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I read about this in The Facebook Effect, a book by David Kirkpatrick. You can actually read the passage here [1] (beginning at the bottom paragraph of page 241). Basically, Hotmail was blocking friend invites from Facebook altogether on some days, and on those days growth would drop by 70%. So, they cut a deal with Microsoft to unblock them. It stands to reason that they did this with at least some other providers as well, although at the time Hotmail was by far the most important roadblock that they successfully removed.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=RRUkLhyGZVgC&pg=PA241&lpg=...
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Exactly. There's a bit of "pulling up the ladder" here. The guys who got in when the Internet was still the wild west got established without all this overhead.

There will be an enormous burden on new businesses satisfying these laws - previously we've got away with privacy policies but could still code the same. If we need to maintain N servers for N countries customers could be from, that's a massive operational overhead that is bound to do nothing other than stifle innovation.

Now, I'm all for privacy, but if each country starts fragmenting the internet on country boundaries - to the level of physical servers and data storage locations, bringing a new idea to market is going to much much harder. This is different to, e.g. different tax regulations, etc, because you can still benefit from centralised computation while processing orders for different localities.

And while today this might be just about Europe, it sets a trend. Before it was just Russia and China. How long before all countries want to see the code a la the Chinese?

So the NSA has screwed things up for all of us now who are trying to start businesses.

If my costs go from: developer -> developer + global devops team + legal, etc., that's a massive burden that will affect the "bedroom/garage" startups.
Did you even just skim the article? Besides, you cannot sue before the ECJ, only appeal to it.
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I agree, we can't live in fear of that. And it's as sinple as making your legsl identity ungooglable.

Artists have figured out long ago that pseudonyms serve a purpose. These days we get sinilar levels of exposure online.
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> Think of it: my Facebook friends lists has EU and US people in it. This list can't reside in EU or US.

I think you're misunderstanding the ownership of the data, hence the down votes. If I as an EU citizen create a private friends list like this, that list belongs to me. If I live in the EU but create the list using a US service with servers in the US, there is no problem. US privacy laws apply. If I create the list using an EU service on EU hosted servers there is no problem, EU privacy laws apply. However in this second case if the internet service company wants to transfer the list from their EU servers to their US servers without my explicit permission, that's a problem.
Why bother pointing the phone, just use the camera built into your eyeglasses.
Here it is:

1. Build a website using Node.JS. It has login, connects to a postgres database, user can register, receive confirmation emails, login, do something that's persisted (e.g. creating a shopping list and come back and see it's still there.). Hire a graphics designer to give you a minimal design that looks decent, and make your website conform perfectly to his design. Put the site online with a domain name, using AWS EC2. Make it a site someone can legitimately use. Spend $50 on Adwords so some one signs up and uses it to get your first few users, make sure you have analytics installed, later you can tell your clients people really used your site and you can prove it to them. Use Google to find all the information you need, every step of the way.

2. Once you've done the above, maybe months later, ask yourself, now that you know what you know, would you build it much differently? If yes, then rebuild it to incorporate what you know. Repeat until the answer is "I would do it a little differently but not much more than that."

3. Months later again, scour upwork.com or freelancer.com or your university's job board. Find jobs with the technologies you learnt with Node.JS & your choice of database. Take whatever job you can get at whatever price offered (even if it's $5 or $10). Do everything you can to make your clients happy. Grab testimonials. Once you finished up job - ask yourself, did you learn a lot with the project? If yes, raise your asking rate by 25 to 50% and find your next one.

4. When your rate gets up to $100, it's time for you to take your testimonials, and portfolio, and look for a full time job. Optionally you can also take any intern full time positions on the way to $100.

5. Two or three years later from (1.) if your salary has 6 digits then congratulations you've followed the plan to the tee.

The whole process can take two years or more. I followed these steps, except I used Django instead of Node.JS. Django was new and all the rage in 2010. In 2015 it's Node.JS so I changed the formula to that.

Good luck.
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I don't think it's an entirely absurd statement.
> What I am curious about is how do we define "doing business in the EU"? If I am american, create a blog stored in the US, and allow users to register an account to comment on the blog, am I doing business in the EU if a EU person creates an account or are my visitors more akin to foreign tourists visiting a US shop in the US and therefore outside the reach of EU regulation?

De facto, it's when you take money from EU customers and/or have an official office in some EU country.
Perhaps it's time to p2p everything.
No, they just happen to be Libertarians; tending to support Republicans; hence they are the focus. HN like many blogs leans left and tends to allow far too often political hit pieces during election periods (it ruined slashdot for many)

let alone your term teabaggers clearly shows your tendencies

stories with any political connection either need flagged or a new flag, "Political"
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The end of the article makes it sound like just adding a clause to the terms & conditions saying the user agrees to his data being stored in the US would be enough to bypass this. They just can't assume they have that right under safe harbour.

Hopefully they'll restrict that and require a higher threshold for consent than someone clicking "I agree" to 100 pages of dense legalese.
The poster was actually heavily downvoted, until I mentioned this, and now it isn't anymore.

I almost never complain about downvotes (as mentioned in HN guidelines), yet felt that there was a misunderstanding and a lack of full perception of the implications of what the downvoted message conveyed.

Truth is (again, as someone who is privacy-sensitive, and running a EU SaaS) this is going to be complicated to run an international SaaS, as a bootstrapper.
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I don't think so. What it is saying is that if a Vietnam-based cloud company sets up shop, the US cannot mandate that it keep US customer data on US servers. I can see why the US wants this: They want everyone's data in the US. What I cannot see is why anyone else would agree to this.

My guess is that what it really means is that such companies are allowed to operate. OK, fine. But no one is forced to use them. So the US might say "Nice service, Vietnam. But we won't buy it unless you put servers in the US." They aren't forcing anyone to do anything.
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How this ruling affects differently Apple from Facebook or Google?
That's one person. How about the other 293 (real number, not an exageration) mass shootings this year?
Not to overreach here but thank you Internet!
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I'm glad you're enthusiastic! But just to set realistic expectations: "this is less about proposing an API, and more about starting a conversation" (https://github.com/chromium/ballista). There is no guarantee that this project will go ahead, even within Chromium/Chrome.

We aren't going to standardize first, then expect buy-in from other browser vendors. We expect to have a discussion (with the web community, including web developers and browser vendors), and from there either jointly standardize/implement, or not. We won't commit to this in Chrome unless we get cooperation from the web community.
I've found the tutorials on Lynda.com to be very engaging. The videos are very thorough, and it's definitely worthwhile coding/making notes as you watch the video. I started with James Williamson's Essential HTML Training, then moved on to Simon Allardice's Essential Javascript. Once you have the basics, try and come up with a little side project of your own and just go for it. If you get stuck, there's lots of help available on places like StackOverflow.
Some of these comments seem to be proof that not everyone commenting on here reads the articles before giving their views.
Thanks for this. It's a continuing problem with HN that submitters assume everyone knows the same things they do, and leave out vital context.
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My reading of the judgment is that it just throws the decision back to the national courts to decide what constitutes safe harbor. Safe Harbour agreement between US and EU streamlined the process for getting access to EU data. Now it mus be decided in national level.

http://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/schrems-ju...
It might be a good idea to regularly confront him with the things he says about other employees (in a subtle way), in front of those other employees, and thereby creating an uncomfortable situation that he has to handle.

By doing so other employees will then become to know what you already know, and some solution is more likely to arise.

In any case, before this thing starts impacting your mood outside of work, definitely leave the company.
(i have been in the exact same situation and regret not leaving that company much earlier.)
Using wordpress as a CMS would be quite suitable. I would assume what makes more than 'just another wordpress site' will the back end. Load balancing, caching etc.

I would have expected a custom landing page though.
That might work some of the time, but more often than not this just makes you a target because you threaten that person's sense of self-worth.
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I talked to an Australian magazine that will remain nameless where the executive on the other side of the table told me their business model was 100% sponsored content. I couldn't tell, from their website. Every single article was a sophisticated ad. He said they were doing fantastically and growing fast, users wanted that kind of stuff.

It reminds me of Ogilvy's book on advertising [1]; Ogilvy's experience taught him that informative ads that explained the advantages of the product were most successful with customers. Sponsored content is exactly that, and the opposite might be something like clickbait [2].

Sponsored articles are accessed voluntarily by the customer clicking on them and reading them, and returning to the site; they are unobstrusive being mostly made of text and of (relatively) higher editorial quality, with good photography and so on. I wonder if they are the future of advertising.

On the topic of being unable to filter advertorial content from, well, content, I don't think it's as clear cut as ads vs not-ads, since every writer has their own set of opinions and presents their world view only (with few exceptions). A necessary life skill is critical thinking, learning to dissect an argument, examine its assumptions and data, and come to an independent conclusion as to the point it is making.

[1] core principles are summarized in his "house ad": http://smartonlinesuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/dav...

[2] famously (NSFW): http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/a-history-of-evony-ads...
> It's possible to use Facebook in a way that couldn't endanger your life or career, depending on who you are. Obviously if someone is stalking you or something, that's a different story.

It's the story in the article we're discussing, in fact.
it is indeed speculation, but at least anecdotal, not totally unfunded

http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-netwo...

http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/2009/09/14/linkedin-people-yo...

there are quite a few instances of weird guess about the people you might know suggestions

of course the actual source is kept as one of their best secrets.
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Yes. It's like how Jeremy Clarkson is pretty extreme right wing by British standards, but still makes jokes mocking the American health care system or how racist middle England is.

Different cultures can be a little weird to fit into eachother's concepts of a partisan political system.
"The 12 parties also agree not to require that TPP companies build datacenters to store data as a condition for operating in a TPP market, and, in addition, that source code of software is not required to be transferred or accessed."

Stated that way, it sounds far more reasonable. Source code, yeah of course. You don't want country X being able to demand country Y's company's source right?

And the data centre requirement also makes sense. You can't lock out online competitors on grounds that they aren't setting up local servers. But I don't see anything that mandates you must buy from such a service. If Mexico starts a cloud hosting company and refuses to run Canadian servers, Canada is under no obligation to buy such service. They just can't ban the service for not having Canada-based servers.

The article states that Russia's law requiring Russian personal info to be stored in Russia would be banned if Russia was in the TPP. But they don't state the language used there. It wouldn't be surprising if all other rules and regulations apply. It wouldn't make sense if, say, HIPAA didn't apply to foreign-country clouds under TPP. And if HIPAA applies, then why wouldn't other privacy regs?
But surely there never was any requirement that to sell things to US customers you have to have servers in the US. People in the US have been buying things from Alibaba and other Asian companies based solely in Asia for years. Similarly you could log from the US to Baidu in China and create a personal account full of personal data, and that hasn't changed either. These laws are all about transferring data between jurisdictions, not whether or not you have to operate your services locally.
> (for some context, I'm a French SaaS bootstrapper; I am as careful with my customers data as I can be, and found that starting a SaaS has been a major pain already - VAT rules, finding a SafeHarbor provider which doesn't suck at security, too etc).

I was talking about this to someone just now and it strikes me that all these regulations are very much wasted on startups during their creation. Maybe what we need is a way for startups to be able to playtest their idea and only have to worry about all the extra responsibilities once they're more certain about the results.
If you have money, shaping the discourse on issues of your choice is surprisingly straightforward:

1. Come up with a bunch of candidate ideas/ lines of argument/ memes that promote your point-of-view

2. Ensure maximum virality by doing things like forming think tanks to publish credibility boosting papers, distribute these ideas widely across available media, and (most importantly), gain the support of as many influential figures as you can.
These people are the ones who will do the grunt work of persuading people when the memes you're pushing come up for discussion.

After a certain point, the position you're advocating becomes (one of) the main frameworks that people think in when evaluating an issue.

But! We've all seen cases where some idea took hold without having some wealthy cabal backstopping it-- academics can be biased, celebrities can (occasionally accidentally) make something a household word, thought leaders of various stripes can seize on a pet cause without a reward ever being offered.
Sometimes, a voice from the rabble gets heard, but most of the time the stuff you get an opportunity to think about is graciously provided by either rich people or the otherwise influential[0].

However, it's scarier when wealthy people do it, because they have so much more scope to play with.
They can weigh in on any topic (through proxies) and affect the discussion, regardless of whether they understand the issue or if there's a blatant conflict of interest.
They can tamp down on dissenting voices (as we see in the article), so their position becomes the only obvious mainstream one.

I can't really offer any solutions.
You can't trust the news (or other media) because the sorts of people who shouldn't game it are the ones that will, but you also can't participate in current affairs if you're uninformed.
Okay, I suppose I can offer some solutions: become exceedingly wealthy or, if you can't swing that, become a widely influential subject matter expert on everything you discuss.

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0. There's an essay by The Last Psychiatrist which is somewhat germane to this, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/10/you_are_the_98.html
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I don't think that moving a thousand miles or so between 8th and 9th grade was that helpful for me. I suspect that for a lot of the people who make such moves, it is a matter of moving from one suburb to another, with fairly nuanced differences in outlook.
The difference to Safe Harbour is that the client can revoke their consent at any time. After that the data must be pulled off US servers.

If I ask Facebook to delete my data, they are absolutely bound by this. There is no legal way anymore to just hide the data from me.
_HN like many blogs leans left and tends to allow far too often political hit pieces during election periods_

You've not been coming here very long, have you?
Because storing and processing data that about user who is unconscious that such are even collected is de facto spying?
Not to trivialize his opinion, but I always thought it was a wide spread notion that not allowing anonymity will lead to only "politically correct" or "harmless" opinions to surface.

I made the same argument when one of the Norwegian newspapers I somewhat read regularly (online) started requiring full names in the comments sections. The comments sections are now completely boring and predictable, and any really important but sensitive issues that would really need a minority voice in the debate are just not debated at all.

At least not on a civil level. There are always those who blurt out anything even under their full name (although possibly fake), but these tend to be the same people who are not really able to articulate a sensible and constructive argument for their case.

Personally I have opinions I would not like to link to my real name, since I need to work for a living in a place where we have customers and such...
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Yes. We* are doing this full time during regular work hours. But this is not, yet, a product that deserves to be tied to the Google brand. It is just some code and some design documents, and hopes and dreams :)

It could fail. And even if it succeeds, it isn't ever going to be a "product", but a Web Platform feature.

*Note: I am the person leading this project.
I think the parent is getting at if you're in the EU and your data cannot be transferred to the US, and a friend in the US has data that cannot be transferred to the EU (if they were to follow suit) you wouldn't be able to create a list of friends in both localities because of the restriction to send data around, without incurring intercontinental latencies. Obviously the list itself could reside in either location, but the service provider would need to perform an intercontinental join each time you wanted to view the names of friends in your list.
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Apple's business isn't based on exploiting the user's data and shitting all over their users' privacy (as has been the case with Facebook in the past, and Google too to some extent), and they've taken explicit steps to safeguard their users' privacy (e.g. encryption, ad-blocking).
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> what role could technology play in eliminating extreme poverty by 2030?

It will play all of it.

If you want particular ideas for small groups to get it sooner, as mentioned the big thing currently is the fact smart phones are going everywhere.

The current talked about tech is mircopayments.

So I'm assuming you're looking for an arbitrage. Western society will continue full paced but what is missing that the 1st world won't do (mircopayments being done)

Directly thinking -
More translations of apps or better english learning apps to get a world language.

Cheaper and simpler versions (A free simple farmer logs, if it doesn't exist, perhaps totally based on rice or something)

Sideways thinking -

Small rewards or a lotto for watching public announcements like aids education, better heath. You could target cell phone areas. Rural different to inner city.

Wikis to design/create cheap as possible Chinese products of value to the poor. Google cardboard but wiki style.

Try and find ways to increase the value of garbage the poor scavenge. Could you recycle plastics in the backyard to new products with 3d printing or moulding or something.

These ideas are dumb but more trying to think what could be done, that isn't in the works.
The mounting criticism of mounting inequality is a political position. It's not an objective statement of fact. They are free to ignore it if they disagree with it.
What has to do some antennas in Germany with a ruling from the ECJ of a case referred by the Irish High Court about Facebook?

Are you saying that the ECJ ruled without looking at the case merits?
Reddit is just the world, unfiltered.

Whoever thinks Reddit is especially racist, sexist or whatever should just go out more often, or get out of their San Francisco political correctness bubble.
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Do you seriously suggest this as a reasonable reaction, rather than, say, reporting it to the police?
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That's a pretty amazing mindset. Thanks for sharing. Also I enjoy the writing style of your comments in general.
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