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If their goal was to bury it in mediocrity, I think that would be a good strategy. But I think their goal is to bring attention to a movie that distorted history in a meaningful way, then down-voting it is a pretty effective strategy. If you can down-vote it to the level where it has the worst score in the IMBD, or even among the ten lowest, it attracts attention and goads curiosity about what makes the movie so awful, which leads people to Google it and quickly find information about this social movement.
The Avengers was particularly egregious. It was in the top 250 movies of all time for opening weekend. A huge % of ticket sales occur in the opening weekend. There is not a doubt in my mind that these ratings are thoroughly manipulated by the corrupt studios. At least IMDB now shows the metacritic score which is more accurate. A lot of Disney/Marvel movies seem to follow this trend.

If I had unlimited time and money I would create a new movie review site that fights corruption. I would have a phone app for doing the reviews and it would require taking a photograph of your ticket stub at the theater and uploading it for proof (w GPS tag). It is far too easy and anonymous to participate in these online movie ratings sites that have a large impact on people's decision making. I have more ideas for the review site if anyone wanted to discuss it further.
CoLinux might do it: http://www.colinux.org/
But quadrotors can be dialed in to an arbitrary GPS coordinate accurately and deliver a payload. That's the whole ballgame with assassination or sabotage.
Cool. I'd like to look into this a little further.
Would be nice if this included a brief description of the mission of each spacecraft.
"So the worst case scenario is that Chinas GDP growth drops to "only" 6%,"

Goodness gracious, aren't we trusting of predictions of the scope of economic downturns. People aren't very good at predicting such things, and to be clear, I fully mean that in both directions, not that people always under-predict. I don't know about "worst case" but a very plausible scenario is "revolution in China", and whatever long term effects that may have in the short term it would be a massive, globe-spanning economic contraction. That's at least in the single-digit percentages of probability.

I think there's a lot of hanky-panky going on in the books over there, and once there's no longer enough credit to cover over the problems, the full depth of the rot is likely to surprise everyone. (Or at least everyone who has somehow made it to 2014 trusting strong centralized Communist governments to be truthful about their economic health, but, alas, that still seems to be a lot of people. [1]) Just what is making it out of the firewall alone is enough to give me the heebie-jeebies and I seriously doubt I'm getting even the tip of the iceberg.

[1]: Before anybody says it, personally I think the US government has also taken some pretty serious steps into deceptive reporting of economic health itself in the past several years.
It just needs to be bicameral: one rating from critics and one rating by the public. Rotten Tomatoes does this, and I think it lends for a better overall result.
Interesting indeed! I usually struggle with the general size of the icons and the width of inputs being so short that only a dozen characters fit on there. What are some advantages that you experience with the 4s screensize?
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However an engineer would be hard to bullshit to in those areas. They would focus on the numbers, and try to calculate returns.
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Microsoft is transitioning and Windows 7 is part of the old strategy, it's tied to different dynamics (that still work, mind you). Windows 8 and on, MSFT is trying a different thing with the devices and everything.

I think it makes sense to keep these worlds/strategies separate. They're also making a ton of money on Win7 so why kill that stream of revenue? They can let it die slowly while they improve/tweak their Win8+ strategy.
I really didn’t know that Germany was and still is such an important market for IKEA. It’s the country with the most stores (eight more than the US, but Germany has less than a third of the inhabitants of the US and is much more densely populated).

It looks like some smaller European countries might have a higher store per person count (Netherlands, for example), but of all the larger countries Germany has the most stores.

I wonder why IKEA expanded into Germany early and hasn’t lost steam since.
I thought it might also be the other way around. Because everyone gets a free smartphone even with the cheapest contract, KakaoTalk has this huge market.
The only place a quadrotor would shine above a model aircraft in this case would be moving into a building. Any open air location would be equally vulnerable to either solution, with the model aircraft capable of bringing more to the party, as it were.
The next paragraph goes on to say that as a result of the protests, his political party was banned from participating in future elections. I'm sure they wanted him dead as well (and they did get that wish), but the banning of his political party is huge.
Funny you should ask. I'm building one right now. It'll be available next month. Basically it's what you'd expect from a SSG from a code standpoint, but deploys with a live CMS so that non-literate users can edit it.

Details here.
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Well, I don't know what you saw, but this is the default Korean keyboard on a Galaxy S4: http://cfile22.uf.tistory.com/image/2469083B51DDE07613BAE1

Maybe there's a toggle option.
Very surprising how long it took them to enter the U.S. market, especially given that they were in North America (Canada) long before.

It'd be interesting to know more about how that decision was made, and also if this has shaped the general perception of Ikea in Canada vs. The States.
Where is this evidence you have of the IRA using drones? I assume there is some, I assume you have it, so it should be no problem to post a link, or maybe two links as single source is sometimes not good enough.

Have you been to Afghanistan? Ever met a genuine terrorist? You seem to make assumptions as if you know how these terrorist people think.

Earlier you were talking about those fictional 'al-qaeda' fellows, not to be confused with those genuine 'Taliban' (the word means 'students'). There is a difference, that is why we have these different labels and words for things, it helps us to explain what we mean. You can't just use any old words interchangeably and spell things wrongly.

Regarding your digressions...

I have been watching the news and, from what I can remember, these 'Taliban' of yours have been attacking paid up military folk and the mercenary civilian contractors sent there on some bounty hunt to support a military operation. The general idea is that, wherever you live, you attack an uninvited occupying army, it does not matter where they are from, how trans-gendered they are, whether they call themselves 'SAS' or whatever. If there are soldiers in silly little uniforms occupying your country then they are fair game to the likes of 'the talliban' (your spelling).

If I remember, the 'Coalition of the Willing', of which I guess you support wholeheartedly from the comfort of your armchair, bombed the Red Cross food depot, not once, but twice. They have also bombed plenty of wedding parties. I think you will find these are 'soft targets'.

All considered, I think it is about time you got off your armchair and went to see a bit of the real world.
My C, C++ and Java Ant scars in Fortune 500 consulting projects tell me otherwise.
I wouldn't call HIPAA inadequate. It's poorly specified. There's a great deal of fire-and-brimstone to the penalties for violating it, while leaving an enormously vague IDE of exactly what is going to garner a penalty. It has the effect of discouraging any kind of innovative movement in the space or requiring a great deal of capital investment to cover ones bases.

Totally agree wrt to the global ids, however. That would solve a lot of problems with record location, but relys on patients using them. In general I don't think they're altogether politically tenable.

[street cred: I've worked in medical off and on for fifteen years, and built one of the largest biosurveillance networks in the country. If you went to an ER in a city of any size in Texas, your (fully anonymized) data almost certainly passed through that database. I should note that this was for public health purposes, which are exempted from the BAA requirements under HIPAA.]
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If you look at the Average Ratings, the difference is smaller, though: the critics gave it 7.2/10 while the audience gave it 5.2/10.
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Arabic is a very rich and complicated language, yes :) It is one of the toughest languages to learn.
Or rather, google wants them to so it can bring everyone through google search and build up more profiles to spy on them.
My father died of pancreatic cancer and it was a rough seven month from the time he was diagnosed till he succumbed and a difficult time afterwards. I sympathize with your numbness and lack of explanation.

The only answers that experience left me with are:

1) Life is fleeting and I want to jealously take advantage of every day with my loved ones.

2) Were life not so fragile, we would not appreciate it like we should.
I'm curious to know what you think proper dependency management looks like.
Ingvar Kamprad (the founder) is of German descent (his grandparents were german) so it is quite natural for him to expand to that market after Scandinavia, also being the largest economy of Europe doesn't hurt.
I could not live without vagrant anymore. Developing inside vm, having a linux env on my windows machine, testing stuff, testing ansible/chef setups with a testing vm... It's so easy :)
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I am interested to explore this idea more.

In general, I don't trust online reviews for anything because I don't know what 'normal' is or the motivations that people have for voting, as you say here. If I read any restaurant reviews or ratings, it's under the assumption that they're astroturfed.

But, IMdB provides the online reviews I trust the most. I know that the dataset is large enough to be reliable. I feel that people are motivated to vote for their own reference, with minimal outside agenda (this exception is newsworthy because it's rare). As an encyclopedic reference, the site is politically and culturally neutral, compared in particular to national newspaper reviews. I know from experience how the IMdB normally and consistently rates films/genres I might be interested to watch (I know its biases, compared to my own). The stats are openly broken down demographically, with the statistically crucial number of responses, which I feel confident in interpreting. I also know, for example, that new releases will be over-rated according to how close they are to their release date.

By averaging additional information from other sites, I believe it would be difficult to retain those subtle points, which are important to me. I certainly don't believe that Rotten Tomatoes contains the same nuance of information.
Thanks, I'm going to give this a look since you can use the trial ISO's.
YouTube vs. Facebook: Only One Of These Still Has An Audience
I know ISPs attract little sympathy and HN readers naturally do sympathize with startups and smaller organizations (as do I), but consider:

In open markets a seller charges what the market will bear in order to maximize profit. And of course it benefits society because resources are allocated efficiently, i.e. to those with the greatest demand for them (those willing to pay the most). Why should this market be any different? I'd expect that any business, discovering they had an asset someone would pay for, would charge as much as they could for it. There is nothing dirty or underhanded about it, even if it challenges the status quo we all are accustomed to (or the notion that everything on the Internet is free). And it's not like big ISPs are stomping widows and orphan children -- Netflix, for all its victimhood, can stand up for itself and I'm sure maximizes its profit wherever possible. (It may be different for startups.)

I don't want to be absolutist about it, but what I said is a factor. Other factors are that the ISPs benefit from public goods such as local monopolies, and benefit from all the innovation that created the Internet and the services that their customers are paying them for, so they do owe something to maintaining that ecosystem.

And the clear solution, as has been said before here, is customers paying for metered bandwidth, and also for latency or other SLAs if they want them (which long has been common for businesses ISPs) -- why should someone who mostly uses email want to pay for the same latency that a Netflix customer or gamer needs?
The book is where the $200 billion figure originated. Instead of throwing third-hand information around like everybody does in these threads, I went to the source to criticize its methodology.

The book, as a whole, is handwaving. It's based on two fundamentally flawed premises:

1) That the internet and mobile booms are unrelated to deregulation and should not be factored into the analysis. Of course, that's ludicrous. For decades up to the mid-1990's, telephone service was an industry with steady demand growing based on population growth. Then the internet happened, and mobile happened, and demand skyrocketed. At a basic economic level, why should we not, then, expect: 1) providers of the infrastructure underlying those boom industries to profit more after than they did before? 2) providers of the infrastructure underlying those boom industries to depreciate infrastructure and invest in new infrastructure faster than before?

The $200 billion figure is fundamentally rooted in assuming that the answers to those two questions should be "no."

2) That 1970's-style rate-regulation doesn't have an adverse impact on capital investment. If companies can make 30% returns investing in Twitter and 10% returns investing in laying fiber, then the money will go where the returns are. If these folks had been in charge of regulating wireless, we'd still be using 2.5G phones (but at least we wouldn't be "overcharged" for text messages!)
When it's done by software running on hardware you control, it has to consult your hosts file and your iptables and your proxies and your routers. Ultimately it can't do anything you don't let it. You don't have to opt-in to paying attention to the connections each program makes, but you also don't have to willfully ignore them.

If you care about that sort of situational awareness, there are tools like Little Snitch that make it easier.
No, it really doesn't. Humans don't make that decision very well, hence why motor vehicle accidents are such a high rate of death.

You're framing this as a false dichotomy. The car has to hit A or B. If all the sensors are working, it won't have to hit anything, it will break.
I feel like there's an assumption that this data is erroneous for this reason - I think that any reason in which a person gives a negative rating toward a film is valid, be it politically motivated or otherwise.

FiveThirtyEight has had a rough start so far so I may be more inclined to seek more nuance than I normally would as they've tended to be extraordinarily simplistic (Silver himself notwithstanding) to date.
Had a mode extreme version of that - if I kept it open the whole day I had to restart my laptop.
I presume the author lives in Japan? Living in Korea, I find the different perception interesting. To me, Korea is much more modern than any Japanese city. In contrary, to me Japan has some kind of "old flair" everywhere. Just how you'd expect from a nation that boomed some time ago – where the success has settled, so to say.

That contributes to my general perception of Japan as being very very different from all I know. Compared to that, Korea is much closer to the US or Europe. For traveling/exploring Japan is awesome, but talking about living I know why I chose Korea.
While technically correct, I think you're glossing over the "legal structure around sharing" bit. In order to share data, there has to be a Business Associates Agreement in place (commonly referred to as a BAA for readers not in the industry.) one of the things that HITECH did was mandate that BA's are ALSO liable for data breaches in the same way covered entities are (provided data is breaches in their custody, of course). This means a BA has to maintain all of the same training and compliance requirements, including physical and logical security and auditing requirements.
Im currently living in S Korea and most the people I see have Samsung Note 3's. I think they've sold 10 million of them here? I've also not seen more broken screens anywhere else than here. Teenagers and young peoples phones screens are broken. They use them so much they drop them a lot more probably and also might be partly because of the alcohol.
No other big box brand ever gained signifacant market share in Germany besides IKEA. As competition is low, it's natural for IKEA to continue saturating the market. They are even building stores in city centers now, e.g. in Hamburg.
Perfecto Mobile Raises $20M Series D for Mobile App Quality Services
Testing applications on mobile is technically challenging and Perfecto Mobile is well positioned as a leader in the space.
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One important contrast that I don't think this article makes is that there is a big difference between Facebook Organic Reach and Facebook Targeted Ads. While Organic Reach is going down, Targeted Ads is going up, especially on mobile.

It's not far to compare Facebook organic with YouTube ads, rather Facebook ads with Youtube ads. I never thought your company's page likes made a difference, while I do find Facebook ads to have a high ROI.
Germans like it cheap. And Ikea generally seems to offer a better quality than other cheap furniture chains.
It's of course not only that germans prefer to pay less, but also that while germany is economically doing well a broad percentage of people had only little real wage increase in the last 10 to 15 years.
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I see. Yes, the translation is off. Still I am curious how this can possibly distract from the main point - mass murder in an European city in 2014.

Well, I hope there will be a better translator in the future, maybe that would help.
Well according to the DHS site, the H1-B employee need to have started the process of becoming a permanent resident so it seems less susceptible to being abused by companies trying to bring in people from abroad and using this to double their quota.
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Stupid question: with all this crap becoming IRRELEVANT. What the hell IS relevant to search?
It would be nice if one could click on one of the dots and the site showed what store it is. (I'm using Chrome 33, if that's supposed to work)
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The problem there is that it's too hard to get an account. How would I know someone who has one?
From what i remember, there was issues with Imports to the USA. At least thats what I remember...
It's Jabber then?
That is nothing compared to "Manos: The Hands of Fate" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060666/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt)

Unexpectedly, however, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is rated much more evenly for a film that's been considered to be the worst of all time.
Then look at it in details. I didn't read the article, but in the submission title there is one suspicious word "some", which could mean anything from "almost everyone" to "almost noone" would be allowed.
Wait a minute, does OpenSSL === The Security Community? It's an honest question because I really don't know who is behind OpenSSL and what their standing is in the security community.

That said, your final sentence seems unfair either way. The warning not to roll your own crypto is to avoid the all too common noob pitfalls whereby a reasonably experienced developer invents a security scheme that is completely and utterly broken from its very conception. It's not tell smart people they are too stupid to do crypto (which is a lot of programmers' knee-jerk reaction to being accused of ignorance on any technical topic), it's merely to point out that there's a lot of existing knowledge out there about crypto, and if you don't go learn about it first then your contribution will almost certainly be of negative value.

It's not meant to say don't contribute to OpenSSL or one of its competing libraries, it's meant to say that you need to be grounded in the state of the art and have peer review in order to produce a solid cryptography product.
It sounds perverse to say this, but the first thought I have is all the marriages that will be specifically arranged to take advantage of this. Seems like a clever loophole to increase the number of visas, while casting it as a benevolent change that makes it easier to retain talent.

I'm not a big fan of letting employers make immigration decisions. There's too much of an incentive to try to get low cost labor, which subsidizes stupid business practices. Sure, employers could invest in automation and smarter operating procedures, or we can just plug the hole as cheaply as possible.

H1Bs are unlikely to be big entrepreneurial catalysts because they are effectively tied to their employer and in a tricky legal framework. Honestly - I thought that was the whole point of the visa. And not to too much of a snob here, but the three immigrants mentioned in the Fortune 500 were all graduates of elite american universities (Andy Grove - Berkeley, Jerry Yang, Sergey - Stanford), which proves mostly nothing about the visa program.

I think a much better policy for America is to allow the top 50-100 universities by US News to determine who is qualified to enter. those measures are not perfect, but it is rate-limited by the size of their degree programs and they have an incentive to keep the quality of admitted applicants high.
I get increasing feeling of discomfort from wearing any type of headphones/earbuds for more than 3-4 hours a day and I've tried different kind of headphones/earbuds, invariably with the same result. It's probably an individual thing, I have plenty of friends who seem to wear something all day long...
That is fascinating. I've never seen The Room, but I sure want to now.

It's fascinating because of some similarities to the truly worst movie in history, The Tango Lesson[0]: each movie has one person as writer, director, and star, and (apparently) focuses self-indulgently on the abortive romantic entanglements of the author, who is utterly unaware that nobody else could possibly care.

The Tango Lesson falls through the bottom of the badness scale into a realm where it can't even be enjoyed for its unredeemable awfulness. Everyone I was with thought it was dreadful, and what was left of the audience shuffled out shaking their heads.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120275/
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For phones the demand is very different: a subscribers connection is either in use or not. When it is in use, it typically consumes no more than 64kbps at most. And it is easy to model expected peak demands in normal (non-disaster) scenarios because everyone that people might be calling tends to have a fairly low number of inbound connections, so the total peak bandwidth usage is still quite small - miniscule by todays standards.

When you're paid per subscription, and you at most carry 64kbps through a small local area before long distance fees kick in, it works.

Even so, in Europe (and I believe most of the world) landline usage is metered. It is the US model of free local calls that is unusual.