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Who cares?

That would still be an extremely useful invention.

I was thinking about this more from a practical perspective. And what matters is "does it work", and much less so "how does it work".

I guess if it based on magnetic fields, then it wouldn't be useful for long range space travel but it would still be extremely useful for planet scale space travel!
We have spent 3 months and aren't done yet. I would love to know your secret.
I wonder how many were just bots during the election.

My experience from running Facebook ads is that Facebook is crawling with bots.

We might never know the actual numbers.
> A car you built yourself (or more often a motorcycle) actually _can_ be driven on roads in the US

Such a car cannot be driven on the road within The Netherlands without it being validated as safe (plus some other inspections).

For US, same seems to apply. Per https://www.dmv.org/car-registration.php it mentions: "Pass a vehicle safety inspection.". So again you need to deal with paperwork and read what those safety regulations are.
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Why not? I have yet to see anyone arguing for data protection legislation actually give a reason that they think a users data belongs to the user.
> Did they tear down all the houses that don't comply with contemporary building standards?

No, they fined everyone that owns homes commercially that did not upgrade the homes to comply. And then fined them again. And again, until they complied.
I'd say those three you mentioned were each more interesting individuals.
You have pointed me to the entire content of the GDPR. It's 11 chapters, with 99 articles. I'm unashamed to admit that I don't consider even skimming such a document "easy". I was imagining something more along the lines of a one pager with 4-8 bullet points, each of which was easy to address.
I am not a Googler, and these guidelines are available here: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html (since they also apply to investors and external contractors who may not have access to internal policies).

I am not trying to imply you are against the policy, just that it isn't a good idea to make yourself an accessible target in a "witch hunt".

The media is clearly trying to kick up some shit. They know Duplex is hot, and so they try to find another angle/drama/controversy to continue the clicks-cycle. If they had anything of substance, then plenty of AI researchers would be lining up to be cited, warning against AI-hype and winters. The article would be called: "Google faked its Big A.I. Demo!". Now they are still on the prowl for anyone that will dignify them with a soundbite, be that on social media.

Notice how few Facebookers stepped up here on Hackernews, when Facebook was the target of a negative news cycle. There is just no winning, just a lesser of two evils: Take a temporary hit to your pride, or let the media and fellow Hackernews posters take everything you say as an official company statement, attacking you and your colleagues while you weren't even directly involved in the project and can do little to alleviate any concerns or lies.

My 2 cents: The demo was not faked. But of course the samples were cherry-picked to make for a good demo. Also, a large part of the negative coverage stems from irrational fear or misunderstanding of AI, futurism potential, and the first uncanny valley for natural conversation.
> citation needed

Every statement issued by EU regulators to date.

> I have always been respectful and even never required emails on signups.

Good.

> I am not 95% there because there is a ton more to do.

Such as?

> In fact i am at 5% because i have a lot of small scale past projects.

You've had two full years to get this done. The law came into effect the 14th of April 2016. It is now May 2018.

> Not everyone is a VC-funded startup.

If you can build it you can also build it in a way that is compliant with the law and if you built it in a way that requires a lot of work to be compliant with the GDPR then you likely were already riding a very fine line with respect to the DPD which has been in effect for much longer.

> That's the kind of emotional reaction that everyone has to GDPR.

Emotions are a bad guide when it comes to legal stuff.

> Yes we like respecting privacy, it's a good thing, but there is a lot that is problematic with this legislation.

Such as?
> Thunderbird does not download remote content by default.

The researchers behind EFAIL found a number of ways to bypass the remote content setting. Not only that, but Hanno Böck found another one today[1] that hasn't been fixed yet.

[1]: https://twitter.com/hanno/status/997138771194859521
Look on the bright side mate, you don't have to put up with creamflow. British ale is generally considered a bit weird by non Brits at the best of times but that thing is an abomination.

Try to imagine what marketing would come up with in this scenario:

You brew a pretty non descript British ale that has been guzzled for years, in vast quantities for decades. Your competition is a few other huge breweries that do exactly the same. You experimented with a stout (in England - hah!) a few years back and looked stupid. Your ale is served at a few degrees below room temperature, it is completely flat, it is very brown. It tastes like err brown coloured ale. Cider is also available.

Then lager arrives, and then Pils and all sorts of other things (wine is invented as well at this point by a plucky chef called Floyd) and at about the same time Britons develop tastebuds on their tongues.

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Marketing and Product Development come up with "Cremeflow". As far as I can tell the idea is to turn a decent hoppy bitter into a sort of pseudo lager with a creamy head. Weird and unsurprisingly unsatisfying on a lot of levels. What is even odder is that this abomination is served everywhere that a corporate logo is involved. Oh and let's freeze the bloody thing. Even worse: Guinness "fucking stupidly cold".
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OK, in the UKoGBnNI we have come up with some absolute belting beers/ales - we have a very long tradition on this in common with many other countries. We have an organisation called CAMERA (CAMpaign for Real Ale) that tries to keep the firm straight.

IPA is really a Britain specific concept and belongs to our Empire days. India Pale Ale was brewed to be strong enough to survive being transported to India (the Raj) which took a fair old while. More alcohol == less bacteria. Back then there was no refrigeration and bizarrely, the locals didn't produce beer (fancy!)

Trust me, whatever you see printed on the bottle in the US - it is not an IPA. Drink that stuff and you will turn into a Redcoat and become a Brit, so unless you find yourself wearing a big wig after a serious quaff it isn't. Get your own name for your stuff - this awful chapter in history is taken already.
They were both emotional bait and also lies that painted a false story of her being a college student. I guess she was 20 and Indian and intelligent so it would be strange if she wasn’t in college, but she’d make up very specific lies, unprovoked, about people in her nonexistent classes, stuff her professor told her, exam dates, etc. I wouldn’t even ask her about anything college.

The emotional bait was like suggestive, like she’d tell me most guy friends would have hit on her by now, and she’d also dress up extra nice when we met up and all made up. We’d be walking along a beach and she’d have heels on. This behavior confused me as I told her early and up front to “let’s just be friends”. It might have confused her too.

After I found out about her lies this all made more sense.
Not a backroynym, but King County, Washington retroactively changed which person named "King" is its namesake.
So, only white people can assimilate then? The now many generations of people of Hispanic origin that are part of the American story would seem to indicate you are wrong. As is the case with the now multiple generations of Koreans and particularly Japanese, who remain part of the US story even after being put into concentration camps because of precisely the same sort of prejudice, that they were somehow inherently un-American due to their "cultural incompatibility", i.e. non-whiteness, unlike the millions of German-Americans in the US at the time.

The Muslims will (continue to) integrate as well. It takes a couple of generations.
To be fair, Apple has done a great job at making a device that does both without much compromise.
This is a manual by one particular consulting firm, and the text of the law. While reading the law may be good, it is really not feasible to understand all the repercussions without consulting a lawyer. While this consulting firm may have a good interpretation of key provisions, they are not actually your attorney, and their incentives cannot be known to really align with yours.

I mean, this isn't rocket science. More regulation is always going to lead to businesses leaving the market. This is not a bad thing, if your country is willing to put up with it. My guess is that the EU will not care about monal exiting the IM market, and their legislature has decided that they want to prioritize this regulation over the efficiency of the IM market. That's fine -- that's the EU's choice to make.
Was there some other, weirder discussion on HN that made this worse? The one linked in the article has a total of 26 comments. Even if you assume, for the sake of argument, that every single one of them is nuts, 26 nutty HN comments on a given popular topic seems hardly worth mentioning. Especially compared to the torrent of bananas tweets about this particular one.
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You have an incomplete understanding of the causes of tooth loss. Anyone who gets old enough will lose her teeth for a panoply of geriatric reasons that do not include caries or periodontitis. In addition teeth are lost for other reasons including drug use, injury, dietary deficiencies, etc.

You also profoundly underestimate the cashflow from dentistry that is purely cosmetic or otherwise unrelated to replacing missing teeth.

I'm as critical of FDA as anyone but this is straight conspiracy theory. Why has no one started selling this miracle cure over the internet?
Yes, uploaded music will be available but this doesn't cover if we will still be able to upload new music going forward.
Yep. You could totally sell it, and in fact that's exactly what Boss Hoss motorcycles does. I believe each vehicle has to be unique, or something. Not sure where the line is between these custom vehicles and "production" cars, but it involves the scale of the production. Exactly the kind of exemption people are suggesting for the GDPR.
Chronic illness - other than palliatives. What's the root of the incredible expansion of chronic illnesses? What aren't we trying to recreate some of the conditions that applied 300 years ago when MS, atopy, autoimmunity, diabetes, seasonal allergies, and so much more were rare or nonexistent, to find out what's up?

Large numbers of deaths can be attributed to chronic illnesses, but scrape away the money-grab for palliatives and the proportion of research dollars is tiny. (Most "animal models" of diseases can only be used to test for palliatives, not cures or prevention, since the cause of the model disease is obviously not the cause of the human disease. The EAE "model" of MS being a prime example.)
It can be a privacy violation but the idea of a fundamental right to privacy is not universally supported like free speech.

If it is a fundamental right, how far does it go? Should I be able to sue you for watching me walk in a public place? Photographing me? Video taping me? What about a privately owned but still public place?

There are a lot of questions here that I think people tend to skip over about users owning information about them and being able to control it.
At that level it doesn't have to cost anything other than your time. And if it's not a business it is a hobby and those cost time (and usually also money).

The GDPR is not going to cause any but the weakest businesses to close shop, in fact if the GDPR causes a business to close (which I highly doubt other than people voluntarily throwing in the towel because they can't be bothered) then I am not sure if I'm going to shed tears over that because it likely means that that business was so weak already that other things besides GDPR compliance were suffering as well (such as security).
When journalists, or American political parties do this, we call it journalism, or campaigning, so... I'm not sure what the problem is. Is it the fact that's done by a foreigner?

Yet, we allow American branches of multinationals, or domestic companies owned by foreigners to directly influence politics and politicians, so I'm still not sure where the issue is.

If you don't want embarrassing scandals from your preferred political party sinking their chances at winning elections, perhaps it should stop having embarrassing scandals? No, surely, the fault is in the people publicizing them...
Tesla's stats compare autopilot equipped Teslas against motorcycles. They are deflecting.
I am not a lawyer, but I don’t think that would fall under prosecuting under the GDPR.

If a speeding car driver hits and injures you, you aren’t going to try and sue him for speeding, either, are you?

You probably would sue under something like “Reckless behavior causing injury” (with the bonus that that even is possible if the driver wasn’t speeding)
The only thing they measured was that the thrust vector was decoupled from the cavity orientation and did not decrease when power to the cavity was heavily attenuated (fig 10). They therefore concluded that the forces measured are not thrust from the EmDrive. Everything else is (likely correct) speculation.
Facebook recently said they deleted 583 million fake accounts in just the first quarter of 2018. It's entirely plausible a lot of that supposed usage drop, is more aggressive bot elimination.

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-deleted-583-million-fake-...
Thank you for those detailed links. They are kind of eye opening, and I am German. However, it is hard to understand how stuff like GEZ, Schufa and article 35 can exist concurrently in the same country.
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Obviously it might cost money (or time, which might mean money). Argument is still the same, it's not out of the ordinary to comply with regulations and laws.

It seems more like a cultural difference, whereby some one-man shops from US find privacy not important.
I see it myself. I used to see people’s baby pictures and vacation pictures on Facebook. Now it’s mostly people breathlessly writing about the Mueller investigation or other pointless political shit. My visits have probably dropped 1/3 or more.
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Hobbies cost money and time. In this case it will only cost him a little bit of time.
Oh thanks, I’ll look for that next time. Of course there’ll be a next time.
I think the more import point rather than whether or not it was "fake", was that it was certainly cherry-picked. This is an issue with a lot of machine learning and AI presentation and publications today. If you want to show how useful something is, there needs to be a functional demo.
If we're going to have a discussion about ending the requirement for a college degree or other seemingly arbitrary job requirements we have to understand why companies seek those things. The answer is that companies want to hire smart workers. It's fine to suggest that the degree requirement is wasteful, but I don't think we can expect employers to stop using that metric if we can't offer a better one. IQ is already something employers are looking for, even if they use coded language like "smart" or "problem solvers." Let's at least make it explicitly legal for them to ask for it.

I'm not going to suggest that there's absolutely no bias in the IQ tests themselves, but we've come a long way with them, and they're certainly going to be less biased than the average human who is hiring. Your IQ has no race or gender.
All more plausible than EMDrive, it turns out.
Are you compliant with GDPR?
> GDPR is enforced retroactively on everything since the beginning of the internet.

That is not allowed. GDPR is only enforced for things which do not comply after in goes into effect. Further, it's not specific to the internet.
Yeah, for "specially constructed vehicles" that safety inspection is extremely minimal. For a production vehicle, the requirements are much more extreme, and cost millions to comply with.
testosterone levels can elongate jaw development later in life. On another note, I got rid of fluoride based toothpaste because the scientific evidence is bad, and switched to just coconut oil and eat pro-biotics. If my teeth hurt, I assume my body is robbing the calcium to neutralize something and I take calcium and try to eat better.
Also because Grandma can't afford to live in CA on her social security pension.
- The space is littered with fraud.
- Websites have bugs that lose hundreds of millions of dollars

- Energy consumption forecasted to hit 0.5% of the world’s electricity consumption by end of 1998

- Promoters yelling “digitalize everything” while services, development teams and internet companies are all highly centralized

- No legal use case found to date

Internet is a parasite on society.

(Clearly satire....)
Which company? I'm sure Larry Page has.

I was just pointing out that the complaint was address in the book. Not sure why you're asking about management.
Its also important to ask the “network effect” works both way; people sign up in en-masse hockey stick shape grow because of others. It is quite possible someone in your network is using Facebook less often today, knowing you are inactive/dont exist there anymore. Eventually once the real exhodus starts, it will be equally rapid and happy to watch, as inicial waves of signups.
Not for an initial resume that was never responded-to.

If we've never spoken before then it's really not necessary to send me a form-rejection. I'm not holding my breath.
What happens when a team's code coverage drops below the mandated minimum? How do different teams' coverage numbers affect their value ranking against other teams? What's going to stop teams from gaming the number with techniques like https://www.pavelslepenkov.info/?p=110 ?

Lots of net-negative consequences can occur when management decides to measure things. Lots of net-positive too, otherwise they wouldn't ever do it, but developer productivity proxies are notoriously hard, I'd question any manager trying to make one with whether they've ever done or read about Deming's red bead experiment (http://maaw.info/DemingsRedbeads.htm)
Some rules are decided by state. For example, Idaho has no vehicle inspection process, just registration (i.e., paying a fee and getting a license plate and license plate sticker).

FWIW, dmv.org is not an official government site.
I don't see any strong correlation here. To me it looks like it was dropping from about Aug'16, and this blog has merely drawn a line for the US election and called it a story. Based on a quick google search, the US is only number 2 in terms of total Facebook users[0] - maybe it might have been worth considering other factors outside of US politics that might account for this trend?

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-... (No idea how accurate it is, but.)
It is reasonable to assume overreach by governing bodies will occur; this is no less true for the EU than for any national government. The EU is no less likely to misuse that hammer, intentionally or not.
You mean the rich kids who already have the connections to get the better paid internships to begin with?
Well whoever took the picture is the one that holds the copyright usually so it's more or less that person's data.

Pictures probably aren't a good example because they are covered by intellectual property laws.
It's not that easy when you're not in their network. I've tried to contact a few journalists recently as I discovered twitter knows everything about youporn's user which considering their track record in term of security and the amount of politician in there could have some pretty bad effects.

It goes like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DczGQICUQAA9ljF.jpg

The domain "syndication.twitter.com" tracks everyone but the page says: "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!". The point is I haven't been able to run the story so far
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I don't have "data" to back it up but my personal experience is the same. My feed feels "empty". most of my posts don't get any likes/comments and most of my friends that used to post few times a day are doing it once a week now.
> I also had the impression that Radcliff, the "friend", might have been the same guy using a third name.

The article is all but not saying it directly. Probably a real person used to front the business, while all actions, email etc. clearly come directly from "Baekeland" who sits outside the public light until the business is revived.
I'm somehow supposed to care that it's the vendor's tech debt that makes them insecure, instead of regular old bad practices?
"Jeez man, why are you always so full of vitriol?"

I am calling you out for not discussing things in good faith. If you don't like being called out for that, then don't wildly misrepresent what people say.
Possibly but they are not "sensitive data" (aka "special categories of personal data"). Article 9 of the GDPR outlines what these special categories are:

"personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, [...] genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation"
Love it. Reminds me of https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
Long story short: guy figured out a way to make money: create an LLC, rent some warehouse space, order hardware, sell hardware, pay invoices, order some more hardware, sell hardware, pay invoices. This cycle repeats a couple of times with higher and higher order values and then finally when the orders are really large (millions) holds a clearance sale, pockets the money and defaults on the invoice. Boom, company bankrupt.

He did this several times before the corporate veil was pierced and they took him for all he had.

The other case was one that is probably best described as mismanagement ('onbehoorlijk bestuur') where the CEO/sole shareholder of a company started using the corporate account as though it was his personal account. When the company was unable to meet payroll taxes the taxman seized his private assets after piercing the veil.
The idea behind insurance is that you pay a small amount consistently over time so that there is enough money in the mutual pot to cover it when rare expensive events occur.

Dental insurance is not included in standard insurance, and is in general a much worse deal, because all people tend to have dental issues in some form or another. So there is nothing rare about it to spread the risk / cost out.
The company would still be subject to the GDPR which they may consider an unacceptable risk. I'm specifically asking whether users would like to be able to give permission to ignore the GDPR altogether or if they see that ability as harmful for society in general.
I'm sorry for making too generic statements, I'm not trying to have a bad discussion, really.

Regarding the personal risk comment, I could've been more clear: From what I got, no lawyer can give you a guarantee at the moment, that what he says is actually what will happen. So in the end you'll have to take action based on recommendations, and take a risk - or, as the op, shut out all European users completely. My personal risk is continuing to do business in the EU, even with this uncertainty. You couldn't have guessed all that from my earlier comment, so I agree it was bad..

I'll try to do better.