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AOSP: As "Android Open Source Project"?

Also did some googling, yes FireFoxOS is based on AOSP, or at least its a dependency in the build.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_and_...
I have to disagree. They will go other places if those places aren't going to tax them as much and they expect a similar return. Obviously with Burger King, they're basically everywhere already so it doesn't matter as much, but if the profit margin in the US is smaller then other countries because of tax they'll consider putting stores somewhere else if it's more profitable.

That said, IMO the concern with them selling their goods somewhere else isn't that we won't be able to eat their burgers, but that they employ tons of people at their stores. People are going to be pissed if Burger King decides they're going to close down their slower stores in the US and open some new stores elsewhere that doesn't have tax because they'll end-up making more.

I agree in that we could put a tax in place without anything imploding, they aren't just going to run away obviously. The question is more can we implement a tax which would be worth the money we'd make off of it without it resulting in Burger King closing places around the country because they're not profitable anymore.
The major advantage is that Microsoft's solution just requires the video. Instagram's app needs data from a gyroscope, so if you exported the video or you filmed it on a camera without a gyroscope, you're out of luck.
Jeepers. I can think of several big US commercial sites that would turn unprofitable overnight.
True, but before Textmate was open-sourced, there was a long period of frustration due to lack of progress and communication from the developer.
For those who don't know the story about the Australian internet industry, Telstra plays a pivotal and depressingly stupid role.

Telstra was a government monopoly in the past and owned + owns almost all the copper network in Australia. From 1997, Telstra was progressively privatized without separating the telecommunications business (phones) with the telecommunications infrastructure (cables). This was an idiotic idea.

There were some regulations that forced the infrastructure to be offered wholesale to competitors but they're still the gateway that the majority of the population get onto the internet. It's also problematic as Telstra are doing worse and worse at maintaining the copper network that is relied upon. If you are an ISP using their network, you need to go through their maintenance fees to improve the line quality for any of your customers. The cost of wholesaling through the Telstra network is also fairly high. Regardless, we've got reasonable competition at the ADSL/ADSL2+ level thanks to this.

Forward to the National Broadband Network (NBN), the government plan to connect the majority of Australian homes to fiber to the node (FTTP). Telstra submit the equivalent of a joke tender for the project -- 12 pages connecting only ~90% of the population when the tender requests 98% -- and then suffer their biggest one day stock fall in history when it's rejected.

Construction of the NBN rolls on without them, promising to replace the copper network with a fiber network that will be the new telecommunications infrastructure used by the majority of ISPs.

However... a new government came to power in Australia. One of their election falsehoods was that FTTP was too expensive and too slow and instead a ridiculous hodge podge (sorry: "hybrid") network of failing technologies would be preferred. Instead of building a complete FTTP network for $73 billion, they're instead going to spend $41 billion on a hybrid network that will need to be replaced only five years after completion according to the chairman of the NBN[1].

This hybrid network relies on the old copper network owned by Telstra. Telstra have previously stated that it is ready to die and will have billions of dollars of maintenance issues.

This is also only a very brief discussion of the ridiculousness.

tldr; Telstra played an important role in screwing up the previous generation of Australia's internet. Telstra is continuing to play an important role in screwing up the current generation.

[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/its-time-for-turnbull-to-swallow-his-nb...
This link is for those who want to reduce dieting to "calories in < calories out". The linked paper shows that the source of the calories affects both sides of the equation (or the inequality if there is a net shift).
Eich was silenced.

And not only that, OTHERS were taught a lesson to be silent on that issue and other issues as well.

Nothing is more effective to silence someone or groups of people than threatening someone's livelihood.
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I believe "America" is usually an abbreviated form of "United States of America" whereas "The Americas" is commonly used to refer to the American continents.

Edit: this is a little different than your case where Europe can refer to the European continent, but "America" pretty much never refers to the two American continents.
and there is kind of option in between - we can be a fractal foam with 2.781 (or 3.083 or whatever) Hausdorff dimension.
Meteor is so awesome. Yesterday was coding my project and was thinking about why I have to install meteorite. Today I can just use one tool...

A great example of many good patterns like: Ship basic version, but well-tested one. Then add things once community starts using them (3rd part packages). Also remove quirks that confuse ppl, like auto css reloading.
It's really easy to scale up to large losses: hire more people. Which is what Square's been doing in spades. Amazon did this as well, they went public in 1997 on huge losses and didn't break even until 2003, and even now the company is basically run at break-even with all revenues reinvested into the company.

The reason this works is because once you have that repeatable and scalable business model, you can be fairly sure that hiring a person (plus all the other operational costs) at $X will bring in >$X in new business. So you spend money for growth; the expenses are booked this year, the revenue doesn't happen until next year when contracts are inked, product improvements are launched, more people hear about Square, etc. The number to pay attention to is gross margins (the amount of money they make off each transaction); the 2nd article I linked lists that at 34%, which is comparable to Amazon's 30% and Apple's 39%. As long as that is positive and high enough to cover fixed operational costs, Square can instantly get to profitability by laying off people (or, with current revenue growth, simply by slowing down hiring).

The risk with this strategy is that the market turns out to be smaller than expected, and your product appeals only to a small number of early adopters. Growth then slows down markedly right as expenses ramp up, and there's no way to jump-start growth again. I think this is what's happened with Quora. Square seems different, though: the customers I've talked to are decidedly non-technical, and yet they love the product.
Heh, looks like the same wording and effect I wrote on Kiva lender pages (e.g., http://www.kiva.org/lend/756762) to show the original language version :)

It'd be good to connect with you sometime on sharing knowledge on the tools used for allowing for user-based translations. I'm not sure if you saw the tools we use at Kiva, but I imagine there's some overlap where we could probably work together to create a more generic tool focused on translating loan descriptions that would work for both of us and other micro-finance organizations out there. There's some decent open-source stuff out there but nothing that's worked for us without heavy customization.
http://darkpatterns.org is an interesting read.
The title doesn't describe the article's content. Fifteen anomalies have been discovered, anomalies that will have to await unearthing before anyone can say what they are. But "monuments" -- no, that's not correct, that's a hyperbolic headline.
How would the Service Objects approach work with Z-axis scaling?
Is it not game changing just being a $33 smart phone? Heck, I pay more than $33 per month for my smart phone service!
Specifically what they are making "open source" is an excel spreadsheet with a list of survey questions, here is a direct link - https://panoramaed.com/landing/download-student-survey

Seems like it would be nice to share something like this as a google doc.
I think I agree with you, but still, very low quality comment.
I agree with the bulk of your comment, and want to add one thing you didn't mention. Micro services allow you to scale the size of your engineering team. We started with a monolith at my company and as the engineering team grew from 5 to ~50 we started pulling out independent pieces and making them services that a team of ~5 could own, and it has worked out well.
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Willow Garage somehow pulling the rug from under Unbounded Robotics is a backwards move for this industry, which has always struggled to get decent forward momentum (being innovative electro-mechanical hardware, looking for early adopters, etc)

On a possibly related/speculative note, it seemed to me (when looking over the list of robotics companies acquired by Google at the end of 2013) that Google has been organizing a 'getting the band back together' thing. Obvious connections included Redwood Robotics and Industrial Perception, both also Willow Garage spin-offs. That, and one of the original founders of Willow Garage (Scott Hassan) was ex-early-Googler himself.
> Also, more explicitly-stated details about how powerful "metadata" can be. Obvious to anybody who understands INNER JOIN, but this is still new for most people.

The power of metadata is implicit. No one at NSA is arguing that metadata isn't powerful, that's the whole reason they're collecting it.

What the NSA is arguing is against the meme that they're trodding roughshod over the Constitution and illegally scooping up data (as they have done in the past). On the contrary, this time they've been very careful to try to remain within the law, and one of those arguments is by pointing out that, according to the law, some types of information are less protected than others.

Greenwald can educate all he wants, but the problem isn't that Americans are stupid or whatever you all seem to think. Americans on the large have been assuming the NSA is doing far worse than what Snowden accused them of, because Americans (on the large) expect that the NSA (or some other branch of the government) is actually able to intercept and listen in on "those jihadis' phone calls and emails".

You're talking about a generation of Americans who grew up listening to PBS stories hounding the Federal government agencies of the Bush and Clinton Administrations for "not connecting the dots", and for having a "lack of imagination", and for "treating terrorism like a law enforcement" problem and for being hamstrung by a bunch of civil liberties protections.

This is by and large the same generation that decided to vote against privacy when they bought into to having their digital lives collectively managed by Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. Explain the low-level bits and bytes to them all you want, but they've already voted on the big picture they want to see.
My main beef with the Eich case wasn't the fact that people protested his decision, it was how they did it.

The main method of protest was to boycott Firefox. Yet this was a stupid thing to do, because Firefox is the result of over a decade of wide-scale community effort, all done on a non-profit basis, and has been instrumental in advancing web standards. Firefox was also the initial spark that got us out of the stagnation caused by IE6.

By boycotting Firefox, people were punishing pretty much everyone except Eich. A much more blunt statement would have been to boycott JavaScript, something Eich was directly responsible for. Of course, that would actually require some effort in a major overhaul of one's browsing habits.

Then it was OKCupid just blatantly jumping on the bandwagon, encouraging Firefox users to leave their browser, all in an absolutely farcical attempt to assert their moral superiority.

Finally, most people don't seem to be aware that gay marriage is often a red herring in general, and the topic of marriage privatization is rarely discussed in public. But that's heading towards my personal views.
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This is just crazy. To have a healthy society these issues should be discussed a lot but without the fear of being punished for your views.
I'm European and I conflate them all the time. You're getting downvoted because it's a pointless derailment, not just out of disagreement. You may also wish to read the guidelines, especially this one:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I fly with them regularly, but they're short trips (2-4 days) so my experience is different. You can check get your boarding pass in some airports by phone now though which also helps!
"No sign up or account required."

Thank you. Oh, thank you.

Not that I won't, I just hate apps requiring signup when not inherently necessary.
I asked, because I would keep saying (li) is lee. and my teacher was like what? So I felt little awkward, but believe me i can never pronounce it like ... eel iee. like my teacher did. So I asked everyone just uses 'standard' pronunciation or just 'hacked' like me. For me it's easier to remember.

damn speaking of wordpress (WP) i am a really awkward kid in the class because I always pronounce vp i.e vp super cache.
Oh I know it used to be, but It's changed now was what I was saying!
http://www.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/ looks like what you want, but it looks like a sign up is required, but there is a free 7 day trial. Are you looking for something totally free?
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I believe religion/politics are not discussed on US navy ship officer dining rooms because they are stuck with each other for months at a time.

I am sure they let their views known in other arenas.
Why wouldn't Snowden cross that line, given all the other ones he crossed? I mean, blowing PRISM by itself was far more than "alerting them of our intelligence capabilities", so he's already crossed the Rubicon on that topic.
I agree it's unlikely, at least a full pull-out of the market is basically never going to happen. But if they were to get a somewhat high tax I'd expect their lower-profiting stores may end up getting closed down because they're not worth keeping open (IE. They're basically making nothing off of them after tax, but they could sell them off and then open a store somewhere else that may now be profitable since the US costs more to have stores).
That's the trickiest part of this -- I don't have direct access to payroll / hard evidence. It doesn't look like a negotiation gap, unfortunately -- it looks like it's more on the company's end. I have enough equity that I want the company to succeed -- I also know we're losing top women because of it.
You can do the exact same thing with service objects. You can probably also get away with smaller teams, since most teams don't need to worry about devops.
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The new package system was one of the last missing part for Meteor 1.0 so it's really a good news. And Isobuild, isopack are really promising. Can't wait to see the result!
That's a reasonable worry. You never do notice things that are working correctly, because they are working correctly.
Haha, sorry.
Is it because it was short or talking about up/down votes?

Just curious.
LOL.

I think the difference between "push a few words onto the stack and jump" and "send a bunch of packets out into the cold, harsh world and pray for a response" is simply too big for a common interface abstraction in many cases.
How useful is this for customers if it's just a small period of time (and likely vendors not to mention limited area)?

I know it's a big jump to add a whole new competency (delivery vs. cabs), but I'm not sure I'd even try it out given other options (DoorDash) exist and don't operate on a trial basis.
but textmate is alive and new builds are released quite often!
https://github.com/textmate/textmate/
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The point of a microservice based architecture is to allow a large team (15+ people) to work together without stepping on each others toes. The idea is you break the application into smaller services, and each service can be iterated on and deployed by a small group of 1 to 4 people. I cannot see any reason why it would be a good idea to adopt a microservice architecture for personal projects or for a startup with less than 10 people.

I did work on an application suite that included a blogging platform, that aimed for a service based architecture. We had services for:
* taking screenshots of the rendered blog post, for use in preview thumbnails
* user identity and settings (shared service for the entire suite)
* asynchronous task handling
* sending emails
* adding blog post analytics to the dashboard
* all things commenting (including a javascript embed code)
* the main application for editing and rendering the blog content
* customizing blocks of content based on visitor identity
Some of you may have seen Feynman's Tiny Machines lecture @ Esalen. Here are several hours of him lecturing on QED there.
It's a dual sim phone, it may have dual GSM as well (although I couldn't tell if both sims are actively registered or not)
It's very convenient that I can install both front-end package and back-end package by the same package management system!
Didn't know GSM was controversial, that's very interesting, wonder what happened there.

But still, I bet you interact with gadgets powered by tech from Norway on a daily basis, even if we remove GSM from the equation: the Atmel AVR micros, radios and micros from Nordic Semiconductor, Energy Micro and Chipcon, etc. Maybe you also touch a UI built on QT (Trolltech), even though the QT phones never became a success. :)
My point is that the "released" version has been abandoned. He's not supporting previous versions at all, you pay for access to an actual beta build, but if you happened to buy the full product you're SOL
What is Isobuild? The blog post doesn't actually say, and Googling [meteor isobuild] just turns up the blog post.

(Is Isobuild the tool that implements "proper single loading?")
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> There can be other more innocent things as well such as buddies of the founders getting paid more not because they are men but because they are friends.

That is far from innocent.
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It's incredible how fast Uber executes: they launched in the same month:
1/moving in Atlanta
2/convenience store in DC
3/lunch in LA
4/ride-sharing in SF

The one thing I am not sure is how they could branch out of pure "people logistics" (and into commerce). When I am hungry, would I open the Uber app, toggle 10 things and see the menu or just open Sprig/Spoonrocket?
People always mention Amazon, but Amazon is search driven so I can find anything, that's ok. As for Uber, it's a totally new mental model they have to create. I guess for them, it is about the "Now". That being said, they have millions of users and CC on file, so it would be easy for them to create other apps for these different experiences.
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"But you don’t have to install Hadoop at all, unless you decide to use HDFS as Spark’s distributed file system. If you don’t, you can choose one of the other DFS’s that it supports"

What other file systems does spark support? And how seamless is that integration? I know with spark, I can write a Spark SQL query that will go directly against data persisted in HDFS. Should I expect the same behavior if I swap out HDFS with some other DFS?
Except for threatening someone's life?

Let's not get too hyperbolic here. A rich, white guy was forced out of a CEO position and he was "silenced"? He could have given interviews about his position at any tech magazine he could reach by phone. He could publish a blog post on his site. None of this suggests that he was silenced.

Let's save the powerful terms for bigger travesties is all I'm saying.
I find it useful to read articles by someone who will translate from hipster to crotchety-unix-grey-beard for me.
The common realization that things on the Internet are forever causes a terrible amount of sanitization of our opinions and beliefs.

It seems like the great lie of social media was that it would open up and democratize communication, encouraging people to speak up and speak out on issues important to them. Instead what we ended up with is big companies getting even more of a megaphone than before, giving people the illusion of having a voice (only to find that when everyone has a megaphone, only the loudest and most attacking voices or the most hive-minded comments get perpetuated). And everyone has to constantly preen and groom their "social media presence" because it's all about cultivating a personal brand.
This is sad on so many levels. The founders worked so incredibly hard. They put together a groundbreaking, extremely complex, price shattering robot in less time than it takes many software projects to launch. The idea that an accomplishment of that magnitude might be lost due to a contract dispute is heartbreaking.

The only positive thing I can think of here is that I look forward to seeing what they do next, I'm sure it will be awesome.
"All in-memory".. yeah and I have 1TB data file to process. How is that going to help?
Their prosumer computers essentially only exist so that developers can enrich their mobile platform. Growth is essentially flat on the Mac line, whereas iPhone sales have grown steadily since launch.
No, Europe had more free peering so had a lower effective cost.
While I find this research fascinating, and some of the findings conflict with the point I am about to make, I nevertheless want to object to the selection of Snowden-NSA as the particular topic used as the basis of this research. Although it does conveniently have a nearly-even split of opinion, the nature of the Snowden-NSA revelations carry very specific baggage for social media conversations precisely because the revelations suggest a comprehensive and worrisome monitoring of all online activity.

Those who wanted to talk about the NSA, especially critically on social media, may have refrained or at least paused to reflect on whether that was a sensible thing to do precisely because of the NSA dragnet. I personally initially paused and considered my action moreso than usual before I began retweeting and writing tweets of my own that are critical of the NSA's behavior and the laws that provide cover for its behavior.

Irrational or rational as fears of later repercussions for communicating opinions may be, when the subject matter is a principal organization that will ensure that very communication is never forgotten, I believe there is a chilling effect. It would be like hesitating to criticize Twitter on Twitter—you can imagine less savvy users would wonder, "Will this get me into some kind of trouble with Twitter?" Even now having long since put aside my worry about being critical of the NSA's behavior in public (yes, based on the tired axiom: "why would they care about me?"), I still suspect that I have squelched at least 10% of what I would have otherwise said.

Even as I write this now, it's impossible to not have a concern that in some (very unlikely) future, the NSA will put anyone who had been critical of their actions onto a "definitely will aid with all parallel construction requests" list. Irrational, sure. But difficult to put aside nonetheless.