themselves and those that endure their wrath.

Just floating a crazy alcohol induced idea here don't take it too seriously.
How would one manage to sidestep GDPR responsibilities? If it made sense, could you opt to block EU based IP addresses? You'd also have to ensure that any past data you have is cleansed of EU based users which could be tricky.
Even if HN isn't compliant, I doubt any European country has jurisdiction over Y Combinator Management LLC, because they don't do business with any European residents.
They would be if they read it. Every complaint I've seen about how the law is obviously going to be misapplied is called out specifically in the text in a way that makes it a non-issue.
Does the fact that HN is not using this data to generate revenue impact their need to comply? Being charged 4% (or whatever) if HN’s revenue as a penalty would seem to be $0.
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Short answer: No, but it doesn’t matter.

If you are a Non-EU business, that is a business with no legal presence or employees in the EU then you can comfortably skip GDPR compliance with minimal risk (some unknown obscure treaty provision?)

#notalawyer
This also bothers me a lot. I've always wondered how the EU intends to enforce its laws upon my little side projects here in the US.
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The EU government would certainly like that to be the case, but it's not clear why it would be. If the US passed a law that required citizens of other countries to pay a $20/year tax (say, a GPS license fee), would that be enforceable?
The law is not even in effect yet. The persecution you're talking about is imaginary. Those of us having trouble being so imaginative probably tend to prefer waiting for evidence.
from* the USA?
Wow. I graduated from Arlee HS in 1997, took Salish for my language credit, and used to report on the basketball team for the school newspaper.

Very inspiring story. I hope their message gets through to the young people in the Flathead valley.
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I was wondering the same. I wonder where this falls if the EU resident is using a VPN. It'd likely still be on the site owner to prove that were the case.
>I assumed that we were about platform API abuse. In such case, each developer had to agree with TOS before he is allowed to use the API. So in this case, developer explicitly agreed to terms that subsequently broke. So I think it can be called "abuse". It's not random HTTP request.

Even assuming that, developers who check in their credentials to public repos, third parties that use such never agreed to the terms. You can do this do today, without agreeing to facebooks terms (i.e. go to github, get access tokens, connect to "open graph", no accepting terms or creating accounts needed).

>Do they have also some analysis that say why TOS should be purported legal contract and not valid legal contract?… For random HTTP requests, that is much less clear…

It's not really about random HTTP requests or not, it's that any of this will have to be argued in courts. From the examples you have listed, in the US, this is not really in Facebook's favor (unless they can scare people to stop doing such before getting to the courts).

>So you are arguing that Facebook should be walled garden, with minimal possibilities for users to share their data with developers (not that I disagree)…but that the users are not understanding implications of what they are allowing

Personally, I don't think facebook should be this at all, and although they may have sold developers on their platform, this has been less of the case over all as time goes on (bait and switch). They say they want to connect the world, but what they really mean is that they want to connect the world on their terms (and they have every right too, but they can't necessarily stop others from doing something).

I don't think it is facebook's responsibility to give its users any illusions of privacy since any "friend" they have on the platform or any third party app they connect with is just another attack surface agaisnt such: by design. I think every user of any platform needs to take to protections in their own hands, if they care about such, first and foremost. Expecting governments/corporations/organizations to coddle them and provide everything that they desire without doing anything for oneself, is just naive to how humans have operated throughout history. It's been over a decade since facebook has been around, people can keep saying that people just dont understand, but I will think people will keep saying such even after another decade (or more) if facebook is still around.
That has always been my favorite translation, by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, and the book is beautifully illustrated. https://www.amazon.com/Ching-25th-Anniversary-English-Mandar...
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