skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no such word. If it's capital intensive you may need to convince some VCs to front a decent amount of money but you should investigate all your options.
(This throwaway account is hellbanned at the moment, so only someone with showdead on would see it.)

I actually have no beef at all with Krebs. I personally simply found it very unlikely that the configuration he showed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6y2soOp8Y&t=3m30s (after sighing and clearing his throat, at the place I linked, before starting on his explanation), in that configuration, nestled between two PCB's, would be seen by the phone from the distance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6y2soOp8Y&t=4m45s - it's outside class 2 bluetooth range (most phones are class 2) and class 1 chips usually even have an external antenna. PCB's like what the chip is sandwiched between are highly attenuating; but both signals show up at once, from an implausible distance, from inside an enclosure (the ATM) that is not designed to transmit well at all.

I have many other specific reasons that confirm my suspicion, including in the video included in the present installment. To me it is completely obvious. (I also did a very light investigation in a brief email exchange with the author.)

But just make a mental note of this throwaway, maybe in a few years someone else will pubicly discredit him. (I have no intention of doing so.)

In the meantime, sure, he reads a forum where he realized spammers are planning to send him cocaine in the mail and SWAT his house, and averted it just in time.

If you would like the other reasons I'm quite sure, then, you can reply with a brief comment and I can email you (you have your profile information linked.)

It's obviously quite an egregious case of journalistic fraud if true, but there have been bigger ones. I have no beef with the guy, except that I don't find his story credible. I'm not on a mission to discredit him.
Routinely, in fact, as a matter of BaU.

But that probably doesn't explain the issue with the names - most likely a software bug.
Awesome read, but you write that Europe has no SV or NYC. I'd say that it does have a NYC: London.

London is the centre of finance in Europe. It utterly dominates.
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As an avid sourdough enthusiast, I can assure you that this is wrong :)

Sourdough is a culture that's (mostly) a stable colony of wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria. Generally speaking, the yeast provides the rising power, and the lactic acid bacteria provide lactic acid giving the dough a sour (acidic) flavour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough#Biology_and_chemistr...
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Lack of investors. Simple as that. Companies that run on deficit for 5-10 years can not survive in Europe. Facebook, twitter, etc. Wouldn't be able to survive in Europe, simple as that.

ps. I hate the word 'unicorn'.
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Two words: Thorium reactor.
Well, it's a hell of a lot more than just a pretty website and speculation - they've got NASA contracts worth tens of millions and have reserved a Falcon 9 launch for late 2016.

I agree - there's no guarantee they can achieve their target even with all of that - but the fact that they've gotten much closer than others is still extraordinary.
State intervention on innovation is considered harmful.
Why on Earth do you think that building projects like this has to be for the sake of having users? Why can't you just build stuff for the sake of learning and having fun?
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You can still derive some information from this kind of analysis.

We can conclude that "this idea sounds stupid" or "this is a first-time founder" are not good reasons to dismiss an investment opportunity. In other words, the mentioned traits don't appear to be strongly negatively correlated with startup success.
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Agreed. FL 510 is right out. Or else I'm expecting to hear a joke about a drone radioing in to ATC to request a groundspeed check any minute.

edit: corrected post, see reply below.
A large majority of the waste though. Most of the long-term radioactivity is from plutonium isotopes, all of which work in fast reactors just fine. I didn't claim all radioactivity would be gone, just that overall it will be comparable to uranium ore in a reasonable timeframe.

If we really want to break up all the transuranics, neutrons from D-T fusion would crack them apart handily. We already have 70% energy return with D-T fusion; a hybrid fission-fusion reactor would probably achieve net power just with that.
It's about making everyone's psychological patterns more similar. Look at how women are forced to conform into a narrow definition of beauty and feminine autonomy to the point of erasing all ethnic and national variation. Same with childhoods which revolve around certain activities and even brands of products.

It's not so much an intentional but a side effect of mass production where goods sold are dependent on regular consumption. No regular consumption within tolerances then no goods produced. Men are no less victim to the structure of production than any other demographic. Only the richest members of society may be free to live what we think of today as eclectic life styles (where consumption is a tertiary concern).
I hate the word unicorn too, but it's shorter than private market companies with a valuation of more than $1 billion :)

With regards to lack of investors I don't think it's as simple as that. If it was only a matter of investments then surely US investors or Asian investors could just come in with the money. There is something that makes European VCs risk averse and keep american investors out of Europe IMO.
If you are ok with "this is why we can't have nice things", fine. Me, I like a world with nice things.

Also, you seem to have a false exclusion there. Many people taken advantage of by scams are dumb, or at least making dumb mistakes. But that does not mean that the scam artists aren't morally bereft. Indeed, I think it's part of what makes them awful.

I also, like you, think that the whole manipulative airline miles system is repugnant. It's another giant waste of humanity's time; if it were banned tomorrow we'd all be better off. But that doesn't make this guy's actions better to me; all the mile-pointers are just playing into it. It reminds me of a Russian expression, "One thief sits atop another thief, using a third thief for a whip."
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Near miss? It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss!

sound of explosions

"Aw, will you look at that, Dave. They nearly missed."

"Yes. But not quite!"

-- George Carlin
The article is trying to push an agenda. It simply isn't true that men crying was a common occurrence that suddenly vanished in the 20th century. Men crying is a powerful literary device precisely _because_ men don't cry often. It's a cheap way to signal the importance of a situation.

It's not very controversial to say that low testosterone in men leads to increased tenancy to cry. If you are a man and go to the doctor saying that you have recently caught yourself crying much more often than in the past, they will get your T levels checked, not refer you to a psychologist.
Thanks for this!

I've done something horrible in the past when I knew about coming rolling power outages - snapshoting virtual box. It worked but was sort of annoying.
Oh, I'm well aware of Delphi's continued existence. I'm maintaining a 15-year-old Delphi project right now.

I should be clear that I like Object Pascal. I just dislike the degree to which Delphi insists on holding your hand, and I hate the absurdly bloated code base for which that behavior is at least partly to blame.
What about gun control? Does that stop innovation too?
first thought: not enough horns to go around and add to the horses.
second thought: europe=continent. US = country.
third thought: what good does this question do us?
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If a professional craftsman is building a house I'm sure he prefers using power tools to having to screw all screws in manually.
I would think that the (mandatory) benefits required for companies in Europe (or even outside the US) raise the bar for startups. More $$ is required, more paperwork to ensure compliance, ... On the good side, this might/should act as a filter. On the bad side, money flows along the path of least resistance.

I guess this is an argument for accepting remote work. There are lots of talented people in places where they like living. How (new) companies deal with this will determine how the talent pool is used. As everybody argues there's insufficient talent, by definition there's insufficient talent wherever you are.
What, no 30-day money back guarantee?!
shrug Bluntness is not trolling.
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Thanks, but that's not quite what I'm after. Both because externalities are positive and negative, and here I'm talking about negatives. And because participants in scams generally choose to participate, so it's not really an externality.
Apologies, your phrasing "make it to that altitude" made me think otherwise!

Multi-rotors using BLDC motors cannot really be compared to small general aviation aircraft with infernal combustion engines.

"Reasonable duration" is a nebulous phrase. Some of the airframe configurations we use here couldn't manage more than about 10 minutes at 100ft, whereas others could quite happily carry a gopro at 10,000ft for 10 minutes (assuming it didn't have to climb from sea level!)
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Unicorn does sound silly but probably accurately reflects your likelihood of creating such a company.
They should offer quick buy it now sales through mobile via Stripe Relay.
I was surprised at the book promoted at the end. I was positive this was going to a revised excerpt from Faster, Higher, Stronger by Mark McClucsky.
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Thanks!
A more interesting question is: 'Are unicorns good for the economy and good for society'?
Why everybody is so obsessed about unicorns? You can get your own in a few minutes: http://unicornify.me/
Then why don't they just say that? Something like, "Hey, we may change how this works in the future. Clever optimizations now may not work down the road."
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Video of the introduction, including a driving car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WejdR9CSuDY

Video of the car at the IAA stand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkMzc3wBKC0
German law makes the "out of the garage + Angel investor" start-up culture impossible. The only possible way is to make money AND start out with a huge amount of cash. I can't speak for other Euro countries.
I'm mainly talking about news outlets, and mainly the premiers like NYT and major regionals.

Those outlets claim, probably rightly so, that they can't survive on subscriptions alone, they need ads. But on the web, what that means is "we can't survive unless we degrade your web experience and violate your privacy by selling you to ad networks."

We're all focused on the ad side, and "how can we make money selling exactly what we've always sold without ads."

Maybe selling news is not a viable business on the web. Ad blockers are not just evidence that we don't like ads as they are now, but also evidence that "we don't want to pay for what you're selling us. What you're selling us isn't worth it."

Maybe a premier outlet like the NYT should be more than a news outlet. Maybe also an education outlet. NYT especially (and other premiers) already have people who do excellent research, writing, presentation, web development and data analysis. They have all the tools for education, they just aren't deploying them that way.

In classrooms, teachers sometimes try to incorporate current events into lessons. Turn that on its head.

But don't fall into the trap of replicating "the classroom," or courses, online. This would need some pretty serious innovation.

Would I subscribe to something like that? Hell yeah. I'd even accept ads, but not active privacy gouging ads, just static text and images served from the first party domain. Don't do something new, only to fuck it up with old.

Premier news outlets could be so much more that just another trap for ad viewing. They have really smart people, trapped in their employers' outdated business models.
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He mentions the multiple languages. I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway. Are they trying to keep foreigners out? Surely they realize there's a huge social cost of having your own minority language. This problem exists in China too but most people recognize the need to learn the standard Mandarin so they're largely bilingual. Dialect at home and Mandarin talking to everyone else even if it comes with a funny accent.
Sure. More gun control -> more police expenses -> more taxes -> less innovation.

Try opening a company in, say, France. (This was a cruel joke. Please don't, for the sake of your sanity).
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Perhaps it'd help if more people were familiar with the natural nuclear reactor that ran in Africa a billion years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
I've uploaded a little video of it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIG7UfFYCdY
I mean, one could claim it hampers gun innovation. Not sure the laws about that though- I wonder if they have laws that allow the creation of guns that would normally be illegal..

Not sure what afsina's point is though.
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No, not everybody in Europe speaks English. Not in France, not in Germany, not in Spain, not in Italy.
> they all know English anyway

Not all of us speak English.
Since you bring it up: the US is a $18-trillion economy. Europe is a $19-trillion economy, of which about $18 trillion is from states in the EU. In that respect, it's the only comparison that makes sense. (Well, maybe that and something like the UK and Germany vs California and Texas, roughly $3T vs $2T each).
Rockets as a Service. We live in a cool era.

And these prices may go down dramatically after the first stages prove themselves reusable (depending on SpaceX's strategy).
Same, all contacts in iCloud. If @icloud.com wasn't my primary email then I would use Google Contacts.

Just don't use multiple systems, it will end up making a mess.
That stupid camera tied to balloons wasn't by chance a permitted-in-advance activity was it? We have that at my local airport. A few times per year a prof from a nearby uni sends a balloon up mostly for the benefit of his students. You ought to hear the Saturday morning FBO free-coffee-drinkers club whine about the inconvenience of it. All GA pilots may not always report everything, but there are a few who report everything they see and everything they imagine they saw.
I believe the poster above is simply confused about the usage of the word "house". At least in the US, my experience has been that "house" is usually synonymous with "detached single family home." Pretty typical American example:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Small_Si...

The next step down is a townhouse:

http://media.point2.com/p2a/htmltext/a2c4/c0e3/62d9/4e6d5930...

These are all but nonexistent outside of cities in the US, though.
I also used to exhaustively follow the no goto rule. Not that these days I have much reason to mostly coding in java. Goto is definitely very easy to use but there are a lot of scenarios where the code that you write trying not to use goto can be much more butprone and complicated to understand. Not everyone is sort of semi-infinite budget for their project though I agree we probably need to do a better job in maturing in discipline.

On the other hand no other engineering will be asked to change the requirement and spec hundreds of time during its lifetime either since that would be impossible to achieve.
It'd be more interesting to dive into that nodejs snippet. The work to get the final result (a list of connected devices) has already been done and implemented in your home router.

And you swap a real router for a bandwidth constrained raspberry to get that list.
> 10,000 ft has to be above or near the "service ceiling" of what a quad copter is even capable of. As altitude increases, air density decreases.

Its "only" a 25% reduction in density, you can still get a fair amount of flying done at that altitude. My colleagues have been to Ecuador twice for field work and had no issues flying quads in Quito (9,300ft), no need to change control gains or anything like that. So I know its perfectly possible.
Over regulation. He talks all around that word but its key to why. The barrier to entry becomes much more difficult to surmount.
"I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway. Are they trying to keep foreigners out?" So many things wrong with this sentence.
Might want to start with an email address and ask for resume's ?

Your post is pretty vague otherwise.
Plus I don't think location really matters that much; startups don't need an environment with thousands of hip enterpreneurs, all it takes is a small team with a good idea.
First, thanks for ghostnote. It's an awesome app, worth every penny.

> I hate the word unicorn too, but it's shorter than private market companies with a valuation of more than $1 billion :)

Ah, is 1 billion the limit for the 'unicorn' definition? In what amount of time? :-) We have 7-year old companies, with 50+ employees posing around as startups everywhere these days. It's not related, but you know... Everyone is playing with words here :-P

> With regards to lack of investors I don't think it's as simple as that.

Of course you don't, otherwise you wouldn't have written a blog post... You could tweet! But, unfortunately, as most social phenomena is not that complex :-)

The reason we can't have a "unicorn" in Europe is that no one is going to support a company that it's expenses outsize it's turn-over even if this is because of extremely high growth rate.

If you're lucky enough, you might land some millions from some startup event. But even they, ask to see growth (in terms of users) and (hehe) immediate ROI.

In startup Istanbul 2014 the no1 startup which received investment was the only company who didn't actually need it... It was already generating way more than it could burn. So it was a very easy bet.
Those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. Maybe you guys learned something from that tulip episode?
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And even if we did, we wouldn't just let an essential part of our culture die like that.
Texas at one point did have rebel troops in Mexico before seceding and stayed independent for a few years before joining the US. California tried something similar but then got swept up in the Mexican-American War. Even West Florida was "independent" for a few months before being annexed by the US, and of course the rest of Florida was Spanish but neglected by Madrid.

So it is not that hard to imagine a Florida army going to war in Afghanistan, while Texas invaded Mexico and California remained neutral. If they had not been annexed by the US, they would likely either ally the US or have animosity with their southern neighbors due to strained relations from their independence wars.

Also, theoretically a governor can refuse to deploy the state's National Guard. I could find one instance where in California, Governor Schwarzenegger declined the President's request to send National Guard troops to the border with Mexico. So California does have precedent of remaining neutral (said tongue-in-cheek)!
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In Paris a few years back I met an entrepreneur whose business was in California. He liked living in Paris, and really wanted more of his team there, but the regulations around hiring employees were a big issue for him. If I recall rightly, it wasn't so much the paperwork or the benefits, but the extra burdens around firing. So he was hiring all his new people in CA.

Here in California, most employment is at will, meaning that either party can end the relationship immediately. I can quit without notice; I can be fired without notice. (In practice, notice is generally given, but that's custom, not a legal right. One can also write an employment contract with other terms.) But from what he said, it was very difficult to get rid of underperforming employees, and also hard to reduce staffing levels if the business needed fewer people.
Please explain how you would design a thorium reactor to produce 238Pu suitable for use in RTGs.

Please explain how you would build a shiny new thorium reactor with 238Pu production capability on a budget competitive with the existing DoE 237Np -> 238Pu transmutation process in an existing research reactor.
English is not useful for everybody outside of UK/Ireland so most people do not speak it or are really bad at it.
Almost all European countries have high level proficiency in English:
http://www.ef.pl/epi/

The challenge is that still a lot of things are distributed (you are vastly more likely to read your national news, shop at national ecommerce shop, shipping rates are much higher if you do that oversees, etc.).
Every time someone gets all giggly about Thorium I'm suspicious. Could you provide some documentation about why this is a viable option in space?
I've posted this before, but since I think it's relevant here:

People seem to forget that Europe is not a country. Europe does not have a single uniting language. What happens, is that every country starts their own smaller versions and they stay mostly within that country. If they want to move to another country, there's often already a major player there, and they might not have the means to kick them out.

I think the reason that silicon valley is so powerful, is that the initial market is 325 million people who all speak the same language. Once you get the US market, you have the size, name and means to easily start conquering European countries. It's always about scale...
I felt the same way. The sport optimizations I felt like we're from Faster, Higher, Stronger. The hot dogs I read about in the chapter on outsiders and innovation, maybe in a Freakonomics book. I know I read the hospital and checklists before too.
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I wouldn't read those quotations as indicating skepticism that the sonar harms whales but, rather, as just another case of the BBC's odd headline-writing practices. I often find the BBC quoting things in headlines in ways that seem unnecessary and awkward. As in this case, the quotations sometimes give the amusing impression that the BBC is calling obvious or trivial propositions into doubt. Like this one:

BBC 'to launch personalised iPlayer'

I think they're trying to remain scrupulously neutral by quoting as much material as possible, but they often overshoot to convey skepticism about their own article.

Here is a pretty thorough survey (and takedown) of BBC's headline quotations. https://adrianblau.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/the-curse-of-quo...