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Nice marketing work by Amazon, eh? Had the same thought.

"It's certainly not accurate, but the characters are totally believable"

This is the major danger and trap all these films fall into. Our imagination of the past after decades of these films has nothing to do with reality.

1. "Our analysis (..) shows that women are harder on other women than they are on men. Men are harder on other men than they are on women.”

2. Not peer reviewed.

3. The confidence intervals may overlap.

4. Graphs all have non zero base lines.

"Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi."

Could be a quote from the last psychiatrist.

"Dorothy Thompson (9 July 1893 – 30 January 1961) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. She is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism."

- Wikipedia

Hitler admired the US. One of the reasons to attack Russia was to colonize Eastern Europe the way America was colonized to stand a chance in the future with more agricultural land.

With the support of facist governments against communisim around the world after WWII - especially in South America - indeed one could wonder how the US would have reacted without the Pearl and the German War declaration, or a much later German attack on Russia. Not sure it would have taken the communist side some years later.

"Buyers must promise to only use the information for political purposes."

I promise!

"It's not a problem for companies which collect customer data for internal use only. It's a big problem for companies which sell that data."

It has nothing to do with companies selling data. It's a problem for any startup that uses US SaaS companies, e.g. AWeber. You can't do that anymore even with correct ToS, with double opt in, with their consent to send people emails.

Migrating to companies into the EU is no option, as there is none with the eco system and 2nd level SaaS like Mailchimp or AWeber.

And companies large US tech companies like Facebook are not impacted, as they will require consent to data transfer into the US during sign up.

From my understanding the reason safe harbor is falling apart is because a citizen went to court because the Irish data protection agency didn't want to investigate the data transfer of Facebook in detail. Not because a determined citizen files a complaint against an US corp.

Where is the place for a French citizen to 'resolve' the issue when being spied upon by the GCHQ? Where is the place for a UK citizen to 'resolve' the issue with the BND?

The real problem is the image the EU has of itself.

The EuGH decided that personal data in the US is not safe but it is safe in the EU.

When in reality at least the UK, French and German secret agencies have spied and are spying on internet communications and data.

Tonight the deadline set by EU data protection agencies ends.

On Monday it will be illegal to transfer personal data to the US for EU startups based on safe harbor. Main impact is on email marketing.

Currently not clear if exiting BCR and standard clauses are impacted too.

It might be the case that EU startups also no longer can use Google Mail or Google apps.

You're right.

No sorry, it was a.) philosophy b.) before the internet

Main problem still is Google: They consider HTTPS and HTTP links the same. When switching a site to HTTPS you lose all your incoming links. Redirects only transfer a small amount of juice. You're toast.

We tried migrating several times to HTTPS only, every time got a huge penalty from Google.

So Google is the main driver for HTTP websites.

I once wrote a paper at university about the psychology of version numbers.

Thanks for the insights, it's always amazing who reads and comments on HN.

Not if you have to teach every new intern how to use LibreOffice when they know to do stats and calculations in Excel.

Wasn't that in the CIA operations manual that surfaced some time ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363

+100 'Antirez should write a http web server'

And this from antirez who writes such excellent programms, Redis runs in several companies I've been, without ever crashing, making any trouble - most people I've met forget they have Redis running because it just works and works and works. Can't praise that piece of code high enough.

It takes some weeks to get it working, I'd say two to four, depending how often you've done it. Then for weeks there is nearly no Ops at all (security updates only mostly while the servers are humming) with releases done with Docker push by developers. Adding and provisioning a new VPS takes some seconds (and some seconds later checking), with Consul the stuff running on the VPS usually integrates itself). Sometimes hardware breaks down, then it's either setup a new VPS (setup_server <IP> <Role>) which takes around 5sec or mail the hoster if it's a DB server with a (mirrored RAID) SSD crash, which takes around 2h to fix all in all. So on average per year I'd guess 0,2 Ops FTE (which equals 10 weeks a year, which is a lot if you're not Facebook and don't need to do releases of new app versions). Today ops is relativly easy with a well trodden path, it's not 1999.

The Salt is of the shelf, with some bash scripts on top to auto generate some config and make installation of a new server one script call.

We surely could put endless hours into Ops, playing around with stuff etc. but the benefit would be marginal.

Our DNS setup is simple, not much to say, we use DNS Made Easy for failover, we use S3 though I do not consider it "AWS" (S3 is comparativly cheap).

I've wondered about Mesosphere with autoscaling etc. but with adding a new VPS in seconds setting up Mesosphere/Kubernetes taking two weeks would take quite some time to amortize.

"Something like Cloudfront would cost you a million just to get going."

We've used CDNs in the past, way below a million/year for a medium, growing startup. care to elaborate?

I'm working at a medium, growing startup and wonder when/why to use AWS?

We currently use a mixture of root servers (DB) and VPS (App, HAProxy, NGinx) at a hoster.

* We use a Docker/Consul/Nomad/SaltStack setup to install new servers for replacing broken ones and growth

* App setup is Redis/Disque, Postgres(DB, BI) and app servers

* New dedicated servers we get in around 1h, VPS in around 1min (Only VPS over API)

* We have around 0.2 Ops FTE (devs rollout apps, ops for security updates, new infrastructure etc. and incidents)

* Price seems to be way below Amazon

What I found interesting is the study that shows that Facebook depresses people, because all their friends put up their best moments and photos and so seem to have all wonderful lives.

As a German I don't use Facebook. Most of my friends also don't use Facebook. For me it's just a waste of time and doesn't make sense.

The book that completely changed my view on Hitler was 'Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning' by Timothy Snyder. It explained a lot of the inner logic of WWII and the Holocaust.

The way to go for Philips would be the way of Apple.

Build an ecosystem around Hue (Apple app store).

Have help pages but don't do any support (Apple app store).

Today QA is not manual testing.

Today QA is talking with product/UX, taking the end user and customer perspective, wearing a quality head end to end over features an cross devices, doing explorative testing for stuff that does not make sense to a customer (mostly what's created by the inference of different features or cross device interaction).

Battery replacement $20, display cheap to repair also compared to all other phones I've owned.