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> 'Nurofen' is a brand.

Nurofen is both a brand and a specific product, the old title made it look like the specific product itself or even the whole brand had been pulled, neither of which is correct.

> Bog-standard Nurofen is still a marked-up, branded product containing a generic drug.

True as that might be, it doesn't make misleading claims and hasn't been pulled, only 4 specific sub-products of the brand have been.
Is the end to double taxation for the corporate tax only? Human Americans are also double-taxed on income earned abroad.
> I would start testing every website I'd visit for vulbs

That's a pretty bad idea if you don't have permission from the owners of the site.
This is a nice follow up to this post [0] on porting a Windows game to OSX.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545143
okay, since someone is probably pissed at this comment, to clarify, this sentence is a quote from @Fenng here http://weibo.com/1577826897/Czz1zj82y

Let's see how many vaporware were released by BDIU in 2014:

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2015-01-08/16219941986.shtml
> Not sure what sort of agreement would be made by finding an address of a piece of paper on the ground, and then knocking on the door there.

As usual, these problems have already been addressed in contract law. What you are describing is an "invitation to treat", which is specifically not a contract.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_treat
Only if the math doesn't work out right (same for corporates also). There is a lot of ambiguity though...
Not a surprising act after the rest of the population pays "TV license" for decades to watch BBC lying.
"If engineers built buildings and bridges the way programmers write software the first woodpecker that would come along would destroy civilization."
Practically all companies cheat whenever there is a competitive or financial advantage doing so and they think that they can get away with it (legally and from a PR perspective), either in manners traceable to orders from the top or via more localised teams/individuals acting without sufficient internal oversight.

Look at BMW for the most recent very public non-Chinese example of this.

It is not specifically a problem with China, though it certainly seems to be more common there currently. I suspect this is due to a mix of issues:

* With the massive growth and changes there in the last couple of decades have left "due diligence" and similar concepts playing catchup.

* As they are moving to a more western way of operating boundaries are being tested (and sometimes actively pushed). This should reduce over time.

* To a certain extent operators over there see what companies elsewhere get caught for, assume that far more is going on and not being reported, and feel it fair that they behave the same way. Also short term thinking leads people who aren't expecting to be in the same place in a few years time to notice that some of these scandals don't erupt for many years after the fact so they consider it worth the risk for localised gain.

* There is a perception that companies in the west are disposed to turning a blind eye to such issues in order to cut costs by using a less expensive third party. Such a disposition encourages such behaviour, and I'm of the opinion that this perception is far from false.

Again there is nothing specifically Chinese about this, it is a more general issue of insufficiently regulated capitalism, but the shear number of companies and individuals over there trying to grow into the market can make it look so.
I agree with you in general but there is another thing you're missing: the double taxation discourages investing in new businesses in the United States.

If a VC is looking at two very similar businesses selling internationally, with one seated in the US where their profits will be doubly taxed, and the other running in a different country where profits are not subject to this, then ceteris paribus, they should expect investment in the non-US company to be more profitable.
Saying something rude would be a bad idea anyway.
Yes. The reason is that corporations vote with their feet quite readily, as seen here.
This is especially interesting when you consider that the basic product (Nurofen) is already a [massive scam / triumph of branding] (delete according to personal opinion).

There's a very strange bug in human programming that we still fall for this stuff so easily.

Branding used to be (and still is) very important in an unregulated market. If there's a high chance that rival products are ineffective (or poisonous) then you have a damned good incentive to stick to your trusted brand.

In a regulated market where a £0.30 pack of generic ibuprofen is literally the same thing as a £2.00 pack of Nurofen, there should be no reason for Nurofen to even exist. In a rational world it wouldn't exist.

I guess the advertising & branding industry really hasn't existed for all that long in terms of human civilisation. Maybe we will gradually wise up to this sort of thing?
Agreed, these have been around since even before Windows, back to the days of DOS.
Everything over the deduction (currently just shy of $100k) is taxed, minus a further deduction for tax paid to a foreign government on the earnings. Basically, you will pay the higher of US tax or local tax, on earnings over $100k. And you're right, most people don't pay.

Really the bigger pain in the ass is that you even have to file. I've filed tax returns to the IRS for the last 10 years despite not paying a cent of tax to the US during that time, since my local tax is higher anyway. It's ridiculous. And come to think of it, even if they did end the double taxation, it's likely they'd keep making us file, the assholes, considering they also recently began to require that we make a yearly report to FinCEN in addition to the IRS.
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Do you use google? Android? Youtube? Facebook? Twitter? Reddit? Do you visis newspaper sites? Do you know they run ads? Do you still use them even when you know they run ads?
Why do you feel entitled to use their services? Don't you think that makes you a hypocrite?
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Why Apple Wants to Get into the Unprofitable World of Payments Between Friends
I think he meant a single person working remotely from home, for which, like it or not, a true 10 MBit/s connection is more than needed. Yes, 3.5 GB file download will take 1 hour, but I haven't met a single dev in past 11 years in +- 7 companies that would claim it prevents them from doing their work.

Now if your work is rather unusual, OR you have to upload lots of stuff and that goes 100 KB/s max, that's another topic. This is not typical for most devs.

Teleconferencing - for most devs, what is the above value over classic conf call (an honest question)? I see little, it's still far from having people sitting behind same desk and brainstorming.
>These episodes reveal several things. First and foremost, Chipotle is a company so out of control and negligent that it repeatedly endangers the public.

Because other restaurant chains are any different?

>But they also illustrate something important about food safety: Although the crops, meats and other foods produced by modern conventional agricultural technologies may not bring to mind a sentimental Norman Rockwell painting, they are on average safer than food that reflects pandering to current fads. And Chipotle knows it. “We may be at a higher risk for food-borne illness outbreaks than some competitors,” the company admits in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, “due to our use of fresh produce and meats rather than frozen, and our reliance on employees cooking with traditional methods rather than automation.” (Think about that: Would you agree to open-heart surgery if the anesthesiologist planned to use “traditional methods” instead of state-of-the-art technology?)

This part of the article is actually beyond the pale. Do they really advocate for frozen meats and mass-cooking techniques because "safer"?

Is that what happens at the expensive restaurants Forbes executives go to?
Fair choice. As for me, I don't go out to watch movies at all, because Hollywood.

But then I would guess your aversion against the car industry to be more general, and that the recent revelations about emissions cheating have done little to sway your opinion. You're basically using the actions of a single actor to reinforce your biases against an entire group.

I do hope you are aware enough not to use that same line of reasoning against racial, ethnic or religious groups though.
As someone who went from flaky 3meg at home to rock stable 150meg fiber it makes a huge difference to how you work.
I don't get the title you gave this when submitting it to HN. (Current title reads "How not to build a 120 Raspberry Pi cluster".)
Glad to hear that from you.

I'm really sorry, I can't tell you how much I invested but I can tell you that it was for the first batch and not per-item charging. So you kinda need to invest a lot of money to start something like this - if you want to create great quality products :)

Vintages from the 60s are sooo amazing. We were actually inspired from some vintage watches (and modern watches) :)
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0% is only the stable rate in theory (and only if you ignore every other business consideration in the theory). It will never work like that in reality, where countries often have dramatic benefits to offer that compensate for paying more than 0%.

All nations would have to go to zero in the category of what other benefits they have to offer (their sum value proposition outside of their tax rate). That's not going to happen. Those benefits add up to being worth a certain amount of tax depending on the nation and the corporation's specific context. If this wasn't true, every relevant corporation would have flooded out of the US (or Germany) long ago, seeking much lower rates.
Because it's extra convenience and another reason to get an iDevice?
I like this idea. It seems to me that we are seeing more and more egregious examples of companies pushing their luck with how far they can exploit their customers' loyalty.

The difficulty would be in defining an objective "greed index".

I hope you're right that we're reaching a tipping point in customer attitudes. I find it depressing that companies seem to get away with this stuff so easily.
> Their only common ground was perhaps dislike and fear of reds (and that turned out very justified).

Getting wildly OT now but the atrocities and systematic killings performed by the Nationalists absolutely dwarfed the isolated killings on the Republican side, perhaps by a factor of ten to one.
Construct 2 r217 (Beta)
Publish the final test set right before the deadline.

Alternatively, require the participants to provide an API and call them, instead of them submitting things.
Is that really necessary? With a fleet car, a replacement comes soon enough, and the towing vehicle can pick up the broken one. With personal SDCs, it's probably the same, with the possible exception of the replacement car being the same premium brand (and it won't be able to arrive as soon as a generic fleet one, I guess).
Country law trumps EU law.
I don't know about you but my primary system disk is an SSD, which is far less than 2 TB... Guess what kind of partition it is (and guess which one it came with)?

I've found AOEMEI (?) to be good for converting other partitions from MBR to GPT but their shareware version won't do boot partitions without paying ;)
What's a suitable resource depends on your background. If you like books, "Proofs and Types" by Girard, Lafont, Taylor [1] is a great read, albeit idiosyncratic.

[1] http://www.paultaylor.eu/stable/prot.pdf
For webapps, certainly. You'd get much responsive UI, as there is much less overhead in responding to events, which improves end-user experience. Public APIs should stay REST, perhaps.
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For an offline tool with GNUplot and LaTeX output, check out https://github.com/bingmann/sqlplot-tools/ -- its intended use case is experimental evaluation (you output "RESULT key=val key2=val2" lines and the tool creates the DB schema for you and imports the data, then you run SQL queries to plot), but you can just as well use it with existing tables. It's a pretty neat tool that I use a lot.
I am trying to think of companies that should rightfully repatriate cash back to the states, and companies that should not.

Why is it that it is repulsive that Google or Apple chooses to keep their cash overseas, whereas it is fine for Budweiser to do so (ignoring magnitudes for a second)? Because AB Inbev is Belgian? This is a difficult example for me to think of, because the US is one of the interesting countries where the largest companies here (or globally) are almost always American too.

But let's imagine for a moment that there is a company called Apple Inc that only does business in the US and nowhere else, and there is an unrelated company in France called Pomme SA, and another unrelated company called Apfel AG in Germany that happen to sell identical iPads and iPhones. Do they have a duty to transfer cash to each other and their jurisdictions? What if the CEOs of these companies travelled and met each other and went, "oh! we did not know it but we sell the same thing, let's share resources in some way", which country has a right to collect tax on the revenue of the new global organization?

The real debate is really about fairness in transfer pricing (which is difficult if not utterly boring, because typically transfer pricing are for services that are not fungible or even exchangeable in arms length markets, and so the debate within tax jurisdictions are over the nitty-gritty "economics" of the transaction in addition to consideration of foreign tax obligations yadda yadda yadda yawn), and this tax evasion through scary financial structuring like "inversion" is a really catchy thing to publicly excoriate, but it's probably not the right concern. So this is kind of a stretched example.

The point I am getting at is that many American companies aren't 100% American, and it doesn't seem like there is a good reason for insist that all foreign earned cash (from Apfel and Pomme) to be brought back to the US. I do not agree that a company like (say) Royal Dutch Shell, being one of the largest oil companies here, should repatriate cash into the US, and unanimously most of us don't think so, so this is not really the problem we should be getting angry about.
Yes. After all a driverless car could be stuck in such a way that it is blocking traffic and a 'jog mode' would allow you to get it out of the way, just like you would with a normal car. 'Soon enough' may cause a 20 km traffic jam or even an accident.
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For me, it is. I get nearly instantaneous reaction times for UI events, even where round-trip to server is involved (WS session is already created, so no duplicated headers, etc.) Additionally, especially for mobile apps, if connection is dropped, it is immediately detectable and it can go to offline mode right away.
A small sensor and not enough light hitting it.
Thanks. It is a problem for her but thankfully not to the point where she feels she should leave on principle.

The games industry is small though and it is all going in a similar direction. Ideally she would change industry but after more than 10 years doing games and now in her early 40s she is anxious about making such a change.
Indeed.

(Netty is well-optimized, but quite bloated as well).
I loved reading this article. Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat's comments about the mathematics of General Relativity were beyond my understanding, but there is much to learn from her discussion of how her relationship with Einstein developed.

If you want to explore this topic from another point of view, get to know the work of Jeremy Bernstein, a theoretical physicist and long-time writer for The New Yorker. Bernstein also spent some time at the IAS when he was a young scientist, and has written a great deal about Einstein.
Strangely, knowing all we know about the placebo effect, it's likely that those overpriced non-targeted versions did help people more than either the plain version or the genetic. Weird world.
Stick a gran turismo in there and they are golden.
Identifying proofs with programs undeniably gives a beautiful economy of concepts, best experienced among mature tools maybe in Agda.

But there is a price to be paid, and that's the restriction to constructive logic. If you need classical logic, use an LCF-style prover like Isabelle/HOL.
> However, the issue here is one of trust. Should you trust Avast with this kind of access to your private information? Avast has essentially chosen to hijack your web browser’s security without your permission, inserting itself as a silent watcher into all your secure communications.

If you've installed a program with administrative privileges, it already has total, unrestricted access to your machine. There may be a reason to be concerned about this, but it's not that they're getting some access that the user has not already granted by installing the software.

I'm not a fan of blacklist-based security like AV, I think it's basically useless. But if the filtering features of Avast are something you want for some reason, this seems a legitimate way to do it. The alternative is to read this data directly from browsers memory (they can do this with the access they already have), which is likely to break at every update and require a huge amount of programming effort.
That's exactly the point, i rather see nothing at all (if i don't have the budget to pay for something) rather than getting drained by all the advertising distractions, and i suspect many people feel the same.
> Many Secure Boot implementations let you load your own keys.

And there is no promise that this will not change.
Subsonic is a similar project, and has a mature ecosystem of client apps. (Added bonus: no PHP.)
> No, actually what you're saying is a pile of crap.

In Germany, our constitution says in §14.2: "Eigentum verpflichtet. Sein Gebrauch soll zugleich dem Wohle der Allgemeinheit dienen.", translated roughly to "Ownership creates duties. Its use shall be for common welfare."

For me, looks like the failure is in the US constitution which does not focus on the common good.
Red carpet events could be more easily "curated", since practically very dress is a unique creation.
I agree to an extent, but nations are also competing on all of these other factors that make them more attractive places to do business. Some costly health care surcharge in France could be reduced as easily as the foreign profit taxation in the US.

Also, it only takes one Ireland to drive the entire world toward 0%.
One of things I find fascinating is exactly why Satoshin has proven so hard to identify.

In truth there's probably only about twenty people on Earth who have the requisite skills, knowledge and obsessive personality to pull off what they did, and you'd think somebody like that would be well known in the security community. It should be EASY. But the mystery endures.
Ask HN: Use cases of Instant Messaging for business?
We're looking for other uses cases for a product we've built. We based our assumptions on initial false positive feedback, and now considering pivoting.

We've built Seat.im - a professional instant messaging platform for sales. It has really simple client on-boarding as it requires no software and no account registration - with just one click (i.e. in email signature) clients can start interacting with a sales person (IM, video call, screensharing).

Our initial assumption was that both salespeople and their customers want to accelerate communication when working together (email is slow). Initially salespeople we spoke to found it exciting and were happy to try it out, but when running trials we learned that speed of communication isn't a real problem they want to be solved, and immediacy or such availability can actually be harmful for their sales process (i.e. unfulfilled expectations of immediacy results in bad customer experience or inability to prioritize deals etc.).

Can you see other use cases for the product we've built?
So, it seems like the renderer is doing a lot of small updates to buffers, causing pipeline stalls. The article does not mention the size, offset and alignment used to update uniform buffers, which may play a huge factor here.

The details of CPU-GPU buffer coherency are hardware specific, but using a larger alignment can help hitting the fast path. At worst, this ends up being a read-modify-write operation to the VRAM over a DMA transfer.

The alignment of individual writes should be at least 256 bytes, prefarably even more. A multiple of a CPU (or GPU) page size may help: 4k, 64k, 2M are good alignments.

In modern OpenGL (w/GL_ARB_buffer_storage)/D3D/Vulkan, you could use a persistent/coherent mapped buffer and explicit sync points. It makes this problem go away, but requires a bit more programming effort to set up correctly.
> a car with a software augmentation for the driver and they should be lumped in with the regular cars

Which have already existed for some years now (see Mercedes Benz' DISTRONIC PLUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXB82PfNucg).
The more I learn about security, the faster I want to run away from anything related to it.

Being a client-side developer in gamedev (i.e. a space that's not as sensitive to security as a lot of other industries) feels so good.
> Corporations aren't repatriating the money they hold offshore.

Indirectly, they are: "Nearly Half of So-Called “Offshore” Funds Already in the United States"

Earlier this year, a survey was sent to 27 U.S. multinational corporations and found they held more than half a trillion dollars in tax-deferred foreign earnings at the end of FY2010. The survey also found that 46% of those foreign earnings – almost $250 billion – was maintained in U.S. bank accounts or invested in U.S. assets such as U.S. Treasuries, U.S. stocks other than their own, U.S. bonds, or U.S. mutual funds.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/me...
> (Added bonus: no PHP.)

It uses Java, a pile of (insert swear word) so high that nothing comes close.
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg: “Now Is When We’re Going Big” in Ads (2011)
Quite. I can even feel the branding working on me even though I know it is rubbish. The nice shiny foil pack versus the plain basic package. The thought that perhaps the big company will have better quality control.
I suppose complicating the matter is the placebo effect, especially as it is the area of pain relief which is the poster child for the efficacy of placebo.
People fall for it because they don't know better. Nurofen treats headaches/migraines/whatever, ibuprofen... what the hell is ibuprofen, the doctor did not prescribe that!

I've seen so many people take overpriced multivitamins and specific brands for cold/fever when they could've taken generic paracetamol or bodybuilder supplement vitamins (much cheaper and higher dosages) that I don't even care anymore.

Either educate yourself and do some research or pay for the safe, overpriced brand.
Or: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=bind...
> Look at BMW for the most recent very public non-Chinese example of this.

Did I miss something? Or is this an example of what I meant when I said that other German manufacturers would be negatively affected by the VW scandal as well?
Less injuries > more injuries. Less deaths > more deaths.
That's a great reason to get rid of security features!

Might as well ditch TLS since soon you'll only be able to get certs for government approved content.
I couldn't get past the awful UI, written using a generic portable UI toolkit which makes it uniformly terribly looking on all platforms.
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