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A few things are important...

1. That checkbox could not have been checked by default. If it was, the consent wasn't valid, and they can't contact you.

2. Consent can't be grouped together. If there was a single checkbox for subscribing to special offers, and news about site updates, that is not valid. There needed to be separate checkboxes for each of those items.

3. They need to be able to prove you gave consent. For example, by knowing when you gave consent, where you gave consent, and how it was presented to you. In the past they might have just updated a "subscribed" flag on your account from 0 to 1 when you checked the box on the registration page, or when you went to your account settings and signed up for the newsletter. That's not valid because they can't prove where you gave consent. Did a user click a link in an email 4 years ago to subscribe to the newsletter? If so, can they demonstrate what that email said, along with the actions taken, to prove that valid consent was received?

This is some of the reasons why companies are asking for consent again. They might have done their best to properly receive consent in the past, but now the email list they spent years building is invalid.
It's not really a "command", though. Unlike, say, Ctrl+C, which becomes a SIGINT signal that the program receives and gets to decide how to handle, Ctrl+D never reaches the program as a separate recognizable thing that you can write a handler for.

Instead, Ctrl+D is the way to ask the TTY driver to pass the program an EOF instead of input in response to its next read(2) call to its stdin. It's the same signal that the program would receive if you had been piping input into the program from a file, and that file reached the end. Thus, any CLI program built to handle being piped into, will "automatically" support Ctrl+D as a way to quit out of it.
What makes you think it was built to be sold to Amazon?
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Welcome to the real world. If your little hobby project leaks the personal information of a real person, then they don't care how much of an unimportant side project it was to you.

For purely personal use "hey guys, this is just a hobby use at your own risk" you won't get hit with gdpr

Imagine if you were building cars for a hobby then selling them. Would you complain about all of those onerous regulations like seatbelts, crunch zones etc when all zou really want to do is tinker with some cool engine tech?
I realize that Azure isn't as popular in the US startup crowd (and certainly not on HN), but you really cannot mention EKS without also mentioning AKS which is much more mature IMHO. And ACI (Azure Container Instances) is a serverless container offering that was launched before Fargate.

Beyond the Azure offering, Microsoft has also shown tremendous commitment to the Kubernetes ecosystem at large. Take a look at the many Kubernetes open source tools created by Microsoft that work with Kubernetes anywhere (!!!):

[1] Helm (initially created by Deis, acquired by Microsoft)
[2] Virtual Kubelet
[3] Draft
[4] Brigade
[5] VSCode: Kubernetes Tools

And more...

[1]: helm.sh
[2]: https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet
[3]: https://github.com/azure/draft
[4]: https://github.com/azure/brigade
[5]: https://github.com/Azure/vscode-kubernetes-tools

Disclaimer: I'm a developer advocate for Kubernetes / Linux at Azure (but a member of the community first and foremost). I've never run a Windows Container, and I don't have a single Windows VM in Azure ;)

I encourage you to take a close look at the Azure offering. It's actually very awesome!
At least 3 large companies I know my friends developers work at, over the last 5 years switched from Rails to PHP. All told me same story "after twitter, noone wants to work or touch rails anymore"
Agreed. I'm well beyond being a teenager, but I still hear these things. Some stores put them near their entrances and it's never a pleasant surprise.
Japanese privatization is an interesting phenomenon, where crony capitalism gives the corporations immense power, but simultaneously a huge responsibility act like societal patriarchs. At least on the outside, a big corporation can't be seen as evil, and if they ever get caught betraying that trust, CEO suicides are not unheard of.

On the bright side, it means the train lines get built and the fares are kept reasonable, despite monopoly power. On the negative side, people tend to trust these companies way more than is healthy, and if you try to do something that you're legally entitled to, but that a company doesn't like, you generally won't get much sympathy when it doesn't work out.
In this environment he would have had a difficult time not attracting capital working on the next big category.
Lets travel in time with git
Please, let's not start another immigration debate here.
Well, the courts believed so.
>a maps program that learns my routine and integrates with a weather app

That sounds awesome until the company providing that service starts abusing their knowledge of their location. That abuse doesn't even have to necessarily be malicious in nature either. For example, Google Maps on Android started asking me to rate, review, and/or take photos of my present location if they deemed it a point of interest (certain restaurants, parks, etc). I never opted in to this feature and the only way to disable it that I've figured out is to literally disable all location services on the phone.

I really dislike the idea of Google storing a timestamped record of almost every place I've ever visited. Tt has to beconstantly phoning home in order to deliver the request to document my visit within a minute or two of my arrival and that constant reminder that Big Brother Google is tracking me at every moment is just disturbing on so many levels. Even if they aren't using that data right now, remember the "data is never destroyed" principle of the internet.

On a side note, I would have ditched Android if I didn't need it for work simply because use of the GPS radio is hidden behind the acceptance of enabling Google's Location system and all the invasions of privacy that entails.
I dn't knw what yu're talking abut. I have a MacBk Pr and the keybard wrks just fine.
This also works in Mysql.
The one my team knows and / or likes best. When you hit really big scale, architecture is more of a differentiator than language, but you can always move inefficiencies into their own services written in a more performant technology. The thing you need most when starting is the ability to produce, test, and iterate quickly.
I think he meant given that the features are not the same, it's hard to compare the physical aspects (and more technically, product specifications) "fairly".
>If a set of transactions must maintain some kind of invariant within the database (for instance, the sum of some set of fields is always greater than zero). In a database that guarantees serializability, it’s sufficient to verify that every individual transaction maintains this invariant on its own. With anything less than serializability, including Snapshot, one must consider the interactions between every transaction to ensure said invariants are upheld.

this is a difference between practice and theory. The invariant mentioned above is of theoretical interest. On practice such invariant would look like "sum of some fields is always equal to the value in that field of that row". (left as an exercise to the reader to see that that former theoretical invariant, and actually any other, can, without loss of generality, always be implemented as the practical invariant with the target field :) As basic Read Committed still means serialization of write access to that "sum" target field, it is enough to verify only that each transaction writing to any of those fields is also writing to that "sum" field and that it does uphold the invariant. There is no need to pay the huge performance price of serializing those transactions with all the rest of transactions in the system. This is why Read Committed is veriafiably enough for correct execution of so many applications (i.e. for any application whose invariants are implemented in that "practical" form). It is basically like multi-thread programming with correctly implemented synchronization of access to shared data.
I would use Rails, but I wouldn't do things like try to write an asynchronous message queue in Ruby (like Twitter did).

I mean sites like Shopify, Hulu, YellowPages.com, etc. "handle the strain" just fine.
Huh, that's interesting. So when it says "USD Volume 700mm" does that mean 700MM was actually exchanged from BTC to USD or vice versa? Does a pair of trades USD-BTC-USD count double?
If you want to read more about activity feeds there are a ton of papers listed here: https://github.com/tschellenbach/stream-framework
I've been working on this stuff for years. Recently I've also enjoyed reading Linkedin's posts about their feed tech. Three are a few different posts but here's one of them: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/03/followfeed--li...

Scaling a social network is just inherently a very hard problem. Especially if you have a large userbase with a few very popular users. Stackshare recently did a nice blogpost about how we at Stream solve this for 300 million users with Go, RocksDB and Raft: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...

I think the most important part is using a combination of push and pull. So you keep the most popular users in memory and for the other users you use the traditional fanout on-write approach. The other thing that helped us scale was using Go+RocksDB. The throughput is just so much higher compared to traditional databases like Cassandra.

It's also interesting to note how other companies solved it. Instagram used a fanout on write approach with Redis, later on Cassandra and eventually a flavor of Cassandra based on RocksDB. They managed to use a full fanout approach using a combination of great optimization, a relatively lower posting volume (compared to Twitter at least) and a ton of VC money.

Friendster and Hyves are two stories of companies that didn't really manage to solve this and went out of business. (there were probably other factors as well, but still.) I also heard one investor mention how Tumblr struggled with technical debt related to their feed. A more recent example is Vero that basically collapsed under scaling issues.
Well, it is good enough, it just that it develops that confidence over the period of so many seconds. In this case it took until T minus 1.6 seconds to realize "ok this is something we should stop for".
A friend and I found ourselves stranded in rural Japan when the train system shut down for days due to high winds. Seems to me lots of foreigners tend to visit big cities and tourist centers only then walk away wowed, frankly the infrastructure is more heterogeneous than this set realise.
At the movie theater before films. And those commercials—even as an avowed peacenik—always made us chuckle as both my wife and I remembered the over-the-top US military recruitment ads. By comparison the NZ navy’s ads felt downright quaint.

We lived in Devonport for some time, and so were pretty accustomed to seeing at least one or two naval ships whenever we took the ferry into downtown Auckland, which was all the time because jobs, friends, and stuff to do were all in town.
> In fact that attitude goes exactly against what the law is trying to achieve in the first place.

I think this is an important realization for any regulator.
Exactly, no clear differentiator. There's a number of online interviews where even the founders couldn't clearly articulate what was novel.
Although I agree with the point you're trying to make, I'm not sure this is the best example.

If Microsoft/Nokia just sold (near) stock Android phones, I would have bought them in a heartbeat.
It's a worse PR nightmare if discovered, so a bigger risk.

“Networked device with microphone records and uploads your voice” might create reactions such as: yeah, what did you expect, how else would it work?

“Networked device with microphone records and uploads your voice even when explicitly told not to” is a lot worse. Company X is lying to us!
Just buy a dumb phone. It does exactly what you described.
> reflection from a rural roadside mailbox's prism looks similar to the eyes of a deer

Deer hits a major cause of fatality out in the country. If your driving at night in deer country and you aren't eyes wide open then you are going to have an unhappy experience at some point. Their instincts are essentially the exact opposite of what they should do when encountering a car. They will stay in the middle of the road, and they will jump in front of you if startled.
> Harm? Physically? I did not do so.

Financial harm (encouraging his customers to leave his business). Extortion doesn't require physical harm. For example, blackmail is a type of extortion that threatens the release of information that would be harmful to the victim if the perpetrator isn't paid.
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I agree, we should also get rid of copyright and property laws in the name of not "stifling innovation". It is absolutely ridiculous that I can't just walk into a peoples homes and install my 'adtreckr' eye tracking cameras on their TVs, even though that has the potential to revolutionise the amount of engagement and make sure that they only receive the most engaging, most relevant ads for their tastes./s

Less satirically, you are free to innovate by coming up with new tech, then selling to people who care enough to deal with regulations. The 'stifling innovation' copout is so utterly overused by people who want to ignore negative externalities like pollution or the surveillance state we are building up. I am starting to think of it as a type of rent seeking: "I am currently in the privileged situation of having the technology and network effect necessary to exploit this unguarded treasure of X without dealing with the fallout. Please don't pass any regulation requiring me to actually pay my dues"
I don't think it was just me who thought this was a really bad idea from the start. Iphone launched at a time when there were no decent phones with capabilities it added. In presence of polished iphone 7s and other android phones what does this device really add?
http://pbw.spaceempires.net/ has a few games open, and I've used them to manage a play by web game about two years ago and it seemed small but there were active games. I see recent posts, but perhaps active is no longer the right term. :( Its a pretty old game after all.
While I love my PH-1 and want the concept to continue, I can't help but feel that this would be a disaster. Amazon would almost surely ruin the stock Android experience by forcing its ugly bloatware on you to ensure that you consume Amazon content and services.
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I wrote a Greasemonkey script that creates page previews for Wikipedia, so I could cover more ground understanding terms and articles. This was about a year before Wikipedia's official page preview feature was made live.
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/robbins-arroyo-llp-symantec-c... is the best I could find in a couple of minutes.

It seems to say that a former employee said something that raised questions about the validity of their financial results. Symantec's audit committee is looking into it, and may not be able to file their financial reports when they're supposed to (because they get in worse trouble for statements that they have reason to know are inaccurate than they do for being late).

When this got announced, their stock price crashed 30%. So now some stockholders are suing, because they think the execs should have prevented all this, because the execs' incentives are supposed to be aligned with the shareholders. (The execs' probably should have prevented this. But the rationale for the suit, to me, sounds like "we lost money, so we want to sue, so let's make up a reason". But IANAL...)
I don’t get it; the mainland is clearly just above Te Ika a Maui in that map.
I did this at my last India visit a long time ago. It was frightening and exhilarating at the same time :-).
Are you asking a legal question or ethical one (if legal, in what jurisdiction?). I think either way, derivative works for purposes of satire or commentary are protected (i.e. not copyright violations) even if for commercial purposes.
>This sentiment and the hilariously large fines (regardless of company size, even) on relatively-ill-defined requirements make the whole GDPR process feel like it was designed to bully businesses into compliance.

>Some pieces of GDPR are definitely for the benefit of the end-user (at the expense of companies, who happen to be providing those users other benefits). It all feels really heavy-handed, though.

The GDPR isn't vastly different to the old Data Protection Directive, which has been in force since 1997. The panic over GDPR suggests that a lot of companies had simply been ignoring the DPD. If a bit of bullying is required to get businesses to obey the law, then so be it.
Are you suggesting that the US government suspend income tax while they hire enough people in the IRS to go through every individual's tax return?
Not surprising. If people can play their PC games via Steam, they’ll be less likely to purchase games and in-app purchases on iOS.

That said, Steam’s argument is technically true (I think) - their app is basically a remote desktop client. I wonder how Apple could defend that legally without shooting itself in the foot? Although, they’ll probably come to some closed-door financial arrangement before it comes to that.
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> The Japan Rail Pass, while not having any functional use, did make things cheaper

Just a quick comment for anyone planning to come to Japan. If you are going to stay in Tokyo, then the Japan Rail Pass is probably not worth it (it only gives you a free pass on JR rail). But if you are going anywhere else, you absolutely should get this. Especially on the Shinkansen, you get free reserved seat tickets. Also, the system is set up for this. You go into line to get your tickets and you will magically find that the person who is dealing with you can speak English (because they can see your pass when you are in line and insert an English speaking person discretely into the correct cubicle).

Also, if you ever get into trouble, waving the JR rail pass is like a get out of jail free card. They bend over backwards for pass holders. If you get on the wrong train, they'll just change the tickets. If you miss the last Shinkansen, they will discretely push you onto a full reservation only express train.

Finally, if you want to go anywhere of any distance, the cost reduction will definitely by huge. Trains (especially the Shinkansen) in Japan are expensive. Just going out to Osaka from Tokyo and back will basically pay for a 1 week pass. If you want to go out west or up north then you'll be saving upwards of $1K.

I live in Japan, but about 5 years ago I went to the UK for a couple of years. I needed to go back to Canada for my visa and ended up bouncing around between Canada and Japan, leaving me as a tourist in Japan for 1 month. I absolutely could not believe how great the JR Rail pass was. I went all the way up to Sapporo, which is probably the last time I will ever be able to afford something like that.
Read this a while back and found it to be unique and thought provoking. I really enjoyed it, however my only issue with it was the part where you have to live every human life. It made me think of “The Species Problem.” Basically a God in the idea he portrays would have to live through the lives of every living being on earth.
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The first question should be: do I need a framework at all. There's almost always overhead, you have to ask if it's worth it
Why do you think people don't own smartphones in the developing world?
>> Roadway lighting was present.

It's worth remembering that the video of the acciedent that Uber made available showed a pitch-black road with very little lighting, something that is not corroborated by the NTSB report. Given that the only comment about visibility in the preliminary report is that "(r)oadway lighting was present" it sounds very likely that Uber deliberately tried to create a misleading impression.

>> The forward-facing videos show the pedestrian coming into view and proceeding into the path of the vehicle

This is a little less clear-cut but it also seems to cast doubt onto the initial statement by the Tempe police chief, that Uber was not at fault because the pedestrian dashed onto the road suddendly and the crash was basically "unavoidable". [1]

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[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe...
Look around you... the fact that earth is habitable...the gases of the atmosphere are ideal for humans...the rotation of the planet allow for day and night...the distance from the sun(a little bit closer or further away and we would have been in trouble)...the human body in all its intricacies.
MIT startup Mobile Pixels (Dual laptop monitor) got accepted to MassChallenge
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The web part of it is pretty easy to scale. You simply add more web servers. The problem is in the storage/db layer. I imagine the feed was the primary challenge scaling Twitter.

Other components such as the search were probably also quite tricky. One thing i've never figured out is how Facebook handles search on your timeline. That a seriously complex problem.

Linkedin Recently published a bunch of papers about their feed tech:

https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/03/followfeed--li...

And Stream's stackshare is also interesting: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...
Then stop making Hobbit movies there.
The text is what matters. You cannot defend yourself in court with the content of interviews.
Meanwhile all 3 large companies probably host their code on Github :-)
Curious if you have ever fallen off a bike? I have fallen over several times on a bike while stationary (when learning to ride with clipless pedals), I have crashed bikes at much higher speeds as well, and I have watched my kids fall off of bikes lots of times while learning. In all of that, I have never seen a (or had my own) head hit the ground. Typically you hit the ground with your arms (slow speed or stationary fall) or your hips, back, or shoulders (if at higher speed).
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Yes. To fit the standard at issue here, that happened every time somebody bought a Samsung phone instead of an Apple phone because they thought both phones basically did the same thing. Most people who buy phones are not as engaged with the market as HN commenters are.

The argument at play here seems to be: you can make something that looks like a Braun device if Braun doesn't already have a design-patented device that does the same thing. And you can make a device that does exactly the same thing as a Braun device as long as you don't try to make your device look confusingly similar to Braun's device. What you can't do is make a direct substitute for a design-patented Braun device, and then go out of your way to clone the design so that people have a hard time telling the difference between the two.

Another simple way to look at this (it's incomplete, but might settle the issue for you) is that a lot of people pick their phone based on how it looks.
You would think a HyperLogLog would be approximately good enough when follower counts reach tens of millions.