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not sure I've experienced goosebumps like this before

I think what will be the most maintainable and bring you the least long term pain is Cython

Misleading exactly in the way I said: the wording used is “help”, not defend, and nothing is formalised. Ukraine is getting “help” as well, but it is not exactly NATO article 5 protection.

This is misleading. I believe the wording was "help"/"assist", not "defend" and I do not believe anything has been formalised?

Depends what you optimise for I guess, maybe fine if you are looking for novel problems or starting a startup, but in general with regards to your career, I believe Patio11’s point on this is more accurate: you want to be part of the profit center [https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...]

Except their revenues are £163m, so it’s not exactly like they do not have a revenue source. I think you are too pessimistic. I don’t have a split but would imagine the largest revenue source is the interchange fee? I would also doubt very much that their cost base is very optimised at the moment, so I would think profit is very doable. In addition, having used their business offering, I think they have a huge opportunity there, their product is very good.

Also worth checking out nameko, I’ve had good experiences with it

Maybe because he is relaying stats which are not (widely?) reported at least in UK media, and by being “famous” his account is validated and we trust him to at least accurately relay information from Italy? Does not seem so unreasonable to me.

It’s in the thread: “Yes, it was reported yesterday by the authorities in the Italian television, the director of one of the major hospitals also reported a few severe cases with people under 30 otherwise totally healthy.”

I’ve had success with rsync and the “rsyncable” gzip flag in a similar situation

Borg is great as well. I use both. Main difference to me is that Restic supports s3 natively but doesn’t have compression (last time I checked).

check out restic which does dedup backups to s3, very easy to use

Thanks for a good article and actually very timely for me as I want to brush up on LA in 2019. From the above comment it sounds like you are the author? I’ve noted a few potential typos: 1) Length of v, should read length of a? 2) when discussing similarity between vectors you discuss the case of the dot product being 0 or 1, but the dot product could be >1, no?

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I have submitted this because it is frequent to see on HN claims that IP addresses are personal data under GDPR. I’m yet to see a good source for this blanket statement, and this link contains a more nuanced analysis, essentially saying that IP addresses are only personal data in some cases, where they can be used to identify a person (without involvement of the ISP).

In Sweden a blood repository from babies has already been used by law enforcement for DNA matching purposes [1], even though that was not the intended purpose of the repository.

[1] https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&ar...

org-mode: once you learn the basics it’s quick to add new tasks, quick to change the timeline, and easy to add recurring tasks. You won’t outgrow it: there is a lot of flexibility for adopting to more complex workflows. The negative is that it has a bit of a learning curve.

I have the same in the UK

Well actually this analysis by White & Case of the same case[1], seems to suggest that it may not be (paragraph “impact on businesses”) personal data if the business has no means of linking the addresses to users.

[1] https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

If I can make a connection between an IP address and a person, yes then it is personal data, no doubt.

To be clear, I am only talking about the interpretation of the regulation, not my own considerations.

The article made it sound like IP addresses are always personal data. My point is that, if I run a website and keep generic nginx log files, is it really personable data with regards to my website?

Yes, the ISP can link that IP address back to a person, but if that person came to me as the website administrator and asked for all data held for that person, I would actually not be able to make the connection.

I’m not convinced IP addresses are automatically personal data. Granted, they CAN be personal data, if they can be linked to a specific person. But assuming I just keep generic log files, and that I would not in a subject access request be able to tell someone the IP addresses that the user has used, is it really personal data? Also, it is not clear to me what other laws require in terms of keeping log files. It is possible that by keeping no log files at all, you risk breaking some other law (UK).

I love Python. The language is a joy, the eco system is fantastic. But yes, let’s be honest, if you can not vectorise your code it is slow, and I think that will be its downfall eventually.

I’m excited about Julia, I hope it gains popularity and the eco system grows. Until then, and in particular until the data frames story can compete with pandas, it Python with Cython for me, but I’d rather skip the Cython if it was not necessary for performance.

Any early adopters running Julia in production with stories to share?

Not much. I hardly know emacs (would love to learn more though...) and am using sublime as my editor, but have learnt just a few shortcuts to be productive in orgmode. Currently I run emacs just for my orgmode tasks and org-agenda which is fantastic.

Nice! Congrats on shipping. Any particular reason it's tied closely together with sqlite rather sqlalchemy which could potentially enable a range of backends? I guess to ensure immutability?

Trying to limit both the probability of a data breach happening and the severity of it should it still happen, e.g.:

1. Enforcing FileVault etc. on company laptops. 2. Internal storage: Reviewing servers' security, limit duplication of sensitive data, review access control 3. Checking external dependencies: where do third parties store data? E.g. Dropbox is not GDPR compliant yet[0], they are cutting it fine. 4. Enforcing 2FA. 5. Ensuring we have an audit trail of having assessed the GDPR impact.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/help/security/general-data-protectio...

Nonsense. London is a net taxpayer for the UK [1], hence the periodical discussion of establishing an independent city state (which will not happen IMO). Instead of being jealous of London, the rest of the UK would be better off realising that London competes with other global cities and that the success of London benefits UK (but sadly instead they voted for Brexit) [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/23/uk-budget-d...

There's a lot of risk if he does not deliver. On the other hand, if he is the real deal he could be very valuable, so I think you'd be much better off offering him a generous revenue sharing agreement on the actual business he brings in rather than equity.

Quandl has some free data and an API: https://www.quandl.com/

Payment processors are wary of these types of setups because of the money laundry risks. In addition, fyi - this sounds like "social money"/e-money, which may be a regulated activity depending on setup and where you are.