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They make majority of their revenue from hardware, not services.
> In the financial sector, the extra-territoriality of US laws has been a problem for decades.

This is a problem for the internet that has long been present but is increasing: multiple jurisdictions with global reach. Historically the First Amendment has shielded the internet from a lot of attempts to interfere with it, but there's no particular reason why only the US should claim that its laws apply globally. Why not Franco-German laws against Holocaust denial? English libel law? Saudi blasphemy law? Chinese censorship law?

Sooner or later someone's going to find themselves in a Kafkaesque situation where two global jurisdictions demand incompatible things.
Oh, come on - getting a site to work across more than one browser isn't 'optimising to the best you can', it's just sloppy from the off.

- ed

Although it does say 'prototype', to be fair.

Still... 'grr!'
I suspect "encrypted text" is the result of a journalist mangling "text containing shellcode" or something like that. Obviously once they have malware in the phone itself, controlling it via encrypted / silent SMS would be a fine way to do things though.
Whatever was the next big thing after SOA! Just look at the Slashdot archives for 1990, we can probably figure it out quickly.
In Denmark, you are required by law to state if an article is paid content or not. The law extends to both articles in magazines, but also the web, including blogs.

The ads are not only happening in articles, it is also happening on Vine, where companies sponsor videos of popular users:

http://mashable.com/2014/07/22/sneaky-vine-ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhqXUekgEc
Microservices are advertised as a means to modularization, but it's what programming language modules are for - they are defined on source code level and can be freely used in different runtime components without network/ops/version-management headaches. When you have your module defined that way, you can think of exposing it as a microservice because this may make sense for your use case.

Imagine that each Python module runs as a microservice. For many modules this would lead to huge performance degradation, for example a regexp module can be called thousands times per second, the running time of a call is usually short and replacing an in-process call with a network call will give 100-1000x slowdown.

But if you take a different use case of the same module - complex regexps running on large texts, potentially causing out-of-memory errors, then packing the module into a microservice can make sense - separate processes can have large caches, an out-of-memory error terminates an instance of a microservice only and not the calling process.

Generally I think the advice should be to always use source code modules in the first place, and create microservices using these modules for specific use cases only involving runtime needs like caching, fault tolerance, scalability.
Or simply that they feel low quality comments detract from the site relative to whatever engagement/informational value they add. Some types of sites in particular (consumer gadgets for example) seem to attract lots of warring fanboy-ism without much in the way of signal. Yes, turning off comments is something of a nuclear option but you can't chalk it up purely to blocking criticism.
>"It's the classic tragedy of the commons. Nobody owns the waterways and the air, and hence individuals have neither the power nor incentive to protect them."

Why does lack of direct ownership imply lack of protection?

It's possible to have a common resource that is owned by nobody/everybody, and have an organisation set up to protect misuse of this resource. Just because it's free to use, doesn't mean it's free for all potential uses.
I would love someone to do an ELI5 of their research.
>No, they just happen to be Libertarians

I agree. The anger should be directed towards the University, who could refuse the pledge with its associated demands. Why blame the Koch brothers for expecting their money to peddle influence? It's sort of the point. And it's only ever a problem for people who don't agree with the politics. Was having Larry Summers participate in the annual reviews at Harvard after a post in the Clinton Whitehouse corrupt? These sorts of things are inherently political.

In fact, just one article over, is this:

"Hoffman and Pincus each gave a million dollars to Priorities USA, the Democratic Super PAC. Since then, they have had the opportunity to spend time with Obama. In a private forty-five-minute meeting in the Oval Office in 2012, Pincus gave the President a PowerPoint presentation on what he calls “the product-management approach to government.”

>let alone your term teabaggers clearly shows your tendencies

It's funny that in another HN thread people are discussing "trolling" and how HN gets it right by allowing people to express dissenting views, respectfully, without being punished. Meanwhile, the parent is downvoted and the comment with a derogatory political term lives on.

And, for the record, I'm Canadian, so none of these politics are really mine.
Hate to be the grammar nazi, but there's an error in the title: "become" and not "became"
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Here's an experiment:
Go enter some giant free-roll and a $10 tournament with a huge guaranteed prize pool. I would bet that the top score (not the average) in the free-roll will have higher score. Now take the points that each player scored and their original cost and you can use a variant of the knapsack problem[1] to figure out the optimal lineup. You'll see that quite often the optimal lineup wasn't picked by anybody (mostly because the player costs are pretty good and the optimal lineup sometimes doesn't use the full salary).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
Most people would prefer being wiped in the ass by a robot.

There are really strong incentives for automation in healthcare.

When talking about the immigrants and refugees working with elders; Unfortunately, even the "human touch" and the social part of the job is sometimes problematic because of cultural and language barriers... (Also applies to the opposite situation, elder immigrants receiving care.)
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> You are framing your answer to not include the original case

That's your interpretation. I interpreted the original claim by erdojo that "User-generated commentary can be done right" as a general assertion that there are ways to achieve meaningful conversation, just like the one we're having now.

> In what we could call an open environment where people do not care about their reputation - such as Vice - what can you do?

Now you are framing the answer. If you want to know how to build a good comment system, my answer is "don't create an open environment where people do not care about their reputation".

If you find this to be a non-answer, maybe it's because I didn't reply to what you thought was the question - but that question had not been made explicit, so there was leeway in how to address it.
You are not talking about St Jobs, right?
Same in UK. The regulators are pretty strict that sponsored content has to be clearly labelled as such before the user clicks the link.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/26/vloggers-must-t...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30203816

https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Media-Centre/2014/Maki...
Are danes getting corrupt or just becoming stupid ?
We always admired scandinavia but this is just plain stupid.
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If I were a student, alumnus, or professor of FSU, this would be quite annoying. However, from the outside, does this matter? Koch can't buy all the universities. I'm not aware that the FSU econ department is especially influential. It seems unlikely that Koch will be able to influence the direction of economic research or opinion through an action like this. Mostly he'll just be able to avoid the seeming embarrassment of the holder of the Chuck Koch Endowed Chair in Economics writing some paper that says, "Koch Industries sucks!"
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I think it's a smart and awesome decision.

Curated reddit. It solves so many problems and can offer a lot of value to everybody.

- People who want "clean" and moderated reddit get what they want,

- advertisers get what they want,

- and, hopefully, reddit users get what they want(because there will be less pressure to moderate reddit.com).

At the very least they will capture all the value that buzzfeed and other bad blogs are currently taking from reddit.

Everybody wins.
I recommend checking out http://www.unkochmycampus.org/florida-state-university/

Full disclosure, my friend went to FSU and experienced the Koch influence firsthand and he became involved with the FSU Progress Coalition. He recently wrote "A Student Review of FSU Gift Acceptance Policy: Undue Influence and Charles Koch Foundation" [1] which is worth reading.

[1] http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5400da69e4b0cb1fd47c90...
I'm saying that no material facts have changed or were unknown by the governments before the safe haven and that I am skeptical that the case would have been heard at all without public revelation and interest.

I am also very skeptical that private data in Germany was or is any safer from the problems with the safe haven as far as data intentionally illegally shared with institutions in the US, not due purely to issues on the ground when defending the data in good faith.
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A micro-services service-directory micro-service?

Maybe we should call it MDDI?
But you most certainly can follow the political process to dissent. And if you can't, that's the real issue, not the TPP.
Yes, a thousand times yes! Microservices are yet another tool in the box but they shouldn't be used on everything. And it makes no frigging sense for a startup or any new project to start with microservices...

The main advantage of microservices are in scaling and in reducing complexity of a big system but those advantages only make sense when you have enough traffic so that you have to scale or when your system has become complex enough to warrant microservices.

When first starting development, the most important thing is speed of development to get feedback from users as soon as possible. It's much faster to develop a clean, well optimized monolith than to spend a lot of time developing a whole bunch of micro services.
And while thinking in term of microservices will help you to better conceptualize your software architecture, at this stage, you don't have all the informations needed to have a clear idea of what the final architecture will be and you'll often end up with microservices that are divided in suboptimal ways causing a lot of pain.
This seems to be awards for two neutrino observatories, Super-Kamiokande and SNO(Sudbury Neutrino Observatory). Note that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 was also awarded to neutrino observations.
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Actually that's not it at all. In fact I just bought Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg and Gimme More by Britney Spears on iTunes after this post. What I don't like is ridiculously long copyright terms.
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It should read "split up your monolith".

Just because one extreme isn't working for you doesn't automatically mean the other extreme is the right solution.
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Who is down-voting all the inflation related questions? This shouldn't have to be explained to someone with downvote-level karma, but disagreeing with a comment's point of view is not a good reason to downvote it.
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For mounting inequality, it depends who you ask and where. It's not increased in the UK for instance: http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/09/stiglitz-piketty-je...

Of course, this is from a right-wing magazine, so they could just be making it up to appease their owners or something.

And it also depends on the definition of poverty. Is it absolute or relative? As soon as you start talking about relative poverty, you are effectively arguing for wealth redistribution.

//EDIT: swapped poverty in for inequality above//
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> it takes forever to warm up in winter

> there's no warm air coming out

Ok, is a different problem then that I thought. Never say this in any of my cars, but it seems that other qashqai owners have the same problem. Not easy solution for a feature that your car just do not implement. If the air is in closed circuit (inner) will warm a couple of minutes before, but do not expect miracles with your model. In this case, is just a problem of poor design.

> what do you mean by heaters?

I don't know the name of the piece in english, they are needed for warming up the engine before starting the car. When some of them eventually break and is cold outside you can't start the car after several minutes. (Just need to replace the broken pieces, but is a new car and this is not the problem here).
> it's orders of magnitude better to deploy lots of smaller identical monoliths than it is to try and build and deploy lots of services and manage the contracts and complexity between them.

This article from 2003 by Martin Fowler is exactly about that: http://www.drdobbs.com/errant-architectures/184414966
In the interest of fairness:

The biggest spenders on lobbying are typically business-right groups. https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2015&inde...

The top individual funders tend to be conservatives: https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?disp=D

And on the left, the biggest organizational contributers in election cycles tend to be unions (which is a significant factor behind the right's desire to break them):
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?cycle=2014
You mean capitalism, not economy.
Indeed. I remember reading that back then!
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> 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?

I do. Company X is totally free to not operate. My citizens well being or my ability to oppress my own people - depending on the type of country, trumps Y's company rights to make profit from my people.
So was the actual comment "I do understand why you are being downvoted, and I disagree with the reasons" or "I do not understand why you are being downvoted?"

Because they are two different things.
Not that much a joke actually.

According to University of Alabama criminologist Adam Lankford[1] the causes include fame:

factors include a chronic and widespread gap between
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> As a side note, it's important to know the difference in Android between "targeting" an SDK and what that has to do with the minimum supported Android version an app will run on. The short answer is nothing. If an app targets the Marshmallow SDK, it doesn't mean it will only run on Marshmallow, it means that the app is aware of the new features and can use them. Apps have a "target SDK version" and a "min SDK version"—basically the newest and oldest Android versions that an app supports. Any competent app will gracefully degrade on older Android versions.

The amount of technical insight and accuracy in a this review does actually impress me.

I believe stuff like this not to be common knowledge even among a more technical crowd like HN, yet there it is in a geek/consumer-oriented OS review.
It already happened and Google dumped China.
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Well Amazon still has a large number of bodies I live near the UK's big warehouse and overheard some interesting gossip about that.

Basically the rumor is that Amazon might have similar problems to Ford did in the UK where Junior supervisors are playing favorites
And there's probably a parallel to "one file per type" with tons of little types. It feels like you're making progress and doing stuff. You've not just done one task, you've deployed changes to 20 services. It also feels like you've made things more abstract than they actually are. It also feels more like Real Serious Programming.

I've used a Twitter API client (works fine) that implements itself across 7 separate libraries. All same project, they all work together, and they aren't used in any other system. Just separated things out for the fun of it. One library for Twitter client "Factories". One for Twitter "Credentials". Another for Twitter client "Security". Zero benefit to the user or to the project. But it certainly makes things seem more important, eh?
What we really need is a nice and cosy safe space.

Throw Web 2.0 right into the trash.
Right: Capitalistic economy ;)
Nope. They are overvalued.
Iphone will cost the same or with small differences everywhere in the world. Ironically in some "poor" places it's more expensive than in the US.

The costs of living in SF are too insane.It will not create more jobs but instead push bigger chunks of money to fewer people that will not really benefit from them.
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> Data segregation: Since all your data now lives in different data stores, you’re responsible for relationships between data. What would be a simple cascading delete in a monolith is now a complicated symphony of dependencies, calls and verifications.

IMHO, this is the biggest problem with microservices: "Transactions" are not available in a microservice environment. You'll have to work really hard to get anything that comes close.
In all European countries the license plate has to match the country where one is resident.

In some countries the taxes are high and car makers try to compensate by lowering their prices. To still make it affordable to buy cars. Like for Denmark and Netherlands. For residents from other countries it might therefore be worth it to buy a car there and then export to their own country.
Is it fair to give the Nobel prize to a single/two persons in 2015? Usually it is a team of people all working together collectively to solve a common problem.
This is where I think Business Insider is ultimately "wrong", yet it keeps stressing in all related articles how this will create huge bureaucracy.

From what I see in the ruling, it keeps stating "under the directive" (Data Protection Directive).

The current Directive, does indeed give national governments the right to decide how it's implemented. However, the new Directive (or regulation actually, meant to pass this year) will unify the directive for all countries. So I believe this "bureaucracy" issue, at least in regards to having to follow 27 different laws, will not be an issue anymore.
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It's interesting how this is described as a potential "bureaucratic nightmare". Having to follow the law of the country your doing business in has been standard operating procedure for, well, basically all of human history.

Somehow the tech industry seems to think it should be exempt from that, even if it means being allowed to piss all over the basic civil rights of citizens of modern Western democracies.

Yes, this is a problem that needs to be solved given the reality modern cross-border online services. But it can't be solved by the corrupt political elite simply selling their citizens hard fought rights to corporations operating from countries that lack respect for such rights.
The EU is not a state and therefore typically you cannot directly sue in its courts.

In most cases (such as this) a national court refers the case to a european level if european directives and interests are involved.

Fun fact: the EU commission/parliament has also not the power to pass any binding laws. They pass directives which are than implemented into national laws by the legislative bodies of it's member states and can also be overthrown by courts of each state individually (e.g. happened in germany with EU data preservation directives)
Sure. The next step would be to demand EU nations which violate the safe harbor EU rules be either thrown out of the EU (GB, but probably also Neitherlands, Sweden and Denmark), or fix their privacy laws. It cannot be that the GHCQ acts on behalf of the US on EU data and allows easy circumvention of basic privacy principles.
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DNS for the domain only has a 300 second TTL. The site can easily be pointed somewhere else before the launch.

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I think a cargo cult also has something to do with signaling, sort of like a status symbol ("They can't really be Y if they are not X!" -> "Look at us how X we are!"). It's a self-reinforcing meme that is used as a heuristic for value estimation, but usually fails catastrophically because of its heuristic and self-reinforcing nature.
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No, it isn't. This is a big problem with the Nobel Prize.
It came out of Scottish enterprise funding and is run by Brits, ergo, it's Scottish in origin but based in New York.
On HN the comments are the product. On Vice the content is.
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You're forgetting an important group:

Non-European companies that get paid for services rendered to EU citizens or countries.

If found to be violating laws, the ECJ can order banks to block payments made to those companies from within the EU, which harms their bottom lines between nothing and a lot.
Hi jipiboily and pc86, thanks for this comment.

You’re right! That plan to release the payment model this summer was made back in spring and that text wasn’t supposed to be there... The reason we changed was we started a partnership with http://www.sintef.no/en/ (Scandinavia’s largest independent research organisation) in March which made us change some things about the direction we are taking the product in.

We have been working with SINTEF and 6 pilot partner companies to fine tune the product to meet user needs as they define them and also to make sure we have a premium, paid version that is going to work.

It will be rolled out by the end of this month and, while I don’t want to give too much away, there will be a free option and a premium version with extra features where companies pay per user/per month. We will be sure to let you guys know when we have more details.

Thanks again, Lasse @ Someone.io
You have to scan through about ten garbage paragraphs describing the current state of the music industry before it starts talking about the story in the headline.
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Your taxes also fund the IMF, the legal system used to defend drug parents, and the promotion of "abstinence-only" sex-ed.

The reality is federal programs aren't started or canceled based on total, let alone an individual's, tax revenue, so I call bullshit here.
So any ideas about the cause of this phenomenon?
I looked at your webpage, and other than "beautiful layout and nice fonts" I had trouble finding any sales pitch towards end-users.

Why should I download this client? What does it benefit me, that mail.app, outlook, mailbox or Thunderbird can't give me?
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