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For what it's worth, the "optimizing apps" thing is going away in Android N.

https://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html#jit_...
And you're assuming that T-Mobile and Sprint are incapable of hiring accountants capable of minimizing their profits for tax reasons.

Let's turn this around: if the market is so thin why are they still pursuing it?

Wouldn't it be irrational to pursue a market in which no profits can be made?

Especially while pushing forward with enormous marketing budgets and tech upgrades?

Maybe we should set up some kind of donation spot for those poor carriers that supply us with all this technology out of the goodness of their hearts.
Happy with this outcome as Nougat was my top choice. I love Nutella, but I prefer keeping brands out of version names.
It's only rational if the damage to reputation and potential legal consequences are less than the savings. The more often stuff like this happens, the less clear that it becomes that using tax havens is a net positive for companies. I agree with your point, though.
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Your the one creating the "eternal september" discussion in this thread. You take a story about international trade and make into a left-right issue, promoting your pet opnion that Europe have moved to far to the left. Then you turn the whole thread into meta by complaining how HN is turning into reddit (something so common it even is warned against in the guidelines).

Not only are your comments utterly predictable, and therefor uninteresting, they are factually incorrect. It's often the right wing that want to protect the local market. The US just forced China to limit subsidies on exports [0]. The UKs exit of the EU is largely a result of the left wing not being able to convince their votes, in favor of right wing conservatives.

That Europe has turned to the left as a result of the financial crisis is also not substantiated [1][2]. The few countries that have in recent years are have all been forced to enact (right wing) economic reforms. Including Greece, France and Portugal. Which is why people are protesting, not because they have suddenly become more leftist.

If you think HN has become leftist it's very likely that you are simply older than most people on HN. Young people today, whether they consider themselves left or right, are forced to care about things like housing, healthcare, employment and other issues that were previously considered left wing because society is changing.

[0] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4f4d1240-024a-11e6-99cb-83242733f7...
[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q8uKkXy8X4I/TjH0passYGI/AAAAAAAAGV...
[2] http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/1D03/production...
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What is the definition of "political"? If it's a question of tax, of stock options, of a free speech law, which top HN submissions often are, these are all political in the traditional definition. I feel your definition is something you have in mind, but haven't articulated. By political it seems like you are talking about "right versus left explicitly" type politics?
Caseless collate sequence in en_GB.UTF8
Replica tends to mean modern thing that looks like original but has quite a few modern parts and built with modern techniques. Kits cars builders have made the word replica problematic.
This fits well for anyone working in web development. The quote: "You want to be in a constant state of slight discomfort, struggling to barely achieve whatever it is you are trying to do" explains how I feel whenever I'm starting out with new frameworks, languages and tools. The webdev world is in a constant state of flux. This year is a great example for me, as I'm in the process of learning: ES6, Typescript, Angular2, RxJS and Webpack--I'm always in a state of "slight discomfort".

I just have to avoid using "Google" and "StackOverflow" to parallel the author's experience of travelling in Boston without GPS, but I don't think I'm ready for that yet.
I think a point to remember, is that there is profound difference between common law and civil law in that in civil law country the spirit of the law is usually more important than specific wording, and precedents have much less impact.

I think the current chase after big companies is mostly a change in the interpretation of the spirit of the law. One could argue it creates a dangerous climate for business and it's probably right, but at the same time no one ever argued that what those companies did was moral in regard of the law, only that it followed it's wording.

(I personally think our laws should change, but at the same time it's obvious that countries like Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands... Would veto it at the EU level)
>"Craig : Hahaha."

What is the point of including this?
They had a deal with Kit Kat though.
Except that Aspartame is bad although possibly not causing cancer. All sweeteners (even though not containing glucose) have been found to increase blood sugar. And, on top of it, Aspartame is an excitotoxin, i.e. if you value your brain, stay off Aspartame!
Somehow I don't think that the likes of good old Farage would be thrilled by this.
Certificate authorities are the (shaky af) basis of the entire trust chain of the web.

Because its root certificate is in everybody's CA bundle, StartCom had a moral responsibility to understand the security around this product. This is negligence.

I don't have any StartCom certificates right now, but I sure won't have any in the future after this display.

What would a "CA death penalty" look like? They're a "root" CA, is there an entity that signed their root certificate that could issue a revocation? Or would we have to get all the OS and browser vendors to agree to phase out their root after some time?
So was KitKat.
If you're going to host controversial, static content then consider NearlyFreeSpeech.net (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net). They have a legal team that seems to love shredding takedown notices. For example, this is from their abuse handling document at https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse#civil:

" A NearlyFreeSpeech.NET member site is defaming me or otherwise injuring me civilly, or is infringing my non-copyright intellectual property rights.

Please forward a certified copy of your legal finding from a court of competent jurisdiction to our correspondence address. If you have not yet obtained such a finding, a preliminary injunction or court order is typically also sufficient.

If you are not able to obtain the above, you will need to work directly with the site operator to resolve your differences. We will have to fall back on our members' contractual assertion that the content they upload is legitimate and therefore we will not be able to get involved."

(Not affiliated in any way except as a happy customer. I use them for cheap hosting for some domains I control.)
Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS
The formulation of the question frames Social Security and Medicare as being mutually exclusive with a UBI.

UBI ought to replace things like food stamps and welfare. Not healthcare or retirement benefits!

I am a huge fan of UBI, and I would have voted "disagree" the way that question was framed.

A better formulation would be to frame UBI as an "automation dividend". Where we dip into increased efficiencies produced by automating labor to fund a basic income.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Rutkowska
Yet, they also have an ethical responsibility to the society in which they operate. Being legal and ethical are two different things.
From what I understand, getting these treatments through the FDA was rather tricky. This paves the way for future treatments.

The money quote:

The company has built a microbiome library of 14,000 strains of human bacteria it hopes will help it treat a range of diseases, eventually without needing feces at all.
How about a QR code on a business card kept in your wallet? Scan the QR code (with you phone's camera) to input the long passphrase (or even better just random bits).

There could still be a short pin/passphrase in addition to that. Keepass allows for something similar by having a local file + passphrase to unlock a password vault.

Backups of the QR code could be as easy as photocopying it!
> The ultimate cure for monopoly behaviour is a smaller government and more competition by avoiding regulations that favour larger operations over smaller ones.

That would be the libertarian fantasy, but no, unfortunately that is entirely incorrect.

The "regulations" that you assume make monopolies possible is really unrestricted capitalism in itself, which leads to accumulation of capital in the hands of one or few, often colluding entities.

Capitalism favors larger operations over smaller ones through efficiencies of scale. There is no human-created regulations that do this.
iOS 9.3.3 jailbreak tool expected to be made public on 10 June – iOS jailbreak
The content is not infringing. There is a fair use exception to trademark law to protect product criticism, works of art, irony, etc. You cannot use trademark law to silence all criticism of your organization.
We're really excited about this new series on The Macro about the first employees at startups. First employees are often unsung heroes at companies, but often incredible crucial to getting them off the ground and setting the culture of the startup.

I'm always remind of Derek Sivers video on First Followers when I think of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits / reduce tax burden is a myth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985690
This is really cool. That voyage must be pretty brutal compared to modern sailing vessels - if you look at this video [1], the galley is basically a sink with a tarp over it :). I wonder if the ship has an inboard engine or a GPS for safety reasons. I imagine that turning this thing around in a crew overboard scenario would be pretty much impossible with a square-rigged sail and no engine.

[1] http://www.drakenexpeditionamerica.com/2016/06/07/cooking-on...
EU Bans Claim That Water Can Prevent Dehydration
Only for new devices that support it
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Pilates could be very useful. Most of it is very low impact strength training - instead of holding up your body weight, you're straining against springs, for example. There are a lot of exercises that don't focus on the arms because Pilates focuses on very discrete muscle groups for each exercise.

I wouldn't start with group classes, though: talk with your physical therapist (are you doing PT to help the recovery?) about appropriate exercises, and maybe sign up for a few introductory private pilates classes. Be sure to inform the instructor about the limitations you have.
Ad hominems and appeals to authority are such letdowns.

Almost as those who might even admit they know nothing about it, but feel they're qualified to judge validity of some scientific claim. And provide <insert subculture> mantra as "evidence".
Considering something similar happened to surge in January, I'm surprised they haven't worked to mitigate this single point of failure.

Whether it's a failover strategy, negotiating a different business relationship with Digital Ocean, or whatever. There is a lot more they could be doing to stay online until they (Surge) are the ones choosing to pull the plug on a user's site (or are ordered by the courts to do so).
Especially since helping the "impoverished" become responsible gun owners is something various pro-gun activists do, so while it's very hard to see the staid NRA start such a program, especially right now, it's hardly beyond the realm of possibility.
This would enable far more than civic discourse most of it undesirable. In many ways it could even hurt civic discourse by enabling harassment, hate speech and worse. In fact everything we know points to exactly that happening.
Judging from your username, I'm going to guess you're an earthquake seismologist. Cheers from the reflection world!
If you're putting it in your wallet, just use plaintext.
Debating the notion of who is a "hacker of the highest level" would be a silly waste of time and is totally subjective and unquantifiable.

Are important or highly talented programmers/engineers hackers (not this again)?

Is someone who writes clever exploits but doesn't break into networks a hacker?

What about a great social engineer with limited technical skills?

Or cryptologists?

In some of these categories the better you are the fewer people know you exist?

The very fact Juice2.0 brings it up reflects poorly on them (assuming this post isn't just disinformation which it could very well be).
Think like a customer.

Netflix has a lot of customers, IMO because they developed great recommendation IP, they have a large content library, and have invested heavily into customer acquisition and marketing to build a consumer brand.

Netflix will use AWS infrastructure if it benefits their business and go elsewhere if it doesn't. The fact that the two companies compete in some ways is pretty much irrelevant to Netflix's (operational) decision of hosting provider.
"For unlimited smartphone LTE data plan, full available speeds apply to 6 GB of hotspot data per payment cycle, then speeds slowed for remainder of payment cycle."
I distrusted all StartCom certificates anyway after 2014; StartCom is a rogue CA who certify the authenticity of sites which they know have been compromised. Read the story here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140412085458/https://revokame.... (the original page disappeared mysteriously a few days after the story was published). And the HN thread about the incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7577290
We are a startup crowd developing our device and it would be great to hear your opinion on which technology we should use in our device! Let me know if you have any questions!
If I cared about you, I would at least make the effort to respond rationally. In some sort of theoretical sense, I care about all sentient beings, but I just don't care about you enough.
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Isn't the confidence implied in the vote? i.e. isn't "Strongly disagree" really just a vote for "disagree" with great confidence?
See the comment by mattbee below.

It supports the idea that DO is not responsible for wholesale, nonspecific "content" - there must be details regarding which pages are infringing.

It's great that DO gave them 5 days, but as a person who's used DO a lot for projects, I'm really disappointed by their lack of sophistication in this area.

To pull the plug on thousands of pages and say "five days is enough!" isn't enough.
I think, "Historically accurate replica, made with exquisite care" would avoid that trap.
Businesses typically have rules about securing data, that covers a lot of users.
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No matter, hipsters will find a way.
3 Myths About the Tech Lifestyle (Busted)
Twilio's cost structure is probably dominated by SMS charges from telco operators and customer acquisition, not their AWS bill. So I doubt it, but feel free to cite data that shows I'm wrong. (I read their s-1 and I don't think it got into that granularity of cost accounting)
I like how excited people get over this. Version names mean nothing about the software, but some companies - Apple, Google, Ubuntu - have made a game out of version names. One of our internal products is named after 14,000+ ft mountains in Colorado. Nerds must have an affinity towards naming things. Maybe because we had active imaginations as kids.
There is a law protecting hosting providers -- it's the DMCA safe harbor provisions. But in order for those safe harbor provisions to apply, the host needs to take the content down almost immediately or have the account owner do it (grey area on how quickly this really is IMO, but it's usually <24 hours).

After the content is taken down, the content owner can file a counter-notice (basically saying the complaint is incorrect). And then if no lawsuit is filed by the complainant in a certain number of days, the content owner can put the content back online.

For the record, I'm no fan of the DMCA because it's rampant with abuse and trivial to forge notices. It is too easy to silence speech with the DMCA, at least temporarily, and the repercussions for sending false DMCA notices are a joke. Plus, anyone can send a DMCA, even foreign entities, which makes going after the complainant for damages for false reports not even worth the trouble.
That's strawmanning my position. I would prefer they grow by 7.1% than 7%.
Great, now there will be an even faster standard to not use because of the price. A price set by thieving, skiving, miserable, lying monopolists.
How do you reconcile the massive increase in spending this would cause?
Same way you'd measure it with in house developers.
> 3) they don't support text as a sender. In many countries you can have "MyCompany" as a sender instead of a generic number or short code. This makes the communication much more effective.

They do support it in some countries [1]:

> AWS.SNS.SMS.SenderID
> A custom ID that contains up to 11 alphanumeric characters, including at least one letter and no spaces. The sender ID is displayed as the message sender on the receiving device. For example, you can use your business brand to make the message source easier to recognize.

> Support for sender IDs varies by country. For example, messages delivered to U.S. phone numbers will not display the sender ID.

> If you do not specify a sender ID, the message will display a long code as the sender ID in supported countries. For countries that require an alphabetic sender ID, the message displays NOTICE as the sender ID.

[1]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/sms_publish-to-phon...
There are legitimate discussions that can be had about the specific strategies that companies should use to maximize shareholder value. For example, paying higher wages might mean better employees and ultimately more profits despite the increased costs. Long-term investments in R&D might result in higher overall value for the company, despite the short-term hit to the balance sheet.

However, I don't think a legitimate argument can be made that companies should pay what amount to optional taxes (taxes they could avoid but don't). Lawmakers are free to change the laws, but large corporations will always pay the minimum allowed by those laws.
At my current job, I disclosed my autism diagnosis after I was hired but before the first company-wide meeting. I didn't get too technical in my explanation, just went over some of the strengths and weaknesses that it brings. If a co-worker complains to my boss that I didn't act appropriately in a social situation, he knows the deal.
Yeah, $13k + no Medical is insanity. It's seems like the question was framed specifically to fail.
Ask HN: Security audit or certification for enterprise sales?
We've recently been going through the sales process with a mid-sized enterprise. We're in the final stages, but they're got a bit scared about dealing with a startup and are requesting a security audit or accreditation. We primarily deal with SMBs, so this is the first time we've been asked for this.

Has anyone had any experience with this kind of request as a startup and how have you dealt with it? Should I just send them the results of our 3rd party PCI compliance scans? Is there a cheap certification we can do?
Absolutely, but in my opinion it has more to do whether you learn to speak before you know how to spell and write or vice versa. Homonyms or near homonyms like "it's" and "its" or "their", "they're" and "there" are just different things for second-language speakers. For me as a non-native speaker it's a miracle how someone could ever spell "definitely" the wrong way.

His writing lacks the typical mistakes Eastern Europeans often make when writing English prose, namely omitting the indefinite article. If you look closely he might be overcompensating, for example:

I’ve already said about the software vulnerabilities

I'm not a native English speaker myself but isn't the article superfluous here? The next one is more obvious:

But I made some conclusions from the Marcel’s story
Unless it serves as a replacement for almost all handouts, it will never get the votes to pass in the US.

Also, Social Security is effectively a UBI for old people. Why would you keep it around?
> If you're putting it in your wallet, just use plaintext.

That has the same issue of not being able to input it into the phone. The QR code can be easily scanned.

Sure OCR of plain text is possible but some more standardized like a QR Code would be better.
>> Use gmail or Google Apps. Things just work. Cede control to Google.

Google is not without its problems. Just now on HN, in fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008365
Scrum and agility do not work in Asia
What if the taxes are unethical?
Yes -- this is why it seems risky to invest in Twilio long-term.

Sure, they have the developers today, but if WhatsApp leaves, and Amazon can cross-sell more of their existing customers what they'd otherwise get from Twilio, that's a big problem long-term. Twilio has a bit of a moat with their carrier/provider relationships, but that won't hold up against Amazon's entry.

Time will tell, I guess. The stock has been going crazy the past few days, though
> note that it is illegal (and not just a civil issue) to falsify this kind of statement in some states.

While true, the Yes Men have a long track record with this type of parody. On this basis, I assume that the legal and monetary repercussions have been negligible.

A list of their past targets:

* George W. Bush
* Dow Chemical
* WTO
* U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
* ExxonMobil
* BP
* Shell Oil
* U.S. Chamber of Commerce
* GE
* NY Times
* NY Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010510
> We still have millions of human weavers all around the world.

Yes, mostly in Asia, living in hellish conditions, often struggling to get enough food. I'm not sure what point you were trying to make with that comment.
I think we don't have enough details, but I wonder if you're starting arguments with people? When someone blocks you, do you go to them and tell them they are blocking you? Do you get upset when they tell you that they're already working on it, and they have nothing for you?

Personally, when someone is blocking me and I've got nothing else to work on, I note that I'm waiting for that something in my ticket (not the person! the thing I'm waiting on) and ask my boss for something else to work on. It's then up to them to re-prioritize things and deal with the blockage somehow.

I'm imagining that you're balking and asking why it matters that you don't name the person... And I'm with you there. I think it's silly. But people have fragile egos, and pointing out their failings is called "toxic" because it puts them in a bad mood. You probably experience this, too, and don't really know what's going on. (I'm taking this post as proof of it. If it didn't bother you that they called you Toxic, you wouldn't have posted in the first place.)

In short, more empathy for how others feel is what they're asking for... And that's not a real obvious thing, no matter how much they claim it is.
That's definitely a reasonable amount of time (i've seen much shorter timelines at other places). Sounds like maybe Surge thought they were in the right (I think they are) and could ignore it, which was a bad call. Better to remove it and fight it using the process.
I do know quite a bit about physics. But if I just said the EmDrive is nonsense due to conservation of momentum (which is the 100% correct answer with no caveats), people would shut me down because "NASA scientists know what they're doing". That would be an appeal to authority. So I mention Baez preemptively, but it seems like that's not a winning tactic either. What would convince you, pray tell?