A competing factory is using really hardcore AI to coerce people to do this kind of thing. Some people can see through worlds. I spotted this as soon as this made the front-page.

Can you give more info?

Of course, Europe has had no startups at all since the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) was passed in 1995. /s

Europe does not have anything comparable to Silicon Valley, and heavy regulations are often cited as making it hard to do business there.

Yet they still seem to find a way. That tells me the regulations aren't as onerous as some businesses would have you believe.

Who is "they"? Sure there are some companies, but clearly nothing like SV.

There are plenty of startups in Europe.

No, it means you shouldn't create a startup if you're not qualified to handle the data correctly. Way too many bootcamps grads running around saving unencrypted PIA in databases and with root AWS keys because of the "move fast and break things" mentality. (obviously most startups wouldn't be affected by this law, but the principles still apply)

That's preposterous. Healthcare startups are doing just fine managing HIPAA, which includes up to $1M fine and prison time for violating patient privacy.

No. This will stop you from building the kind of startup that is built on a bad ethical foundation. Don’t collect data you can’t protect. It’s that simple!

I’m reading the text of the bill and, so far, it appears it targets only large corporations with 50mil annual revenue and 100,000+ consumer data.

I don’t think start ups will be affected.

Startups aren't even covered by this bill until they've gained lots of traction (1 million users and 50MM+ gross receipts). At which point, again again IFF their business is data hoarding, they will need to hire approx. one additional employee.

I'm sure startups/consultants will step in to provide regulator compliance as a service as well, so maybe not even that.

no it doesn't. a large portion of the bill refers only to 1B+ companies.

also if you start a company, take care of user data, or if you can't just don't gather it in the first place.

Maybe we can petition.

Or start building anti drone capabilities.

Lets start an open robot cooperative where each co adopting robots to replace human labor donates to high tech or other education. This idea is open source so take it and run with it :)

btw, i highly recommend windsurfing for everyone here. it's one of the funnest sports i've ever tried and lots of other programmers seem to be involved (that i've met at least). very affordable to get started. people usually give away free but old long boards and sails from the 80s. they will get you going.

the windsurfing fit is also great, you feel good and a bit buzzed from the adrenaline rush. today i learned a jibe (a way to turn) that i practiced for 2 hours.

BeautifulSoup3 -- and .select() in Python which gives me fancy jQuery-esqe selectors.

here's (part 2) a video of my development on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nzDJ8EZZZs&feature=youtu.be

not true, there are a few mapping services that use data from CL but use snippets that link back to their source instead of full descriptions for example.

this is a not-for-profit fun idea that I hacked together for the windsurfing community.

thanks for reporting -- i've weakened the javascript a bit on that front. what site did you visit?

You seem to simply be scanning the DOM for keywords. The first site I happened to try contained the word "gay" in one of the headlines, and surely enough http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay is also blocked. Doing this on the client side through javascript seems hopeless btw.

What this^ is: A flash widget with a VNC view into a Windows computer running Chrome with the Google Analytics page of anonysurfer.com open

bullets are good - just added them.