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ECJ follows EU directives, which take precedence over national law. When individual countries refuse compliance (it happens quite often), an "infraction procedure" is open, which can potentially result in heavy fines for the country.

More often than not, the country could pass a law that complies with the directive in question, then "forget" to enforce it as soon as the original process is terminated in a satisfactory way; individuals would then appeal to the ECJ again and the process would be repeated, this time resulting almost certainly in fines. And so on ad infinitum, or (usually) until the political winds change at the national level.

In almost every case, EU laws and directives take precedence over national law, but the mechanisms to enforce this primacy are still somewhat vague and weak. This is by design: if they had been too clearly stated, most countries would not have signed the treaties. The "plan" was to state the overall principles, then find a way to enact them further down the line. It's a very pragmatic approach, and it's producing results in many areas, but clearly it's not something that, today, will satisfy all individuals in their lifetimes.
Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers
Generally speaking, it's better to have a straightforward domain than a short one (if you can't have both). In other words, TaskMessenger.com is better than TSKMG.com

13 isn't too long. StackOverflow and Huffington Post both have more than 13 letters.
> Changing software without breaking it is the central problem of software engineering

But encapsulation doesn't solve that problem, except in very minor cases. Is it worth complecting the architecture of our software for the development equivalent of a bandaid?

> In what sense can you have encapsulation when your entire data structure is exposed to every function that touches it?

I'm not saying you should have encapsulation... Did you mean to say "abstraction"?
Dalvik is optimized for low-power, low-memory devices. If you tried to run the full HotSpot VM on your phone you'd suck the battery dry in minutes and you'd have to at least double the onboard ram to even boot it.
National governments in the EU have a duty to implement EU Directives. If a government implemented a law inconsistent with a directive, the EU would take enforcement action for failure to implement the directive properly.
These two submission seem to have gotten more traction:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3919184

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3918654
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Scalability of Gamooga (a realtime messaging backend for apps)
They're not crippling functionality to force people to g+. Adding a social layer to existing products can potentially make them better if done right (ie: finding content that was upvoted by people whose opinion you care about, vs randoms you don't care about).

If done wrong it can be crippling. But then it's a problem of that specific implementation, and you could make a constructive critic to improve it. Instead, the author is just raging against g+ for no good reason.
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The first part could be found here: http://blog.newsinapp.io/2012/03/15/how-build-news-aggregato...
I'm currently taking courses with Udacity and Coursera, and I've noticed one huge difference between the two that I hope edX learns from: whereas the Coursera class is structured like a traditional class online, Udacity's course designers seem to better understand and take advantage of the fact that the course is running in a web browser.

The difference is a bit difficult to explain. Both have videos, forums, and wikis. Udacity courses are set up as short videos punctuated with many questions and mini assignments (running in an in-browser Python IDE), along with larger homework projects. Also, the forums are continually monitored and new videos are added to clarify concepts that students are struggling with.

In contrast, the Coursera course I'm taking (AI) has longer videos (6-20 minutes) of the instructor mumbling as he draws over and over on ever increasingly confusing Powerpoint slides. Sometimes a video will have one multiple choice question, other times the video will not have any questions at all. The worst part is that only once has the video gone on to explain the question. So if a student has a problem understanding the question, they will have to resort to the forums. There's no follow-up, unlike the questions on Udacity. At the end of each section (about an hours worth of videos) students can take a five question quiz. Granted, the feedback on the quizzes are a lot better -- but it's a lot to expect an hour of instruction to be reinforced by a mere five questions.

Basically, the Coursera course is taught as if I was sitting in a class watching an instructor draw on a Powerpoint -- the fact that it's running in a web browser and can provide a different method of teaching seems to be lost on the instructor.

Granted, this might be a critique of the instructor more than of Coursera itself -- I'm only taking a single course from them, whereas I'm taking two on Udacity. But Udacity seems to understand that you can't just take the experience of sitting in a classroom and put it online: you have to understand that this is a new medium that allows new methods of teaching.

To conclude this rambling post (sorry, I didn't know how to explain what I'm feeling as a student more concisely), if these online course ventures that are popping up all over the place are going to succeed,
they are going to have to use the medium of the browser to its fullest: and in so doing, I think they will have to compete with traditional universities. That's what worries me when edX says the online classes will supplement the in-college experience: I think that you're going to have to beat the college experience to succeed in this market.
Exactly the same on Firefox 12 and Chromium 18.
No, the author is right.

The same thing happened when they linked up gmail accounts to YT logins. I just stopped watching videos that required a login, because I didn't want to link my YT account to my gmail account for privacy reasons.
the domain "droproxy.com" is available - someone should make a proxy service to dropbox that would bypass apple's actions.
This is by the actual author though, at least according to http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cabbie.htm
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Can we just not call it nix? I think that is what is confusing. Maybe its just the most popular desktop linux format (at least currently) or something else. It is kind of weird to talk about a standard nix interface that isn't a terminal (at least it seems that way to me). Every linux box I use always has different desktop/X-environment from the next. There may not be thousands of X11 desktops, but there are quite a few (cde, enlightenment, gnome, kde, xfce, just off the top of my hdead) that all have their differences. I would agree more with the other guy, but acknowledge its pedantic details.
What are you showing with that search? That the story (apparently true), has been posted in various places?
Allow me to get out some luddite hate first:

-there's already an app for getting feedback if you don't understand... it's called RAISING YOUR HAND!!!!!11!

-are you going to add a "distractometer" to log how many times people are distracted by using and checking the app?

Ok, now that that's done. I would actually lose the "o-meter" phrasing and have the app simply say "Confused" and "Understand". In fact, you could even lose the "understand" interaction. I doubt people will be hitting a button all the time every time they "understand" something during a lecture. Just have one button for confusion.

Is there a way to post feedback (anonymously) at the end of a lecture?

Radical piviot: you know what this model of instant feedback would be good for? Occupy Wall Street and general assemblies.
The rule is simple. EU directives must be implemented in national laws of all EU member states. If Poland fails to implement the directive by such an action a EU violation case would start ultimately leading to consequences.

OTOH this is a tested way to get stuff in laws that are hard to find national support for. Make it an EU directive and explain to your people that "Sorry, but even if we don't like it, we must implement this now." - see EU data retention directive etc.
YouTube is not Google. Google is not YouTube. They just happen to own it. Google should start remembering that before YouTube gets myspaced.

Which imo is looking increasingly likely.

Vimeo is one competitor which seems to already be growing like crazy for example.
In some cases a directory search is a good thing. Local is one of those cases, and something that is tremendously broken on the web. I'd much rather go to a directory of pizza places in my area than do a keyword search of pizza. Yes this is Yahoo, but local/SMB is a huge untapped market that is not served by the current web.

The only local business I find with websites are the ones that pay some fly by night "web designer" to put up some BS templated site with little info for $2k. Here businesses can do the same thing, but also control their site, get SEO, advertise, and get analytics for less.
Not only is node non-blocking but all of its libraries are, unlike Python, Java, and .NET. I wouldn't call that radical per se, but distinguishing yes.
Looks really good! Nitpick: let's should be lets on the front page..
I sell services. What the #$% does the customer buy?
What you are describing is simply human fallibility. There is no dogma in science. Science does not mandate that anything be set in stone, never to be questioned, doubted or disputed. And when the "old guard" is made irrelevant, that happens through the scientific method itself.
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But encapsulation doesn't solve that problem, except in very minor cases.

The WIN32 API has largely remained unchanged over the last 15 years while changing dramatically under the hood in its implementation. With the recent possible exception of Apple's recent bull run this is so far the most lucrative API in the history of the world. And it's made possible by the fact that all the key API elements are exposed only as opaque handles.

I could go on and on with examples like these that are about as far away from a minor bandaid as you can get.
I always preferred "The Platinum Rule": Treat others as _they_ would like to be treated.
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Checking out that book. As a proclaimed Christ follower, I've recently found myself in discussions in which certain historical "facts" (I hesitated to put that in quotes) were tossed my direction which I felt unprepared to answer. As one who believes history to be a small thing to get caught up on given Christianity is about a lot more than that, I think it's very relevant and is a needed piece to intelligently discuss Biblical truth.
Viewing introversion as a "deficiency" is probably insulting to introverts. I am speaking as an introvert who has tried to build social skills (and succeeded, at least in artificially working against my nature). The case would be different for each individual, but in my case, shutting my yapper and getting work done has taken me a lot farther than socializing has. ;)
It seems universities administrators in East Coast is more open to the idea of online education.
It's desperate but it's also the right move. If I were them I'd give devs 100% or revenue from apps too. Anything to get market share at this point.
You don’t need Testers - Or do you?
I was recently working in an agency on a blackberry promotional project and while i was a good 8-9 degrees of abstraction away from RIM (which in itself created problems) it was quite clear they're WAY behind other phone companies and are frantically trying to claw back some ground but finding it hard because certain "partners" are now refusing to get involved with Blackberry projects.

I really think Blackberry's days are numbered no matter how much money they throw at the problem.
Since you chose to take the "some... not all" defense of yourself, let me point out that the poem said "a few" not "all" girlfriends.

Is that irony? (I've always had a hard time with that question)
The main reason he gives is that it increases the barrier to entry for liking a video, which is important for many content creators. (like him) This seems concrete and significant. I don't agree however with his assessment of this changing the funding equation for people getting production funded. As long as the change applies globally, everyone should feel the hit equally and it they should be able to correct for it.
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Isnt this from the original Viaweb investment? Must be one of thier few acquisitions still making tons of money
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I'm unmoved by this sentimental drivel, and I think your urging to "please pause for a moment and ask yourself why" is the most pompous thing I have read on HN.
This reminds me of the backlash against Facebook's "Like" button replacing the "Become a Fan" button.

Personally, I would be happy to see G+ get a little more traction among my less-techy friends and family which isn't going to happen without Google doing stuff like this.
I'm not fully conversant with international copyright treaties, but the Berne Convention to which both the US and various EU countries are signatories to, provides that a work that is protected by copyright in one signatory country will be protected in another country, so the ramifications in terms of creating a divide between the US and non-US countries may not be overly significant.
It worked for me after I clicked the screen, not sure why.

It's GTA1/2 rather than GTA3, if anyone was curious. Still cool, but slightly less impressive.
"While I appreciate the sentiment and agree with his point of view, his simply telling Google 'go fuck yourself' doesn't really offer an in-depth critique of why these changes [are] wrong"

what you said is literally false. here's his in-depth critique:

"I’m going to lose a crapton of potential upvotes for Tabletop, because the core of my audience is tech-savvy and may not want to “upgrade” to yet another fucking social network they don’t want or need...

Those upvotes are incredibly important to us, because we need them to earn another season of our show...

[this] will negatively affect how users can interact with us on YouTube."

translation: "we might lose the ability to do our show, because this G+ +1 button introduces friction and a sign-up process we don't expect our users will bother to complete."
I agree, kind of - obviously you need to get the word out. This does not mean you have to be an expert in social interaction though. Case study: in 2006, I released a demo I had worked on (in isolation for 2 years!). Within the first week, 600,000 hits, just by me posting a link, no social skills needed :)
What I think your missing is that picture was as common as a the coke logo. If they where a random coffee shop somewhere the 'I have never seen that photo' defense would have worked just fine. Patent trolls work because they can lie in wait for people to 'infringe' but unpopular API's that few people use don't have the landmine effect. If you never saw them they don't exist.
this is great. in general, need more of these sorts of 'convincing x' guides ...purely for need for the right 'language'/points to convey benefits without getting lost in tech/trendspeak.
Here's what all the naysayers sound like to me:

"A phone with a camera? That's just a useless gimmick, it will never take off. The resolution is horrible, there's no flash, no zoom and the picture quality is bad besides."

Those who want "just a phone" may have a valid argument (side note - look into the Jitterbug, it might be just what they want), but the rest sound like the arguments of backwards-thinking people with no vision.
It loaded for me after a while. Ran around a bit. It's a cute demo / experiment.
Played for 10min, couldn't find 1 car to jack.

Disappointment level = Huge.

(Seriously Very cool WebGL stuff going on though!)
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Thanks for the feedback! In large classes students tend to be reluctant to raise their hands (especially in classes with 200+ students). ESL students are also unlikely to raise their hand and say they don't get it. I actually tested the app in 3 first year classes and it didn't seem to be distracting.

I'm hoping to add a feature for leaving feedback at the end of a lecture, great idea!

Also great idea on the Occupy Wall Street idea!
Must also mention Frama-C: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_xgbO5-32k&noredirect=1
Some nice themes. I see on Twitter that the server is getting a pounding. I'm sure HN will oblige and provide a good test of your stack.
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As a user this makes me wonder how long it will be before I have to sign up for Google+ in order to watch youtube videos at all? Or to search?
"EdX will release its learning platform as open-source software so it can be used by other universities and organizations that wish to host the platform themselves. Because the learning technology will be available as open-source software, other universities and individuals will be able to help edX improve and add features to the technology."

Is anyone else worried that this'll be a one-sided "we released the damn source in a zip file" style open source? When administration has such a big stake in a project like this, I hope they will allow community style open source. It's harder to justify each design decision you make to a bunch of whining disagreeing third parties on a mailing list, but ultimately I think it's for the best.
Not really. "Like" and "Dislike" are a core part of Youtube, removing them and replacing them with a vote on another site (even if Google own it) is pretty lame. I "Like" stuff on Youtube when I either want to signal it's a good video and boost the videos rank or share it with my youtube subscribers, I don't do it because I want to share the video with someone on google+.

As a user and a video creator this would annoy me a lot. If they want to add a G+ button fine, but replacing a core feature? Unacceptable.
Or, take a cue from Stallman and worry about both.
~25% of Android apps, at least games, are native applications, not Java apps.
Eventual Consistency on S3: How soon is eventual?
There has to be a better way than surveys right? I feel like nobody wants to answer those and it'd be incredibly difficult to target my specific customer.

Any other suggestions? I need to find potential customers before launching...
Okay I'll bite:

Look at where that G+ button is. It's big, its first, and it combines, as-one, an already existing feature -- the "Like" button.

The G+ button isn't optionial, placed in a "secondary" position (i.e. to the right), or a single feature/choice.

That's probably why users are getting upset with this, UX background or not.
I can definitely see the appeal of this - like you mentioned in your blog post, there's always worry that others will think you're stupid or something for not understanding something.

That having been said, I had a few questions/concerns:

- How would it work when there were specific gaps? It might be helpful if comments could be included to the instructor when the rating is provided. That would allow the teacher to reinforce those particular topics.

- How would you guarantee participation? If, for example, only people that don't understand the topic speak up, wouldn't that skew the data presented to the teacher?
I like this quote from Penn Jillete on the subject of the afterlife: "I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day."
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They can't make copyrights infinite. But the last several decades have shown that they can extend copyright terms indefinitely. And, thanks to Disney's lobbying, will do so every time that it looks like Steamboat Willie is going to become public domain. (That's the first film that Mickey Mouse was in.)
Honest question: should these courses be job training or education?
I don't think it's meant to be an in depth critique, it's his feedback as a user.

It sounds like it's more his feedback as a creator, worried about what the functionality will do to users. But, you know, those are the breaks when you sharecrop on someone else's land: they retain the right to change things for their own benefit.

Still don't quite understand the complaint, though. You've long needed a Google account to give feedback on YouTube. Now they call those accounts G+ accounts (just as Hotmail accounts became Live accounts, etc). What's the problem?

sidenote -- gah, accidentally downvoted you when I was trying to select text. Apologies.
That wasn't quite my point. Copyright should cover the expression only. Right now, I could go write my own book that's clearly inspired by Star Wars or Harry Potter. This sets a precedent that even creating a _similar_ book, photo, or API is infringement. This directly goes against the idea of copyright: to generate more works for society.
Does a market exist where no money is being exchanged? If you are an abusive provider of things that you give away, are you a monopolist? If there are two providers of some product X where the first provider gives it away and the second provider sells it, is market share measured in units a meaningful metric of the economic activity generated by this product?
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Another great tutorial article from Luis Rei :) thumbs up
Vungle Hustles Its Way Into $2M Seed Round For Mobile App Video Trailers
Certainly a cool app. It's a bit worrying you can store hidden files in someone's Dropbox folder though.
>doesn't really have any performance benefits in the multicore world

AFAIK, Node's cluster API, which can spawn workers for each of a machine's cores, will, when delegating requests to a worker, factor in OS-level core utilization info.
Digging into Facebook hate
It won't hit people equally, though. It will hit people who have viewers who are signup-averse harder. Kids watching lolcats tend to be much more willing to sign up to anything so they can post their roflcopter than technically minded adults with interesting things to say.

Guess which market Wheaton is going after?
The difference is Samsung is a massive wholesaler of critical phone components to pretty much every other manufacturer, including Apple.

Ever heard of a "reference implementation"?

The linked page to me looks like a marketing sheet for a part, not a product.
Thanks for the link! I operate Class Central.
This article is worse than crap, the author doesn't have a clue.
One tip for testing I read was to describe what you are doing to someone and mention the domain once in the first minute. After you’ve explained what you’re doing and they’ve asked any questions they have ask them can they remember your domain – going to give this one a go
Corbet also occasionally posts subscriber links here from his own account ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=corbet ).
I've been looking at the courses from both and personally I like the Coursera set up much better - the constant interruption by questions makes it a lot less engaging, imho.
Prior HN art for the original URL (plainly linked from Gamasutra btw): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896404
The one video I checked still had the typical thumbs-up and thumbs-down feature.
YouTube isn't going anywhere
Better link: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/db9b442f0ac68512d0ca83fe...