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> 1. In real life its fairly easy (and I would say healthy) to have multiple "identities"

I don't know of anyone who uses different names for those identities. My family calls me by a nickname, but certainly all my friends and business relationships know my "real name." I imagine that's true for 99% of people: they name a name that they use with nearly everyone.

The rest of identity management is easily done on Facebook. My business colleagues see an entirely different version of my Facebook than my college friends: literally everything you post can be scoped to a particular friend list.

> Considering the difficulties with friend requests - you are usually connected to the people you want to befriend through other means (e.g. in real life).

Kind of, but it's awkward and unnecessary. I'm friends on Facebook with basically everyone I'm in class with, even though asking their username would be kind of strange. This nominal friendship is very helpful for quickly asking questions or interacting.
6. Kick his ass.
off topic, but why does the article use a picture of Mark Zuckerberg with lip stick photoshopped on?
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Cars are already "automatic". Automatic in the sense that I hop on the train and 40 minutes later I'm at work. During the trip I either get started with work or read a book and have tea depending on what's going on. Plenty of people do it, I assume it's the main reason trains have free wifi here.

I still wouldn't consider anything over an hour-long commute, simply because it'd be taking way too much time from the rest of my life.
I think everybody is pissed. Just look at the message: They could not solve a technical problem, so they cheated. Every German engineer must be pissed. And everybody who has to explain, that this is not German industry standard. (at least I hope it is not)
Anything associated with communism should be burned at stake. The sooner the better. God bless the Chinese for figuring it out and transitioning out of that retched system.
The vast majority of jobs expect you to have a phone number.

I'm not sure how you would have a phone number without working with some phone service.
European privacy laws are very consumer-friendly and usually very reasonable. US companies should look at those laws as a guidebook on how to get your customer's privacy right in the US as well.

You build houses - think of it like fire safety rules. "What do you mean I have to keep track of all the fire safety rules for the country I build the houses in? Can't I just keep track of a set of rules of my choosing instead?" -- well, no, for one and even if you could, that'd be a bad idea. Almost universally, there's good reasons behind specific rules in the fire code. (And in the rarer cases the rules really are broken, that's a problem with the law, but not one that can't be fixed).

Unfortunately, most companies don't give a rat about their customers' privacy (we care deeply about it we swear). What really should happen instead is that US customers demand laws like the ones we have in Europe.
Because hacker news isn't dominated by people who actually create things anymore... certainly not startups.

At this point, upvotes and downvotes are mostly driven by a reddit-esque crowd with political grudges.
I think that is an unrealistically optimistic and friendly interpretation of Christensens' position. I agree that the idealistic aspect of disruption probably explains it's popularity (not to mention the opportunistic aspect). But Christensen cum suis have been propagating disruption as a fact for nearly twenty years, and it has had an enormous influence on the public debate.

And as usual with influential ideas, it's not actually true, and (I think) a very reasonable amount scepticism would have demonstrated that much earlier. As an academic, I really think the global community could have expected more honesty from Christensen.
> Or just leave.

I've worked a few jobs where a manager has left or been moved. Within six months almost all of the team has left. People leave due to conflicts of personality and or changing work styles. This is normal.
That's why privacy controls exist.

It's pretty easy on Facebook to restrict your social photos to only your social friends.
It's incredible how deep the ideological split is, on data protection and surveillance. On one side, you have lawyers saying "hey, this is a problem, this law says you can't do that, we have to find ways to make you comply"; and on the other you have business lobbies and security agencies saying "hey, this is a problem, we need to remove all laws".
While this is true, it's interesting to see what kind of effect this will have on the market.

I also didn't talk about startups, i mean small business in general.

This could be a reason not to launch your business in europe, if the cost of "deployment" is to high. Sure, someone else will fill that hole for you, but that's less money in your bank account. :)
> diesel maintenance vs petrol

Diesel engines are more vulnerable when driven cold and on short distances (i.e.: typical european city usage). They do need periodic fine tuning, which is mandatory here in most european countries. If the engines has DEF, it has to be refilled and carefully maintained. If it hasn't, the filters also need care (again, most people overlook this).

> fuel price

diesel fuel is about 30% cheaper in Europe, where diesel accounts >50% sales in key countries (germany, spain; france 80% in 2008). Obviously not relevant in the US where diesel is basically non existent. Europe is the main diesel market in the world - worth spending some time there in a major diesel city to forge a definite opinion.

> Paris

Actually less cars in city center, and more in the overall urban area. NOx are contributor, so are Particle Matter PM-6 and PM-10, both byproducts of diesel engines in actual use (obviously far above euro6 norms). Up to 80% of PM in London come from diesel, according to UK government: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/green-motoring/10190942/...

I get that your personal experience with diesel in the US is not bad. Like asbestos sounded great when it saved your family from fire. But really, don't use it.
> But most importantly, it just isn’t Reddit.

I think the thing that would set Upvoted apart, and that's basically the one reason it could work, is the fact that under the hood it is Reddit. Reddit has an enormous community that practically supplies stories and also validates them as "traffic-worthy".

I've seen several articles on other news sites that were clearly inspired by a popular post on Reddit, though I can't currently find a good example. If other people are doing it, why not Reddit themselves?
Most IRC clients support DCC file transfer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Client-to-Client
Surely the world doesn't deal in black and white. Rather issues are generally presented to us in shades of gray. With that said it's always a good exercise to imagine what an issue would look like if taken to its logical extreme.

Suppose 1 person had all available money to "invest" toward their politician of choice. All other citizens on earth are busy scraping by on minimum wage, in debt up to their ears, working for this one man who essentially gets to choose who gets elected because no one can put a single penny toward another candidate or his/her legal team to get through all the loop holes necessary to get onto the ballot, etc.

How is this a "fair" representative democracy?

Sure it's not at the point today, but one could imagine that without limits a political system's integrity can be upended through manipulation of its own structure.
Start by looking for the words YEA, NAY, ABSENT and PRESENT using simple OCR or pattern matching. Clip the images into 4 vertical columns the same width as the text, starting just below the text. Use a horizontal line detection algorithm to try to find the boundary of each 'box'. Clip out each box and count the number of black pixels. If it's greater than some level, then that box contains a tick.

OpenCV should be able to do all these things.
[Disclaimer: Co-founder of https://www.bitrise.io , one of the alternatives mentioned on ship.io 's page]

Back when we started only a handful of CI services were available for iOS developers. One of them was CISimple which was later aquired and rebranded as ship.io . Our motivation to start our own service was that none of the available hosted services at the time were flexible enough to handle the projects we were working on.

Ship.io did improve a lot, allowing custom scripts to be executed, but, at least for us, they always seemed to be too locked down, too much of a black box.

This is exactly why we recently introduced our [open source CLI](https://github.com/bitrise-io/bitrise), so that you can run your CI and other automation configurations on your own machine if you want to, and of course in the (highly unlikely ;) case we would decide to close the shop you can still export your configuration and run it anywhere you want to.

I remember, just a few months ago, we felt that ship.io had a spy in our team, as they introduced new features almost at the same time we did (Slack support, Deliver support, ...).

It's surprising they closed so quick, they had quite an active marketing team and released new features frequently. I guess this decision was not up to the people who actually worked on the product, most likely they failed to meet the (monetary) expectations of their parent company.

Fairwell old friend, we'll always remember you!
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He is being downvoted because he weights more the easiness of a business than the citizen's privacy.
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Au contraire, much of machine learning (learned?) software is simply the data used to train it. I think we can all agree that generic image recognition is benign and should be permitted. How about a database of publicity photos from famous movie actors and actresses? Would it be OK to use that database to identify which celebrity I saw getting out of a limousine? And if that's permitted, then the regulators are tasked with determining how famous someone must be or how much the purpose of the image must have been for publicity. These kinds of questions are best suited for a case-by-case interpretation in the courts using current and slowly evolving privacy standards, not some broad new catch-all.

Asserting that good laws are "perfectly possible" is a little tragic given our long history of poorly designed laws. Not to mention mismanaged and corrupt regulatory agencies.
The right wing press just loves to fain Marx when it suits their own narrative.

That said, I often wish the mainstream left would diversify their own font of knowledge. Especially given most don't read him.
> And with the refugee crisis we just magnify the problem because the refugees will have to be integrated, they have to learn German and still lots of them will be lower educated than the rest :/

The EU already has 23 million unemployed (and a lot more in minimum-wage bullshit jobs nobody wants or needs), a million refugees won't make problems significantly worse than they already are.
I rather think they figured that they can't run for every office they can buy.
ART wasn't even default in Kitkat being not stable enough.
We can figure out Paxos but can't figure out how to order a server in Europe.
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"It also guaranteed that a documentary critical of the Kochs didn’t air." Perhaps more of us should be writing documentaries criticizing wealthy people. Maybe that would help redistribute more wealth?
"Political dissidents and abuse victims can't safely use Facebook" is the problem we're discussing. I take it your solution is "political dissidents and abuse victims shouldn't be using the internet at all"?
> People DO go back and engage with content more than once. The assertion that people don't do that is wrong. Your reply alone is evidence of that.

I would like to see the the empirical support for this.

Indicated by data collected from advertisers, internet content consumption is driven largely through social media platforms and mobile direct messaging. Shareaholic's report from the beginning of this year [1] indicates Facebook drives a quarter of hits to sites.

Social platforms and mobile applications thrive on new content. If people are getting to their content through social / mobile apps, and those places maintain eyeshare by presenting fresh, new stuff, it would lead that those platforms de-emphasize old content, not pushing users to return to it.

https://blog.shareaholic.com/social-media-traffic-trends-01-...
Of course the hash posting and remembering the digits would be done by a DFS client you are using.
There could also be intermediares to which you "deposit" your line-ups and they post them for you once the deadline arrives - all is needed is a line-up matching the hash, no authorization from the player required.

Editing the functionality is easy as well, you just replace the hash again. It just requires a local client to do so instead of doing it on the server directly.
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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...

The initiatives and proposed solution would solve any "leftist" kleptocrats doing the same thing as the teabaggers too - as such shouting "others do it too" smacks of somebody wanting to distract from the problem rather than solve it.
Cool I should give it a go then. perl6.io might be the best plan if we're trying to get HN to take notice and try something out >:3
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It gets about as old as mutt, one might even say ;)
If it wasn't for Britain and the Opium wars, China would be in a worse position now. China was very closed and very corrupt towards the end of the Manchurian's rule. Britain did exploit China, but their policy was very different than the policy in India, for example, or in NA.
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Interestingly, there is pressure on both sides there - greater automation means that new skills are needed for the few jobs left, but the fact you're talking about training a handful, rather than training at scale makes for more expensive training per head.
Yau is wrong. Perelman proved it just fine. Hamilton made the plan of attack. Perelman executed it. Mere mortals could finally follow the argument, Yau & his students transparently tried to steal credit from a man who doesn't care for formal recognition.
I'm the founder of http://greenhouseci.com and ship.io was a competitor with a product most similar to what we're offering.

I see the reasoning behind pbiggar's post but I have to say that from our experience (and our target market) there's not that much demand for a unified CI service that can build both server side and mobile apps.
We've had this issue come up a couple of times but most of our customers are mobile app dev teams that have separate tooling from their backend teams and using different CI services for different teams isn't generally a deal-breaker.

What killed ship.io? I don't want to speculate and I hope that we'll see a post mortem from them in the near future.
Regarding javascript interop and immuatable.js, it seems that the authors of immuatable.js are trying to have their List/Map/Set objects as close to ES2015 ones as possible [1].

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js#javascript-first-ap...
It's not ideal, but there's plenty of stuff that looks like this in reality.

Personally, I favour Haskell's unfoldr http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.1.0/docs/Data-Li... which both doesn't require the output to be the same as the intermediate values and cleanly supports termination.

(There's actually a very good reason Haskell cares about termination: it means you can be precise about side-effects. With a classic lazy list, any side effects caused by it are determined by how many items you actually evaluate.)
Apologies for the political observation, but I'm a history buff and I found your comment interesting.

It used to be that progressives would resoundingly argue for smaller, more efficient government that achieves desired social goals. Somehow over the last 50 years they stopped doing this, and instead got into some kind of pissing match with conservatives over the size of government. It'd be great to get back to a discussion around "what are your goals, what are the trade-offs you are willing to make, and what is the most efficient way to achieve them?"
Ah - I didn't read like "it's a bit of pain" (easy or not) but rather like the extra friction brought by this issue is going to stop many people from starting businesses, at all.

(for some context, I'm a French SaaS bootstrapper; I am as careful with my customers data as I can be, and found that starting a SaaS has been a major pain already - VAT rules, finding a SafeHarbor provider which doesn't suck at security, too etc).
Edit: I'm reacting to "Facebook and Twitter [...] could be forced to host European user data in Europe"

Border control with data is the worst idea ever.

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. By law. LOL

Plus I'm a EU citizen, and I can choose to give my data to whoever I want... no more. That's sad.

This ruling only shows the dismal tech knowledge of lawyers and lawmakers. It's impossible to implement Facebook with data spread between EU and US. Same for Tweeter and others. Say goodbye to social networks. Because of model denormalization, because of network latency and intercontinental bandwidth.

Some mention cloud zones, but they're only useful with replication, which IS data transfer.

OR... social networks will cheat. And one day, they'll be sued for cheating the impossible regulations (think VW...)
While we're code golfing:

1) Use a #"[.]$" to detect the full stop
2) Just pass in the iteration function (partial pick-next-word mapping)
What I see here is just a simple data center service which offers to store company data and ensures in complies with EU requirements for these countries. If each country has different laws that require data to store physically in that country's location, then it's just a matter of setting up at least one such data center in each country and provide storage for any company willing to do business. Then you can make service order in bundles with multiple countries and that's it.
This is something I was thinking about as a solution for traffic violations: have drivers rate each other; increase the "trustworthiness factor" of anyone who thumbs down few people and those people are also negatively rated by others and/or have accidents; decrease the multiplier for those who just negatively rate everybody and so on.

Unfortunately, I think you can hit some mines related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore... but who knows? Maybe it won't happen given that you don't want a transitive relation, you want a numeric score for each driver. (Such a score could be used to influence insurance premiums; as an anarchist, I'm generally thinking about solutions for problems like "suppose we don't have patrol cops".)
The author himself is quite complicit to this misbehavior.
Contrast the treatment of bank executives after the S&L crisis, and after the recent financial crisis. They got away with murder (not quite literally) this time.
A bit misleading. Waveguides in Silicon have been used to make photon qubit gates for a while now. It isn't the first time Silicon has been used.

The real takeaway is "Here we present a two-qubit logic gate, which uses single spins in isotopically enriched silicon".

Paper found here:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/natur...

Using spin qubits is nothing new, but normally its done in an ion trap. Doing it in Silicon is novel. I've barely skimmed the paper so I don't really know what their decoherence properties are.
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It worked for Facebook, whose massive growth was fueled
by deals with large email providers that gave their
spammy friend invites a 100% inbox rate.

Could you elaborate on this or cite sources?

Genuinely curious.
> a million refugees won't make problems significantly worse than they already are.

Oh yes, they already do. The housing market in German cities is already fucked up beyond limits because our politicians have slept for years, and 1.5m refugees now needing winter-resistant housing (so, no tents) bring the market to its knees.

But I'm thankful for the refugees, because they show our politicians they can't sleep forever.
If your impediment to creating things is having to setup an extra server in each continent, you're not very good at it anyway.

As an employee of a small software startup, but also as a citizen, I welcome this move.
Couldn't agree with this more. Comments in my experience have been so spammed to death with bots that the benefit of a comments section is diminishing when valued in terms of time spent moderating vs. value added to the reader experience.
Social media has effectively superseded the need for comment sections in my humble opinion, providing a similar experience.
Court orders Google to give the info about a user who published pirated ebooks
As if the labour scarcity will not be dealt with using completely new working class as a replacement.

http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply is a real eye opener.
musicians do this all the time
> i still have one question in a forum about why Android browser's ignore etc/hosts

To make it harder to write an ad blocker
_with "the cloud" you have a lot of option (locations) to choose from_

Without replication between locations, you're stuck: replication IS data transfer.

With such a ruling, you can't implement an intercontinental social network anymore.
"I don't know why you are downvoted. "

How many times a day is this phrase written in Hacker News?
How many times is it found on reddit?

The poster, in this specific case is not being downvoted.

The issue I think is understanding about how commenters and viewers use HN and reddit and upvote and downvote over time. If you understand this process you will no longer want to write "I don't know why" because you will understand the process.

I hope more people would understand the voting processes of these various discussion forums.
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Maybe we could bring some to California.
Laws never stopped big companies or employers that wanted a job done...
This article really buries the lead.
> 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.

Or just host everything in Europe.

Or lobby Congress to stop shitting all over privacy so that the US can be considered a safe harbour again.
> Nor, despite its name, will it have any kind of upvoting system

Well the name says the stories have already been upvoted, so no system of the sorts are really implied anyway. I'm sure there are more takes on that though.