mbrookes

It's not just that you can no longer hold backups for an extended period as a form of pseudo archive, but that for those backups you do keep for operational restore purposes, you have to ensure that data that was deleted or redacted under the GDPR right to erase is not subsequently restored during a routine recovery, or is immediately deleted / redacted after the data set is recovered.

This (slightly ironically) will require keeping a record of what data has been deleted from production systems in response to "right to erasure" requests.

Ugly is kind of irrelevant when it's plugged into the back of the TV. The back of most TVs are ugly anyway!

I don't think the device will fail from hanging, as it's static, but it will almost certainly put strain on some varieties of HDMI connector, depending on orientation, and may be prone to falling out. One solution might have been an adhesive velcro pad to attach the device to the TV.

In any case, it's pretty impressive to offer 4K in a device a fraction of the size of the new Apple TV, and powered only from the HDMI port. Now all they need is more than a couple of dozen titles in 4K!

Congrats on the Vespa release, it looks phenomenal!

Generally when you disclose something (like the fact that you run the open source process at Yahoo) that's a disclosure, rather a disclaimer.

A disclaimer might be considered the opposite "I don't run the open source process at Yahoo, but...", or, more commonly, "IANAL".

Huh, seems perception is not always reality. Thanks for fact checking!

18cm could make a difference navigating some of our narrower streets, but my mental image was that there was a more significant difference than there actually is.

I've edited my original comment.

3) Are typically petrol (gas) rather than diesel, and are often hybrids (less pollution).

Edit: Not significantly smaller, as pointed out below 4) Are typically more compact than a black cab - take up less road space

So no, it's not about congestion in that sense. What the author appears to be suggesting is that there are more cars on the road plying for the same trade, and the more journey miles taken in an Uber, the more idle time a black cab will spend waiting to be hailed - either congestion on the road, or congestion in the taxi ranks.

However, if that were the true ulterior motive, that could be applied to any car service that competes with black cabs, not just Uber.

What have Deliveroo done differently to be more successful than the food delivery startups that came before?

Uh, you are aware Twitter allows "direct" (i.e. private) messaging?

"As a disclaimer" (disclosure).

This article is from 2010. The "designer"* loses credibility for not having a date on his blog post (at least the boarding cards have that).

*Using a bigger typeface is "design"?!

Apparently insensitive language is ok, but questioning it is not? HN, you've lost your way.

"many visually impaired I've talked to"

This says it all really.

Here you go: https://developers.google.com/actions/tools/web-simulator Okay, not strictly a desktop client, but the same end result.

Similar is available for Alexa.

That hurdle already exists in the UK in the form of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) certification (AKA Remote Pilot Competence), which requires passing a theory test, a practical test on the specific equipment that will be flown commercially, as well as development of an Operations Manual that is reviewed as part of the certification process. Commercial insurance is also required.

What the proposed registration process is attempting to address is the misuse of hobby multi-rotors.

The difficulty the it faces is in retrofitting it to an existing market. Those who are too dumb or ignorant to fly legally (and since multi-rotors have become too easy to acquire and fly, there are many), are going to be the ones who also fail to register.

Requiring registration prior to purchase is one possibility, and having mandatory geo-fencing on all new systems seems like the only way to gradually introduce a system that restricts use in controlled airspace, and over populated areas, but it will never be able to account for every scenario in which people insist on breaking the law, invading privacy or putting others at risk of injury.

I think you may have misunderstood - it is the Larsen C shelf that is held in place, not the iceberg that it calved:

An iceberg the size of Delaware is now in motion. If it follows the path of previous icebergs from the Larsen Ice Shelf, it will drift north along the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula before heading northeast into the south Atlantic Ocean, according to NASA.

Or just click the "About" icon...

> It’s not meant to be used by regular users.

That, I believe, was the foundation of @gbc0's point.

And on that basis I'm inclined to agree - why download, install and run for every user a set of tools that could as easily be installed the first time they are accessed?

> Is it?

Yes - photos of the face will have been used as texture and bump maps.

What people seem to be missing is that this is a photograph. It just happens to be wrapped on a 3D model.

So you blindly quote something that you have no clue about, then snark when you get called out on it?

Schmuck.

> and become SCUBA qualified to prepare them

Uh, sorry, but there's no such qualification!

There are may "qualifications", from the amateur PADI (of which I have a couple of grades), to BSAC 1st class (probably the most stringent and disciplined of qualifications, despite technically being an amateur club); but "SCUBA qualified" is not one of them.

Completely OT, but is there a mathematical explanation for why, when scrolled the spaces between the words appear to form connect channels?

It doesn't compare with hub, but I wrote gpr to make dealing with pull-requests easier as a maintainer. The main use case to check out a PR on a detached head:

gpr <PR#>

You can also easily checkout a branch from another users fork.

https://github.com/mbrookes/git-pull-request

You're right - that was the top result for "Apple Mac App Store Revenue", but I didn't read the content carefully enough.

Way to change the subject!

Read what you wrote (in the context of the current discussion). Desktop software is alive and well. I don't like the size of the Apple Tax any more than you do, but to suggest this market doesn't exist is laughable.

> Today, Apple makes money on desktop hardware rather than desktop software.

Uh, App Store? http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/13/revenue-from-apple...

JS rendering on the front end surely doesn't impact calls to the back-end that much (HTTP POST, REST API, GraphQL etc.)?

These don't need a headless browser.

The closed captions are pristine. After a short while, I forgot I was watching something not entirely in native English, to the point where I cant't now recall what was in English vs what was translated. Huge cudos to those concerned!

> Instead they are the subject of prolonged acts of revenge.

Not always:

"Whistleblower awarded $1m in $40m Princess pollution case"

http://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news/news-headlines/whistlebl...

Music notation is to music as qwerty is to keyboards?

I think it's shitty behaviour - but what's the alternative? I've found good fresh domains in the past, and let them drop when the project I registered them for (inevitably) doesn't go anywhere, only to see them grabbed by domain squatter.

Recently I listed an unneeded but above average (trademarkable, keyword, .com) on HN as free to anyone who could use it, with the stipulation that they pass it on if subsequently not used.

I'd be glad to see more of that.