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> 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.

I'm not sure if it means anything for them. If a company does not have a business presence in the EU, it likely isn't subject to EU jurisdiction at all. This case happened because Facebook is a multinational company with a European subsidiary in Ireland and was sued before the Irish courts. Companies that may be affected by this are:

* Multinationals that exchange personal data between their US and their EU branches.

* Companies in the EU that are in a business relationship with companies in the US and as part of that business relationship send personal data to the US.

* Companies in the EU that avail themselves of US data centers and store personal data in those data centers.
> Rather it will post sponsored content paid for and approved by advertising partners—and written by the same editorial team that writes editorial posts. “They’re going to be just as interesting as actual content,” Chang says. “It could be a piece on Tesla, a piece on how WiFi works, no matter what it’ll be good content—and it’ll just happened to be sponsored.”

This gives me some disquiet. I realise that this is what advertisers want - high quality ads that can't be blocked, but I think its harmful. In general, I avoid going to sites that have a policy of doing this.
I wonder if there are additional ramifications of this, even for European companies dealing with European customers. For example, what happens when personal data from a European datacentre to a European customer transits a US network on the way (such routing diversions are fairly common)? In the light of Snowden's revelations, this would seem incompatible with EU privacy regulations unless the data were encrypted. Of course personal data should always be encrypted, but where are the CAs located? Is a European company negligent if they don't use a European CA and do certificate pinning? Interesting times.
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We push the limits of product delivery, experiment furiously and strive for technical excellence. We are agile, organise in cross-functional, autonomous teams (including Backend, Frontend, UI/UX, Cloud Operations, Mobile Development, Product Owners etc.) and focus on one product with a clear mission where everyone is equal and with each member's role respected.

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Criminal records have (almost) the same problems; what makes them superior?

Incidentally, you could solve (2) by "dimming" the relevance of a review as time goes on, eventually clearing it altogether. You could also have a "faster dimming speed" for younger people than for older ones, on the grounds that the young are stupid and the old are probably harder to change.
Maybe I'm reaching a bit too far, but we're mainly discussing this in the context of non-US resident's data being transferred to the US, without their say so, where the NSA then does whatever it likes with it. But surely this treaty goes both ways? Doesn't it also allow US citizen's data to be transferred to Vietnam etc, without the person's permission, under their legal framework and their government and commercial agencies get to do what they like with it according to their laws? And the US government is ok with that?

Unless I'm missing something, the US government (and NZ, and Australian, etc) just completely sold out their citizen's privacy to a whole bunch foreign nations including a communist dictatorship. Wow.
Disasters and tragedies sell, and we now get to hear about them from all over the world, so selection bias is sadly inevitable. This is why millenarian religions like the Jehovah's Witnesses (and, perhaps, radical Islam) are able to so easily convince the gullible that the world is on its last legs.
And that is how only favourable and aproved comments will be shown. No more diversity of opinion.
It's illegal to stalk and harass, it's not illegal to make phone calls. The issue is not facial recognition, it's the misuse. I'm all for gun control, not gun ban.

Cameras in the bathroom? Fine. Whatever. If that's the new normal, then I guess I'll get over it. Are you saying that will now be legalized? I'm pretty sure we don't need any new laws to prevent cameras in changing rooms. The "scary" scenarios that have been described in the other threads are already illegal for other reasons -- harassment, redlining (racial profiling), spam, etc.
Isn't it possible to pin the CA instead of the certificate ?
"The only field I can see which will depend on low-skilled worker armies is construction."

The trend in construction for the past decade has been towards less labour intensity.

So no good news here either.
I'm as much for generating friction as anyone else. But I wouldn't pretend that keeping data in any country in NATO isn't akin to giving it to five eyes.

Basically the EU is creating a PR stunt that in theory could force them to enact some minimum veneer of standards and that PR stunt is going to have higher short term costs for the small private sector players than the large ones.

It is entirely possible the stunt will instead pay off for the other EU governments and against the privacy of their population by getting them invited further into the club.
>Tu quoque fallacy. Maybe the Kochs are an easy target because they do it at a scale never before imagined - their annual spending on their political projects easily eclipses Steyer's entire net worth...

Oh? They spend more than a billion dollars every year? Please, sign me up for your newsletter.
I don't think any of the research mathematicians I know exhibit a degree of ignorance like the one depicted in the article towards the philosophical underpinnings of their field - the implied attitude towards rigorous proof in particular seems to be an egregious strawman. It is generally accepted that any research mathematician, given an arbitrarily chosen section of a high-level proof, should be able to convert it to a structured step-by-step proof (though possibly at the expense of a prohibitive amount of time), and the same generally holds for any half-decent graduate student by the time they've spent a year or two in their field.

The choice of title makes it even more questionable - imagine a similarly uncharitable piece titled "The ideal [racial category]".

(That being said, the insinuation that mathematicians tend to play the motte-and-bailey game with formalism and platonism does ring true.)
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I don't think it's possible to educate non-technical end-users (ie. most of the general public) about this. They're too dumb.

But on the bright side, surveillance technology will probably mean the end of democracy. With extensive surveillance, it should be easy enough to eliminate/sabotage people who speak up for the common man, such as labor union activists, universal suffrage activists or politicians before they become major problems.

Then we über-nerds can finally rule the world! The common people will make useful servants. And we get to impregnate their women, eventually, slowly but surely, turning all of the Earth's population into nerds! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
You can't be more wrong in your claims
I was a team of one constantly getting pestered by end users who were to stupid to fill out an excel sheet properly. Or incompetent managers who were completely unorganized.
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He talks about the culture of those countries. If you managed a typical Indian worker all you would ever hear is "yes, sir, I understood sir, it will get done, sir". Then an endless myriad of excuses and blame shifting and promises. People there are simply wired to always say "yes", never to question, never to doubt, never to criticize. I hope you can see why this might be a problem for transitioning to a "first world" economy, which relies on workers performing services, rather than standing on an assembly line.

Things in China are a bit different, but not quite. Chinese culture makes people very reluctant to admit they do not know something. In addition to that in Chinese culture it is the responsibility of the listener to understand what is being said, as opposed to western culture where it is the speaker's responsibility to make sure that he is understood. This makes transfer of knowledge en mass a very difficult task.

These simple, but fundamental differences are major hurdles for those economies going further.
Not necessarily. Newspapers have been doing this for years, and (the quality ones at least) frequently show letters that disagree and point out errors.

If vice.com wanted to show only comments that agreed with them, they could do that already.
This webpage can't be served by either a EU or US web-server.

It's not bidirectional: you could keep it in the EU and serve it from there.
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They're actually trying to give you the lowest rate they can while staying profitable, you know, to be competitive with other lenders. There's no baseline, all our characteristics are inputs to a function that estimates risk of default. Then the lender chooses what rate to offer based on their portfolio design.

In one sense, it's a zero-sum game. If person A is a better debtor, A gets a better rate than B. However, a more sophisticated portfolio will try to find anti-correlated debtors. Rather than lending to 100 low-risk people all similar to each other, I'd rather diversify and include some very different people that may be higher risk on an individual basis; the aggregate risk can be much lower than individual. To that end, the more the lender can learn about me, the more chance I have to reveal how anti-correlated I am with others.
Then maybe the trick to get user-generated commentary right is to avoid attracting a large audience of meme generators and buffoons?
I think it's important to distinguish that Google is not putting the effort that they could into this project, and that the quality of the project is not what they want you to expect out of an official Google product.

ie they want to give their engineers the ability to do neat projects—projects that could potentially make money—but they don't want to back each one fully, and they don't want to have their brand tarnished if the project fails.
In fairness, I think the popularity of Christensen's terminology far exceeds the acceptance of his theory. "Disrupt" has become a startup cliche widely applied by people that haven't read his books to startups that don't fit the pattern he purported to identify.

So social networks get described as "disruptive" even though the closest thing to a financial edge they have over competing distractions is not being under any pressure whatsoever to make a profit. Tesla gets lazily labelled as "disruptive" even though it's offering a high-priced, technically-superior product to the incumbents and the CEO is actually on record saying he's not a fan of Christensen's theory and he instead aims to grow businesses by expanding technological possibilities.
you assume the US would be OK with hosting US data in Europe...
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Concern trolls are civil and can do very great harm to a community.
Does this effectively render any Parse or Firebase application (they only have US servers) that stores user information (e.g. email account) illegal in the EU?
First sentence of the fucking article: "Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their 'real names' (or 'authentic identities' as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place."

Second sentence of the fucking article: "In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community advocates pointing out that the policy facilitates harassment, silencing, and even physical violence towards its most vulnerable users."

If Facebook claimed that its practice of forcing users to go by their real names endangered some of those users and it consciously warned those users about the danger of posting personal information on facebook, that would be one thing. But it seems like they are doing the opposite.
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Please tell me how. We can surely debate the technicalities.
> I don't think that's a fair analogy. At this point, I believe we have pretty good ideas that make it possible to write correct software. Most impressively, there has been progress on creating a completely verified C compiler named CompCert: http://compcert.inria.fr/. This really means "completely verified"---they formalized the semantics both of C and of assembly, and used an automated theorem to prove that the semantics of the generated assembly are the same as the semantics of the source code.

Note that Compcert has had bugs found in it too. Compcert has a verified core, but it's not a fully verified piece of software.

It's still a lot closer to bug free than almost any other software out there.
It's amazing how many words he spends saying "this large body of water is really quite large." I mean:

> The official NASA news release describes the amount of water as "140 trillion times all the water in the world’s oceans," which isn’t particularly helpful, except if you think about it like this.

> That one cloud of newly discovered space water vapor could supply 140 trillion planets that are just as wet as Earth is.

Oh, so that's what that means! Gosh!
A ruling from the higher court of the EU is a PR stunt?
What to do with spare home broadband bandwidth?
I would like to find out whether the users here have found an interesting use case for their spare home broadband bandwidth.

For example hosting Linux ISOs is one answer. But what others are there? Thanks.
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This saves them from having to replace writers like that. Before, they were in danger of people pointing out just how slimy articles like that were in the comments. Now they can just not print those letters.
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With the recent "death" of safe harbor in Europe, I can only assume it will become more pervasive, as it gets harder for silicon valley startups to do business internationally (at least until they are large enough to afford multi-presence).
> was sued before the Irish courts

Actually they were sued before the European courts. Specially the European Court of Justice, which is in Luxembourg. I don't believe there was any case in the Irish courts.
It's interesting that certain bloggers such as Dustin Curtis and Ben Thompson have claimed that Apple's privacy stance will ultimately hurt them because they'll be at a disadvantage to competitors, but it seems like they've shown some real foresight when you take this ruling into consideration.
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Christensen's thesis is very specific though. It's that:

* Companies continue to add features and complexity onto a product to grow their market.

* A competitor comes along with a product that is worse and cheaper.

* Structural forces prevent the incumbents from following because the lost revenue from existing lines of business exceed the potential of new business.

* Competitors continue to grow their market and eat into the dominance of incumbents.

* The competitors then become the incumbents and the cycle continues anew.

That's a very specific chain of events that makes testable predictions and is far from the broad, overly encompassing definition of disruption.

A great example of the disruption process following the Christensen model would be AirBNB. When AirBNB debuted, it was objectively crappier on almost all metrics compared to hotels. However, as AirBNB has grown, it's steadily started addressing it's deficiencies against hotels. At the same time, structural factors meant that Hilton could have never gotten into the same business as AirBNB because they had a brand to protect. As a result, AirBNB is now valued at a non-trivial percentage of the entire hotel business.
I experienced the same in my company.

How I solved it:

1. Confrontation.
2. Talking to managers and tell them I would leave.
3. Giving him the attention and greet him when he wanted to do something good.
4. Hear his opinion.
5. Remind him my role when power argument arise.
6. Indifference and segregation also worked well. The company started to avoid him.

If none of these calm him, then I would simply leave. There´s no need to gift life and sanity for a jerk.
Talk to,the guy in private.
The case was referred to the ECJ by the Irish High Court, which sought a preliminary ruling.
Of course, the business lobbies say that.

Restricting laws are always costly: Environment laws for example -- how costly it is, not to be able to pollute the air, the water, the people. Have filters, have restrictions, use of alternative fuels ... this all costs. And reduces the growth rates of our economies .... Better remove those laws and instead install strict intellectual property laws with unrestricted duration of protection.

That is, how (capitalistic) economy works: Put the costs of the business on the shoulder of many (the people of the country) and the benefits (the profits) on few people.
Eh. This feels like what Digg pivoted into, a news website. Except of course, Reddit will be providing the content so it will be more straightforward. Interestingly they mention that it has been in the works for the last year, it seems like this is going to be a basic Wordpress site (unless the hosting page currently is misleading).
In a way the experts were right, my recollection is that the first iPhones were not amazingly good at being phones. Where the experts got it wrong is the assumption that people wanted phones.

What it turned out that people really wanted was a small portable computer that had a camera, Web browser, music and video player built in. And that could make phone calls and send sms messages. But they didn't know that is what they wanted until Apple punted it out...
For exaqmple
> Think of it: my Facebook friends lists has EU and US people in it. This list can't reside in EU or US. This webpage can't be served by either a EU or US web-server.

This is plainly wrong, a reference tyo an user in a list is not the user data

Have you read the ruling?
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?

In the financial sector, the extra-territoriality of US laws has been a problem for decades. Securities issued in the EU, by EU entities and marketed to EU investors end up having some language referring to which US regulation they fall under out of fear that a US person will end up buying it, and the US applying their laws and regulations.
Attracting the right audience is a big part of making a good comment system...

Technical solutions are not enough by themselves to solve social problems. However, the threaded system, user moderation, and aggressive reputation enforcement are useful tools for keeping a healthy environment with a controlled volume of regular readers.

I'm not saying that this site could survive going mainstream - but right now it's an example of working user-generated commentary.
Don't go to HR. Don't go to HR. Don't go to HR.

HR is not there for you. HR is there for the company. Expect the worst if you go to HR and ask for any help. Doing this will immediately politicize the situation, making you the "bad guy" and you'll be on the defensive trying to save your job so fast your head will be spinning.

This has been true at every company I have worked at. HR might be a fine ombudsman at your company, but this would be an exception that I have never seen.
I don't really see a problem with expressing the view to a woman that another human being is more than just an object to be desired. Note that I'm not saying desire is bad in itself, but the issue is when you reduce someone by objectifying them for your own sexual gratification and ignore their personhood then that is the point at which a person mistreats the other person.

I'm not immune, incidentally. I have to remember this every time I see an American Apparel advertisement. I speak out against AA exploitation because those ads debase sexuality by triggering in the viewer the urge for selfish sexual gratification. It can only do this because the viewer allows it to be so. The viewer is ultimately responsible for their own actions, but the advertiser is responsible for deliberately attempting to manipulate the viewer with their images. In my view, this exploits the viewer as well as the one being objectified. It's insidious, and whilst AA couched their advertisement in terms of not exploiting their workers, they used sexual objectification for one purpose only: to sell their clothes and make a profit.
This sounds great! Though if the owning company is in the US, then the US views this as reason to be able to access customer data no matter where its stored. More fun to come mm?

Question: Why do companies HQ themselves in the US? Why not pick a friendlier country, then turn their US parts into a simple contractor that supplies software development and engineering resources? Then the US company would not have actual ownership of any data. Forcing them to reveal customer records would be the same as forcing an individual to steal data right?
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In the carpark after work.
To be honest you don't seem to be up to the guy's standard, you either work on your skills or leave.
Ship.io was previously known as Cisimple which launched already in the spring of 2013 (http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/cisimple-exits-beta-makes-m...)
Sites like Buzzfeed are cashing in hard with this kind of sham so this fad will ruin a lot more sites in the coming years.
1998. Language usage has changed. Gender-neutral 'he' was more common then.
I think the line underneath was better

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