skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is too broad for the issue under discussion. What you say may be true, but the fact remains that (regardless of the underlying reason) these other countries agreed to the terms set by the US with respect to copyright, and agreed to enforce the sanctions.

The argument that France appears to be making in this case is that it doesn't need other countries to agree to its demands, its courts have jurisdiction everywhere.

I feel the difference is straightforward. The US has an interest in its world view and values being shared by the rest of the world and uses its economic power to get other countries to agree, at least in part, to enforcing that world view and values. They are not however (in general), asserting that decisions made in the US apply in other countries (except to our own citizens, wherein enforcement of the local US law is still at the discretion of the foreign nations while our citizens are within their borders).

If the US were to assert global jurisdiction for a decision made in a local (i.e., state or federal) court it would be equally unfounded. If, however, they were to negotiate with another country and use our economic advantage to get them to agree to enforcement of a particular policy, then the country has presumably weighed the pros and cons of that decision and decided it was worth the compromise. You don't have to like it, but if you skip the middle step sovereignty as a nation becomes meaningless.
Very valid points, but I think your example is a little tangential in that I'm talking about societal structures, not an organisation where there is a need to coordinate. Societies are self-organising to some extent, especially in their local cluster. e.g.

Suppose you have a room full of 5 people building a bridge with legos. They're a small group and thus benefit from say the agility small teams provide. They finish their lego bridge in record time & live happily ever after.

If you need to provide lego bridges for 10 people though then you've got a choice: you can stick 10 people into the room and make them build a bridge twice as big, or you can have two rooms each building their own bridge in close proximity & benefiting from the speed of small teams.

Thats a simplification sure, but I feel societal structure (e.g. the mindset that makes canada's healthcare work) are to some extent imprinted in the people & thus apply regardless of the size of the border on some random map. If you stick another hospital on a map in Canada it'll work just as well.

As a side note, not convinced about the big company thing either. It can certainly be like that, but well managed its not inevitable. I work for one of the biggest companies out there & absolutely everything is split into ad-hoc ~7 man teams that have essentially absolute power over that project.

Bit fuzzy post/argument I know - apologies for that.
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Well said. Maybe there is an analogy to software development decades ago -- slow and academic as the norm.
That and cheaper too.

http://www.notechmagazine.com/2015/06/water-johads-a-low-tec...

LA has a drainage system that tries to get water out to the sea as fast as possible.

If the water is not hanging around, its not going to evaporate. So no clouds to be blown inland. Evaporating water takes energy, which lowers ambient temperature, etc.

Johads are dirt cheap, simple and effective. The basic premise is you put in half moon banks every n 100 meters. The idea is that it keeps back a certain amount of water. Excess water overflows into the same channels as before, so there is no risk of flooding.

Failing that, solar stills are much cheaper than reverse-osmosis to build, and in south California with loads of sun cheap and effective.

However you still have to transport the water.
Why does someone need to provide citation for expressing their opinion on something that's even so obvious as "I think simple things are easy to teach and understand, etc.". Do you think complex languages are simpler to teach, debug, optimize, and understand?
If poster is also author I may just be wrong. Maybe they can do web programming.

But the story just smells "funny" for some reason. I guess because I've met people like I'm referring to in parent comment. People who haven't put in the effort but want the advantages. People who know a little about computers or have been help desk and suddenly want to be programmers without the required skills or effort.

This might not be OP though. I maybe judged a bit hastily.
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>The rich, diverse, free web that I loved ... is dying.
Why is nobody stopping it?

I'm not sure it is dying. The total number of blogs for example has gone from around 78 million when the writer was jailed to something of the order of 250 million now. [0][1]

Fair enough there is competition for eyeballs from blander more controlled media like Facebook but diverse free stuff continues, it's just some people would rather watch cat videos. I don't know if you can stop that - it's a free world, people can watch/read what they like.

[0] http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2012/buzz-in-the-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
More than a million minutes and, of course, theverge chose a cat video to highlight!
I think it's great to look at different possible places to invest. However, this article comes off as a more of a rant, full of subjective and anecdotal evidence. For example:

> Mexican founders are excellent. Just as in Israel and India, Mexican entrepreneurs develop a grit early on as they defy the immeasurable odds of functioning in a business environment riddled with corruption, insecurity and monopolistic uncertainty.

Even the seemingly data-based parts are useless without comparison to relevant data from other countries, for example:

> The huge internal market potential is undeniable unless, somehow, the millions and millions of Mexican smartphones will never buy or bank.

My interpretation that this is a rant stems from the personal attitude with which the author has written with, indicated by lines such as :

> China and India’s hottest venture-backed startups are mostly copycats.

He sounds personally upset that the bigger VCs preferred China and India to Mexico. I think a better path would've been to actually do the research, write an article with citations and statistics, and prove that he is right. Or perhaps he'd find out that China and India are indeed better places to invest, and consider working there instead. If he does not wish to work there, I think the correct thing to do is to persevere and attract those VCs anyway, instead of complaining about it.
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Seems like this post is less about real hackathon strategies for devops, and more about marketing for ChallengePost's (I guess DevPost now?) partners.
I think I recall getting you an interview. (at http://advancedsecuritylabs.com/ in Florida) Did we not give you an offer? Did you reject an offer?

We could easily put you in San Antonio or Austin. We might even be able to do Seattle or Cambridge (near Boston), though those are tiny offices.

If I remember right and we did reject you, try a different office.
How tagmove is reinventing group buying?
>(3) is happening with bitcoin and tor

You can't centralize bitcoin, that would be like trying to centralize p2p sharing, the protocol doesn't allow it. An alternative digital currency may emerge that is centralized, or more likely, a single currency exchange will dominate bitcoin. But in reality exchanges would become obsolete if bitcoin really took off (you would just get paid and purchase goods all in bitcoin, no need to exchange to another currency).
> Electric vehicles last longer.

Do they? Because ICE vehicles last decades and they don't have expensive battery packs that need replacing.
Ask HN: Are there successful HN clones for local startup communities?
Just built one for the Brazilian scene (legislation makes it very different in terms of payroll, taxes and etc compared to more developed countries)

https://bebedouro.herokuapp.com/
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Why isn't the price of water tied to the price of supply?
Nice work...It's interesting that the OP has built in a feature to add events/milestones to each startup's timeline. Why not just go the data route and use Crunchbase [http://data.crunchbase.com/], at least to pre-populate it some of the more standard milestones? (e.g. funding rounds, IPOs, etc)
You should read the Target story. Target was at first clueless and had to learn the hard way. How not to spook their Customers, with to precise Predictions. Now they mix in 50% decoys!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
And the fact that millions of people live in flats, condos, terraced houses with no private parking spots and they can't charge their cars overnight. Here in UK the vast majority of people I know live in places where it would be impossible to take out a charging cable at night, so the only option is...charging at work? But who will foot the bill for installing chargers at literally every single parking spot everywhere?
sure when appropriate randomize it in clever ways, but don't make it random unless it really should be random, cleverly placed secrets are part of why many players like these games, internet spoilers or not. See Myst.
Don't worry about being rough around the edges (and the problems other posters are criticizing here). All those minor things are easily fixable and they don't take away anything from the value you provide :) Congrats!
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Getting a quick ipage domain and the services they offer is my go to technique.
How popcorn song is played using only glasses of water
It has always been tricky getting developers coming in from other languages (mainly C-like, and Java-like) to understand that JS is NOT an object-oriented language, but in fact is a prototypal language.

It's both.
I tried reading the technical expectation, a lot of it was lost on me, but it seems like they just implemented bug fixes and tweaks but added nothing that wasn't impossible in ~1981? Was this possible back then even?
You should add a "Why AirCSS?" section, because this is the first question people will have, given the existing alternative services.
Just as aside, I've dealt with quite a few utilities and United Water is by far the best among them. They are an excellent company.
>> it is an poor governance problem

>No, it's a poor pricing problem.

And who do you think sets pricing regulations?
I share your thoughts exactly, and why YC talks about biotech I just can't picture it. I don't doubt their efforts, but I can't picture it.

However, I've always thought that with the right network and influence one could make major shifts in a whole industry if the timing is right. As history has shown us, all we need is one breakthrough way of doing things and previously closed doors are busted open. If YC convinces enough people along the biotech foodchain, they can at least get a good crack at it.

I'd love to see a post specifically about what they have in mind for biotech.
The American Economic Association site:

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In black and red lettering on a dark purple background.

A summary is available here. It's the usual economist hand-waving.[1]

[1] http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/08/since-1986-...
I think a large part of it is just a change about who is online. There's still plenty of blog type things as much as Facebook wants to chip away at it, but my 13 y/o niece never would have been reading his blogs in the first place.
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Apple's latest design removed those empty spots.[1] But don't despair, you can already get a lot of what you want without dedicated buttons.

To open an emoji menu in OS X (10.10 or later IIRC), just focus on a text input and hit ^ + ⌘ + spacebar. You can also search for other unicode characters. "⌘" is a little tricky to find, since it's named "place of interest marker" or something like that.

OS X doesn't yet have Siri, but it does have Dictation. I assume that when Siri replaces Dictation, the typical keyboard shortcuts for toggling it will stay the same: double-tapping fn or ⌘.

1. http://geoff.greer.fm/photos/pics/IMG_1269.JPG
if you told me that the majority of DMCA takedowns are due to copyright infringement, would that make you feel better about the DMCA process?
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I'm surprised too. Reddit and HN are much more valuable to me than Google Reader ever was.
You've still not provided citations that the UK energy market actually classifies it that way.
Huh, that's interesting; it wasn't on purpose.

But thinking about it, I guess "American" isn't really the most precise term, since there are a bunch of other countries in the Americas. I might be more aware of this, subconsciously, than your typical citizen of the USA because my wife is Mexican.

Googling around shows I'm certainly not the only person using the term "USian".

It's interesting how it's impossible to choose language without also choosing political sides. :)
How to read a Techcrunch article in 2015:
1. Check if it's from a guest writer
2. If so, check their bio
3. Read the article
There's lots of rainwater in aggregate if you look at very large areas, but I'm not sure if collecting rainwater over a huge area is necessarily more practical than desalination. I honestly haven't studied the matter, but judging from the fact that this guy's credentials seem to amount to "Has planted a bunch of trees," I'm unsure how much of an expert he is either. He says it isn't being pushed because there isn't any industry behind it, but that seems to be begging the question. Why is no one taking this field by storm if it's actually a more practical solution? Why isn't he making money hand over fist doing this? The disconnect between the reality he suggests and the reality we observe makes me doubtful about whether this is actually a more realistic approach than desal.
It's not opinion. They've entered mutually agreed upon trade/copyright agreements explicitly. Similarly New Zealand or Germany can enforce its copyrights in the US.
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Thats not the way water rights work at all - eg, farmers get a percentage of the water from a given stream.

Check out SSC[1] for an in depth review of water policy in CA.

1. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/11/california-water-you-do...
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Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. Don't be surprised when things work in the other direction!
Interesting, I didn't realize it was considered an ongoing process. I guess that makes sense; otherwise a bad actor would just apply for clearance, get cleared, and then start doing things they shouldn't.
I thought it was a joke on memory management until I saw the domain.

Shows how narrow-minded this line of work has made me, I guess.
>[...] Twitter is the acquisition target of two separate companies, possibly Google and Facebook.

What's Google going to do with Twitter? If you want to comment on a youtube-video you'll then have to tweet? But with your real name and with some added characters at the end of your twitter-handle, because the algorithm says so.

Facebook has Instagram, which is way way way more popular and relevant than twitter.

I don't quite get how anybody still thinks that twitter can grow the same way as other social networks do?

Twitter has found its niche users: somehow web developers, designers and indie game developers seem to love it.

But if you have to explain to non tech-savy people more than 5 minutes why they should use it, then it's clear that it's not for everyone.

Celebrities have moved to instagram and once you've lost a user it's very unlikely that they'll come back.
Yep. I find it unusable w/o highly customised CSS:

http://i.imgur.com/7sDeNMI.png
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