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You hear real engineers with actual experience in other languages complain about the two clawed hammer of languages. It's because there isn't a stockholm syndrome when you know something other than PHP. PHP is a mess, it's a hugely popular mess in the same way that a McDonald's hamburger is a hugely popular mess. If you ask someone about their favorite burger or language, you'll rarely hear that McDonald's or PHP is on the tip of someone's tongue. If you ask someone why they ate at McDonald's or why they used PHP, you'll likely hear some bullshit justification that amounts to "it was there when I needed it." Fuck PHP.
"We want to hear from you and use your material if (i) you take the time to actually email us; (ii) you do so with a coherent and well-thought out response to one of our articles; (iii) you decide to do this even though there is likely little prospect of us publishing your email; and (iv) if we do publish it, cutting and highlighting your material in a separate article from which we can make ad revenue."
Why does that make it right?
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Truck drivers are in short supply. There is also a trend in mainand Europe to schedule more freight into the hinterland from ports on trains and waterways - so called Synchromodal Transport [1]

The new APM automated continer port in Rotterdam [2] is set to handle 4m containers per year using automated vehicles and cranes - with few operators on the dockside (just for the two train cranes and one barge crane) - the other 8 cranes are operated by remote control.

[1] http://www.dinalog.nl/en/themes/synchromodal_transport/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVF6xEjArA
That attitude changes when you get death threats sent to your email that mention your home address because your dad had a business disagreed with an unstable person.

Yeah, that happens irl sometimes.

The scary thing is that you don't know who will turn out to be unstable, and it can be someone you never even interact with who is just trying to use you to get under somebody else's skin.
Ah the old story Industry doesn't want to pay for training
So what are Japan's special circumstances? The theory makes sense, but when our one real-world example shows the exact opposite, I'm inclined to be skeptical.
Hi from the other Cambridge!

Looks like there's a lot of manual work there, unfortunately.

Most of the gov.uk info is the same, scans, pdfs, poorly formatted word and excel spreadsheets. :(
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Is it possible they actually need a guy like this, because there really are an unmanageable number of cock-ups? If so, it might be a symptom of deeper organizational problems. They're hiring a head-kicker and a fire-fighter.

So you can leave (because you don't really want to work in an organization that needs that kind of intervention).

Or you can speak to the co-worker, and try to come up with strategies for fixing shit. It doesn't sound like he's just angry (otherwise management wouldn't have his back), it sounds like he's angry at actual problem. Try to get him focused on the problems that can be fixed (see the Joel test?), not ones that can't (people issues).

Try to get him to focus on the process, not the people.

Or just leave. It's possible he's just an asshole.
Blendle Data Scientist here (living said dream). I'd like to mention that users do have influence on what is done with their data. We currently provide two ways of determining what data is collected, one setting (which is switched on by default) makes us collect data for internal usage. Switching this off will make us stop sending analytics events from the frontend and we will stop aggregating your data into a profile used for personalization. Note that these profiles are currently being developed and are not yet in use anywhere and once they will there only use case will be making Blendle better for its users. The other setting is switched off by default and allows us to share some data with one specific publisher (which is very clearly mentioned).
These two are not junior engineers.
And I doubt that only two people knew about it. If Volkswagen developed diesel engines for the US market and problems arise to meet the requirements these problems have certainly not been solved in a dark back room, over a beer by two engineers. This must have been a topic on a high level. And also the solution must have been discussed.
European citizen here, and as much as i welcome a step like this, it's also pretty interesting to see, what this means for smaller (online) businesses outside of europe.

Sure, you want to host customer data from europe in europe (latency-wise) anyways, but now that this will be more or less required it will be interesting to see how people will solve this. The good thing is, with "the cloud" you have a lot of option (locations) to choose from.
Honestly, I find it both empowering (oh the data I can find if I know where to look) and reassuring. Why reassuring? Because it reminds us that lies can and will be discovered. Some people like to think they'll get away with one but it's only a function of how much someone else cares. But reality is self-consistent and in the Great Web of Causality falsehood is just damage that needs to be routed over.

Conversely, lying is a malicious act. It'sdirectly sabotaging the model of the world and reasoning capabilities of other human beings, with recursive damage being dealt as that person propagates or reasons from false information. Unless placed in life or death situation (std::jews_hiding_in_your_basement), you really shouldn't do it. It boggles my mind how lightly people treat spreading falsehoods.
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Could be.

Sometimes it seems that a project or similar gets started by someone with serious technical knowhow, but then as it heads more towards maintenance it gets put up for grabs for anyone to take over.

At that point you get someone with more interest in the position than the tech stepping in, and it all descends into hell.
Disruption is an ideal, not necessarily a fact about the status quo. It's an ideal as old as David and Goliath, embodying the hope (against all odds) that the underdog might one day overcome a much stronger competitor.

Most of the time, the underdog just gets squashed and we never hear about it.

Ideals are neither predictions nor diagnoses. They're something we need to fight tooth and nail to achieve, not something we can take for granted. So economists probably shouldn't tout disruption as such a major factor in the success and failure of well-known companies, and entrepreneurs should likewise stop assuming that it will happen as advertised.
I agree with this. My dad was in the military, and we moved every three or four years. I was always jealous of kids who had lifelong friends, and tired of always being the new guy.
but kitkat has ART which fixed a great many things and power efficiency

you can rip out the "cloud services" if you have root
Some info missing:

- Does your team lack the ability to healthily self-critique, with the goal of improvement?

- Are your coworker's criticisms usually right?

- Do they dominate discussions so others can't get a word in edgewise, or are they an active listener?

- What do other coworkers do/think about your coworker?

If you can get a healthy process in place to self-critique, with action points... and where everyone has the ability to speak (with a facilitator who tries to understand why some people aren't speaking), that's a possible solution. That provides a constructive vent for your coworker's critiques.

This book is the best I know at discussing team dysfunction: http://model-view-culture.myshopify.com/products/your-startu...
Allowing Internet permissions by default is one thing, not providing a way for the so inclined to disallow them is another. I think most people would have no problem if this was just a changeable default.
Here at least dogs are not allowed to roam the streets freely + dog owner pay taxes (cat owners don't), which can be used to clean the streets.
I've done various commutes in my working life. Nothing beats being able to walk to work:

1) It's not too far,

2) It's exercise - what's not to like?

3) It's always, ALWAYS, the same length of time. Which allows you to plan.

4) It's not too far.

My least favourite commute is on the British motorways, one day it could take the minimum amount of time, the next it could be 4 times longer. This amount of variation adds to working stress levels. It's really difficult to plan to get something 'out of the way' in the morning when you don't even know if you'll be there in time.

(btw, I walked to work this morning.)
If you use PHP every day, you know nothing outside your slum. PHP started as a crappy Perl and evolved into a terrible Perl with the worst of Java bolted on after the fact. It's not a good language. I occasionally have to hold my nose and sling some PHP and I think it's the worst thing possible, bar none. What would you think is a worse alternative to PHP within the realm of dynamic languages? PHP fosters a culture of being proud of knowing no better way and not complaining about the shit you have to trudge through to do basic programming tasks.
Could have sworn i have seen him get self-depreciating when he mess up.
The guy was born in Brazil, lived there till five, moved to the US, then lived in Brazil for two years as a missionary, and is now doing business there. He probably has a pretty good idea of how beneficial living in Brazil would be for his family.

He's also very wealthy and can afford to give all his kids personal language tutors if he/they want to learn another language. The value of knowing Portuguese in the US is generally not that high (although obviously he's an outlier). They can travel internationally whenever they want. If they moved there, they wouldn't be living or going to school with your average Brazilian, they'd be living in a wealthy neighborhood and going to an English-language international school. They live in one of the wealthiest places in the US, so they probably attend very good schools right now.

Since they're Mormon, many of these kids will end up being missionaries in foreign countries and learning another language anyway and getting a decent perspective on the world outside Connecticut since their living environment as a missionary will be roughly equivalent to the average person wherever they're assigned.

Don't underestimate the importance of high school sports to kids that love them and are in high school. I'd rather my kids have four years of positive team sporting experience than learn Portuguese. One can learn and grow from sports in many ways even if they don't become a professional athlete.

As for what will best help their career, it's probably the stable familiar living environment they currently have at a private school that will best prepare them to get into a good college and do well there. Being good at sports doesn't hurt either for getting into good colleges.

Finally, he can easily sleep in first class for the two direct flights he takes per week and he can spend (potentially, we don't know how much he works on the weekends) Thursday (not sure how much of the day), Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with his family. He can also potentially video conference with them every other evening. And they've probably come with him on occasion.
See the url in your address bar, and then look at the comments below.
Does this mean right to be forgotten will have to apply cross-borders too?
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It's funny when the influence of money comes up it's always the Koch brothers being criticized. Clearly they aren't getting very good value for their money, since you never hear about the leftist billionaires doing the same thing.

Tom Steyer bought the California legislature, and I don't think I've ever seen his name on HN.
I have a friend who admitted to me he'd made up a right-wing persona to troll people on the Guardian comment section.

He found it funny how irate people would become with his extreme views.

I convinced him to knock it on the head when I found out he was posting from work, and warned him his work will be recording that it was him, but it's a good example of how pointless anonymous comments can be.
While this is a massive ruling, there are valid exceptions that allow companies who have agreed with their clients to transmit their data from EU to US while keeping data separation and with respect to the data protection law.

This is not a blanket-panic for all US/EU companies as the media are projecting.
If you are legitimately concerned about privacy, why are you putting it on Facebook or online in the first place?

It's like everyone here wants to blame Facebook when it's actually less work to just not post anything.
Also European citzen here, I also appreciate the ruling.

It is already an interesting experience trying to explain to off-shore companies that they cannot just take our data like that.

Well they can in practice, but then better prepare some good explanations in case the company gets a security audit from the local government.
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I can have different arguments - especially for different scenarios.

If it really is your life at risk, dont share on Facebook or online. Otherwise, use privacy controls. What am I missing?
This is good, and a direct result of the Snowden revelations - without those, the US would still considered to be a safe harbor for your data. I'm hopeful that this will create the kick that the US needed, now that actual income (and high income, at that) is becoming threatened by the NSA. Of course this isn't the end to their data theft. They're likely to get the data from their Five Eyes European friends instead, but still - a good victory.

Amazing to see what one determined person can do!
Europe’s Top Court Strikes Down ‘Safe Harbor’ Data-Transfer Agreement with U.S
Oil price rises aren't gradual because both demand and supply are inelastic in the short term. This tends to produce "shocks": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_oil#/media/File:Crude...

The 1970s oil shock did change the world dramatically. And local peak oil in Syria has been a contributory factor to the war: spike in prices led to riots, which were repressed, igniting the violence.
Boredom is a very powerful thing. If someone has time on their hands they can wreak a lot of misery through anonymous comments.
Meanwhile, TPP prohibits countries from having data sovereignty laws, http://www.zdnet.com/article/tpp-moves-toward-killing-off-go..., with similar prohibitions sought in TTIP and TISA, https://blog.ffii.org/a-license-to-spy-cross-border-data-flo...

"Governments in Australia, the United States, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Brunei, and Chile will be unable to force companies from those countries to store government data in local datacentres ... governments will not only be prevented from mandating data sovereignty provision, they will also be unable to demand access to source code from companies incorporated in TPP territories."
I personally know of two people in my social circles who committed suicides on psychedelics. You can definitely argue that such a thing might have happened even without the psychedelics but I'm convinced that being in that altered state of mind pushed these people over the edge (literally in one case).

I'm personally pro-legalization of a lot of drugs. I do not want to close myself off to the clear negative effects of said drugs though. I think we should all remain honest and proportionate about them.
Yeah good luck setting up a startup now. If other countries follow Russia's suit, we'll soon end up having to somehow determine where a user is from (what if they're roaming, etc.?) so we can shard the datastore across multiple geographic locations. So obviously this = increased costs & complexity which will slow the speed of iteration :-(
As automation continues to improve, we see that fewer and fewer people are sufficiently skilled that they cannot be replaced at least in part by technology. Even tasks demanding high cognitive abilities gradually shift into the domain of what advanced machines can do. I wonder what kind of leverage average software engineers will have when machines can write better code than an average programmer? Or allow one developer to do the work currently requiring a hundred.

And how can there be a labor scarcity when productivity has risen to levels where we can overproduce almost everything we can think of, far outstripping our natural resources?
That was a general exclamation after finding out that Debian had patches that read data at 1 byte (yes byte, not kilobyte, not megabyte, byte) at a time (complete with round trips through kernel/user space context switches between each read).

It was never directed at anyone by name, nor did anyone ever go look for who had put in the patches.

And it was after what seemed to have been a frustrating bug hunt related to reports of poor performance in that subsystem.
> I'm not constantly bombarded by fake friend requests like I am on Twitter, Skype, or any other platform which allows random usernames.

I don't see how "real name policy" would prevent that. What's stopping people from creating fake accounts with real-looking names?

> I can easily find the people in my life without having to go through an awkward song and dance.

But maybe some of those people don't want you to find them? And if they will want you to find them, they will let you know of their username.

> Facebook is a platform designed for digitizing your real world relationships, not for accumulating thousands of "followers."

Yea, nice, but that is irrelevant to the real name policy. I can very well digitize my real world relationships without using my real world name. People that know me in real world, know me on Facebook by my nick, even if I don't use that nick in real world.
Long term fan - if you ever get to see her live, it's well worth going along. Her gloves are amazing. Allows her to combine something akin to composing while she's also playing instruments. Fascinating to watch.
> What you view on linkedin goes to fb and vice versa.

That's completely unfounded speculation, and I'd love to see any citation for it.

I'm inherently skeptical because for these companies their most important asset is their data. The idea that they would share that data willy-nilly with third parties makes no business sense.
Reddit used to be amazing. Before that slashdot. But both have become meme generators and in jokes. I guess if this site attracts more people then it too will fall to crappy comments and poor quality stuff voted to the front page.
As a European citizen, I appreciate the ruling, too.

It's sad to see how the judges of the courts are more on the side of the people than the politicians they elected...
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I think it means a lot more than just data residency. Without the safe harbor agreement you can no longer avoid EU privacy regulations by storing the data in the US.

This means that a lot of US companies are now exposed to EU privacy regulations where previously they only had to account for US privacy regulations.

The US privacy regulations are no longer considered compatible with the EU privacy regulations. That has much more impact than just data residency.
Correct.

I don't want a personal or work FB account that has my real identity. I don't want to share my identity with FB period. I consider it toxic. This is personal opinion, but by having an account with a real identity, I am consenting to Facebook spying on me and my friends. The application is a leaky sieve, and it is designed to follow you and your habits around the web.

Therefore I use a fake but real looking FB account purely so I can access developer functions, since I am forced to have a real account to do so.

I highly recommend people read this if they also have doubts about Facebook, their business model and your value to them as a user: http://saintsal.com/facebook/
How is HN any different than any other places? What's "right" about it?

It's just the general audience here is different but the technical details about commenting are exactly the same. You bring the mainstream audience here and you will end up with Reddit.
Very well if you use one of the many popular email or messaging services which does not use end-to-end encryption to send it or one of the popular cloud service providers that does not encrypt to data on your computer first to store it.
> And if they will want you to find them, they will let you know of their username.

That's not true in practice. I'm friends with tons of people in my school who are basically passing acquaintances. We don't know each other well enough that asking for a username would be normal, but it's helpful to have a readily available channel to ask things like "hey, what was the assignment for econ?"

Likewise, I am actually "following" some of my real world friends on Twitter. But it's always a song and dance to remember what their username is when I want to write to them.

Your arguments seem to be based in a theoretical version of how the world works, not how modern social relationships actually function.
True... perhaps it could even give a boost and even more visitors if I market the new name intensively. But have anyone experienced any big problems with their SEO when you change domain name? My current domain contains the most relevant search terms and works for SEO but not as good as a trademark
The whole term is ridiculous:

> a more child-centered approach to parenting

What other approaches to parenting are there? Cat-oriented?
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Not sure if it was Sharp directly that produced that, or if she more acted as the representative of a larger USB team at Intel (somewhat ironic given that Intel at the corporate level didn't seem interested at all in USB3 at first).
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Try opening an account with a sports book company using a gaming industry email address. See how long it stays open and unthrottled.
The easiness of setting up a startup should not be held in higher regard than people's right to privacy.
Ouch. That sucks :(.

Still, problematic as it is, that's just bad luck. We can't all live in fear of evil strangers sending death threats to us. There is no way a normal person can reasonably protect themselves from an attack like this targeted personally. We need to empower the police to deal better with such cases.
A lot of our inability to automate comes down to not being able to operate at a big enough scope. For example, all commuter transportation problems are ultimately caused by having too many people, too distant from one another. But we can't simply move them closer together for a variety of reasons, and so we have to think about trip planning instead. But we could also reduce the need to make trips and reduce the average length of each trip.

The future is going to be full of complicated thoughts like this - problems to which automation can solve some things but policy and design solves others. We'll have to be really good philosophers to avoid catastrophic error.
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I don't know why you are downvoted. This is going to become a real concern indeed: should I have one deployment per country of sale, ultimately, etc? This is getting tricky.
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Prohibition of storing behavioral data would be great next step.