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> For example, additional restrictions are in place for “large scale” processing of personal information, yet “large scale” is never defined. Is that hundreds, thousands or millions of records?

Hundreds or thousands not, millions definitely yes, somewhere in the middle you get to draw a line which to me is an indication that the closer you get to those millions the more you'll have to work and then those additional restrictions kick in.

There are companies that store billions of profiles (Google, Facebook), and for those the 'large scale' moniker is a no-brainer. If you're a small company that stores a few hundred to a few tens of thousands of records because you are doing direct business with those people then that would most likely still qualify as small. But from 100K and up I'd make sure the house was in order, not just because of the GDPR but because you are becoming a nice, fat & juicy target for miscreants as well.
It sounds like for China's Muslim extremists and terrorists in prison, if it gets worse, they will almost have it as bad as the Muslim extremists and terrorists the US waterboards in Guantanamo Bay or black-op sites have it. Of course they're not nabbed from other countries, are given trials and so forth. If they keep this up, the Chinese will become as bad as the West.
In response to your edit, no. There is no set cost to mine a bitcoin. Energy is expended in trying to solve the problems the generate bitcoins. Once bitcoins run out, this is still true as instead of directly creating new bitcoins, miners will still be rewarded with the transaction fees connected to whatever block they main.

The difficulty of solving a problem to generate coins is dynamically and automatically adjusted such that it takes about 10 minutes. What this means is that if you had a total of 800 nuclear reactors dedicated to exclusively powering ASIC systems to mine Bitcoins it'd take, on average, just as long as it would if your total electricity consumption was the equivalent of one guy running a low power laptop using a hand crank or bike generator.

So all the electricity consumption represents is demand. As demand increases for bitcoin, so does this price. When the price goes up this means you can afford to pay more for electricity and still show a profit. When demand goes down for bitcoin you need to pay less and less for electricity to maintain profitability.

What will happen when no new coins are being generated is that the reward for each block mined will decrease. This will mean you receive less money for mining a block and thus can not afford to pay as much for energy and remain profitable. The net effect being that we'll see a decline in energy usage as miners running on thinner margins are pushed out of profitability.

The dynamic balancing is actually quite a clever design.
Millions of Computers Are at Risk of Hacks That Crack into Their Core
However they're pretty much all terrible, security wise. And how do you tell who knows the passcode at any point in time?
Build, version control and package management: three problems perennially in search of a definitive solution.

For those who are sure we already have a definitive solution to one or more of these, the problem is in persuading everyone else, especially those who think something else is it.
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No, it's not because people consider it imaginary or non-productive: it's because they consider it insufficiently productive for what it costs the globe and that the rewards are obviously localized while the costs are global.
If not, they activate Surge.
GNU and the FSF operate on the level of language, and rightly so, since terms like "freedom" are nebulous and have been thought about and debated by philosophers since Augustine (or maybe before with examples by sophists) all the way through analytic philosophy today. There is an indicator of the GNU endgame on that forst link about not free distros, specifically

OpenBSD and perhaps other BSD distributions (called “projects” by BSD developers)

We can see here that they enforce their language as the norm first ("distributions") before offhandedly and perhaps disrespectfully acknowledging the language of the BSD crowd ("projects"). This is what GNU and/or the FSF do. Hence the definitions of freedom and the following declarations of what is and os not free.

GNU is a philosophy, and for my money, as long as they arent aggressive in their tactics (i.e. they play in their own space, letting others do their thing) then I can't make any value judgements on their actions, nor would i care to.

Disclaimer, I use OpenBSD, because it works, is secure, and is based on ideas of mandoc, vi, and not fixing what isnt broken in Unix, rather than info, emacs, and reprogrammong everything under the sun.
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A big advantage of HomeKit is that it works locally and mandates security in the ecosystem.
Not sure why this is relevant unless you think 100% of bitcoin mining takes place in the US.
Working more is important than living well?
The goal is to grant the EU large new powers over the private sector and in particular over American tech firms, who will repeatedly be fined and treated as, effectively, a new source of tax income

I'm guessing the rest of the world will just pull their operations out of the EU and then ignore the law. It obviously has no jurisdiction outside of the EU...despite what EUrocrats and some propaganda here on HN would have you believe.

The rest of the world could also impose sanctions on the EU for illegally claiming global jurisdiction.
Just tried it on waterfox. Indeed it works. Tried again on Firefox 60, doesn't work. FF 61, works. Just bizarre.

Oh well, I'll wait for FF 61 to become the current FF version.
But then how is Google going to collect and monetize your data - after you've already purchased its product?
Sure. Think about polling backends in mobile apps for example. Not just talking about twitter and facebook clients: The app that provides my bus tickets downloads the company's logo and a few other assets every few hours. A billion smartphone users, a few apps per phone, an asset or five per day, before you know it the numbers are big.

But I think you weren't interested in an answer like that, right? You wanted to criticise bitcoin, fairly or not.
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> Also, energy is a resource like any other and it's generation and price is subject to supply/demand

Actually most municipalities treat electricity like they treat water, more akin to a public utility. The actual cost isn't necessarily related to supply/demand.

Normally this isn't a big deal as historically the electricity use either was minor (homes) or lead to economic growth (businesses) similarly most businesses would make specific deals if they had heavy use.

Now Bitcoin threw a curve ball by allowing electricity -> money in a system not designed to make the cost of electricity support it.

Yes the fundamental idea of Bitcoin is great but the current external cost to support the "investment market" is quite high.
Is there any legal barrier to just parse the html of twitters normal pages?

If I write an app for myself, I'm pretty sure it's legal.

If I sell my app, I would think it's still legal. It's similar to an ad blocker. It sits on the users computer and formats the page the user wants it formatted.

Am I missing something?
It used to be fun trying to silence a computer. Figuring out which HDDs were single-platter, undervolting processors, finding low-rpm fans, etc. used to be a challenge, and have great rewards for those of us who care. Now, check out silentpcreview.com, hasn’t been updated this calendar year. In some ways I miss the old days, but most modern laptops and even desktops are reasonably quiet, and full silence is easy to achieve.
If bitcoin was not using said electricity (if there was no demand), would the power plants be producing that electricity in the first place? You might say no and hence we burn less fossil fuel. But for renewable sources like hydro, you just produce less when the demand is less. (Based on what I read on wiki [0]).

Should we really say `don't try out new ideas because it's wasting precious electricity`? Maybe we should. But I feel like humans have enough technology under their belt that enough electricity generation isn't a dire situation. So are people worried about fossil fuel? If so maybe we should address that. If not, are we saying we need to quota electricity and decide if new techs shouldn't get a shot (if they are somewhat 'wasteful' and we don't know how useful it is)?

Side not, I wonder how much electricity gaming system uses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity#Flexibility
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The goal is to grant the EU large new powers over the private sector and in particular over American tech firms, who will repeatedly be fined and treated as, effectively, a new source of tax income.

No, it really is intended to provide greater control for citizens over their privacy and data stored by corporations.
perhaps its just my lack of coffee, but I fail to see the scalability issue. Router Redirection can prune quite a few ndp discovery table entries but Learned link-layer addresses are kept in a neighbor discovery table. 2^64 link layer connections are probably not present in a competently designed IPv6 network.

im also confused as to what this paper is talking about in terms of new features.../64 and per host is already a thing in linux. RADVD for example allows you to delegate upstream prefixes to additional interfaces in linux routing. these /64 delegations are handled by the linux host that delegated them and are only known one step above that router as a singly delegated prefix from the "gateway." prefix delegation was designed explicitly for the /64.

if anything home ISP's need a slap on the wrist for their stingy DHCPv6 delegations of what basically amount to a SINGLE ipv6 address or some weird less-than /64. splitting a 56 is a better idea here.
> West is not a geography, it's a state of mind (and a history).

All I can collect from your comment is that what defines West is capitalist economy (which is not a bad thing per se) and a vague self referential form of identity that blends money and religion.

UK voted to leave EU et al, and even though they wont really be leaving in a literal sense of the word, does their having preferred to leave not make them also leave the "state of mind" you mention? Is the UK thus less "Western" now?
In Missouri, Claire McCaskill (Democrate Senator) ran campaign ads during a Republican Primary supporting (in effect) the worst possible republican candidate. This massive spend on campaign advertising by McCaskill during the primary led to this weak Republican winning the nomination, and thus an easy victory for McCaskill during the General Election. A pretty good strategy from McCaskill, but also very underhanded.
Outside of the college recruitment pipeline, I've neither seen nor heard of anyone asking for gpa. Some places want or even require degrees, but nobody cares about gpa at all once you have a year of experience.
The safe approach is to assume they are, unless you are 100% sure that there are a large number of people behind a single IP. The easiest way to deal with this is to nul the last octet, that way you still have plenty of use cases covered with respect to analytics (but not forensics!) and the IP is no longer PII.

If you wish to keep IPs for forensic reasons then you will have to put some kind of reasonable upper limit on how long you will keep them (say 90 days) if no specific reason to keep an IP (say an active investigation) comes up in that time justifying further retention.
Reminds me of a differing but related idea. Society at large is already crazy but nobody notices because it has been so normalized being rational is looked upon as crazy.

The promoter of doctors handwashing wound up instituionalized. And it isn't a in the past problem. I mean look at interviewing etiquette and ideals for one. They distrust people who can't or won't put on a mask convincingly enough as untrustworthy. Not even as "unsuited for a job where it is relevant like sales or acting". That is frankly barking mad to only trust those capable of faking.
Not to diminish this important work at all, just a question for HN: do I have a minority viewpoint in thinking key-based SSH to a bastion host and forwarding traffic via SOCKS (ssh -D) or ProxyCommands serves 99% of the use cases for a sysadmin’s need for a VPN? (Corp networks and L2 privacy needs notwithstanding.)

Edit: If so, why?
This seems off-topic. 64-bit networks for whole companies vs 64-bit networks per host, it makes no difference for the attacks you are thinking about.
Very interesting. One might also say something like "half measures break the whole." The conclusion drawn about the State getting stronger and weakening mobility for coyotes seems like a legitimate concern too.

In the case of Bitcoin, being such a foray into uncharted territory, I'm unsure of how you would be good at the meta game, or figure out how racoons will abuse your radical new idea. Maybe I need to improve my meta game, heh.
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> Now imagine a leaker inside your own brain.

But it isn't like that at all. We don't judge people on their internal thoughts because they are fleeting and can even be random. But we do judge when someone distills those thoughts and starts opening their mouth or acting on them.

There was a well produced video and concept. This took quite some time. This was not a fleeting discussion just an interesting idea. This was distilled.

It isn't so much a leaker in your mind, but someone leaking what you gave a presentation on.
You're invoking a logical fallacy know as whataboutism[0]. The actions of the west cannot justify the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands by the chinese government.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This would be a good time to share internal free speech discussions of “highly non-disturbing concepts”.
> I don't know if the EU has a contactperson to whom you can ask these questions, if they do, you can simply ask them to clarify.

lol of course there isn't an office you can ring to help you with this! If there were we wouldn't be spending quite so much effort working out what it all means.
If your client has a sequential downloading option and it's a healthy torrent with just the movie/show (i.e. not a split RAR file), you can effectively stream the movie/show.
Can you clarify this point? To me it would seem with Rust being able to target WASM/ASM.js that you could indeed target all the same environments JS does.
Isn't the presentation talking about each host acting as a router? So any gateway only needs to know about the prefixes that are the next hop downstream, not every single host.

Maybe I have this wrong, but I think the idea here is talking more on layer 3, whereas you are imagining everything sharing the same layer 2 network?
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also it is possible to load SDK and tune all environment through maven (of course maven and java should be installed)
https://github.com/raydac/mvn-golang-example
>It’s not decentralized at all and there are a handful of people thus could destroy it at any time.

Uh you might want to check that.
Hm, I'm not sure if Reader or Wave had a paid version.
I've been somewhat blessed that my first interaction with government income didn't happen until last year, when the company I was working for shut down unexpectedly (I came in to work on Tuesday morning, joined a conference call where they announced that we were all terminated, effective immediately). Although I didn't expect to be out of work long, this was right before Thanksgiving, so I didn't expect to find anything until January at the earliest, and filed for unemployment - after all, that's what it's there for, right? Of course, the application process was ridiculously complicated and poorly documented, but I got through it and started collecting, I think, something like $500/week (which I still owed income tax on). Well, better than nothing, I guess. There's a seemingly perfectly reasonable requirement, though, that while you're collecting unemployment, you have to make 5 job-search contacts per week. Of course, it's entirely unclear what constitutes a job-search contact or how you're supposed to report them. Or what, exactly, happens if you fall short. Well, I got a job offer not too long afterward, but there was a two-week waiting period while they completed a background check on me. But I was stil collecting unemployment during that two weeks, as I was, after all, still unemployed. So, am I supposed to keep making job-search contacts? Of course, nobody could give me a straight answer (and you'll be on hold for hours trying to get in touch with somebody). So, to be on the safe side, I kept sending out resumes to companies that I had no intention of following through with just to comply with what seemed to be a legal requirement. This sort of well-intentioned, but one-size-fits-all sort of hidden regulation is exactly what concerns me about any government income program... they can't make the rules too clear because if they did, clever people would have an easier time taking advantage.
The "evil government" can't actually gain anything by targeting people completely at random. They'll have some class of political enemies and be very happy if they have a way to identify them.

The problem is that, today, you can't predict what will get you in trouble tomorrow. So even if you intend to live your entire life in complete compliance with whatever the current government wants, you won't be able to live in compliance with what the next set wants in the future. You can't simulate liberty by keeping your head down - eventually you will disagree with the government.

To a lot of people, "disagreeing with the government" means convincing a population that is largely happy with the way things are that something unjust or wrong is happening. That's the pattern of civil rights, environmentalism, and other activist movements that we have had in the West. This is not the whole story: in countries and times with poorer situations, disagreeing with the government can mean a conflict with your own practical (economic) well-being, as a member of no particular minority. In fact it is all of this bean counting about rights an liberty that keeps us away from "disagreeing with the government" in ways that are easier to convince people about the significance of.
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Stick the ENV in a state Monad, and run the process with that ENV as the context?
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Also more generally, once upon a time a GPS (Formally GPS Receiver) was a device the size of say, a multimeter, with a big battery pack, a simple monochrome unlit LCD panel display, and a radio (later, more expensive units had several radios). The device is doing fancy mathematics, and just receiving GPS signals, even the metadata about where to look for GPS satellites in the sky is available, very slowly, over GPS. It has no other source of data.

So you'd buy one or turn it on after uncrating it in a foreign country, and it'd literally spend ten or fifteen minutes calibrating, figuring out what the time is, what satellites are on what frequencies and which are above the horizon before it could at last discern your position. This was amazing if you genuinely didn't know where you were e.g. "Hmm, a desert". But you'd never have used one to go shopping - it took far too long.

Today your phone has a GPS with lots of radios (so it can listen to every satellite at the same time) it always knows the rough time,and it uses the Internet to get public shared data rather than wait to receive it slowly from GPS.
My understanding from other posters, though, is that the devices did NOT require internet access to control them, e.g. you could walk over to the Nest thermostat to change the temp, or key in a Nest lock code to unlock it. So, for a few hours, seems like the devices just turned into "dumb" devices instead of "smart" ones. Doesn't seem as drastic a loss of functionality as is being presented here.
The US claims global jurisdiction over e.g. Megaupload without sanctions.
Yup they really need to be feeding their population the Kardashians, WWE, Alex Jones, super hero movies and space operas the whole day.
How is this news? Everyone is scrambling to be GDPR-compliant before the due date. Probably the people behind this site also.
I think you actually can sue for whatever reason you like but court can say it does not make sense and they will not run the case. It is your responsibility to get enough evidence but it is hard and no one cares enough.

If your data was used without your knowledge you might have had some damage and you could request compensation, removal or other way of fixing damage - with court help of course. GDPR violations can be used as base for court case. So GDPR does not really bring anything new because I believe you already could sue companies for selling your data, but in practice it is not possible to get evidence, prove damage, put price on damage, and it takes too long.

What changes is that if you don't have all data usages listed for user to view it is enough for some action so offended users can suspect something. If watchdog goes and checks you might be in problem with fines and then with court cases from offended users.
Again, what advantage does analog have?

People seem to assume that analog intrinsically consumes less power, which due to bias and leakage currents isn't true in the general case.
But you can optimize those things. Google's current logo is now 305 bytes. Also there's caching. The internet is not built on proof of work.
>There's no technical limitation on how many bitcoin can be produced either, only the network consensus that a limited number will be produced.

Yeah but then you need to start saying things like:

Well Walmart MIGHT start building tanks. Its unlikely to happen, but it isnt fundamental, its part of business.
I think it's the "most reliable" way to get them to work. When you have a centralized server, both devices know exactly how to connect to the centralized server and communicate through it.

Local connectivity seems to present all sort of silly issues that make the user experience a bit inconsistent. Heck, look at Chromecast, it works great about 90-95% of the time. That 5-10% of the time it doesn't work, it becomes a complete pain.
Assigned seating is gaining traction pretty quickly here. The theaters with good reputations all assign seats.
Nest hasn't been that impressive to me, but they're better than a lot of other home automation/security providers, including the one who completely mishandled a security disclosure I made a couple of months ago. The issue was remedied, but it was very unprofessional, and I didn't bother doing digging deep. I am certain there are many other simple security issues with that platform, just waiting for someone to decide that they want to play a game with $IMPORTANT_PERSON_X's home locks.

It's definitely wise to think twice before making your home's basic functionality, like allowing the owner to unlock doors, depend on systems that require an internet connection.
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One of the benefits of /64 per host is there is no NDP since the only neighbor is your router.
I rent an apartment on Airbnb, and handing out keys to every single guest is way worse from a security standpoint.

I prefer to create users, authorize, delete them than rekeying the lock every once in a while.
Force them? It's a license. People use them to grant rights not give themselves obligations.
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Just wait until you are at Taco Bell, and you can't wipe the Cool Ranch Doritos Taco shell dust off your fingers because the Dixie servers are down. Yes, this is real.

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For example few major anti virus companies are founded in europe, eg. avast, avg, avira, f-secure ...